I almost wonder if that's actually a dude who was on the flight or someone taking advantage of an opportunity to get in the news.

Seems so unlikely.

I own a tiny indie studio in Chicagoland and my peers own the some of the huge studios in Chicagoland.

Cinespace is dead right now. It has ONE show active. The other studios are so dead that they're secretly hosting bar mitzvahs and pickleball tournaments for $1500 a day just to pay property taxes.

My studio is surprisingly busy but I'm cheap and cater to non-union folks with otherwise full time jobs.

Bikes are for third world countries.

This is a good time to remind everyone that when government fucks with markets 40 years ago, they make it hell on everyone for the next 200 years.

And at your kid's school.

Yes. How do people not see this blindingly obvious fact?

Teamsters are massively corrupt and care about nothing more than collecting dues from their "members". They otherwise don't give a fuck about them.

Of course they can program. They just can't be creative. Their society and education system punishes non-conformity.

So they can keep doing the needful as long as the needful needs to be done. But when it comes to creating the next generation of disruptive tech or any real innovation, that's the exclusive domain of the USA.

Look at Indian tech "startups" - they're a massive fucking joke. Same with China. All they know is how to copy western tech and make it cheaper.

yeah right... that would just massively accelerate offshoring of jobs that haven't already been offshored.

I can tell you this:

Apple TV has a popular show. It makes about four million on views versus ten million on production. Per episode.

For their best.

Thereâ(TM)s no money to promote it.

Alamo is quite good at publicity stunts. It works well for them that way.

Let me guess: men can get pregnant, and women can have penises? And male chromosomes don't give athletes any inherent advantage over females?

It never really has been, if you're smart about it.

You'll need a mobile phone to fly, going forward. Anyone who can afford a plane ticket can afford a phone of some sort.

DOGE already proved it.