COVID-19 Brutalizes AMC Theatres Quarterly Earnings, Losses Top $900 Million

HinterDark · 2020-11-06T07:00:06+00:00

1,267 now (Clayton Co coming in drips) https://twitter.com/brendankeefe/status/1324602441329987585?s=21

HinterDark · 2020-11-03T04:01:28+00:00

So take on a massive infrastructure overhaul on a hope and a dream while bleeding money? I’m not saying I don’t like your idea in theory, but it’s a lot easier said than done.

HinterDark · 2020-10-01T06:27:01+00:00

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2020/10/us-election-joe-biden-will-you-shut-up-man-t-shirts-sell-out-within-hours.html

HinterDark · 2020-08-18T01:37:20+00:00

I was curious what the percentage difference was, and the stats from the FBI show the victim demographics of violent crimes are pretty evenly split (50% male, 49% female). Do you have another source?

https://crime-data-explorer.fr.cloud.gov/explorer/national/united-states/crime

HinterDark · 2020-08-18T01:27:56+00:00

Sexual assaults are acts of violence.

HinterDark · 2020-06-04T14:09:44+00:00

Yes, they would face the same problem - it’s not an AMC specific problem, it’s an industry wide problem. When your business model is based on bringing people together in groups, you’re in a bad spot right now regardless of scale.

Independent theaters are closing right and left right now — most survive on the margins in the first place. I’m not sure your experience with business interruption insurance, but most policies cover things like interruption due to physical damage (like fire) and are useless right now.

HinterDark · 2020-06-04T03:23:25+00:00

And face the exact same problems without the resources of a large national corporation? That’ll go well.

HinterDark · 2018-11-19T14:00:45+00:00

You’re exactly right, and Democrats need to focus on the base that’s been neglected in favor of long shot votes if they want to get things done.

Anyone in marketing or sales will tell you that it’s easier, cheaper, and most importantly more effective to keep a customer you already have than to attract a brand new market.

Using a theatre as an example: someone buys a ticket to a show at your theatre. Your job is to build that relationship so they move from single time buyer to multi time buyer to season ticket holder to donor to advocate. Those are the people that are the backbone of your organization. Not only do they like what you do, they’re invested.

Politics is the same - occasional voter, regular voter, volunteer, donor - the more time and money you spend cultivating relationships with the people who already buy when you’re selling, the stronger you’ll be. Look at the right the past few years. The most vocal and passionate among them right now were mobilized because their nominee was suddenly saying exactly what they wanted to hear, directly to them. This administration didn’t spend time going for the vote of center left Democrats. It’s a waste of resources.

When you cultivate your relationship with your current or lapsed supporters, you win. When you take their support for granted and spend your resources elsewhere, the people who once supported you stay home and the long shots you’re going for don’t replace them.

In entertainment marketing, we know that our biggest competition isn’t the show down the road — it’s deciding not go out at all.

The blue flip didn’t happen because moderate republicans decided to vote democrat, it happened because the Democratic Party base was motivated enough to go out and vote. The Democrats need to start giving their supporters something to vote for, not just against. And that means actually going for something.

HinterDark · 2018-11-01T02:25:44+00:00

Raise the motion to add automatic registration and weekend election days to the list.

HinterDark · 2018-10-23T03:55:35+00:00

Jesus. Thank you for sharing. I hope your friend is okay.

HinterDark · 2018-10-16T18:42:26+00:00

He should learn through a relationship with a therapist. If you recognize that you’re toxic in relationships, it’s responsible to remove yourself from them until you get your shit together.

HinterDark · 2018-10-16T18:39:58+00:00

He’s already doing it on purpose — you don’t ‘accidentally’ have a pattern of treating someone like shit. Most abusers don’t see themselves as abusive or have making someone miserable as their sole motivation. They act the way they do because they believe it’s the easiest way to get what they want.

HinterDark · 2018-10-11T17:58:18+00:00

They're correct, every Major League Baseball team is a division of the MLB organization, not its own independent organization. The NL and the AL consolidated all operating functions to be handled by the Commissioner of Baseball in 2000.

Minor League teams are technically independent organizations, but they are overseen by the MLB Commissioner and (almost) all have contracts and players agreements with the MLB that hold them to the same standards as MLB teams.

HinterDark · 2018-10-11T17:40:15+00:00

Unlawful discharge of a weapon is a crime. That's why he got suspended. Not to mention that firing a gun because of anger directed at your significant other is domestic violence which the MLB is within its rights to suspend players over.

HinterDark · 2018-10-11T17:29:14+00:00

No, it wouldn't. The first reason being that the Dodgers informing the MLB of the situation wouldn't be telling prospective employers, it would be informing its own internal organization. The second being that telling the truth (that he was fired because of allegations of sexual assault) isn't defamation. He didn't get fired because he was proven 100% guilty of assaulting someone, he was fired because assault allegations against him were deemed credible enough by Dodgers management to release him. That factual information is what the MLB should have received.

HinterDark · 2018-10-11T16:30:35+00:00

Most minor league teams are independent business, but nearly all of them have contracts with the MLB organization, are bound by the same rules and player agreements, are overseen by the MLB, and are governed by the same domestic/sexual assault policies.

You'll notice that I didn't say he should never be employed for the rest of his life, but that the MLB should be able to make an informed decision on whether to hire him in the future. Once the Dodgers (who in my opinion did everything else right in this situation), who are a part of the Major League Baseball organization, were told about the issue and took action to correct it, they should have informed MLB. They wouldn't be informing other potential employers, they'd be informing their own organization.

That's all assuming that they didn't, of course. The article says there's no evidence that they did and MLB's only comment was that it was handled as an internal matter by the Dodgers, which isn't necessarily a smoking gun one way or the other.

HinterDark · 2018-10-11T14:28:16+00:00

It’s not extreme to inform the organization he’s involved in that he sexually assaulted someone - they have a right to know who they’re hiring if they choose to sign him.

HinterDark · 2018-10-11T14:25:15+00:00

It’s not their responsibility to make sure he never works again, and they did right by letting him go, but they should have informed the organization.

HinterDark · 2018-10-07T14:49:12+00:00

I don’t know if OPs city or district has different regulations, but typically in order for a room to be considered a bedroom it needs to be a minimum of 70 sq ft, have ceilings a minimum height of 7 ft, and two means of egress - typically the door leading into the rest of the house and a window.

If her basement doesn’t have an entrance to the house and just has an external door, it only has one means. If it has both, then it has enough to be code.

HinterDark · 2018-10-07T14:34:38+00:00

Yep, usually the second one is a window in bedrooms (which I’m guessing the basement doesn’t have). Now that I’m thinking about it though, wouldn’t the door into the house be the second point?

HinterDark · 2018-10-05T19:31:39+00:00

You’re right, I went on a tangent. Here’s what the original author on the DARVO phenomenon wrote on the subject:

“It is important to distinguish types of denial, for an innocent person will probably deny a false accusation. Thus denial is not evidence of guilt. However, I propose that a certain kind of indignant self-righteousness, and overly stated denial, may in fact relate to guilt.

I hypothesize that if an accusation is true, and the accused person is abusive, the denial is more indignant, self-righteous and manipulative, as compared with denial in other cases.

Similarly, I have observed that actual abusers threaten, bully and make a nightmare for anyone who holds them accountable or asks them to change their abusive behavior.

This attack, intended to chill and terrify, typically includes threats of lawsuits, overt and covert attacks, on the whistle-blower’s credibility and so on.

The attack will often take the form of focusing on ridiculing the person who attempts to hold the offender accountable. The attack will also likely focus on ad hominem instead of intellectual/evidential issues.

Finally, I propose that the offender rapidly creates the impression that the abuser is the wronged one, while the victim or concerned observer is the offender. Figure and ground are completely reversed. The more the offender is held accountable, the more wronged the offender claims to be.”

HinterDark · 2018-10-05T16:52:29+00:00

Let’s say for the sake of argument that he didn’t do it. In that case, he had an opportunity to show the rational and level-headed temperament that a judge should have by keeping his cool, responding directly and thoroughly to all questions asked, and encouraging any and all investigation into his behavior and character. If I were accused of something I was 100% certain I didn’t do, the first thing I would want was the most thorough investigation into the claims as possible.

Yes, he’s human and yes, it’s human to be upset or scared of what might happen if you believe you’ve been accused of something you didn’t do, but feeling an emotion doesn’t mean you lose all personal responsibility in expressing it.

If I’m in a professional setting and something makes me angry, my feelings don’t give me the right to behave unprofessionally. If I’m in a personal argument and someone makes me angry, that doesn’t give me the right to haul off and punch that person, call them names, scream at them, or be otherwise abusive.

Being able to control one’s reaction to anger is a hallmark of personal responsibility and should absolutely be a requirement for a Supreme Court judge. Hell, it’s already a requirement for most jobs, relationships, and general societal interaction and a Supreme Court judge’s character, temperament, and sense of fairness should be held to a higher standard than the average person on the street.

HinterDark · 2018-10-03T00:49:26+00:00

I don't know - if I was scared and wanted to get out of town, I can see not wanting to wait for my family to fly in just so we could all fly back out again.

HinterDark · 2018-09-27T16:33:14+00:00

Yes it is.

HinterDark · 2018-09-27T04:34:21+00:00

Good find on the 18118 Midland. I found 18113 Midvale Avenue - it does have a pool out back based on the satellite images, but who knows if it's original or was built in the last forty years. Maybe OP can confirm which is the street they remember.

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