Starlink was never a viable business prospect. It never will be. Anybody who signed up to Starlink was just waiting for this to happen without knowing it.

I’m curious: in which world are people living where this wasn’t a predictable outcome?

Note: I’m not saying a “desirable” or “good” or “just” or such outcome. Just “predictable”.

There is a whole lot more to a healthy democracy than “I voted”.

China doesn’t need to retaliate. Chinese cinema goers are overwhelmingly choosing domestic product over import in recent years. For 2024, for example, 80% of the Chinese box office went to Chinese productions.

The problem is he brought a deck of poker cards to a chess game.

The movies normalized The American Way™ as the default way of doing things. The billionaires then financed the people pitching The American Way™. Without the first, the second wouldn’t work.

The Chinese market is huge, yes, but increasingly turning away from Hollywood productions to homegrown ones. In 2025 for example 哪吒2 (Nézhā 2) broke scored over $2 billion at the box office, with a record-smashing $1.96 billion of that coming domestically. By way of comparison Captain America 4 only managed $14.4 million so far, a dramatic drop from 2016’s Captain America 3 returns of $180 million in 2016.

For reference, even CA3’s $180 million is an order of magnitude smaller than Nezha 2. CA4’s is two orders of magnitude smaller.

Now this is still true: China’s theatre-going audience, estimated at over half a billion people, is larger than the entire population of the USA. It’s still a hugely important market. But, for example, in 2024 the Chinese box office was estimated at ~6 billion dollars total: and 80% of that went to domestic films. The best-performing foreign film of 2024 (Dune 2) only made $48 million, ranking it about 8th. 7th was 维和防暴队 (Wéihé Fángbàoduì/Formed Police Unit) and it made over $120 million.

I’m pretty sure that the Chinese market for Hollywood films is vanishing.

Fair. Fair.

I thought he has all his kids by IVF because no woman would be able to stand his touch without her skin crawling off her body and fleeing in terror.

That’s a side effect of ketamine abuse, then, is it?

You’re still not getting with the program. He’s a fucking neo-Nazi.

He’s right. It’s outrageous.

He’s not a Nazi. He’s a fucking Nazi.

That’s what I said! 🤣

何不两个都选？

Why do people continually hide the stupid people’s very public IDs on a very public web site?

Pay them the money.

Then ban Tesla sales in Canada.

I wouldn’t pay 肆块两角钱 for a Tesla ever, anymore, regardless of who the CEO is or who holds the stock.

Several elections apparently.

Several elections apparently.