The day after christmas, with a parking lot full of cars, the 8pm showing of TLJ was practically empty.
Essentially Disney puts the movie in so many theaters that everyone who wants to see it, sees it the first few days.
This movie has zero reviewing potential among half the audience (they hate it), zero reviewing potential among another quarter to a third of the audience (they are casual and just don't care), and apparently 3-4 reviewings among youtube reviewers and 1-3 viewings from people who liked it.
It's box office dropped 78% in one week. That's some kind of record.
So theaters will get 50% of nothing and 10% of the first week.
I thnk of tihs movie as the "Batman vs. Superman" step.
I won't be paying for the next movie unless my friends see it first and are raving about it.
This was a terrible movie.
Bad pacing, editing, meaningless storylines, change to a craptastic universe (where every choice you make is wrong), bad writing.
The acting was decent. The look and feel was good.
It reminds me of the DCU and the Kelven Star Trek lines.
It destroys a ton of existing extended universe canon and even effectively destroys a fair amount of "movie only" canon.
Basically, if it wasn't Star Wars- it would have been a bomb.
It's down to 51% on RT and even the critical rating is dropping now that critics who had to pay to see the film and didn't have early access are weighing in which means they are almost all negative.
I went the day after christmas. The theater parking lot was packed. We had 15 people in the star wars showing at 8pm. Everyone was seeing other films.
I won't be seeing the next films unless my friends are raving about what a good movie it is. Notably, no one had anything good to say about it.
"Look y'all, I'm Mary Poppins!" -- Admiral Organa- the last jedi.
gasÂlight ËÉaslÄt/ verb gerund or present participle: gaslighting
manipulate (someone) by psychological means into questioning their own sanity.
"in the first episode, Karen Valentine is being gaslighted by her husband"
Yes but you have to keep in mind that the U.S. imprisons more of its population than Russia. And almost 8x the rate of most civilized countries.
prison population US. 2,193,798 737 per 100,000 RUS 0,874,161 615 CHN 1,548,498 118 AUS 25,790 125 UK. 80,002 148 FRA. 71,190 103
Once you get a prison record (even a jail record really) in the U.S. it is very hard to get a decent job again. Even an arrest record can kill your chances for many job categories.
And keep in mind that white entertainers pay a $4,000 fine for a full bag of pot while hispanic mothers go to prison for 12 years (at a cost of $31,000 per year) for less than a single joint.
I'm sorry to inform you than millions of americans with brains believed him.
Rationalization adjusts the weight of each fact to fit the desired conclusion. Even in the face of irrefutable evidence people will continue to rate it as not as important as other factors. In the face of refutable but true evidence, people just say it's not true.
Sure, it's happening with people who voted for trump, but it happens all the time in real life.
It's very hard to get people to agree something is true if they will lose money.
On the parent topic- humans have momentary visual glitches *all* *the* *time*.
And we design our signs, buildings, and roads to avoid creating those glitches.
Yes but you have to keep in mind that the U.S. imprisons more of its population than Russia. And almost 8x the rate of most civilized countries.
prison population US. 2,193,798 737 per 100,000 RUS 0,874,161 615 CHN 1,548,498 118 AUS 25,790 125 UK. 80,002 148 FRA. 71,190 103
Once you get a prison record (even a jail record really) in the U.S. it is very hard to get a decent job again. Even an arrest record can kill your chances for many job categories.
And keep in mind that white entertainers pay a $4,000 fine for a full bag of pot while hispanic mothers go to prison for 12 years (at a cost of $31,000 per year) for less than a single joint.
My daughter tells my grandkids, "That's real" and "That's not real".
And she doesn't reward commercials with purchases so they didn't learn to pay attention to commercials.
And they watch a lot of commercial free stuff on Netflix (tho TBH, the lego movies used to be commercials for legos- tho I'm not sure they are any more).
Also "baked in subsidies for the oil and coal business" total in the trillions of dollars. And that's ignoring the 2 trillion dollars and 4,000 lives the u.s. spent fighting for oil in Iraq.
Google the quote above and you'll get multiple examples of the many kinds of subsidies the fossil fuel industry receives.
It includes things like special accounting methods which save them billions in taxes, low cost mining and drilling on federal lands at no where near the cost they would pay privately, and so on.
And despite those subsidies, alternative energies are already competitive with everything except nuclear and natural gas. And- when you include the *real* decommissioning cost for nuclear plants ( eg: one estimated to cost $39 million is over $600 million and counting ) and the fact that even when decommissioned they have no place to put the nuclear waste, natural gas is the only genuinely lower cost solution.
But it produces co2.
And we are are already are past the budget for a 1C increase by 2100. We blow out the carbon budget for a 1.5C temperature increase by 2025.
We produce 37 gigatons of carbon a year now (down from 50 gigatons in 2004).
But the budget to stay below a 2.0C temperature increase by 2100 is a total of about 880 gigatons of carbon. That's about 11 Gigatons per year between now and 2100.
We are going over budget 26 gigatons of carbon per year. So basically, we are already certain to increase at least 2.0C degrees.
So we really need to get off natural gas as much as possible as soon as possible.
Social security would be fine for you if you don't let republicans end it.
With the boomers dead, the system becomes stable again.
The problem is too few kids for too many boomers. Boomers kept social security taxes on themselves 2% too low from 1990 to 2010. Republicans intentionally crippled the system in a variety of ways and ran up trillions in debt.
If you millenials cut the DOD by 20%, take the cap off of income for social security tax, and means test benefits (no social security payments when you are old and still have a high income) then you will be fine.
McKinsey Global Institute estimates that about half of all the activities people are paid to do could be automated by 2055.
That includes many non-menial, non-trivial activities- some of which require 6 years higher education for humans just to start performing them (poorly). A.I. right now can train up better than the most experienced humans in those positions giving more accurate results in less time 24/7 without benefits, sick days, or holidays.
Over half the workers in southeast asia face job loss due to automation long before 2055.
In the U.S., entire major job categories with millions of employees will vanish very quickly. And that's my point- too quickly to develop new jobs. Things might be fine in 2075-- if things don't fall apart before then due to civil unrest and a completely unbalanced economy where all the money is held by a very small group of the population.
Take a 10 person economy.
If one person has 100% of the money and resources and has no need for the labor of the other 9 people (is even scared of letting them on the property) there is no basis for economic activity.
If one person has 20% of the money and resources and has no need for the labor of the other 9 people who share 80% of the money and resources then there is plentiful basis for economic activity- even if it's just for artistic stuff.
And the wealthy will move to monico and similar nations which basically only have wealthy residents. They'll be fine until there is a world war.
Banafort had money in accounts all over the globe. If he had been able to leave, he would have had more money than 95% of americans for the rest of his life.
This tax plan lets them liberate the cash- move it over seas and be ready to leave when they lose power.
Dude, chinese jobs paying under $3000 a year were being automated already several years ago.
It's a fundamental threat to capitalism because a large block of citizens won't be able to trade their labor for goods and services. 50% unemployment isn't a problem in nations with fewer guns. But we have a *lot* of guns in this country.
Funny thing, I don't see, process, or store commercials from any media any more. I mute the sound, I go do something else, switch to another window, slide the screen so the adds are off of the monitor, but mainly I think my brain has developed strong anti-advertising routines.
I think there is some truth to that but it will take time to reallocate the economy in that direction. Current estimates are for 38% of the jobs going away over less than 20 years.
Already, kids go deep into debt for degrees which were valuable when they started but worthless when they graduate.
So we should lower the cost of training, retraining, and education- and perhaps restructure them to take fewer years.
And when 3 million truckers lose their jobs almost over night (3-5 year period), it's going to be really hard to employ them quickly. Some will never work effectively again.
Also, with entry level jobs destroyed- it gets harder to grab the first rung on the ladder.
While the older population is okay, younger people around the world are experiencing increasing unemployment rates.
Combined with robotic stockers, a walmart store will probably bring under two dozen jobs while destroying many more jobs.
In theory, it's good because it lowers prices. But once no one has money left, lower prices don't matter.
And walmart closes shop and moves on to extract money from another economy.
I'm not against it. But we need to seriously slow down automation or our entire way of life/system of government is at risk of collapsing into an autocratic oligarchy.
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That deal isn't as good as it seems.
The day after christmas, with a parking lot full of cars, the 8pm showing of TLJ was practically empty.
Essentially Disney puts the movie in so many theaters that everyone who wants to see it, sees it the first few days.
This movie has zero reviewing potential among half the audience (they hate it), zero reviewing potential among another quarter to a third of the audience (they are casual and just don't care), and apparently 3-4 reviewings among youtube reviewers and 1-3 viewings from people who liked it.
It's box office dropped 78% in one week. That's some kind of record.
So theaters will get 50% of nothing and 10% of the first week.
So they need the food sales.
The Admiral Thrawn books by Zahn were simply spectacular.
I put away 24 viewings of star wars in 18 weeks when i was 17.
Now I've put away viewing of star wars for as long as they continue in this direction.
Restart from this dystopic mirror universe kelvin star wars and return to the extended universe version.
Don't feel bad. The new movies also shit over the old movies, their choices, their ethics, and their fundamental character traits.
So they are not just attacking the books. (Disney pretty much just handwaved all that canon out of existence anyway.).
Won't be getting more of my money.
It appears the "break even" amount for this film was 800 billion dollars.
That is one huge marketing budget.
I thnk of tihs movie as the "Batman vs. Superman" step.
I won't be paying for the next movie unless my friends see it first and are raving about it.
This was a terrible movie.
Bad pacing, editing, meaningless storylines, change to a craptastic universe (where every choice you make is wrong), bad writing.
The acting was decent.
The look and feel was good.
It reminds me of the DCU and the Kelven Star Trek lines.
It destroys a ton of existing extended universe canon and even effectively destroys a fair amount of "movie only" canon.
Basically, if it wasn't Star Wars- it would have been a bomb.
It's down to 51% on RT and even the critical rating is dropping now that critics who had to pay to see the film and didn't have early access are weighing in which means they are almost all negative.
I went the day after christmas. The theater parking lot was packed. We had 15 people in the star wars showing at 8pm. Everyone was seeing other films.
I won't be seeing the next films unless my friends are raving about what a good movie it is. Notably, no one had anything good to say about it.
"Look y'all, I'm Mary Poppins!" -- Admiral Organa- the last jedi.
gasÂlight
ËÉaslÄt/
verb
gerund or present participle: gaslighting
manipulate (someone) by psychological means into questioning their own sanity.
"in the first episode, Karen Valentine is being gaslighted by her husband"
Add in good batteries and this all smooths out and lowers energy consumption generally too.
Yes but you have to keep in mind that the U.S. imprisons more of its population than Russia.
And almost 8x the rate of most civilized countries.
prison population
US. 2,193,798 737 per 100,000
RUS 0,874,161 615
CHN 1,548,498 118
AUS 25,790 125
UK. 80,002 148
FRA. 71,190 103
Once you get a prison record (even a jail record really) in the U.S. it is very hard to get a decent job again. Even an arrest record can kill your chances for many job categories.
And keep in mind that white entertainers pay a $4,000 fine for a full bag of pot while hispanic mothers go to prison for 12 years (at a cost of $31,000 per year) for less than a single joint.
I'm sorry to inform you than millions of americans with brains believed him.
Rationalization adjusts the weight of each fact to fit the desired conclusion. Even in the face of irrefutable evidence people will continue to rate it as not as important as other factors. In the face of refutable but true evidence, people just say it's not true.
Sure, it's happening with people who voted for trump, but it happens all the time in real life.
It's very hard to get people to agree something is true if they will lose money.
On the parent topic- humans have momentary visual glitches *all* *the* *time*.
And we design our signs, buildings, and roads to avoid creating those glitches.
Yes but you have to keep in mind that the U.S. imprisons more of its population than Russia.
And almost 8x the rate of most civilized countries.
prison population
US. 2,193,798 737 per 100,000
RUS 0,874,161 615
CHN 1,548,498 118
AUS 25,790 125
UK. 80,002 148
FRA. 71,190 103
Once you get a prison record (even a jail record really) in the U.S. it is very hard to get a decent job again. Even an arrest record can kill your chances for many job categories.
And keep in mind that white entertainers pay a $4,000 fine for a full bag of pot while hispanic mothers go to prison for 12 years (at a cost of $31,000 per year) for less than a single joint.
not sure. not aware of them at a concious level.
I think ads work better on younger people who are still forming their preferences.
And ads for young people definately don't work as well on older people. LOL!
As I said,
I don't like any nuclear design that relies on human maintenance or intervention.
And I don't like any nuclear design that can serve more than 5,000 houses.
Humans + Nuclear power is just bad news.
It starts out okay and then after a couple decades humans get overconfident or start cost cutting (doesn't matter if private business or government.)
Finally, I don't like any nuclear plant that doesn't have a permanent home for it's nuclear waste before the day it comes online.
Well you have a good point!
My daughter tells my grandkids, "That's real" and "That's not real".
And she doesn't reward commercials with purchases so they didn't learn to pay attention to commercials.
And they watch a lot of commercial free stuff on Netflix (tho TBH, the lego movies used to be commercials for legos- tho I'm not sure they are any more).
Also "baked in subsidies for the oil and coal business" total in the trillions of dollars. And that's ignoring the 2 trillion dollars and 4,000 lives the u.s. spent fighting for oil in Iraq.
Google the quote above and you'll get multiple examples of the many kinds of subsidies the fossil fuel industry receives.
It includes things like special accounting methods which save them billions in taxes, low cost mining and drilling on federal lands at no where near the cost they would pay privately, and so on.
And despite those subsidies, alternative energies are already competitive with everything except nuclear and natural gas. And- when you include the *real* decommissioning cost for nuclear plants ( eg: one estimated to cost $39 million is over $600 million and counting ) and the fact that even when decommissioned they have no place to put the nuclear waste, natural gas is the only genuinely lower cost solution.
But it produces co2.
And we are are already are past the budget for a 1C increase by 2100. We blow out the carbon budget for a 1.5C temperature increase by 2025.
We produce 37 gigatons of carbon a year now (down from 50 gigatons in 2004).
But the budget to stay below a 2.0C temperature increase by 2100 is a total of about 880 gigatons of carbon. That's about 11 Gigatons per year between now and 2100.
We are going over budget 26 gigatons of carbon per year. So basically, we are already certain to increase at least 2.0C degrees.
So we really need to get off natural gas as much as possible as soon as possible.
I don't like any nuclear design that relies on human maintenance or intervention.
And I don't like any nuclear design that can serve more than 5,000 houses.
Humans + Nuclear power is just bad news.
It starts out okay and then after a couple decades humans get overconfident or start cost cutting (doesn't matter if private business or government.)
Finally, I don't like any nuclear plant that doesn't have a permanent home for it's nuclear waste before the day it comes online.
Social security would be fine for you if you don't let republicans end it.
With the boomers dead, the system becomes stable again.
The problem is too few kids for too many boomers.
Boomers kept social security taxes on themselves 2% too low from 1990 to 2010.
Republicans intentionally crippled the system in a variety of ways and ran up trillions in debt.
If you millenials cut the DOD by 20%, take the cap off of income for social security tax, and means test benefits (no social security payments when you are old and still have a high income) then you will be fine.
Bad assumption.
McKinsey Global Institute estimates that about half of all the activities people are paid to do could be automated by 2055.
That includes many non-menial, non-trivial activities- some of which require 6 years higher education for humans just to start performing them (poorly). A.I. right now can train up better than the most experienced humans in those positions giving more accurate results in less time 24/7 without benefits, sick days, or holidays.
Over half the workers in southeast asia face job loss due to automation long before 2055.
In the U.S., entire major job categories with millions of employees will vanish very quickly. And that's my point- too quickly to develop new jobs. Things might be fine in 2075-- if things don't fall apart before then due to civil unrest and a completely unbalanced economy where all the money is held by a very small group of the population.
Take a 10 person economy.
If one person has 100% of the money and resources and has no need for the labor of the other 9 people (is even scared of letting them on the property) there is no basis for economic activity.
If one person has 20% of the money and resources and has no need for the labor of the other 9 people who share 80% of the money and resources then there is plentiful basis for economic activity- even if it's just for artistic stuff.
As I've said before.
Wrong model. We are NOT the buggy whip makers in this scenario. We are the horses.
And the wealthy will move to monico and similar nations which basically only have wealthy residents. They'll be fine until there is a world war.
Banafort had money in accounts all over the globe. If he had been able to leave, he would have had more money than 95% of americans for the rest of his life.
This tax plan lets them liberate the cash- move it over seas and be ready to leave when they lose power.
Dude, chinese jobs paying under $3000 a year were being automated already several years ago.
It's a fundamental threat to capitalism because a large block of citizens won't be able to trade their labor for goods and services. 50% unemployment isn't a problem in nations with fewer guns. But we have a *lot* of guns in this country.
No, we really havn't.
There is a difference between the wealthy having influence over government and the wealthy controlling government.
Pre 1980's the wealthy had influence over our society but increasingly they have control.
At this point, they are overriding the desires of over half the citizens. I think the tax bill was 80% opposed.
It passed anyway.
10,000 or more americans a year will die because of it over the next decade.
Funny thing, I don't see, process, or store commercials from any media any more. I mute the sound, I go do something else, switch to another window, slide the screen so the adds are off of the monitor, but mainly I think my brain has developed strong anti-advertising routines.
I think there is some truth to that but it will take time to reallocate the economy in that direction.
Current estimates are for 38% of the jobs going away over less than 20 years.
Already, kids go deep into debt for degrees which were valuable when they started but worthless when they graduate.
So we should lower the cost of training, retraining, and education- and perhaps restructure them to take fewer years.
And when 3 million truckers lose their jobs almost over night (3-5 year period), it's going to be really hard to employ them quickly. Some will never work effectively again.
Also, with entry level jobs destroyed- it gets harder to grab the first rung on the ladder.
While the older population is okay, younger people around the world are experiencing increasing unemployment rates.
Combined with robotic stockers, a walmart store will probably bring under two dozen jobs while destroying many more jobs.
In theory, it's good because it lowers prices. But once no one has money left, lower prices don't matter.
And walmart closes shop and moves on to extract money from another economy.
I'm not against it. But we need to seriously slow down automation or our entire way of life/system of government is at risk of collapsing into an autocratic oligarchy.