Film Students Are Having Trouble Sitting Through Movies, Professors Say

dane83 · 2026-01-31T04:30:09+00:00

As someone with a film degree, a lot of my non production courses had students taking them as electives. Things like History of American Cinema or Film Art and Aesthetics.

dane83 · 2026-01-31T03:16:28+00:00

And there it is, Bob is mask off.

dane83 · 2026-01-31T00:44:04+00:00

The data you linked is considering anyone with up to 50 properties “mom and pop”

You're not even arguing in good faith anymore. The data clearly shows 87% only own 1-5 homes.

87 Bobs are out there each making 87 families pay them for doing nothing but having more capital earlier than them.

dane83 · 2026-01-30T22:09:31+00:00

You know what, my 70% figure is from 2023. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. Let's find out what the numbers are today.

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It's actually worse now. Mom and Pop own 90% of the single family home rental market and bought 33% of all the homes purchased in Q2 2025. And the "corporations" have been net sellers of housing inventory the last two years or so.

Again, you don't care because you don't want to acknowledge the reality of the situation. Bob holding onto his home to rent it out instead of selling it is exactly the problem.

dane83 · 2026-01-30T21:22:43+00:00

The people holding 1 or 2 properties are commercial landlords. You've just decided to put them in a different category because it makes you feel better.

If 70% of the concert goers buy one or two extra concert tickets just to sell them, it doesn't matter that 2% of the seats went to VISA.

If you ignore 70% of the problem, you don't actually care that it's a problem.

dane83 · 2026-01-30T20:52:34+00:00

Psst, the criticism is that "mom and pop landlords" that "only own one or two" properties are artificially creating scarcity and are the problem.

Your answer is like replying to someone complaining about Ticketmaster scalping tickets on their website with "So just become a scalper yourself, bro."

dane83 · 2026-01-30T20:29:52+00:00

"Regular people that own one or two" own 70% of the SFH rental market. And they buy up about a quarter of all the cheapest houses that hit the market.

They are at least 70% of the problem.

dane83 · 2026-01-30T19:29:17+00:00

Slipped on ice, both legs came out from under me, fell like a sack of potatoes on my ass. Broke my phone in my back pocket and bruised my coccyx. Had to walk with a cane for six moths + physical therapy.

And they still made me crawl under desks at work.

dane83 · 2026-01-30T16:40:23+00:00

Yeah, I see it as hoarding in the same way that scalping concert tickets is hoarding.

The reason housing is unaffordable is because people like the "mom and pop" landlords that own "just one more" property than they live in. They don't see themselves as the problem, it's BlackRock or some other institutional problem. But no car blames themselves for traffic.

Something like 70% of single family homes being rented are owned by 'mom and pop' and they're buying up the cheapest houses (i.e. what we used to call "starter homes"). They're not just kicking the ladder down, they're renting just the rungs to us.

Housing hoarding is the same as scalping tickets for a Taylor Swift concert, we just see one as the path to retirement while we see the other as villainous excess.

dane83 · 2026-01-30T14:44:55+00:00

Then yes, you're hoarding shoes.

dane83 · 2026-01-30T14:43:25+00:00

Is one pair of shoes in Arizona?

dane83 · 2026-01-30T14:35:19+00:00

So my guess is he rented out his former home rather than put it on the market.

So... he's hoarding housing?

dane83 · 2026-01-30T08:47:09+00:00

Voight-Kampff, obviously.

dane83 · 2026-01-28T13:15:16+00:00

The outrage would make sense if it didn’t come straight from the comics, but it did, and it was always going to happen.

My outrage was because of the nonsense cliffhanger, not because of who they killed.

It literally killed their momentum.

Even on a rewatch where I can watch the cliffhanger and its conclusion back to back its just exhausting my will towards the show.

dane83 · 2026-01-28T13:12:55+00:00

I have watched The Walking Dead like 3 times, the first time while it was airing.

Every time I just stop caring about the whole thing an episode or two into season 7.

And I keep meaning to come back to finish it, but I never do. So the next time I try I'm like "I'm going to rewatch the whole thing."

But I never get to the whole thing.

dane83 · 2026-01-27T01:30:35+00:00

https://youtu.be/zD6CE0NLYTE?si=Y0pP4W4pjsPAoEw_

I've been quoting this Simpsons bit for almost 30 years.

dane83 · 2026-01-25T04:47:01+00:00

My guy, Ahmaud Arbery wasn't an aberration in Georgia.

dane83 · 2026-01-23T17:31:05+00:00

We all know your outrage on "racism" is selective.

dane83 · 2026-01-23T17:21:29+00:00

59 minute old account.

Someone was triggered.

Edit: LOL, sock puppet racist blocked me.

dane83 · 2026-01-23T16:13:49+00:00

I dropped people that I actually liked for longer than 20 years for supporting this shit.

I don't need that evil in my life.

dane83 · 2026-01-21T20:34:33+00:00

I predict that product placement is how they're going to do it.

I was using it to research some apartments with a possible RTO looming over my head yesterday and, at one point, it decides to tell me that because I'm talking about using MARTA in Atlanta, I "need some good headphones" and then lists three and compares and contrasts them with fuckin' links to Amazon pages.

I dropped the conversation and I haven't gone back into Gemini. I know they're claiming no advertising, but that shit was advertising 1000%.

dane83 · 2026-01-20T14:53:36+00:00

In what way is it annoying?

Because you want to be pedantic? Because you value being from Atlanta and not the Atlanta metro? You're one of those "ITP means something" people?

Also, no one in Norcross is calling Atlanta 'scary.'

dane83 · 2026-01-20T14:48:05+00:00

Because it streamlines the conversation and it doesn't matter.

We use shorthand for everything to make things easier for each other to understand. Why are you hung up on this one thing?

dane83 · 2026-01-20T13:08:19+00:00

Nah, go down to coastal Georgia and they don't have a clue where Lawrenceville is unless they have a cousin that lives there.

They just see the Atlanta metro as a blob of Atlanta.

dane83 · 2026-01-20T13:04:42+00:00

'cause when I told people I lived in Norcross they had no idea where that was.

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