Nearly everything is a derivative of something from before. Occasionally something new comes up though. I don’t remember anything like Getting Over It seems to have created the Foddian game genre for example. And while Balatro uses relatively normal cards for its base, the gameplay itself is unique.
First… Not everyone is just hiding being a dick because it’s socially unacceptable. Most people just aren’t dicks and don’t want to be. Just like most people don’t have to be told not to kill others, that’s just not something they’d do. They don’t have to be threatened with prison, or eternal damnation, or anything like that to stop themselves.
Second… Superman is an alien. How do we know what is normal for his species? The only insight we have is the comic universe.
That means they are.
Any time a company, hell even an individual, refuses to give an answer you can just assume it’s the worst option. That’s why they don’t want to say it.
So how is that fake? I can’t do any of those things you mention in the first paragraph.
You’re not rich enough where banks know you always have stock available to give them. Where there’s virtually no limit to your stock pool that the bank can just liquidate after the fact. You need to be in the top .1% for that. The fact you’re on lemmy means that’s not a possibility in the slightest.
Getting loans based on assets is not at all the same as selling those assets.
It is for the rich. That’s why so many don’t care about their traditional salary. That’s why so many went out of their way to advertise they were taking a $1 salary during the recession, or even today. Because their salary is subject to income tax, but loans are not. You can get the same end result of cash in hand by receiving your pay in stock, then taking loans against that stock.
I count that in the sold category. Because they just get more loans to pay off the previous ones, or default and the bank just takes the shares and does it again because what the loaned is less than the share value. All the while avoiding income and capital gains taxes.
It’s why boycotts and cancelling subscriptions actually do work when done in large enough numbers. Their money can disappear very quickly if shareholders get spooked.
It’s also why Tesla isn’t being affected as much now despite Elon pulling the mask off and going full Nazi, resulting in massive sales drops. Years and years of short sellers and complicit media trying to tank the brand, largely funded and promoted by things like entrenched oil interests and competing car brands have trained many shareholders to ignore a lot.
To be fair, all that money is effectively fake until the shares are sold.
Not sure why you are being downvoted for this
The downvotes are probably because they’re just stating something obvious. No shit, bad looking CGI looks bad, that doesn’t mean the actual CGI itself is necessarily bad. Small things like wrong lighting can make otherwise great CGI look terrible. The reasons DO matter, even if the average person may not really care and just has the takeaway of “bad CGI”.
Posting that type of response is not actually providing anything to the discussion, it’s a useless comment that provides no value. Not all comments and opinions are valid or constructive. The voting system is not really for agree/disagree, but whether a post adds to the discussion.
I’d argue it matters quite a bit. It shows producers, and by extension a studio, that can’t manage production effectively, and that almost always extends to the rest of the movie. “Bad” CG is rarely the only issue with those movies, it’s just what you remember most since movies in general require the suspension of disbelief and that pulls you right out of it.
So 90% of the self-proclaimed “power users”.
And often that’s not because the CGI itself is bad quality, but because the effects team was asked to do the impossible with half the tools necessary. The “fix it in post” mentality.
Even small things like having reference lighting examples from the set can be the difference between an okay outcome and something almost imperceptible.
The way to make a big dent in that is to tax unused housing, with peogressivwly increasing amounts as they continue unoccupied. And limit or outright deny ownership by companies and investment firms.
We have more than enough housing for everyone, but a large portion of it sits unused. In many cases only because no one will/can pay what some of these companies are demanding monthly for them.
There’s a lot of other shorr from content. There’s a lot that’s just quick highlights of longer form stuff for instance.
My YouTube Shorts algorithm doesn’t have any of that type of shit in it. Because that’s not the type of stuff that I watch, that’s not the stuff it recommends to be either.
If you’re using a new or privacy focused web profile, it’s going to show a lot of random things because it has no idea what you would want.
They’re always thinking of pp. Constantly. They can’t get it out of their heads. Theirs or others. It’s the one through line transiting everything the Republicans do.
That’s a lot, but also not really at the same time. There’s actually quite a bit of stuff that deorbits every day. These are entire satellites, not pieces. And this is exactly what they’re meant to do, as opposed to staying in space as debris.
Today, there are 36,000 objects larger than 10 cm in space, of which 30,000 are catalogued and 6,000 are not referenced.
In 2023, there were 2,800 new entries into orbit and 2,000 exits.
All platforms are notorious for that. Moderation is expensive, and consistent free user moderation is extremely hit or miss, mostly miss.
Unless you have enough admins dedicated to moderating every community regularly, like weekly at a bare minimum, shit will get out of hand in the places they don’t visit.
For places the size of Discord, Facebook, Reddit, Lemmy, YouTube, etc. that’s just not feasible without an army of paid moderators. User submitted reports are only useful if the users aren’t partaking, and that’s the first tier of nearly every online moderation system because few companies could even consider staffing a moderation team even remotely large enough to begin to tackle that problem.
Pretty sure most of them by now.
I know Summit, Connect, and Voyager all do. Summit is my primary app.
Google Maps reports are just for “police”, which is a generic term that ICE would be either way.
Either Apple will cave and do what they need to follow the requirements… or the EU will cave on the requirements after public pressure of not getting new iPhones and iPads anymore.
One way or another, Apple will never exit the region over principle.
Companies say a lot of shit. They threaten things all the time to manipulate politicians and consumers.
Apple will never abandon billions in annual revenue willingly.
CPM is nearly useless because it doesn’t tell you what type of radiation… But for couple generic references, background radiation is usually about 60 cpm, and an international flight can be about 800 cpm.
So again, cpm is a useless metric without other context. It’s just the raw number of “hits” on the detector from any source it detects. Some particles are basically harmless, others not so much.