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What Killed The Movie Trailer? (www.youtube.com)
 

Movie Trailers may have started out as a tool to sell films, but over time they have evolved into their own spectacle. Before a film is released there are a multitude of Theatrical Trailers, TV Spots, Web Shorts, and even Trailers before the Trailer starts. How did Hollywood turn from a simple marketing tool, to a an ever expansive industry of movie trailers that mostly give away the entire plot of the film? How did Hollywood crush the Movie Trailer?

Unmoderated and now extremely delayed federation - is it time to move? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I agree. I’m no marathon kbin contributor, but I like it here a lot and I would be happier if this thread was about what we can do to support kbin as an instance.
If mbin where a placeholder for doing this (as in if certain permissions aren’t available yet) then I’d be buoyed up by OP’s thread.
Anyhoo, viva la kbin, viva la federation!

Does anyone know any Hard Sci Fi books about humans surviving without any hospitable worlds? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (10 children)

Just a loose round up so far

Seveneves Neal Stephenson
Tau Zero Poul Anderson
Metro 2033 Dmitry Glukhovsky
The Children of Time Adrian Tchaikovsky
Lucifer's Hammer Larry Niven
Pushing Ice Alastair Reynolds
Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers
Diaspora by Greg Egan
A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martin
The 100 Kass Morgan
Interdependency trilogy by John Scalzi.
Silo series of books by Hugh Howey

‘Don’t be naive like I was’: UK academic advises Cop28 attenders to stay safe | Matthew Hedges, tortured in UAE in 2018, tells reporters and activists to take clean phones and watch who they deal with in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago

Yup, sounds about right. Plus less tolerance
of freedom of assembly, and civil disobedience in major Western democracies will continue.

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A US billionaire took over a tropical island pension fund — then hundreds of millions of dollars allegedly went missing - ICIJ (www.icij.org)
 

With help from PwC Cyprus, Hushang Ansary set up shell companies and oversaw a series of transactions that authorities say drained a Curacao fund holding pensions for 30,000 people.

Hondurans Fight Private Cities Run by U.S. Companies as Gov’t Sued for Outlawing “Neocolonial Project” in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yes it's horrifying. The article states that most Western countries are moving away from trade deals that allow corporations to sue countries for loss of business etc, but I believe that pacts like the Trans Pacific Partnership may include such idiotic rights for corporations; leaving countries in compromised situations should they need to change business practices for example.

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NZ: Asylum seekers live on $40/week, sleep at bus stops in long wait for refugee status (i.stuff.co.nz)
 

The treatment of asylum seekers has worsened under the Labour Government, and pleas for change are falling on deaf ears.

Many asylum seekers are living on $40 a week from a charity, with some sleeping in bus stops as they wait for a decision about their immigration status.

People claiming asylum in Aotearoa can expect a 500-day wait to become refugees, with some people having to wait up to six years.

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Hondurans Fight Private Cities Run by U.S. Companies as Gov’t Sued for Outlawing “Neocolonial Project” (www.democracynow.org)
 

In Honduras, communities are fighting back against privatization and foreign exploitation after Honduran President Xiomara Castro and Congress repealed a law that established so-called Economic Development and Employment Zones, where private companies have “functional and administrative autonomy” from the national government. Now a Delaware-based company called Próspera has launched a case to challenge the repeal of the law under the Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement and is seeking almost $11 billion, which amounts to nearly two-thirds of the country’s entire 2022 budget. This is an example of the “extreme investor rights” of this international trade agreement directly opposing Honduran sovereignty, says Melinda St. Louis, director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch. We also speak with local leader Venessa Cárdenas of Crawfish Rock, the area directly impacted by the Próspera ZEDE on the island of Roatán, about the stress of losing control over their community. “We don’t know when our home will be taken from us,” says Cárdenas. “We, of course, have the rights to be free and previously consulted on any type of project that is being done in our community.”

An ancient Mayan empire city was found in the Mexican jungle - Ocomtún, with large pyramid-like buildings, stone columns, a ball field and imposing buildings and plazas, was likely an important cit... in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

But instead of Airs he used Ass.

Aotearoa Daily Kōrero 20/6/2023 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry for late reply, still getting used to the fediverse.

Everyday for the weather, ETS gets replaced by similar concepts.

Thanks for asking. Have a nice one.

An ancient Mayan empire city was found in the Mexican jungle - Ocomtún, with large pyramid-like buildings, stone columns, a ball field and imposing buildings and plazas, was likely an important cit... in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The captain maybe, but if someone actually made the ball go through the hole the game was stopped and that person was given all the wagered loot, and was also able to take things from the audience or whoever he wanted too.

Thing is, it was really difficult to make the shot. So a very rare occurrence.

Also the audience got really into betting, some of them lost it all, and some even gambled themselves into slavery.

Fun game!

"We're shocked that Joe Rogan would do this" - people who watched Joe Rogan do this to everyone else in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

He’s a stunt, JFK’s generational legacy is a reminder that aristocracy has not gone away, it just pantomimes as a participant in democracy.

Poll finds kiwis have the most positive attitude towards refugees in the world [not The Guardian's headline] in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The reason kiwis are scoring so high is due to our burning desire to go up to foreigners and ask them “so what do you think of New Zealand?”.

Naivety comes a distant second behind our obsession with finding out how we’re doing on the ‘world stage’.

We’d be asking it before the refugees were out of the harbour as we gave them their cup of Milo.

Aotearoa Daily Kōrero 20/6/2023 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The ETS is on my mind, and the strange weather.