Nancy and Chuck’s watch? Hate to be rude, but I think you’ve erred in your understanding of the political structure at play.

She’s a state-level rep in the North Carolina House of Representatives, not in the United States House of Representatives in DC. Pelosi and Schumer literally have fuck-all to do with state-level…

Artificially inflating the value of assets is one of the most common ways to launder money.

Let’s say I have $100k worth of ill-gotten gains. I then buy some asset, and a conspirator then purchases that asset for $200k. Not only have you just laundered the original $100k, but the additional $100k of profit is clean as…

^This

The only people who went broke were never actually rich to begin with. At best, they were over-leveraged paper millionaires who funded their lifestyle through massive amount of debt given out on the presumption that housing prices (and the financial instruments attached to those values) would never go down.…

Boy, was I wrong.

There’s a few very interesting psychological and statistical phenomenons at play when it comes to Covid, and more specifically, the vaccine.

One of them is the availability heuristic. Because it’s easier to visualize the people who get the vaccine versus those who don’t, any deaths attributable to either action (be it…

One thing that has undoubtedly raised the cost of movies is the increased use of CGI (even if a lot of it is bad) and marketing/advertising cost.

The CGI point is simple. For a movie like Amsterdam, a period piece, it’s easier on the studio to pay a bunch of money to offload the creation of CGI locales than it would be…

I’d argue Barbenheimer is a real thing - I know a number of people who plan to see both in one day, something they would pretty much never otherwise do. I think audiences are psyched to see two such well-reviewed but entirely different movies right up against each other.

i mean, duh. however, i bet oppenheimer would have probably been a 20-30 million dollar opening without all this. it’s getting a ton of free promo on top of its own very expensive press, plus it’s more than likely a great movie so it’ll have legs.

To be fair, the Barbie crowd has had a pretty decent run of lighthearted films this year, while the Oppenheimer crowd (and fans of filmmakers like Nolan) haven’t had much of shit this year (in fact, just looking at the release this year, there’s only been John Wick: Chapter 4 that’s even has a modicum of similarities…

Exactly.

The most prominent actors involved in the protests aren’t working for scale, and the contracts they and their agents can negotiate are always in excess of what’s mandated by the union.

It’s also why I found it unintentionally funny when so many sites (including ones in this same organization) wrote stories of…

To be honest, there’s such a significant amount of inertia when it comes to television viewership amongst consumers, so it’s not at all surprising that the people voting on these things are more apt to continue watching series they’re already invested in (and thus makes their job easier via confirmation and recency…

This is all very true, but it misses something very important: all of those mergers you cited where horizontal mergers where competitors within the same lines of business merged, directly reducing the competition by outright eliminating (or, at the very least, subsuming) a competitor into your own fold. The…

Nothing for Atlanta’s final season :(

At first glance, I thought to myself, “Man, Rhea Seehorn really must’ve rubbed someone the wrong way, because now she’s not even nominated for the final half of Better Call Saul”, but then I saw she was nominated for Best Supporting, which at the very least she should win after her half-decade of being outright…

Very good points.

I get the sense that people just don’t realize how difficult it is, in a variety of industries, for independent operators to remain solvent in the face of increasing competition and investment. It’s even more pronounced in industries where there are significant barriers to entry due to the maturity of…

B) Considering that my two majors in university were political science and economics, there’s a good chance I know more about these issues, and their history, than you do (and “dweeb”? Wow, what rhetorical skill).

It’s also rich that you probably wrote that response using a device made of hardware from corporate…

Yet when these mergers happen, you neither see a mass voluntary exodus of employees from the company, nor consumers refusing to purchase and utilize the goods and services.

Let’s be clear, the consumer isn’t getting these products or services by a someone in their garage, or a mom-and-pop outfit, and the rank-and-file…

And yet anyone who was out of a job because of a failed merger or acquisition (or general downsizing in that particular industry) would say the statement, as a generality, is silly and without necessary nuance for something vastly more complicated at every level than some employed and non-employed people would like to…

If you only care about what affects you as a consumer, that’s your prerogative. As someone who works in the media industry, I have a vested interest in news about media conglomerates and consolidation. And I understand that not everyone will care about that. However, workers always end up getting hurt before the…

The thing is, MS was only able to throw around $70 Billion with a Capital B to buy ABK because they are a behemoth outside the gaming division.