Adderbox76

Respect. He built something bigger than him and then knew that it was time to transition.

He...doesn't...care....

He only needed to get voted in once (well...twice...the first was a trial run). He used the time to take control of every single lever of power through cronyism or outright criminality. Votes don't matter because no matter what the votes say, the people controlling the election will simply say "Trump won", and when the legal argument against the obvious election rigging gets to the supreme court, they'l affirm it. This is by design.

Or, also possible, Trump will simply not have an election using an excuse of "we're at war" or whatever.

He doesn't need you. He doesn't want you. You can all die for all he gives a shit, so long as he and his rich friends keep making money off the presidency.

There is no "voting" your way out of this bullshit.

What an absolutely repulsive human being. Beyond the crimes. Beyond the egotism and narcissism, he's just simply a repulsive, classless, amoral fuck-head.

He's the guy that, if he hadn't been born into wealth, would be Ken McElroy

And cue the cease and desist in 3....2.....1....

24k is industry standard because of tradition. Nothing more.

It has nothing to do with what the human eye can perceive. It was settled on as the standard because it was the minimum fps that provided smooth motion. Any lower got too choppy, and any higher was pointless because the projectors and technology at the time simply had no use for more visual data than that.

The reason it sticks around (and the reason I personally prefer it) is because we've been seeing it for so long that changing it is jarring. Almost in an "uncanny valley" kind of way, you watch a film at 60fps and something just seems off but you just can't put your finger on it. Its almost too crisp.

We are so baked into the look of "cinema" for so many decades that it'll take time to adjust.

Tl;Dr - 24fps looking better is subjective. But its prevalent because its all we've known for literally most of cinema history.

Because there's no such thing as no consequences. If I have the ability to rob a bank and get away with no consequences, there are still consequences for the bank guard that loses his job (or that I have to hurt in order to get into the vault). There are consequences for the people whose money I've taken. Just because there are no consequences on me personally, doesn't mean there are no consequences.

Doing good comes from having empathy for other people, not because you're afraid of personal consequences.

countless thousands before them have jumped up and down on that same floor for decades

Structural fatigue means that someday, all of that previous jumping will do enough cumulative damage to weaken the glass frame.

I have no interest in being the straw that breaks that particular camels back, as remote a possibility as it may be.

Well I wish someone had told me that before I went through with the surgery.

unless government oversight finally becomes so corrupt and useless that this concept is forced through.

So next week, you're saying?

Three words...

Cock finger puppet.

IMO, consumers aren't necessarily stupid as much as corporations have very expertly learned to weaponize FOMO through advertising; allowing companies like apple to inflate their profit margin from something reasonable to "whatever the consumer is willing to pay."

Is that "capitalism"? Yes...technically. But to me, it goes against the spirit of capitalism, which at its heart sums up as "Farmer has a cow that produces milk. Farmer sells the chicken farmer down the road his extra milk and charges enough to be reasonable but doesn't get greedy because he needs eggs."

Corporations don't need our eggs. They don't believe they need anything from us and so don't care about being reasonable about profit.

Its "capitalism", but in my opinion, a perverse, stilted form that should have been kicked to the curb the moment Reaganomics started making it popular.

Life tip: No matter where you are, always seek out the weirdos. You'll have a much better time.