I think it’s always been a fight by producers to reign in the power. Right now there’s a huge shakeup to the industry and almost no one has figured it out so the industry falls back on “safe” money tied up in producers and companies. If anything this shift should be better for independent creators as the Internet allows for more of a democratization of resources so it will probably swing back.

Also, I think this is probably a classic problem of confirmation bias, cause we have plenty of studios producing cheaper movies, A24 comes to mind. A lot of great directors and writers are taking risks on high-budget streaming series, people like Apple, Amazon, and HBO are throwing wads of cash at 1/2 season flops that are cool ideas, some of which hit big.

On top of that, we look back with rose-tinted glasses at the “glory days” of film when directors had more power than studios etc, but I would bet a lot that pound for pound the industry wasn’t nearly as proportionately experimental as it is today. Maybe we’re in a lull compared to recent years (maybe) but overall the trajectory is pretty steadily upwards.

You didn’t answer the question.

How on earth would what I said imply that Al Jazeera knew that October 7th was going to happen lol. There’s been threats of war between the two for decades.

If Elon musk got cancer and spent 5 years fighting it before succumbing to it people would claim that it’s mysterious circumstances.

They don’t make you smart or cure dementia, but used sparingly and at the right moment they can make you act at your best for a few hours.

I like the take that science fiction and fantasy is just a better form of fiction because you could take literally any fiction story about a mopey 30 year old who has to take care of their sick parent and a science fiction story has the potential to write an equally compelling story except this time there’s a killer robot on the loose or they’re on Mars or something.

All good stories are human stories, even science fiction. There’s nothing inherently better about setting your story in the “real world”.

https://youtu.be/ql5_q_33wqY?si=S04ScBNiNe5ecI1p

I’m sure al Jazeera would have said the US has been trying to prevent an Israeli-Palestine war before the conflict happened. We can see what happened with that.

“Queen fans” is a perfect double entendre here.

I will be returning mine (the steering wheel desk)

Lol

Wife wants coke, a brick of hash, bottle of pills, some meat and some sausage. Kid wants a sandwich and some ciggies.

I never thought about it but #2 is probably a huge one. They see their local business man make it through COVID with 3 false PPE loans and feel they missed out. Or they hear about the corrupt construction company owner in their town and they don’t blame them they just want to get a piece of the pie and they don’t know how until they’re told about sovereign citizenship.

Not to reiterate what other people have said here. But you can make an object 1 meter long by defining that object as 1 meter (hell, you don’t have to, but you can define 1 meter as the length that light travels in a specific amount of time or something silly). Then, to create something two meters long, you can have two of those one-meter lengths. To make something π meters long, you would need infinite precision, that is not true for 1 meter or even 1/3 as you mention later in this thread.

There is no way to divide anything into exactly π length. There is an easy way to divide something into a number that can be expressed as a fraction, such as 1/3, or any fraction you care to come up with, even if it can be represented as .3 repeating.

Oh I’m fine about communism I didn’t realize the founders were communist.

Yeah… The US has a sound and practical military strategy of owning a military that would win quickly and dominate completely. War is brutal??? Is China in your mind soft and coquettish in their war strategies lmao. With oriental honor lol.

I’ll tiptoe around the questions of how this made you think of a US China war, and what lengths you would go to insist that there would be little reason for China to ever be the “aggressor”.

I’m going to throw myself into a vat of toxic waste to gain superpowers to do those crimes anyway.

The headlines exist, but Stonehenge is what is generating the lasting discussion and will be the instance that most people in the world know about.

Sorry, I haven’t been on Lemmy as long. How did Communism send you here?

Yeah cause a real man dies early dohy

God watching these movies in order is going to be a nightmare when the next one is going to be named like M4TILDA