US US Politics General 2: Hope Edition - Discussion of President Trump and other politicians

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Should be a wild four years.

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deleuzeon said:
They'll change their tune eventually. Shoestring budget movies have blown up throughout history; you don't actually need all that capital to make good films, and it's mostly squandered in the hands of the current retards in charge. Only takes a Clerks or a Blair Witch Project to remind people how many X's a movie can make back when retards aren't the ones in charge.
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I don't think so. I think Hollywood in its original form is effectively dead. A bunch of major studios are moving elsewhere out of California. You have Netflix becoming a direct and big competitor. You have big budgets looking at filming in Texas. The movie stars power has waned so much from public view. We basically have no new celebrities. We have Jenna Ortega, Tom Holland, and Zendaya. Can you name any others though that aren't one and done new movie names? Those are the biggest new names I've known. It's all old movie stars being advertised. John Boyega has a dead career. Daisy Ridley has a dead career. The newest and most successful young actor in the past 10 years I can think of is Adam Driver and that's....a thing I guess.

On top of that, the movie theater is basically dead. Everyone watches movies on streaming or pirating. The New Hollywood will be like everything else, a decentralized industry with no hub. It's not really optimistic to say either. It's already happened and is currently happening. The old big budget IPs aren't landing. Minecraft and Mario are doing exceptionally well. 2025 isn't saving it either. NOTHING is coming out in 2025 that will change Hollywood's trajectory. It's a pretty sparse year for nothing but sequels to things like Fnaf, reboots, and no big movie events. People are hopeful for Fantastic Four and Avengers....but I just don't see it happening.
 
Jace on ice said:
That's actually a terrible example. Terminator 2 cost 100 million in 1991 or around 350 million today. At the time it was an incredibly expensive film to produce and market.

The difference is that T2 was good and something like Snow White which cost roughly the same is not.
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I know it cost similar, it’s success was used to justify the budget of a billion flops because a lot of producers are quality blind.

Terminator 2 pushed CGI to new heights while mixing in top tier practical effects. Snow White was just a giant fucking mistake

So what I’m saying is the budget isn’t necessarily bad, it’s the people spending it
 
Gottahavemysips said:
This is only tangentially related to what your saying, but I could not help but notice the "I usually wait for Catturd to weigh in, so I know all the facts."
What the fuck is the deal with that? I really don't get why the Boomer right likes that guy so much, he doesn't really seem to have particularly original takes and seems like a pretty run of the mill MAGA Twitter account. I just find it really odd that the boomers really glommed onto that guy, he really doesn't seem like anything special.
Moving past Catturd, the general sentiment of that particular comment also bothers me. Outsourcing your thinking to somebody else really shouldn't be something people should be doing regularly, let alone being outright proud of it and announcing to the world that is what you are doing. This sort of shit is getting worse too, as of late I've seen an increase in people outsourcing their thinking to LLMs, like they can't actually think up a response without hearing grok's take on it. To be fair, the majority of "grok outsourcers" are actually pajeet engagement harvesters who are just slamming down a low quality reply to suck up some of the ad revenue, but the point still stands - why the hell are people letting influencers and LLMs do their goddamn thinking for them?
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It is what the non-autismal call "a joke"
 
CaliforniaRaisin said:
Anyone who insists that robots and automation will replace blue collar work have clearly never either been around robots and automation OR blue collar production work.

Assembly, fabrication and processing product involves variables. Human, physical, geometric... you name it. Something automation hates. Yes, almost all of it can be overcome, but the more you build against it, the larger the cost AND you have to sacrifice flexibility in your process. Sure, Automakers have built billion dollar production lines to crank out cars with 75-80% automation, but they can't make changes to the configuration of anything that might get in the way of that automation.

Something even as stupid as moving a bolt location inside the chassis 12mm can run into the millions of $. You have to have available overhead and engineering teams examine the workflow, make sure that move doesn't impact the automation, (IE, the new bolt head location intersects with a robotic movement somewhere down the line) and if it does, you have to reprogram, reconfigure everything before you can start up production again.

Large corporations can afford that shit. Your family run small manufacturing company though? If there's configuration changes to a part more than once in a blue moon, I promise you that part isn't going to stay in that automation cell because they're not going to be able to afford to keep taking production offline to re-configure everything. It's going to go back in the hands of a human to stay in line with delivery and COGS expectations for that part.
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Relevant example, when I worked in injection molding we had a machine pumping out zip ties. Plastic parts come out of the machine still attached to the "runner" and need to be broken off - think about the sheet of model car/plane parts that you break individual pieces off as you build.

The machine pumped out so many parts so quickly, they decided to automate the process of breaking parts off (AKA "degating"). First they tried using a fancy laser cutter, but they could never stop it from melting the heads of the zip ties. Lots of money spent (can't imagine laser cutters are cheap in the first place) and they couldn't get it working - not such a big deal since they shred and recycle plastic on-site, but you can't get the maintenance time back, and you still have to meet contract requirements for parts shipped. So they moved to a cutting blade, sort of like a guillotine that comes down to degate the parts. Works great! Until it doesn't. The zip ties are grabbed out of the machine by a suction arm, then rotated and dropped onto a conveyor belt to move into the cutter. If they are not placed down pretty perfectly, such as might happen if a single suction cup doesn't release properly, the cutter mangles the parts.

So when that happens, they just shut off the cutter and have a floor technician manually degate the zip ties. I worked 3rd shift, so sometimes you'd come back in the next night and the 1st shift maintenance guys can get it running smoothly again, but sometimes you'd see that it still wasn't working properly and they just keep the machine running manually.

This is why I mentioned automation always needing people to implement, troubleshoot, and repair in a previous post. If you are looking at a job that will basically ALWAYS be necessary, and can transfer skills to another job, even outside of the same field, wrangling automation in factories will always be available.
 
Party Hat Wurmple said:
I don't think so. I think Hollywood in its original form is effectively dead. A bunch of major studios are moving elsewhere out of California. You have Netflix becoming a direct and big competitor. You have big budgets looking at filming in Texas. The movie stars power has waned so much from public view. We basically have no new celebrities. We have Jenna Ortega, Tom Holland, and Zendaya. Can you name any others though that aren't one and done new movie names? Those are the biggest new names I've known. It's all old movie stars being advertised. John Boyega has a dead career. Daisy Ridley has a dead career. The newest and most successful young actor in the past 10 years I can think of is Adam Driver and that's....a thing I guess.

On top of that, the movie theater is basically dead. Everyone watches movies on streaming or pirating. The New Hollywood will be like everything else, a decentralized industry with no hub. It's not really optimistic to say either. It's already happened and is currently happening. The old big budget IPs aren't landing. Minecraft and Mario are doing exceptionally well. 2025 isn't saving it either. NOTHING is coming out in 2025 that will change Hollywood's trajectory. It's a pretty sparse year for nothing but sequels to things like Fnaf, reboots, and no big movie events. People are hopeful for Fantastic Four and Avengers....but I just don't see it happening.
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Adam Driver, Ryan Gosling, and Jason Momoa are all in their early 40s, not really ancient. Chalamet certainly has legions of fans. You yourself listed like three more. I don't think celebrity culture is going anywhere, it's wired into our species and how we relate to the tribe.
 
Party Hat Wurmple said:
I don't think so. I think Hollywood in its original form is effectively dead. A bunch of major studios are moving elsewhere out of California. You have Netflix becoming a direct and big competitor. You have big budgets looking at filming in Texas. The movie stars power has waned so much from public view. We basically have no new celebrities. We have Jenna Ortega, Tom Holland, and Zendaya. Can you name any others though that aren't one and done new movie names? Those are the biggest new names I've known. It's all old movie stars being advertised. John Boyega has a dead career. Daisy Ridley has a dead career. The newest and most successful young actor in the past 10 years I can think of is Adam Driver and that's....a thing I guess.

On top of that, the movie theater is basically dead. Everyone watches movies on streaming or pirating. The New Hollywood will be like everything else, a decentralized industry with no hub. It's not really optimistic to say either. It's already happened and is currently happening. The old big budget IPs aren't landing. Minecraft and Mario are doing exceptionally well. 2025 isn't saving it either. NOTHING is coming out in 2025 that will change Hollywood's trajectory. It's a pretty sparse year for nothing but sequels to things like Fnaf, reboots, and no big movie events. People are hopeful for Fantastic Four and Avengers....but I just don't see it happening.
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Timotheé Chalamet. He's pretty good too.
 
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington before his flight back to Israel:

"I am now completing my second visit to the United States in two months. It was a very warm visit with my friend, President Donald Trump. You could be impressed by the great closeness and great friendship between us, and it is expressed in the issues we discussed.

First of all, Iran. We agree that Iran will not have nuclear weapons. This can be done in an agreement, but only if this agreement is a Libya-style agreement; that we go in, blow up the facilities, dismantle all the equipment, under American supervision and American execution - that is good.

A second option is that it will not happen. They will simply drag out the talks, and then the option is military. Everyone understands that. We discussed that at length.

A second issue we discussed was Gaza. We are determined to eliminate Hamas, and at the same time, we are determined to return all our hostages.

And the president looked at me and said to the reporters there: 'This man is working all the time to free the hostages.' I hope that with this he has shattered the lie that is spread all the time in the news that I am not working for them, that I do not care.
I care, and I am doing it, and we will succeed in it.

We also talked about President Trump's vision, because we are currently in contact with countries that are talking about the possibility of absorbing a great many Gazans. This is important, because in the end this is what needs to happen.

The third issue is Turkey. Turkey wants to establish military bases in Syria, and this is a danger to Israel.

We oppose this; we are working against this. I told President Trump, who is my friend, also a friend of Erdogan: 'If we need your help - we will talk to you about it.'

And the fourth and final issue - tariffs. President Trump asked the countries to reduce their trade deficit with the United States to zero. I told him: 'It is not that difficult for us. "We'll do it." It's the least we can do for the United States and its president, who do so much for us.

It was a very good visit, a very warm visit, and there are other things you'll hear about later."
 
deleuzeon said:
Adam Driver, Ryan Gosling, and Jason Momoa are all in their early 40s, not really ancient. Chalamet certainly has legions of fans. You yourself listed like three more. I don't think celebrity culture is going anywhere, it's wired into our species and how we relate to the tribe.
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It’s different when I discuss Ethan Ralph’s micro-penis size and how Chantel will perhaps hookup one day with our feeder overlord. That’s real shit, compared to gossiping about Jason Fagmoa’s love life or how Ryan Gosling allegedly buttfucked a dog at a pool party.
 
MerelyAPlateOfSpaghetti said:
Relevant example, when I worked in injection molding we had a machine pumping out zip ties.
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I had an owner where I once worked simply flabbergasted that this 1/4 million dollar machine was useless because the engineering team was incapable of designing a tool to hold the assemblies in place while the robot did it's work.

The tooling was great for a human to use. Amazing, actually. But each part needed to be assembled within .010-.020 of it's location in space every time in order for it to work properly. And the best the final sub assemblies and the tooling that held them together could hold was .060. 1/4 of a million and we had to have a team of people clean up after this thing all day, every day in order to ship product rather than just doing it with that team of people from start to finish.

And as soon as the bugs were worked out well enough to reduce the team of rework guys, that production run would end and we would start all over with a new part. It was beyond retarded.
 
CharlesBarkley said:
It’s different when I discuss Ethan Ralph’s micro-penis size and how Chantel will perhaps hookup one day with our feeder overlord. That’s real shit, compared to gossiping about Jason Fagmoa’s love life or how Ryan Gosling allegedly buttfucked a dog at a pool party.
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Lol, exactly. We're literally on a gossip site.
 
deleuzeon said:
Adam Driver, Ryan Gosling, and Jason Momoa are all in their early 40s, not really ancient. Chalamet certainly has legions of fans. You yourself listed like three more. I don't think celebrity culture is going anywhere, it's wired into our species and how we relate to the tribe.
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Yeah, except for Hollywood-40 IS ancient. For Hollywood as it existed when I grew up, you were "old" by 30. 40 is the tail end of your career when you start playing older characters. The idea of Michael Keaton being a 60 year old Batman is a completely modern thing.
 
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Party Hat Wurmple said:
I don't think so. I think Hollywood in its original form is effectively dead. A bunch of major studios are moving elsewhere out of California. You have Netflix becoming a direct and big competitor. You have big budgets looking at filming in Texas. The movie stars power has waned so much from public view. We basically have no new celebrities. We have Jenna Ortega, Tom Holland, and Zendaya. Can you name any others though that aren't one and done new movie names? Those are the biggest new names I've known. It's all old movie stars being advertised. John Boyega has a dead career. Daisy Ridley has a dead career. The newest and most successful young actor in the past 10 years I can think of is Adam Driver and that's....a thing I guess.

On top of that, the movie theater is basically dead. Everyone watches movies on streaming or pirating. The New Hollywood will be like everything else, a decentralized industry with no hub. It's not really optimistic to say either. It's already happened and is currently happening. The old big budget IPs aren't landing. Minecraft and Mario are doing exceptionally well. 2025 isn't saving it either. NOTHING is coming out in 2025 that will change Hollywood's trajectory. It's a pretty sparse year for nothing but sequels to things like Fnaf, reboots, and no big movie events. People are hopeful for Fantastic Four and Avengers....but I just don't see it happening.
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In search of modern audience, Hollywood has made itself obsolete.
 
Party Hat Wurmple said:
Yeah, except for Hollywood-40 IS ancient. For Hollywood as it existed when I grew up, you were "old" by 30. 40 is the tail end of your career when you start playing older characters. The idea of Michael Keaton being a 60 year old Batman is a completely modern thing.
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The future is now, old man
 
HTTP Error 404 said:
I remember the event, I don't remember known CCP agents being involved. Nor do I remember 180 agents being hurt. Nor do I remember them destroying a guard tower.
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There were pictures in the old thread of Chinese "students" in full body armor throwing smoke grenades at the WH. I couldn't find any of those pictures anymore on the general web.. As to the casualties, it wasn't 180 agents. My bad on that. There were about 60 agents injured and 11 hospitalized, but there were also other law enforcement injuries, not from the USSS, totaling over 180, which is more officers than were injured on J6.
 
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