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Check out Hacker News. Their mission is to only allow thought provoking posts and to not allow enshitification or dumbing down of their platform.

Users can still post content but it is more highly moderated to maintain quality. The users tend to be techy so user submissions are higher quality than average reddit/lemmy posts.

There is a lemmy community that reposts articles from hacker news but now I just browse it on their website or using the Android app Harmonic which I recommend.

Doesn't their chart show that the increase in diesel usage negates the decrease in gasoline usage?

Agreed, but that doesn't make the pie chart valid. It makes zero mathematical sense to compare worldwide revenue to a single cost unless all other costs have been subtracted out first.

Imagine that the studio makes a movie that uses a famous song, actor, or other piece of intellectual property that is very expensive but they know it will boost box office sales. They might spend $5 million on this IP and it might generate $6 million in additional revenue.

Now, some people look at the $6 million in revenue and ask where their cut is. Of course the studio doesn't actually have the $6m, they only have $1m after paying for the IP. Extrapolate this out for a whole movie.

This is why it doesn't make mathematical sense to compare your wage to revenue - it is ignoring business fundamentals. Instead we need to look at profit which already has all expenses subtracted out. Profit is where any additional compensation must come from, or the studio needs to cut expenses elsewhere.

Wow, that's horrible. It is so wrong that the authorities were able to keep her detained just because they don't agree with the judge's multiple rulings... for 6 years?!

I hope that as more of the world gets access to the Internet and information that more and more people will leave religions. When I was able to freely read the history of different religions and critical analysis by atheists it made my mind up fairly quickly.

Based on current trends, I'd say 40 more years until gen-z is old enough to get seats in Congress! 👴👵

It may be true that it is difficult to accurately calculate the studio's profits however that does not change the fact that comparing worldwide revenue to individual costs provides no meaningful conclusions without knowing the rest of the costs. I agree that the writers and actors are being treated unfairly but the pie chart is obviously flawed.

One time I mentioned to my boss how I think humanity is doomed to destroy life on Earth because we never learn from our mistakes until it's too late.

My boss said that she is optimistic that we'll get climate change under control because of her young daughter's generation. I immediately backpedaled and agreed that we'll probably figure it out and technology will save us, but I was just lying to both of us feel better.

Of course we need to keep trying to solve these climate issues, but a lot of people are in denial about how bad things already are and underestimate the kind of societal shifts that need to happen right now because of the cognitive dissidence many of us hold, even scientists.

In this thread: people who don't know the difference between revenue and profit.

I'm not trying to discredit the protests, they are completely valid, but this chart is meaningless for comparisons. The profits can be calculated and would be much more meaningful even if the numbers aren't perfect.