Okay, but how many innocent drivers have been identified and targeted by this system?

Japan has a history of killing dolphins for their obsolete whaling industry.  So good on the dolphins.

I for one welcome our new dolphin overlords

Even the US collective bargaining of the different production unions prevent union solidarity. It’s not government mandated but it is in each of the collective bargains. The only way this is happening now is because of an overlap of negotiations (which could have included the DGA the cowards.) I, as an IATSE member,…

NO. It is part of the studios’ collective bargaining. It applies to anyone at all. No changes. Even Equity. Writers can’t do writing but also Producers and Actors are not allowed. (In fact, if a producer, under normal situations, makes a change, he/she has to join the guild. I have a film where this has happened and…

UK Production doesn’t make the WGA strike less relevant. Equity doesn’t represent writers — only UK actors. Ryan Condal, Sara Hess, and George RR Martin are all WGA members for House of Dragons. WGA rules apply. For Dune Sisterhood, Diane Ademu-John, Kevin Anderson, and Brian Herbert are all WGA members. They are all…

The problem I have with it is that Wanda could be an absolutely amazing villain, but that script wasn’t one that made her so.

More upset about Wanda, she deserved better.

Well they'd have to follow network TV rates, so pretty decent residuals based on ratings. 

I was annoyed? Didn’t know that.

As a side note: Getting pre 1945 steel from the sea bed isn’t exactly cheap.

and the first time it tried to do its sole job — shuttling sightseers high on hubris down to the site of another aquatic disaster — it caved in like a Coke can. These are the facts of the matter.

Right? If instead it was something like “Hey we want to license out their images with royalties but just want to remove a lot of the red tape” then at least it could be said that there is some value for the actor since they’d be getting paid for work they effectively didn’t have to do but the fact that instead it was…

It’s not shocking that they want to do that - they are corporate ghouls, after all - but the fact that they thought they could bring it up at the negotiating table shows how wildly out of touch they are.

Yeah, but I agree with that. That’s what the FTC is for. The FTC is not for populist demagoguery.

The FTC took novel legal theories to block this merger because it’s a big company. That ended up resulting in literally >zero< concessions on this deal.

The way to do this would be to review the merger and offer…

The obvious outcome is that the merger isn’t violating any antitrust laws. “Consolidation is bad mmkay” isn’t a valid legal argument. MS doesn’t have a monopoly in the relevant markets and the merger won’t change that. The merger doesn’t hurt consumers in any ways that aren’t already happening regularly through…

so everybody who wanted to play Call of Duty on PC, played it. This proves that we should be allowed to yank Call of Duty from competing consoles, somehow.

What are you talking about? The claim is correct that limiting the availability of games to specific stores or launchers has a demonstrable detrimental effect on sales. It’s not just battle.net and CoD, EA and Ubisoft also experienced fallen sales figures after making their games launcher exclusive.

You need to change the title to: “Perseverence finds organic molecules on Mars.”

I’ve worked with a few debt collectors. They don’t typically collect on behalf of a creditor. They buy delinquent accounts from a creditor at pennies on the dollar, then try to collect on them and pocket whatever they get. So usually (not always - I know Bank of America handles credit card delinquency differently),…