Or they're like me in their late 40s and early 50s with a bit of money behind them, mortgage almost paid off or paid off and just said "fuck it I can't be arsed anymore." I'm a lorry driver here in the UK, a "trucker" in American. I've spent the last 15 years aggressively saving and investing, I've got enough "fuck you money" that I no longer have to work if I don't want to. I'd already cut my days down last year to four. This year I'm down to 2 to 3 days - I've actually only worked one this week - and will be taking the entirety of August off in addition to the 33 days pro-rata paid annual leave I also get. I did toy with just stopping altogether.

From IMDB:

Slater had exactly one writing credit before Fantastic Four. The unqualified writer's script was rejected and rewritten by others on the project. The director/writer Trank at least had actual credits prior to being attached to Fantastic 4. Among others, he previously directed a full length movie with a rating of 7 on IMDB. Thanks for proving my point!

When an unqualified woman writes a bad script that doesn't get shit canned in pre-production, it's a prime indicator of DEI. But, that's okay. I'm probably wrong. I'm sure supergirl will be a critically acclaimed, box office smash and as memorable as it's 1984 predecessor.

Oh, Jesus. They had to throw some Handmaid's Tale into it too?

When he could have just shot it with a 357 or whatever alien Mad Max sidearm he might have? I didn't realize she was up against a Bond villain. That's an illogical, lazy, contrived sense of urgency. I'm sure the writer patted herself on the back when she thought it up.

But was it a GOOD movie? The problem is taking existing IP, existing canon and existing expectations and delivering a mediocre movie. Had supergirl never existed before this release, it might have been different. It was already a long shot to produce a supergirl movie that would catch fire with the public. It sounds like this one is not it.

Quite the contrary. They care very much. Their hired staff care very much. Were you aware that there are now minimum targets for underrepresented racial, ethnic, and marginalized groups on-screen and behind the camera just to be recognized by the MPAA for their awards? That didn't appear out of thin air and producers ignore it at their own peril.

Did you happen to check out the IMDB writing credits of the story writer, Ana Nogueira? "Supergirl" and "We Win". "We Win" is a 12 minute short and rated 5.6 out of 10 as of this moment. There's your DEI. A $180 million budget summer movie handed to a newbie writer whose only other credit is the equivalent of a YouTube video and even that apparently sucked.

Producers need to decide if they want to make their friends and professional critics happy... Or make money.

They did more than bury stories. They outright lied and required us to ignore the evidence of our own eyes. Do you remember when Biden's press secretary told us that video of a wandering, feeble, old man who required a army of screening walkers to block the public from seeing him, was at his prime? Evidence to the contrary was "cheap fakes".

The "Cheap Fakes" talking point went from 0 to 100 in just one day across the news media. Media parroted it right up until he glitched out in the debate. Then it dropped right down the memory hole. We're supposed to believe that media should be trusted though.

Well done, anonymous coward. Glad to see there are still a few true party members left who are willing to stand by the media apparatchik while they lie to us. No sense in validating those Google certificate signatures in those emails or anything else to try to verify the truth, now is there? Might look bad.

Now do the border was closed and secure under Mayorkas and Biden.

Governments and the mainstream media are discovering the hard way that trust cannot be bestowed by decree. Trust is earned. Trust is destroyed when it is betrayed, regardless if the betrayal is intentional or just reckless and negligent. Government and media have nobody to blame but themselves for their distrust.

Excellent. Now do Hunter Biden's laptop is Russian disinformation.

I think it's more that people have figured out that they don't need to buy new phones every year or even every couple of years and that the improvements are so minute now that people struggle to notice the difference. Marques Brownlee recently did a Youtube video taking the same photo on every generation of iPhone from the original iPhone to the iPhone 17 and once you got to the iPhone 12 and later there was little difference with many people actually saying that 2-3 year older generations of iPhone took better photos than the current iPhone 17.

Britain actually has very good libel laws you actually have to prove you experienced harm as a claimant and if you lose you pay the costs of the winning side. You can't just file frivolous libel lawsuits like the USA. It's why Trump isn't suing the BBC in the UK.

Speech is still freer in the UK than that supposed bastion of Free Speech the USA.

The UK government held an online consultation. Tens of thousands of people under 21 responded to it and 84% of those respondents wanted it.

Hell no. Just hell no to everything about this. What's to stop the AI agent just going off on a hallucination and just maxing out your card with shit? And if that happens then who gets to pay the resulting bill because it sure as fuck won't be ChatGPT or whatever AI platform you're using who will take responsibility.

Those regulations also apply to US companies operating in the EU.