I was confused by the fight between Ahsoka and Baylan. She gets her lightsaber to his throat and then he drops his defenses and says that she can never defeat him.  Instead of cutting his head off, she just agrees and runs away.  Is he immune to lightsabers or something?

“When you have an outsized reaction to something, there’s a good chance that you’re being exposed to misinformation and disinformation.”

The union is spinning it and the studios have no incentive to claim victory before the rank-and-file vote.  I doubt the union got everything they wanted.

AI will be much better by then. It will be a much bigger issue in the next negotiation.

I’m not sure that all the shows will come back with the actors on strike. They could have non-actors come on, or have actors that aren’t promoting their work. Colbert and the Daily Show will probably go heavy with politicians, but the others usually have actors as the lead guest every night.

What about that guy living in the theatre for Dickie’s father? He was a director. That’s assuming they don’t go for the obvious.

Maria Sharapova, Svetlana Kuznetsova, Naomi Osaka and Emma Raduncanu were all teenagers when they won.

They created a paradox (also a pair of Docs).

He didn’t know anything.  He was making a joke.

She seems to be the only one talking about it.

He didn’t quit: https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/25/football/luis-rubiales-defiant-speech-spain-world-cup-kiss-spt-intl/index.html

They don’t do that here. It’s all about taking other people’s work and regurgitating it without checking if it’s true.

That’s a drop in the bucket compared to the losses the Empire had to write off on the Death Star.

There’s also this:

It’s pretty bad that a writer could be fired without being told. Even if the Glovers didn’t want to tell him, someone at Disney/Lucasfilm should’ve been in touch.  Things must really be in disarray there.

They are both UK productions, so the strike by the Writers’ Guild of America has no impact. Writers can continue to work on both productions.

Jack White has his own problematic history.

How about nobody groom children? Just because she’s doing it doesn’t give you the right to do it.

Obama was a legacy admission at Harvard. His father was an alumnus.

The $120 is pure profit. The goods you buy have to factor in their costs in buying/manufacturing the goods, the employees stocking and at the checkout, and the shelf space.  Your $1600 in purchases could easily be less than $120 profit to them.