So they're trying to catch up to everyone else?

The number of available jobs at less awful companies is probably orders of magnitude lower than the number of employees who would like to leave Meta. Especially considering that the turnover at such companies is most certainly a lot lower.

They probably assumed "We're Disney, the world revolves around us, and nobody is allowed to say no."

Turns out they were wrong.

I don't re recall them ever editing any speeches by Democrats to make it look like they were inciting riots when, in fact, they were doing the exact opposite.

They've admitted their bias. Hallucinate all you want, there's no question whatsoever about it.

BBC "vanilla"? Really? Vanilla leftist propaganda, maybe, nearly from the day they began. And keep in mind, they've admitted to it.

Comedians are, in fact, a more credible source of news than TV news or newspapers. They generally pay more attention to what's actually happening in the world.

The issue isn't how much is in storage, the issue is that the last of the tankers that were on the way when the Strait of Hormuz was shut down are now arriving, and even if it reopens tomorrow, it will be weeks before new tankers will arrive.

(No telling how overblown this is, but there is a serious issue there.)

And if we had some pixie dust, we could all fly. Coulda woulda shoulda, in real life, sadly, technical decisions are often made by MBAs who make their assistant print out emails for them because the don't know how to use Outlook.

If you have any doubt whatsoever, you're an idiot. And you don't seem like an idiot.

I could envision a scheme in which the buyers are the sellers with fake identities, as part of a money laundering scheme.

I'm more inclined to think it's a pump-n-dump stock scam.

Which succeeded.

Not true at all. Advertisers want that (of course, you might be classifying them as "nobody," and I won't quibble over that).

They also don't see that as an "or" choice. Why not both?

Raising the price of ticket really only benefits the studio, who get most of the box office.

Lots of people like the trailers. But ads aren't trailers, they're ads. The ones they run before the official start time, no problem. Most people are talking to their date/kids/whatever and ignoring them anyway. But once the lights go down, there should be no ads.

That you are looking for alternative facts, instead of actual facts, says everything that anyone needs to know about you.