Disney's disastrous year

[AnotherGuy]

Honestly ...(snip)... my big fat greek wedding 3 ...just had a good story...

Seriously?

 

[Divine2021]

Plus travel time. Plus parking fees. And if you eat out that has gone up by considerably more than the cinema.

It's just not worth it.

For you.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Seriously?

Yeah, you know. Like The Godfather Part III.

Or Titanic 3. The Re-Jackening.

 

[BookTenTiger]

Likely overinflated in this first place. He slashed more than 50% of the workforce with the doomsday alarmists crying how it wouldn't function.
Can you imagine another company where you could just remove 50% of their workforce, no issues?
Seems like good-ol Jack, CEO extraordinaire, was paying a lot of people to sit on their arse in a company that was riddled with bots.

And that is before the revelations which were uncovered for the period during good-ol' Jack's tenure.

As for Disney, they'll be just fine with their creative accounting and multiple divisions/departments.

Elon Musk himself valued it at $44 Billion when he bought it, and now values it at $19 Billion. The site is losing major advertisers and has basically lost its function as the "front page of the internet." Most articles still refer to it as Twitter, despite the name change.

Now maybe it's just me, but if I were looking for evidence that Musk was making a good business man who didn't just buy Twitter for his own ego, I'd look for evidence that the site was going up in value, attracting more advertisers, reducing bot traffic, or growing its audience.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Elon Musk himself valued it at $44 Billion when he bought it, and now values it at $19 Billion. The site is losing major advertisers and has basically lost its function as the "front page of the internet." Most articles still refer to it as Twitter, despite the name change.

Now maybe it's just me, but if I were looking for evidence that Musk was making a good business man who didn't just buy Twitter for his own ego, I'd look for evidence that the site was going up in value, attracting more advertisers, reducing bot traffic, or growing its audience.

Well, that ... plus the fact that he tried his best to get out of his ego-driven loose cannon takeover, until he realized that (1) the Delaware Court of Chancery don't play, (2) discovery and an expedited schedule isn't fun, and (3) you can't tweet your way out of stupid, 'cuz fans might accept your nonsense, but it's a little harder to get that over on the legal system.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Likely overinflated in this first place. He slashed more than 50% of the workforce with the doomsday alarmists crying how it wouldn't function.
Can you imagine another company where you could just remove 50% of their workforce, no issues?
Seems like good-ol Jack, CEO extraordinaire, was paying a lot of people to sit on their arse in a company that was riddled with bots.

And that is before the revelations which were uncovered for the period during good-ol' Jack's tenure.

As for Disney, they'll be just fine with their creative accounting and multiple divisions/departments.

It's easy to function without quality contol.

Until your customers notice the lack of quality, and go elsewhere.

 

[BookTenTiger]

Well, that ... plus the fact that he tried his best to get out of his ego-driven loose cannon takeover, until he realized that (1) the Delaware Court of Chancery don't play, (2) discovery and an expedited schedule isn't fun, and (3) you can't tweet your way out of stupid, 'cuz fans might accept your nonsense, but it's a little harder to get that over on the legal system.

I read an article recently that speculated that he's letting X / Twitter crash and burn because he can then be free of it, claim that "anti-free speech" people (like advertisers) forced it to close, and that he'll basically be financially fine. It's sickening, $44 billion just thrown away like that. Working in public schools, seeing folks who struggle to purchase basic school supplies or lunch for their kids... It angers me in a way I can't really communicate online.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

I read an article recently that speculated that he's letting X / Twitter crash and burn because he can then be free of it, claim that "anti-free speech" people (like advertisers) forced it to close, and that he'll basically be financially fine. It's sickening, $44 billion just thrown away like that. Working in public schools, seeing folks who struggle to purchase basic school supplies or lunch for their kids... It angers me in a way I can't really communicate online.

I mean, I tend to not believe in the 4D chess theories. I don't think he wants it to fail, because it will have a lot of terrible spillover effects- both in terms of his reputation and for his other businesses.

Although we live in polarized times, he's not a politician. He still has to run businesses, and it's not like he can use this to raise funds for a campaign. Success in business can largely immunize bad behavior, but failure tends to bring in the vultures. It's not like he's going to be out on the street or anything, but I don't think he wants it to fail. I think it's more likely that he's in a position he hasn't been in before, and he's not used to being held to account for his behavior.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Meanwhile, for classic who, the tardis interior remained mostly unchanged for 26 years.

It was tweaked pretty much continually, but there was no big revamp or even a mention in the plot*. Hartnell era was open plan, with additional areas off the main control room. This shrunk to a single room with doors to the interior. Then the console got redone when it moved into colour (it was originally pale green so it showed up well on the B&W cameras). Then a new scanner that wasn't a TV set hanging from the ceiling. Then a chunky crystalline time rotor.

*Apart from the Tom Baker era auxiliary control room.

 

[aco175]

I was paying $3.50 in the mid 80s.

I gave him a dollar.