this might come across as anti capitalist but,,,,,, i want to enjoy life
lmao Adam Conover found out marvel was gonna be filming near by so he took a bunch of folks down and picketed in front of the location so the teamsters wouldn’t be able to get in and stopped the filming
ALTteamsters, like the union? Why would they be getting in?
A few days later, Conover was there when WGA West members shut down an active Marvel production with the help of members of the Teamsters and International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) members, an approach the union has gone on to use with remarkable success.
“We’d been tipped off about the shoot and the Teamsters were being cooperative and didn’t cross the picket line, so we ruined the shoot for the day,” says Conover of shutting down the Marvel production. “That picket led to us building an entire system: putting a team together, collecting call sheets, and figuring out where to go.”
Conover is quick not to attribute the union’s success in shutting down productions to writers, emphasizing that shutdowns are only possible because members of other unions have been willing to sacrifice on behalf of their fellow workers. That wasn’t a given: during the 2007 strike, the Hollywood labor movement was less unified, and many productions continued rolling.[x]
The Teamsters are in the news a lot right now for the potential UPS strike, and it was founded primarily for drivers (hence the name), but the union does include a diverse set of laborers (as many unions do these days). The Motion Picture Division of the Teamster is for those members of the union who work in motion pictures, including a variety of jobs like location specialists and casting directors. I think the number I saw was that it represents about 6.5k people in the industry.
Basically, Conover and the WGA set up a picket line, and members of other unions, including the Teamsters and the IATSE, refused to cross it. The solidarity shown to the WGA by these other unions helped stopped the production entirely.
It’s true that the WGA’s rapid response teams were actively shutting down productions as early as May! (That’s no longer necessary since actors are also now on strike so nothing new is being filmed.) Thanks to Teamsters and members of IATSE not crossing the picket lines they set up, a lot of productions were shut down.
I cannot BELIEVE you guys actually signing up to netflix just because account sharing was banned. You need to learn about cool websites with many beautiful women who would love you message you and send you downloadable files.
had someone comment “investing at x notes” on one of my posts and then the post just stopped getting notes which is a thousand times funnier than it blowing up if I’m being honest
get urself a new portfolio manager my guy because your investments ain’t going nowhere
*opens the groupchat at breakfast to backread like its the morning paper*
NEWS FROM BULLSHIT CITY:
Your Friends had a Weird Discussion About Marbles
star wars heritage vid
You gotta write for funsies sometimes. Everything doesn’t have to be groundbreaking. Like. Who cares if it’s a little silly it is made out of love
ALTgffa:
Jason deserves to be a little annoying, as a treat.
I cannot put into words how much I Fucking Loathe the fact that when you search something on youtube now it will randomly intersperse blocks of “people also watched” and “for you” into the results. That’s not what I searched for, youtube. I typed in a search query because I wanted to see search results, not random unrelated garbage you have placed in my way apparently to either inconvenience me or force me to scroll further for actual results. I despise your wretched little games and every time I see it I can only instantly close the tab as I am overcome with the urge to burn something down.
“I despise your wretched little games” perfectly conveys how I feel about the entire algorithm/attention economy
They also refuse to actually show the parameters you searched for. If you sort by “upload date,” the first few videos might be more recent ones by upload date, but anything past that you’ll find a video that was uploaded five years ago, then five months ago, then three years ago, etc, which—NO! That’s NOT WHAT I ASKED FOR!! PUT THEM IN ORDER!!!
Also sometimes the “people also watched” bullcrap will not only be entirely unrelated, it will also be videos with violent, sometimes outright triggering thumbnails. I’ve gotten some AWFUL unrelated video thumbnails just when searching for video game music videos.
If you use Firefox this extension is god send :D
this blew up on twitter and i forgot to post it here,,
link…skywalker…
Empire Strikes Back Luke >>>
