If we took care of people, as a rule, in our society, than I would agree with you. 

you mean free people up to pursue a career in something fulfilling that they might actually enjoy, such as art?

Yeah, because past inventions and productivity increases ALWAYS free human beings up to do more interesting work or have more free time, right?

Actually, CGI has done massive damage to the moviemaking industry. So many little stupid things get CGI’d, like having an actor hold a stick and then CGIing in a gun later because it’s cheaper to pay a graphics sweatshop to add in a gun than it is to pay a unionized prop manager. Actors having to try to portray nearly …

“There is literally nothing ethically dubious about artificial intelligence.”

Just needs to be expanded slightly to ‘As a consumer, I hope there is properly compensated and respected human labor behind my purchase’

Any attempt at comment from the alleged shooter or their legal representation?  Forgive me if I don’t take Cook’s “simple practical joke” statement at face value.

Posting is his “passion,” he told the news station, so he’s intent to return to YouTube.

Every other business in America should be chilled by this. If he’s willing to use the state to retaliate against the political free speech of one of the biggest corporations in the world (can’t have this one both ways, GOP), he’s sure as hell willing to do it to every other business that crosses him or that he sees…

I can’t help but laugh when people say Disney is doing anything for an agenda other than money. Their only agenda is getting more money, and any wokeness or diversity is driven entirely by the consuming public’s shifting tastes.

DeSantis is going to die on this hill isn’t he?

That’s insulting to Lex Luthor. He never tried to bring back the Confederacy.

It’s really bonkers that in the course of a few weeks or so Disney somehow got painted as a liberal progressive company.

a 2022 spat between DeSantis and Disney over the company’s (tepid) support for LGBTQ rights

This letter will be given all the time and attention it deserves. I will bet money the signatories didn’t even read it.

Organized crime.

It’s so cute when Americans think they have rights.

I mean, there’s still all that horrific shit of him sliding into underage girls DMs and telling them they’re hot jailbait.

The punitive measures should be taken out of the pensions and retirement of officers who had nothing to do with this. That way the pigs have actual incentive to self-regulate and enforce the rules, rather than this “thin blue line” circle jerk nonsense. 

Oh man, the one with him running from the cops just made my night... shades of George Bluth in Arrested Development whenever he saw an opportunity to make a run for it.