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Sounds like they want a round of layoffs but don’t want to pay severance.

Spin on a spin at this point.

Good thing he gutted Twitter’s content moderation teams in the name of “free speech”, eh?

If I had a dollar for every time a billionaire loses more money than I could ever dream of because their hubris got in the way or they misunderstood a concept or were just plain dumb – well, I guess I’d be a billionaire too.

Who appoints them?

Regulators are politicians. That’s literally the point of the comment.

Did you skip over the last part of the comment?

The US has a problem of representation. Specifically and especially since the Citizens United decision, corporate interests can easily flow money towards politicians to make them do just about anything they want. This exacerbated an existing problem with the corporate tax rate and has now brought it into laughably low territory.

That’s all an oversimplification of course, but it’s not that Americans haven’t “figured it out”. It is far more complicated than that.

Regulators! Mount up.

…no, really. Do your jobs and regulate.

We need to get rid of politicians who are bought and paid for by corporations.

I think it is a kind of spectacle that just doesn’t exist anymore. For example, going to a Marvel movie for the effects is sort of like watching a video game. When everything is pure CGI, it loses the appeal (for me).

But Titanic was right at the cusp of that. There is CGI, but there’s also bigatures and miniature work and practical effects, etc etc etc. In many ways it is James Cameron at his peak.

But totally agree that the plot is pretty corny and it could have been much better as a more historically-focused film which didn’t spend most of the time on a relatively generic love story.

That’s fair. But it’s worth watching even just for the effects and set work.

I can see it now. Years into the future, a weird Republican coalition in Congress: “But his bag toss!” “Where’s Tim’s real score?”

As the country burns.

I don’t see YT being replaced in that sense any time soon. Federated text and image content is really still in infancy, and video hosting at the size of YT is a tremendously more complex feat, requiring, at the absolute minimum: a metric crapton of bandwidth and storage.

For me, I just use invidious and similar for the foreseeable future, or peertube when there are things on it.

At the very least, not being signed in to YT and having only a local watch history and subscriptions (=not on a YT or Google account) does starve the algorithm a bit.

Titanic is actually worth a watch though. Whereas for Minecraft, I found even the teaser to be a challenge.

I had a 93 Ranger and I miss it a lot. It had an aftermarket moonroof that also leaked like a sieve, but man I loved that little truck. Good size for actual utility.

I rolled it years ago, unfortunately.

It definitely is not (as) campy as his Bond films. But I would say it has a certain “90s-ness” to it, and realism / believability suffers because of it. But overall, a good film and very worthy of a watch.

According to your keyboard, you really don’t like going forward.

I only recently saw the Steve McQueen version of this movie, having seen the Pierce Brosnan one many times. I like them both, but the old one is definitely superior and just oozes style in a way that the later one doesn’t.

While I generally wish Hollywood would make new things, there’s enough substance in this story that I think this could be a very cool remake.

This. Openly saying he negotiated with a terrorist organization during a US presidential debate.

Yes, and he still lost handedly. That extra time was all rambles and nonsense. I think in the end it was better.

(Yes, I still would have preferred they muted him, ultimately).

Unfortunately, physical media for gaming died when always-online DRM was normalized. It doesn’t matter if you have a game on a disc when you have to phone home every time to use it. The corporation may still block your access.

One more step in ensuring no one owns anything. Lease or rent are your options.