It’s happened before with mining towns and the early days of the oil boom. Lots of still abandoned towns in the middle of nowhere.

The plastic is already getting old and brittle. I’m not that worried about retrobright damage.

Studios shouldn’t own the methods of transmission such as:

• theaters
• cable channels
• broadcast networks
• streaming channels
• satellite tv channels
• fiber optic networks
• cable internet

We already decided this ages ago, but it’s currently being ignored.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Paramount_Pictures,_Inc.

These CEOs seem really slow on the uptake. Gonna put all your chips into the AI business just as the bubble is about to burst.

And at Disney: “Let’s recycle our cartoon hits into live action. Then make them a musical. Then make them a musical cartoon.”

Meanwhile at Warners: “HBO needs more doctor/lawyer/cop shows. Oh and let’s rehash Harry Potter while we’re at it.”

https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/hbo-casey-bloys-warner-bros-sale-harry-potter-timeline-1236586785/

https://deadline.com/2025/12/hbo-max-the-pitt-success-international-harry-potter-1236634341/

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Sounds like Amazon taking a page from Walmart’s book.

People who couldn’t be bothered to get off their ass to vote got us Trump. Stop infantilizing lazy voters. There are plenty of free options to get to the polls.

Uber and Lyft exist.
Most cities provide free public transport to and from polls on Election Day.

Mail in ballots are available in many jurisdictions.

Stop making excuses for people who can’t be bothered to vote.

If you’re really saving 20% in file size with XL, adding back a very compressed preview image that takes up one or two percent isn’t going to cost you much.

All you have to do is add a small traditional JPEG image at the start of the file. It doesn’t have to be high resolution or more than a couple of kb. The new format decoder would know this, and skip the traditional jpeg “header”, rendering the newer file format embedded in the image.

I would be more excited about JPEG XL if it was backward compatible. Not looking forward to yet another image standard that requires OS and hardware upgrades simply so servers can save a few bytes.

Artemis would make a good streaming show.

The Hunger Games prequels are starting to remind me of a horror franchise, like Final Destination. Just riffing on the same theme of people getting killed in inventive ways. Over. And over. And over.

The adverb is on the verb in this sentence, not the noun. You are saying I thank you, and how I thank you is kindly (gratefully or with grace). As opposed to thanking someone snidely or backhandedly.

Kindly could also be a shortening of “for your kindness” depending on the history of this phrase.

Don’t like it? Then don’t let studios own tv channels. There’s no incentive for them to place movies in theaters other than Oscar season. They make more money on streaming.

This is such nonsense. This shit needs to be broken back up, not merging further.

Lobbying was at one time considered tacky and in some states was illegal.

Ranked choice voting. I’d also like to see Dems start pushing universal healthcare.

I also agree with the suggestion to expand the Supreme Court. One justice for each circuit.