The film cost them $72 million to make, so this is a $42 million loss. If they actually released the movie they probably would have at least broke even. I have a hard time seeing it not making more than they just wrote off.
Baryon sweep is on standby. Now don’t none of you get any fool notions about walking away with the server’s accumulated trilithium resin.
Stuff’s highly unstable.
So they think it’s better to get a tax write off of half the cost, and sell it to a streamer to cover the other half, than make money and profit with a global cinematic release?
Well, I’m not going to assume that every decision made by the senior decision-makers in a company is rational for the firm or for ‘maximizing shareholder wealth’ in the long term.
CEOs and executives may act in their own, or their firm’s short term interests, they can however also get complex decisions entirely wrong. Not to mention tax law can incentivize some sub rational behaviour.
There are enough historical cases of absolutely bad thinking running companies into the ground, with deceptive practices that leave lenders and subcontractors short.
The stock market’s reaction to act against bad management can be tardy.
(I’m setting aside corporations taking responsibility for larger societal benefits here because US SEC norms for publicly traded corporations don’t provide for that the way they are in Canadian or European law. In the other hand, there may be some arguments that some of these actions are anticompetitive, and worthy of antitrust investigation.)
Both their New York and Vancouver studios have joined IATSE in the last few years - the Canadian studio was the first animation house in the country to join a union, ever.
Federation is how two different instances are able to communicate within the Fediverse. The current worldwide email system is also based on the idea of federation, but it is not within the Fediverse. Hope that clears it up a bit!
Star Trek has a federation of Humans, Vulcans, and many other races. Their ships are still separate, but they work together.
The Fediverse has a federation of Startrek.Website, Lemmy.World, Sh.itjustwo.rks, etc.
Email has a federation of gmail.com, yahoo.com, microsoft.com, aol.com, every corporate.com, spectrum.net, tons and tons of small servers. This is probably the biggest federation. Many servers will choose to only federate with specific instances, or may explicitly defederate with a list of instances. If I stand up a private, home email on my own domain, there’s no guarantee that your work will accept my emails.
I don’t stay in one place too long. When I first arrive in a place I can trick myself into hoping that community I’ve just moved to is progressive, kind and curious. I like living in places I can’t speak the language of, also.
Other travelers are the most communal and open-minded people I know and I feel comfortable around them because I know they’re actually listening when I talk and experiencing the moment, sedentary people tend to cultivate arbitrary or circumstantial opinions they misrepresent as considered values that they huddle behind and reinforce.
I come to term with this by reminding myself of how shite it is everywhere these days. You’ll find right wing tendencies all over the world, whether that’s South East Asia, Africa or America of course.
This doesn’t mean I stop fighting for what I believe is right (basically leaving people the fuck alone instead of attacking them for their gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion). It just helps me not constantly re-considering whether I’ve made the right choice by living in Europe.
That said, anyone has an idea of how to not be annoyed by far right dudes describing themselves as trekkies?
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