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Cake day: August 2nd, 2023

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  • Concessions are their source of income. Studios use their monopoly on granting film access to demand almost all of the money from ticket sales (something like 90% of the ticket price IIRC), so the theater doesn’t actually make that much off of movies.

    Concessions on the other hand, especially stuff that costs pennies to make like soda and popcorn, are pure profit and are basically the only way many theaters can stay in business these days.





  • Yeah, he mentioned it three or four times, which is a lot for such a short (for them) video. It just feels like it is the salient fact that draws everything together and could be used as a rallying cry against the bill’s supporters. It’s solid evidence that they knew the bill would hurt their voters and so decided to delay the worst parts until after the next election. It’s one of the few things that could sway Republicans against them (they don’t care about hurting others, but themselves?), so we should be getting a knowledge campaign started as early as possible.




  • Yeah, but thanks to their control of the media, they’ve also created a system where millions will leap to defend them while demonizing anyone who criticizes them. When things get truly dire, they’ll just point at some random demographic and say “it’s their fault!” and their followers will eat it up.

    I’d love for them to face consequences for their actions, but going by history they’ll keep getting away with things until an ally backstabs them for power or the regime has eaten itself and fully fallen.


  • And when 64-bit support first came to Windows, Microsoft artificially limited the amount of RAM you could use unless you shelled out for the much more expensive editions. On Vista you were arbitrarily limited to 8 gigs with the basic edition, 16 with premium, and even the business editions had a limit of 128 gigs, a tiny fraction of the addressable space under a 64 bit architecture.

    Even now there’s a limit, though it’s insanely high (over a terabyte) and you’re unlikely to ever see it unless you’re running a server on Windows instead of Windows Server (still limited, but in the dozens of terabytes) or Linux (which has a “limit” in the petabytes).