“Think of the two major possibilities here: Either the studios owe untold millions to their talents and paying it out will decimate their stock prices, or they owe so little because there really is no money in streaming and the bubble of their entire 21st century business model will burst in spectacular fashion. And make no mistake: this is a bubble. This is the inevitable climax of a stockholder-driven hunger for infinite growth, despite the fact that, by design, such a thing cannot and should not exist. The infection of Wall Street has overwhelmed the entertainment industry beyond repair, leading to cultural vandals like David Zaslav to be appointed with the callous duty of strip-mining decades’ of artistic beauty for pennies of tax write-offs. The past and future are frivolous in comparison to the short-term demands that the line keep going up.”
And if you do get paid for your ideas/writing during the strike, that is considered scabbing and you will be barred from the WGA for life, as per this email from the Blacklist:
abled people really don’t understand how lucky they are that all their muscles work because i don’t think most people realize why you need muscles that badly like i think for most people it’s “i need muscles to be able to walk and lift things” when it’s more like “you need muscles to be able to blow your nose, use the bathroom, and cough”. if your chest hurts lifting your arms will make it hurt worse. if your ass atrophies you can’t walk. you need your ass muscles to walk. it’s all connected
not being able to swallow pills means you have access to less medication and insurance, if you have it, is less likely to pay for alternatives to tablets. also a lot of people are just not going to believe that you can’t swallow pills and when they do so often it’s “yeah i used to have swallowing anxiety too. when i was like 6. what you do is *unsolicited advice*” and this includes other disabled people
you need your diaphragm to blow your nose and cough up mucus and if you don’t cough up mucus or find some other way to get it out it builds up and chokes you. not being able to blow your nose probably contributes to this but mostly it’s 1 just annoying 2 can’t really breathe thru your nose if it’s just totally plugged
plus your diaphragm and esophagus are connected but i don’t personally understand how. you get inadequate air distribution. i get like, gas going down my esophagus and i can’t do anything about it
and if your eyelids are too heavy, if they droop too badly, you have to compensate by lifting your eyebrows. which leads to forehead wrinkles (probably)
or if you have one weaker leg you may become masterful at flinging yourself around like you’re in a boat or a dance or something, just so you can stay on your feet at all. because you have no choice. i used to be really good at not falling until i started literally collapsing because i knew how to like, i guess work gravity to my advantage, because my right leg is weak and my left leg is weird
and i mean honestly your heart is a muscle. the stomach is a muscle. the uterus is a muscle. lungs are muscles
you need muscle strength to pee i really don’t think people even know that. and to get rid of gas. ffs
like i just think abled people take their ability to use their muscles for granted
The real question is whether they’re gonna hold the patent close to their chest so they can sell it, or if they’ll open the patent so homegamers can take a crack at building their own.
the impulse to hide what I’m doing at my computer still sits so deep even tho I’m literally never looking at anything objectionable , the door will open and I’ll hurry to close the page like oh fuck no one can know I’m looking at the Wikipedia page for the Balkans
a confession i have to make is that i periodically get a boomerang subscription and periodically cancel it despite having access to pretty good illegal toon sites because every time i cancel it they send me emails with pictures of the characters crying and depressed talking about how sad they are and how they’ll miss me and it makes me laugh so hard the ten bucks or whatever is worth it
I cannot put into words how much I Fucking Loathe the fact that when you search something on youtube now it will randomly intersperse blocks of “people also watched” and “for you” into the results. That’s not what I searched for, youtube. I typed in a search query because I wanted to see search results, not random unrelated garbage you have placed in my way apparently to either inconvenience me or force me to scroll further for actual results. I despise your wretched little games and every time I see it I can only instantly close the tab as I am overcome with the urge to burn something down.
“I despise your wretched little games” perfectly conveys how I feel about the entire algorithm/attention economy
They also refuse to actually show the parameters you searched for. If you sort by “upload date,” the first few videos might be more recent ones by upload date, but anything past that you’ll find a video that was uploaded five years ago, then five months ago, then three years ago, etc, which—NO! That’s NOT WHAT I ASKED FOR!! PUT THEM IN ORDER!!!
Also sometimes the “people also watched” bullcrap will not only be entirely unrelated, it will also be videos with violent, sometimes outright triggering thumbnails. I’ve gotten some AWFUL unrelated video thumbnails just when searching for video game music videos.
In case anyone doesn’t know, to decant a wine is to take it out of the container it fermented in and pour it into a bottle while sifting out the sediment and detritus that has settled to the bottom over the years that it’s been closed.
If this story is true, which is so horribly in character that I have to imagine that it is, then they probably had some needlessly extravagant Rich People wine at this party. I’d ballpark at least a couple hundred per bottle, maybe a couple thousand knowing the kinds of brown-nosing marks that tend to spawn near Elon.
What this means is that he was likely drinking yucky dirty shitty Wine Dregs that were potentially rotting for decades, typically consisting of dead yeast, insoluble rotting grape skins/seeds, and honestly probably a bunch of other shit that you HAVE to filter out before drinking “real” wine.
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