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He probably likes being famous.

I remember a professional who did such a poor job presenting that the client said out loud that it was one of the worst presentations they ever saw.

They do if you’re streaming. If you’re pirating, then you’re worthless.

Part of the problem is that modern shows have far smaller audience than two decades ago in absolute numbers. The most watched shows today have horrific numbers compared to previous decades.

Yeah. People who have that in my job tend not to do well.

I mentioned big box retail as another reason for the decline in malls. Shopping at a Walmart or Target has the same car experience as shopping in a mall, but Walmart and Target were able to expand as malls slowly died.

Also, parking is never an issue in a dying mall. If the mall is dying, demand is likely very low, which means the best parking spaces are open.

Like dead malls? Like vaporwave?

Retail Archaeology is a great YouTube channel about dying stores

Not exactly.

In the USA, a ton of malls got built in the 1950’s to 1980’s because of various tax incentives. These malls were anchored by department stores, providing a middle class place to buy goods.

Department stores tanked when dealing with big big box stores and online retail. Also, some mall specialty stores died off as well. Without that foot traffic, dead malls started to form.

Some malls are fighting back by increasing food and entertainment options, but the economics of malls are pretty rough.

I imagine love making would sound like this: https://youtube.com/shorts/7H-ae7jCZVM

Having seen him come up from Newark, I’ve been disappointed with him. He tries to portray himself as progressive, but he is really fucking centrist at times and has made a lot of compromised votes that don’t reflect his rhetoric.

I found it interesting that someone who grew up in Newark said that they preferred the previous mayor who was arrested in corruption charges.

“Tourism is driven by good food, alcohol (wine, beer & spirits) and sex,” - Prominent lawyer Donald Kipkorir

That’s a fucking quote.

The rest of Europe doesn’t want to take on the burden of an independent foreign/defense policy.

Western European countries get to enjoy their peace dividend while not needing to answer to their public about foreign policy. Eastern Europe is scared that Russian aggression is going to include their countries.

France is probably the only EU nation that can self deploy an expeditionary force or project power beyond its borders. France is also the only EU nation with a nuclear deterrent.

Given the large amount of sex abuse in the industry, it is likely that a producer or director plied young talent with promises of fame in return for sexual favors. Once the talent would start fighting back, they could go onto the next starlet.

Nowadays, you can’t fuck the talent, so might as well hire those with industry connections to help get the movie made.

What is it? All I see is *******.

Not exactly.

There were attempts after Mao to try to remove the threat of dictatorship from the government. The Politboro operated as a full committee until Xi consolidated power.

Even if you aren’t, the tolerance of executions is pretty high.

A country has to execute a lot of people per year to suffer some form of international consequences.

Honestly, the best country to approach this would be China, and I don’t think China would want to deal with the risk of building infrastructure.

What’s a Dutch woman going to say when you ask for her sign?

Stop.

That’s not surprising. A benchmark photo for image compression is from Playboy.