I’d push back a bit on it being a pop culture phenomenon, if that is taken to mean something grassroots.

It’s entirely manufactured by Warner Brothers. There’s ample evidence that they pit Barbie against Oppenheimer to spite Nolan for leaving them back in 2021. In fact, Oppenheimer’s release date was revealed back then…

countercountercounterpoint and also derailed from the primary topic

Barbie’s timing, has everything to do with Nolan himself and his past relationship with Warner Brothers. Normally releasing a movie like that is a terrible idea the same day as another movie unless you just don’t care a ton about the success of said…

Counterpoint: one of the biggest movies of the year is a biopic about a physicist and the morality and politics around his work. Art and profit are not an inverse relationship. Pandering to the lowest common denominator often drives off anyone with an intellect above that of a potato.

Oh, no, it’s WAY worse than that. Just listen to him:

Would people getting in and out of the cars make it inter-species pornography?

I don’t suddenly think less of the original The Lion King just because they made a less interesting “live action” version that I never bothered to watch. I still love Alladin and never watched any of the direct to video sequels despite knowing that they existed and were crappy. I think it’s a bunch of hand wringing,…

“Your favorite live action movies, now more animated than ever!” 

I mean, at this point Disney is more MCU + Star Wars than old school toons. They're not exactly hurting for IP.

Vast libraries of content are the main reason I have subscriptions to HBO and Disney. Cutting things like this really deincentivizes me from continuing a subscription. They seem to think one or too big shows at a time is all people want. That is not the case.

No. But residuals, which they don’t want to pay anyone anyway, are still something that cost them money.

One thing worth looking at is the parallels to the 2000 election; Gore actually publicly conceded based on the media calling Florida for Bush and only rolled it back when he realized the results were worth waiting out and contesting. Similarly, remember in 2020 a big ado was made of Fox News (iirc) calling AZ for…

They don’t really say that, but what they’re doing is giving Succession’s George W. Trump ammo to keep it alive in the court system so that ultimately it gets to SCOTUS level where the Succession version of Clarence Thomas can vote in favor of the candidate for whom his wife works on the transition team. Or, ATN just…

In its third-to-last episode ever, Succession’s central heirs ran more rampant than ever, essentially deciding an election in favor of Jeryd Mencken, a far-right candidate whose thinly-veiled fascist beliefs weren’t enough to dissuade Kendall (Jeremy Strong) and Roman (Kieran Culkin) from handing him the keys to the…

“Jacobs also confirmed that having a central count in Milwaukee does mean that all absentee ballots are processed in one place on one day, making the possibility of a well-placed fire genuinely changing political tides a very real one.”

Well Jesus fucking Christ don’t tell everyone that!  

The actual election and vote counting process is surprisingly durable and effective, despite MAGA Republicans striving to undermine it 

this episode really brought to mind the corrupt mess that was the 2000 election, with bush’s cousin at fox news calling the election for him just like roman did

The cleaning vs rental price differentiation is a purely artificial concept if the guest has to pay for both no matter what.

Not good enough. Any unavoidable charges (excluding mandated variables, ie. government taxes, etc.) should be included in the advertised price as a cost of doing business. Otherwise, it’s a matter of advertising a false rate to appear more competitive until potential customers have taken an active step towards your…

Yes, they do and it’s just as unacceptable. Any time I stay somewhere with an unwaivable ‘resort fee’ or equivalent, I let it be known in feedback avenues that they intentionally advertise false room rates and don’t tell you how much you’ll actually be charged until the end of the process. Fighting against comparison…

I was specifically referring to the astronomical ones that are clearly significantly higher than necessary. Secondly, as another commenter on this thread has pointed out, if it’s part of the business, it should be included in the advertised rate. Breaking a huge chunk of the cost of the stay into a separate fee is…