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FlamingLiberal posted:The WGA went on strike this morning after negotiations failed with the major streaming studios over increased wages for writers working on streaming shows. There has been a major difference between what writers get paid on cable/network shows vs shows that are streaming-only and the studios have refused to budge much on their positions. I'm kinda worried about how this will shake out because unlike last time, they're competing with YouTube and TikTok and all that. (YouTube existed before, but I think it was still in its 10-minute-limit, DVD-quality-if-you're-lucky days.) The last strike brought on an infinite wave of reality shows that still wander pluto.tv to this day, so I'm wondering what this one will bring. DarkCrawler posted:I mean...can't you just use VPN? Virtual Privates Network?
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Sir Lemming posted:I'm kinda worried about how this will shake out because unlike last time, they're competing with YouTube and TikTok and all that. (YouTube existed before, but I think it was still in its 10-minute-limit, DVD-quality-if-you're-lucky days.) The last strike brought on an infinite wave of reality shows that still wander pluto.tv to this day, so I'm wondering what this one will bring. ChatGPT 
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DarkCrawler posted:I mean...can't you just use VPN? Who in Utah do you imagine is smart enough to know what a VPN is but isn't smart enough to move out of that poo poo hole state? (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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WebDO posted:Who in Utah do you imagine is smart enough to know what a VPN is but isn't smart enough to move out of that poo poo hole state? 
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WebDO posted:Who in Utah do you imagine is smart enough to know what a VPN is but isn't smart enough to move out of that poo poo hole state? My buddy who lives there for the hiking
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WebDO posted:Who in Utah do you imagine is smart enough to know what a VPN is but isn't smart enough to move out of that poo poo hole state? Probably the same kids who this is intended to "protect", and who plan on moving out as soon as they are able?
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Sir Lemming posted:I'm kinda worried about how this will shake out because unlike last time, they're competing with YouTube and TikTok and all that. (YouTube existed before, but I think it was still in its 10-minute-limit, DVD-quality-if-you're-lucky days.) The last strike brought on an infinite wave of reality shows that still wander pluto.tv to this day, so I'm wondering what this one will bring. I had a similar thought, I haven't watched a syndicated TV show in a long, long time aside from kids shows. The most I've seen is fast forwarding through the boring parts of Breaking Bad. The only show I actually sat down at watched was Squid Game and that was Korean. That being said, it's still a drat huge market and it's not like they can just stop making shows. Jimmy Kimmel has around 1.5 million people watching every show for some reason. CuddleCryptid fucked around with this message at 13:27 on May 2, 2023 |
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WebDO posted:Who in Utah do you imagine is smart enough to know what a VPN is but isn't smart enough to move out of that poo poo hole state? Uh lots of people since it ain't easy to just uproot your entire life like that?
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WebDO posted:Who in Utah do you imagine is smart enough to know what a VPN is but isn't smart enough to move out of that poo poo hole state? Ah yes, because not having the resources to uproot your life and move elsewhere means you must be stupid
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WebDO posted:Who in Utah do you imagine is smart enough to know what a VPN is but isn't smart enough to move out of that poo poo hole state? Shut the gently caress up, idiot (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Sir Lemming posted:I'm kinda worried about how this will shake out because unlike last time, they're competing with YouTube and TikTok and all that. (YouTube existed before, but I think it was still in its 10-minute-limit, DVD-quality-if-you're-lucky days.) The last strike brought on an infinite wave of reality shows that still wander pluto.tv to this day, so I'm wondering what this one will bring. Even the late night shows, which were the main way of people being made aware of the previous strike, are not that powerful anymore. Far fewer people are watching them nightly as they air. It's pretty much everyone watching highlight clips the next day, if they watch any of it at all. These clips will just go away, and nobody will notice. Studios can just stretch out their release schedules for the current crop of shows they have in the can or that are in post-production, and consumers wouldn't feel the writers' strike for a very long time. It would be a slowly dawning realization in the middle of 2025 that it's been a very long time since anything new has come out. Meanwhile, the writers have mortgages to pay and have become accustomed to eating daily.
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WebDO posted:Who in Utah do you imagine is smart enough to know what a VPN is but isn't smart enough to move out of that poo poo hole state? Utah is absolutely gorgeous and has a million outdoor things to do. You should check it out sometime
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What U.S state isn't gorgeous? Rhode Island?
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DarkCrawler posted:What U.S state isn't gorgeous? Rhode Island? Louisiana, its all swamp
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DarkCrawler posted:What U.S state isn't gorgeous? Rhode Island? Delaware
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DarkCrawler posted:What U.S state isn't gorgeous? Rhode Island?   looks nice enough to me.Every state is going to have ugly places and nice-looking places, yes.
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Gumball Gumption posted:Everywhere is a gorgeous home to someone Mar-a-lago?
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Failed Imagineer posted:Mar-a-lago? Some people say it's the most gorgeous. Not me but some people
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WebDO posted:Who in Utah do you imagine is smart enough to know what a VPN is but isn't smart enough to move out of that poo poo hole state? Salt Lake's been a mini Silicon Valley since the sixties. People are still moving there and it's been just enough that Mormons are a minority now.
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Failed Imagineer posted:Delaware According to E! Entertainment television, this is false. The only things I know about Delaware are that it is home to roughly 52% of incorporated businesses in America and that they were always part of E! Entertainment channel's annual "Spring Break: Best Party Beaches in America" in the 90's and early 2000's. It was very weird because they would do shows from Florida, Florida, California, Florida, and then Delaware out of nowhere. It is seared into my mind despite being a quarter of a century ago.
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Gumball Gumption posted:Everywhere is a gorgeous home to someone I still get nostalgic over parts of Eastern Montana where I was born and raised. And that is the ugly half of the state.  Makoshika State Park. Makoshika literally translates to "Bad Land to Travel Through" Still strangely pretty.
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DarkCrawler posted:What U.S state isn't gorgeous? Rhode Island? Rhode Island is awesome!
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:According to E! Entertainment television, this is false. Rehobeth beach and Ocean City in Maryland just south are honestly great. Hot but not as humid as beaches in the south, decent waves, broad, clean sandy beaches and water that isn't filled with seaweed like stuff farther up like the Jersey shore/NYC. But it's not pretty, per se. Just a good beach if what you want to do is swim and tan. Edit: Nebraska is pretty only if you like expanses of nothing but corn. Stock desktop-rear end state.
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DarkCrawler posted:What U.S state isn't gorgeous? Rhode Island? Here me out: Texas. There are some absolutely gorgeous portions of the state, Big Bend, The Hill Country, etc , but on AVERAGE it is incredibly boring. I rode from Dallas to Grand Junction, CO and the second you leave Texas, the scenery becomes epic. From flat and brown to painted desert and mountains, loving extinct volcanoes! I split the trip in two coming back and the first half was wondrous, second blah.
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Yeah my big memory of Texas was that once you leave the towns it's expanse after expanse of burned out dead grass as far as you can see
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:According to E! Entertainment television, this is false.
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Gumball Gumption posted:Some people say it's the most gorgeous. Not me but some people A soldier-fireman-cop, big guy biggest you've ever seen, came up to me the other day - tears in his eyes - and he says to me "Sir, this is the most beautiful omelet bar I've ever seen"
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OctaMurk posted:Louisiana, its all swamp The swamp rules??? DeathChicken posted:Yeah my big memory of Texas was that once you leave the towns it's expanse after expanse of burned out dead grass as far as you can see Texas is the answer
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:The swamp rules??? But you're in a swamp on the highway, not a fan boat or a canoe. I need to ride to New Orleans on my bike. Maybe that would make it interesting.
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WebDO posted:Who in Utah do you imagine is smart enough to know what a VPN is but isn't smart enough to move out of that poo poo hole state? It has a huge tech sector they call the silicon slopes. I lived there for a year. It attracts a ton of young, tech savvy professionals who want to be able to take the day off and go ski.
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OctaMurk posted:Louisiana, its all swamp I've played RDR2, looked pretty cool to me. Terrifying, but cool. Judgy Fucker posted:
Charlz Guybon posted:Rhode Island is awesome! They would be decently-sized countries on any continent except for maybe few, and even those are less dense than say, their European equivalent, I just picked the smallest one out of the hat. Maybe if DC was a state... Jesus III posted:Here me out: Texas. There are some absolutely gorgeous portions of the state, Big Bend, The Hill Country, etc , but on AVERAGE it is incredibly boring. I rode from Dallas to Grand Junction, CO and the second you leave Texas, the scenery becomes epic. From flat and brown to painted desert and mountains, loving extinct volcanoes! I split the trip in two coming back and the first half was wondrous, second blah. Well Texas is huge though. Prairie/Steppe has to be universally the most boring looking place if you are used to the huge expanse as far as the eye can see. I am not so I get my mind blown every time still.
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Vice is filing for bankruptcy and may go under. As recently as a few years ago, the company was valued at close to $6 billion. However, it now looks like they have been bleeding money for several years and investors are no longer willing to give them any more money. They are attempting to sell the company to someone to avoid going under entirely, but so far nobody has taken the deal. The company is likely worth less than 5% of its original valuation right now. Disney put more than $400 million into Vice Media and it now says that its investment is "worthless." If they don't find a buyer, then they will dissolve the company and pay back whatever money they raise to their creditors. https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/1653180975696707585 quote:Vice, the brash digital-media disrupter that charmed giants like Disney and Fox into investing before a stunning crash-landing, is preparing to file for bankruptcy, according to two people with knowledge of its operations.
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DarkCrawler posted:I mean...can't you just use VPN? I was talking about regular people. Not goons.
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Good news on the rail sick days. CSX says they want to get that benefit to the operators but I’m not sure how they are going to do that without compromising on their short staffing. "The Guardian posted:Joseph McCartin, a labor historian at Georgetown University, said: “It’s a significant set of quiet victories. It shows that it really makes a difference to have a pro-labor president.” I think Biden and Buttigieg, who probably did not like having to overrule the union but felt they had no choice because of the potential fallout, have been quietly putting a lot of pressure on them. Regulatory threats probably have a bigger impact than even the PR concerns, which companies that size would usually wait to blow over. The CEO is certainly not doing it because his heart grew three sizes that day, anyway. I have to imagine that precision railroading and overwork are part of the negotiations between the operators and the rail companies; it’s hard to imagine how they would have a practical callout policy without making changes in that arena.
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https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/may/01/railroad-workers-union-win-sick-leave Here's the whole article. They've extended sick days to some workers but not the unions that represent the operators and engineers, so the people who would have the largest impact on operations. Hopefully they get it. Rolling back PSR policies would be the biggest victory though, it's a modern anti-worker policy that's shown to have zero impact on the actual quality and efficiency of the rail systems using it.
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Treasury Department says the U.S. will hit the debt ceiling sooner than anticipated - potentially in late May or June 1st. Biden has called congressional leaders for an emergency meeting at the White House: https://twitter.com/igorbobic/status/1653152816343465984 The Senate is preparing to pass a clean debt ceiling extension through December 2024, but Senate Republicans say they aren't going to support it or offer their own plan. They are saying they will sign on to whatever McCarthy passes. They say that the House GOP has passed a bill to lift the debt ceiling and if Biden doesn't support it, then he is responsible for defaulting: https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1653170408080695296 Senate Dems and House Republicans both say they are not willing to change their positions. The White House is quietly debating whether there is any legal merit to the idea that the 14th amendment allows the President to ignore the debt ceiling and analyzing what the potential costs and reactions would be if they used it. They are also determining what the implications would be if the issue ended up at the Supreme Court. White House lawyers on divided on the merits, but all of them also agree that they don't want to make it seem like something they are considering because it will give Republicans less reason to back down. https://twitter.com/jimtankersley/status/1653416499145580544 quote:As the government heads toward a possible default on its debt as soon as next month, officials are entertaining a legal theory that previous administrations ruled out. Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 17:23 on May 2, 2023 |
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Again; who would have standing to sue if the White House just ignored the debt ceiling?
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