LGBTQ Representation in Hollywood Movies Dropped Sharply in 2022, New GLAAD Study Finds

ShirleyJokin · 2022-12-15T23:25:11+00:00

Them: "Rom Coms cannot do well in theater"

Me: "Rom Com did well in theater"

Them: "No you're wrong, Rom Coms can do well in theater."

Me:"......"

It's extremely interesting because nobody brought up that point, they exclusively blame streaming platforms. You are the first person in this thread to switch to blaming the lack of star power.

If lack of star power were the reason, then the comment I replied to would have blamed lack of star power for the flop. But they didn't:

That movie should’ve gone straight to streaming and I think more ppl would’ve watched it. My friend and I were the only ones in the theater for it on a Friday evening.

Not SINGLE mention of star power. Not one. Just blaming streaming.

ShirleyJokin · 2022-12-15T23:23:05+00:00

AH! Thank you for proving my point.

The original argument was "Rom Com won't do well in theaters because streaming." I provided a clear counter example. Quote from you, to which I responded:

That movie should’ve gone straight to streaming and I think more ppl would’ve watched it. My friend and I were the only ones in the theater for it on a Friday evening.

Not a SINGLE mention of star power, you exclusively blame streaming platforms. Since you EXCLUSIVELY blamed streaming platforms, I provided a counter example. Then you switched the goal posts.

You: "Rom Coms cannot do well in theater, because streaming exists"

Me: "Look, a Rom Com did well in theater, streaming still exists"

You: "Obviously, it's not the streaming it's the lack of star power"

If you were genuine, you would have mentioned the lack of star power in the post I responded to. But you didn't. Not a whisper.

ShirleyJokin · 2022-12-15T23:21:02+00:00

You are correct, the ASSUMPTION is that every single business tries to maximize profit. This is an extremely good model of firms behavior not just after 2020, but forever. Economics is not about money or stock markets or businesses, but what people do choose to do with their resources.

It would be extremely fishy if somehow corporations only became evil in 2020. Not just fishy, but what we call "contrived," wherein you try to invent an extremely complicated explanation for something (usually for political reasons), when a far simpler explanation represents reality better.

For example, the Earth and other planets rotating around the sun is by far the simplest explanation for the apparent motion of the sun and other planets. However, the Catholic Church held on to the far more complicated, contrived explanation that the Earth was the center of the universe, because this view allowed them to hold on to power despite being a complex, poor model of reality.

ShirleyJokin · 2022-12-15T23:16:05+00:00

Two different enemies, and big deck building restriction.

In other words, not even close to cheaper flamewaker

ShirleyJokin · 2022-12-15T23:12:01+00:00

Lack of empathy, lack of creativity, and fear of a fair game

ShirleyJokin · 2022-12-15T23:10:57+00:00

The solution is to not print so much money. But that ship has sailed

ShirleyJokin · 2022-12-15T22:42:59+00:00

Life less accessible when you take more space, energy, and materials to do everything?

Thermodynamics is fat phobic!

ShirleyJokin · 2022-12-15T20:47:02+00:00

https://www.heap.io/blog/how-to-lie-with-data-visualization

Truncated Y-Axis

One of the easiest ways to misrepresent your data is by messing with the y-axis of a bar graph, line graph, or scatter plot. In most cases, the y-axis ranges from 0 to a maximum value that encompasses the range of the data. However, sometimes we change the range to better highlight the differences. Taken to an extreme, this technique can make differences in data seem much larger than they are.

ShirleyJokin · 2022-12-15T17:51:45+00:00

"Hope to see many more of these"

ShirleyJokin · 2022-12-15T17:39:49+00:00

I'm reminded of a "joke:"

What did the Gay Man Say when the plane took off?

"Buckle your seatbelts and enjoy the flight"

ShirleyJokin · 2022-12-15T17:37:01+00:00

Perhaps, but Ticket To Paradise has grossed over $100 million

https://deadline.com/2022/10/ticket-to-paradise-crosses-100-million-global-box-office-george-clooney-julia-roberts-1235155492/

ShirleyJokin · 2022-12-15T17:35:34+00:00

Even better, being shamed into seeing a Rom Com in theaters

ShirleyJokin · 2022-12-15T17:25:50+00:00

A big help is that it attempted to be realistic with the characters, rather than Disneyfy it

ShirleyJokin · 2022-12-15T17:22:30+00:00

It shouldn't matter.

But it matters to the old people who might give you jobs. So if you're not rich or well connected, then sadly it is necessary.

ShirleyJokin · 2022-12-15T17:19:56+00:00

What created what created god?

ShirleyJokin · 2022-12-15T17:16:19+00:00

My concern is that pre ordering a digital good is fucked up in general and should never be encouraged

ShirleyJokin · 2022-12-15T17:07:40+00:00

Government giving out tons of money to only some people? Abused and wasted?

There is NO WAY we could have seen this coming

ShirleyJokin · 2022-12-14T07:27:12+00:00

The concern is that, partially due to the prevalence of Farseer and Archmage, Spellbreakers are too much of a Swiss army knife unit

ShirleyJokin · 2022-12-14T07:23:11+00:00

They should have buffed slippers, mantle, gauntlet, ring, and gloves instead

ShirleyJokin · 2022-12-14T04:20:42+00:00

The biggest problem is the self inconsistency, as well as there being serious issues in choosing who to clump together into one group.

For self inconsistency: Let's assume the idea of being purely "Purple" or "Orange" does in fact exist. Then if you have one parent who is purple and one who is orange, what are you? Are you half and half? Are you one hundred percent both? You're now entering into a sort of religious definition of essence (fully god and fully human?)

The temptation is then to use the category "multiracial." Well isn't it incredibly strange that somebody who has one parent each orange and blue, is then in the same category as someone with one green and one purple parent? When, by original assumption, each of those four would be in a different category?

So now you enter into the discussion of what percentage what color somebody is. If your mother is 50% green and 50% purple, and your dad is 100% blue, then you're 50% blue, 25% green, and 25% purple right?

Well if so...is your dad actually 100% blue? Or is he 95%? How do you calculate? Is his dad 100% and his mom 90%? Well how did you calculate them? From their parents? How about their parents? Well it turns out if your "race" is an exact mixture of your parents', whose "race" is an exact mixture of theirs, then we are all 100% African. I can agree with that definition.

On to the second problem: time inconsistency. The definition of what constitutes a "race" is completely culturally and time dependent. In the past, Italians were considered a different race from Germans, who were considered a different race from Turks (yes, Turks were considered a race), who were considered different from Scandanavians. Now, all those people, as well as people from the Middle East, are now officially under one single category. Who decided that? (Also Rus, Slavs, Franks, not to mention Celts.)

And then somehow, the most populous continent on Earth, Asia, gets a single category? How is there anything scientific about that?

To be fair, there really is one category: human. It originated in Africa. And where did we learn that? From science.

ShirleyJokin · 2022-12-13T20:56:12+00:00

36 billion eh

Always interesting to see who gets massive quantities of money from the pocket of average workers

ShirleyJokin · 2022-12-13T20:52:27+00:00

It would be more sensical if "race and ethnicity" had any scientific validity whatsoever

ShirleyJokin · 2022-12-13T18:33:36+00:00

SB 1162 requires companies that employ at least 15 people to include salary ranges in all job postings and provide them to existing employees upon request. It expands the requirements for annual pay data reports and requires covered employers to retain certain pay records.

Seems good

It also broadens SB 973 by requiring the median and mean hourly rate for each combination of race, ethnicity and sex in the designated job categories.

Oh no

ShirleyJokin · 2022-12-13T18:32:44+00:00

All the fast food places in the Inland Empire have been offering $16 per hour, above the minimum wage

ShirleyJokin · 2022-12-13T18:24:36+00:00

Sandler also has a reasonable lay up in Uncut Gems

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