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arkis22 commented on Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros about.netflix.com/en/news... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

roguecoder · 22 days ago

As long as David Zaslav is kicked to the curb instead of given power inside Netflix, this could still be a win for the world. I don't know how else we were going to get him out of there.

Heck, Netflix might actually promote Our Flag Means Death!

(HBO being so terrible at modern promotion is what ultimately got them to this place. I found multiple series I really enjoyed there, but always by total accident scrolling alphabetically. The first time I ever saw a promotion for Warrior was when it came to Netflix.)

arkis22 · 22 days ago

I think theres a possibility that Zaslav prefers Netflix because if the government denies the merger he walks away with the breakup fee and can keep running WB as his own fiefdom

arkis22 commented on Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros about.netflix.com/en/news... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

pcurve · 23 days ago

Not sure how many of you have WBD shares with its rather tumultuous past (spin off from ATT, the Bill Hwang mess), but if you've picked up shares on the cheap in the past few years sub $10, congratulations.

"Under the terms of the agreement, each WBD shareholder will receive $23.25 in cash and $4.501 in shares of Netflix common stock for each share of WBD common stock outstanding at the closing of the transaction. "

arkis22 · 22 days ago

If you have done this I would suggest selling now because of possible anti-trust problems

arkis22 commented on US air traffic controllers start resigning as shutdown bites thedailybeast.com/air-tra... · Posted by u/throw0101a

arkis22 · 2 months ago

Most of my early 30 year old friends are very pessimistic about the future. I am pessimistic but less so. I think (and hope) that the republic will still be standing. But what I see and expect is that Trump will spend his time doing performative actions. He is narcissistic and he conflates the deference he receives when flying around the world negotiating trade deals with deference to the US. The reality is that telling him he deserves the Nobel peace prize is easy pickings for politicians who don't want to tank their economies while they realign with Russia.

Ultimately I think where we end up after his second term is he leaves, he says he did a great job and his supporters believe him. But we have problems. And he has this fantastic blessing of controlling all 3 branches of government, which he is wasting by grabbing power and solving NONE of them. So really we just wasted 4 years. And where the world is right now it's probably the worst 4 years we could ever waste.

arkis22 · 2 months ago

*realign with China

arkis22 commented on US air traffic controllers start resigning as shutdown bites thedailybeast.com/air-tra... · Posted by u/throw0101a

retrochameleon · 2 months ago

I'm a heavy gamer. I like lots of strategy games. Sometimes I look at our country like a strategy game: where we are investing resources, infrastructure planning and investment, active problems or threats and how they are being prioritized and handled, managing citizen happiness, etc.

The last 10-20 years feel like a massive lost opportunity to invest in some of these improvements and forward-thinking planning. In the last few years, it feels like catastrophic decision after decision.

I can't help but look at the state of America and feel like I'm looking at an inexperienced amateur player taking a relatively strong game position and slowly throwing it away. Crumbling infrastructure, weak citizen cohesion and education, intentional weakening of our own national and cyber security in more than one way, not to mention all the harm being done to our reputation and relationships with other countries.

It feels like we are in a weaker position then ever: militaristically, economically, scientifically, and so on. Meanwhile the threats of China and Russia and what could happen in the next few years are quite concerning.

I'm pretty pessimistic right now. I know the world and the US is not as simple as a strategy game, but tons of principles from strategy games well-understood by experienced players sure could help with more wise use of resources. Attention and time are also incredibly valuable resources that feel like they are being thrown away right now.

Getting into a major conflict could help unify The People and put focus on more important problems in the country, but as far as I'm concerned, I think all the other NATO countries would be the ones holding the war effort together. I'm just ranting at this point though.

arkis22 · 2 months ago

Most of my early 30 year old friends are very pessimistic about the future. I am pessimistic but less so. I think (and hope) that the republic will still be standing. But what I see and expect is that Trump will spend his time doing performative actions. He is narcissistic and he conflates the deference he receives when flying around the world negotiating trade deals with deference to the US. The reality is that telling him he deserves the Nobel peace prize is easy pickings for politicians who don't want to tank their economies while they realign with Russia.

Ultimately I think where we end up after his second term is he leaves, he says he did a great job and his supporters believe him. But we have problems. And he has this fantastic blessing of controlling all 3 branches of government, which he is wasting by grabbing power and solving NONE of them. So really we just wasted 4 years. And where the world is right now it's probably the worst 4 years we could ever waste.

arkis22 commented on US air traffic controllers start resigning as shutdown bites thedailybeast.com/air-tra... · Posted by u/throw0101a

senderista · 2 months ago

I can't escape the impression that the person currently most responsible for these shortsighted decisions simply doesn't care what happens after he's gone.

arkis22 · 2 months ago

It is fascinating how there are two current opinions about Donald Trump and that one is that he is a serial liar and the other is that he tells it how it is. I'm sympathetic to the latter because he manages to talk without a filter, but the things he lies about are much more serious and much more obvious and much more dangerous. But it gets him very far because people seem to think that "owning the libs" is the success condition for domestic and foreign policy.

I agree though, the next 3 years are going to be him insisting things are great. China will probably try for Taiwan after he leaves and he'll just continue to say things like they wouldn't have done it if he was in office. And sure that's partly true, because why not just wait a year until he's gone, then China can really split the electorate on what we should do.

arkis22 commented on Why aren't smart people happier? theseedsofscience.pub/p/w... · Posted by u/zdw

arkis22 · 2 months ago

If ignorance is bliss, then I am miserable.

arkis22 commented on All-natural geoengineering with Frank Herbert's Dune governance.fyi/p/all-natu... · Posted by u/toomuchtodo

zem · 3 months ago

it may indeed be silly, but as far as energy input to the system goes, all you need to do is postulate that one stage can photosynthesise sunlight.

arkis22 · 3 months ago

there are also many species on the ocean floor that do not get their energy from the sun, but from vents of heat from the earth. maybe they dont photosynthesise, they use heat instead

arkis22 commented on All-natural geoengineering with Frank Herbert's Dune governance.fyi/p/all-natu... · Posted by u/toomuchtodo

Mistletoe · 3 months ago

There is a lot of silly stuff in Dune, you just have to roll with it. A still suit would kill you from heat because your sweat is never evaporating.

arkis22 · 3 months ago

there is a lot of silly stuff in Dune, but my understanding is that the still suit recycles the body's water. It's not just that you pee in a tube, it absorbs the sweat and recycles that too

arkis22 commented on ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair cnn.com/2025/09/17/media/... · Posted by u/VikingCoder

arkis22 · 3 months ago

charlie kirk is not important enough to assassinate. jimmy kimmel is not important enough to cancel.

bummer.

arkis22 commented on Is the decline of reading making politics dumber? economist.com/culture/202... · Posted by u/pseudolus

yongjik · 4 months ago

Mamdani ran against Cuomo, a disgraced sex offender, and the incumbent Adams, whose corruption scandal was so bad that Trump pardoned him to sow chaos among the Democratic party. If I were a NYC resident I'd vote for a sack of potatoes over these two.

How someone gets "young people don't read" from this is beyond me.

arkis22 · 4 months ago

the fact that the candidates are worse than sacks of potatoes is a separate fact from the enthusiasm that young people have for the socialist candidate. if it were normal they would do what young people normally do, which is to not vote.