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Looking forward to this one https://t.co/jU2vHNhX9G pic.twitter.com/xH3tG1qLS3
— Noah Smith ๐๐บ๐ธ๐บ๐ฆ (@Noahpinion) May 27, 2024
Some lefty infighting
https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1795141509697708390
He has since apologized and locked his account
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We just appointed the first Parliamentary Secretary for Men's Behaviour in Australia
— Jacinta Allan (@JacintaAllanMP) May 28, 2024
I honestly thought this was a joke, but if it is, the ABC is in on it:
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/pm/victoria-focuses-on-changing-men-s-behaviour/103904696
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Apologies for the repeat Hollys, I'm only writing this because I have insomnia and I refuse to take benzos. I can't live off pills my entire life.
Bomb First
The 27th of March 1977 was set to be a normal day, with flight KLM Flight 4805 and Pan Am Flight 1736 set to land in the Canary Islands. The KLM plane was being piloted by captain Jacob Veldhuyzen who was very respected in the industry. Accompanying him was First Officer Klaas Meurs, and Flight Engineer Willem Schreuder. Some useful stats regarding the KLM plane:
It had arrived from Amsterdam Airport
The aircraft was a Boeing 747-206B
It was carrying 14 crew members and 235 passengers
The larger Pan-Am plane original from Los Angeles Airport, and it was a Boeing 747-121. It was being piloted by Captain Victor Grubbs who was accompanied by First Officer Robert Bragg and Flight Engineer George Warns. Some interesting facts about the plane:
It was the first 747 to be delivered to an airline
It was carrying 380 passengers
In 1970 it was the first 747 to be hijacked
Unfortunately, things would go awry when a bomb was set off by the Canary Islands Independence Movement at Gran Canaria Airport, injuring eight people. There were threats of a second bomb, which caused all flights to be diverted from the airport. Instead, the planes were diverted to Tenerife.
Trip to Tenerife
Los Rodeos airport is a small airport on Tenerife Island, which is the largest and most populous of the Canary Islands. The Pan Am, which had enough fuel to last two more hours, wanted to do a holding pattern in the air until the threat was cleared but was instructed to land in Tenerife instead, the same place where the KLM plane would be landing.
As previously stated, Los Rodeos was a small airport (it only had one runway), so it was unusual to have five airliners coordinated. To make matters worse, it was a foggy day, which made it hard for air traffic control to see properly. While waiting, the KLM plane decided to refuel. This would prove to be a fatal error.
A stroke of luck
One of the passengers had a boyfriend in Tenerife and decided to offboard and remain on the island. This saved her life. Funny how fate influences things.
The terrible takeoff
The KLM was instructed to taxi down the runway and make a full 180 degree turn to take off. At the same time, the Pan Am was instructed to taxi down the same runway and take the THIRD exit. At first there were was some confusion. Did the air traffic control say first or third? That was cleared up with the controller responding: "The third one, sir; one, two, three; third, third one.โ.
The Pan Am passed the first exit, then the second, then got confused with the third which would have required it to make a 148 degree turn followed by another. This would have been practically impossible, thus the Pan Am remained on the runway, unsure of what to do.
Meanwhile, the KLM was gearing for take-off until a crew member told captain Veldhuyzen that they hadn't been given clearance just yet. It was clear the captain was in a hurry.
Meurs radioed in to the control tower to say โwe are at takeoffโ to which the controller replied โOKโ followed by "stand by for takeoff, I will call youโ, indicating that he had not given takeoff clearance.
The control tower instructed the Pan Am to advise when it had cleared the runway. This caused alarm for one of the crew members of the KLM who asked the captain "Is he not clear that Pan American?โ. The reply? โOh, yes.โ The KLM began accelerating down the runway.
The collision
When captain Grubbs saw the KLM approaching he exclaimed "Goddarn, that son-of-a-b-word is coming!โ As he tried to make a sharp left to avoid the collision. By the time the KLM crew saw the Pan Am through the fog, it was too late to slow down, so the captain tried to takeoff instead, hoping to fly over the Pan Am. Alas, the plane was too heavy, as it had just loaded up on fuel, so takeoff wasn't as easy.
The planes collided in a hellish fireball that resulted in an inferno that could not be squelched for hours. 583 people died, with no survivors emerging from the KLM and 61 emerging from the Pan Am. It remains the worst aviation disaster in history.
conclusion
This plane crash fascinates me endless, and I've watched countless documentaries on it. I think it is a culmination of coincidences, miscommunication, and plain old impatience. Do you blame the KLM captain? The air traffic controller? Or do you think it was just a product of bad luck?
I've been enjoying Red Dead Redemption on my Nintendo Switch. I like John Marston's lines, he's a badass lol. You can tell the game is aged because the shooting is terrible but it's forgivable because of the good story.
My sister told me not to complain about not having a girlfriend but she doesn't understand, she's married. I'm 28, turning 29 next month, and have no romantic prospects. It's depressing as heck, but I'll keep trying. I'm not giving up. I WILL be a normie, whatever it takes. I believe I am worthy of being loved.
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Disney Detonates Four Bombs In Deadline's 2023 Most Valuable Blockbuster Tournament
Everyone likes a trend in the movie business, but this one perhaps not so much. Disney for the first time in Deadline's Most Valuable Blockbuster Tournament history dominates the annual bombs section, claiming four of the five (top? bottom?) spots on our 2023 list. Typically, the studio owns a majority of the year's top 10 most profitable films thanks to Marvel movies, but not this year. A lot of this stems from feeding the beast of streaming service Disney+; the studio's initial plan during Covid was to shell out $14 billion-$16 billion annually on content by this year. With Bob Iger taking the CEO reins from Bob Chapek, he's trying to right the ship with a less-is-more strategy, zeroing in on quality so that the No. 1 motion picture studio can come back to form.
Some of you might ask: Where is Apple Original Films on this list? Wouldn't Killers of the Flower Moon and Napoleon rank? Several film-finance sources tell us that Apple movies and Disney movies shouldn't go in the same bucket. The former is a tech company, of which content is a fraction of their revenues. Essentially, any prestige losses made by Apple on movies are seen as advertising expenses to drive eyeballs to its OTT service. Meanwhile, content is king for Disney and drives all other ancillaries, extending to theme parks and cruise ships. Quite often we get the phone call from the studio saying, โYou're not taking into account other merchandise and theme park revenues on these films.โ Make no mistake: Films that fall down at the box office don't have afterlives.
The Marvels
Disney/Marvel
Net Loss: -$237M
When Marvel fanboys and fangirls smell it's going to be good, they crowd the theater. But when it's a dud, they stay away. One would think a sequel to a $1.1 billion-grossing female superhero movie would be logical, and asked for. However, The Marvelsโ predecessor, Captain Marvel, benefited at the box office from being a bridge between the Avengers finales Infinity War and Endgame. Yes, the actors strike did pour a lot of cold water on promoting this film, with the thespian standoff ending just days before this sequel's opening November 10, and star Brie Larson rushing around to late-night shows to tubthump the pic. But there was more. The movie was trying to thread storylines from Disney+ shows like Ms. Marvel, which was part of a grand master plan by Marvel to connect the series with the movies. That strategy showed its holes here as Ms. Marvel wasn't embraced in a big way by MCU fans ala series like Loki and WandaVision were. Lastly, Marvel has prided itself on hiring indie directors, plugging them into their system and turning them into blockbuster filmmakers (e.g., Jon Watts, Taika Waititi). It's a recipe that doesn't always work, evident in this movie (directed by Nia DaCosta) and Marvel's The Eternals from Nomadland Oscar winner Chloรฉ Zhao. The MCU in its zenith wins over both critics and audiences, and that didn't happen here, with a 62% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes and B CinemaScore.
The Flash
Warner Bros/DC Studios
Net Loss: -$155M
Released well before the actors strike, it doesn't help when your leading star is making lots of tabloid headlines, the person here being Ezra Miller. Miller was kept at bay in regards to promoting the DC movie, and the pic's stars, which included Michael Keaton returning as Batman, were either available in limited doses or shied away from doing press (no one wanted to field questions about Miller). Still, props to the new Warner Bros administration of Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy, as well as DC bosses James Gunn and Peter Safran. Although they inherited this movie, they believed in it and propped it all they could as the ultimate DC time-warp movie with cameos from previous superheroes. They even previewed the film early for exhibitors at CinemaCon. Unfortunately, masses didn't buy the Spider-Man: No Way Home-like stunt here.
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Disney
Net Loss: -$143M
Harrison Ford reportedly loved the script of this finale, which is why it got made. However, Steven Spielberg passed on directing, handing the reins to James Mangold โ a smart choice and able filmmaker given his history with Logan and Ford v. Ferrari. However, something went amiss. In the hands of Disney, the formerly Paramount-distributed Lucasfilm franchise sequel had too many cooks in the kitchen. There were reports of several editors trying to fix the film at the last minute, not to mention there was no attempt to cast-up this older, male-skewing movie ala Top Gun: Maverick with stars that could appeal to the under-40 crowd, which would have expanded the audience. Also a factor: Indiana Jones is always in competition with himself. Despite 2008's Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull being the highest-grossing movie in the series with more than $786M worldwide, many weren't fans with its B CinemaScore and opted to stay away this time around. This was especially so after the sour word of mouth and reviews that came out of Dial of Destinyโs Cannes world premiere, a promotional maneuver that largely dialed back the commercial prospects of Dial of Destiny.
Wish
Disney
Net Loss: -$131M
Disney always needs to plant an animated family film in the Thanksgiving corridor; the only problem is that the studio hasn't seen glory since before Covid with Frozen 2. Wish followed the 2022 bomb Strange World. While original animation is always an uphill battle to launch at the box office, audiences have seen this plug-and-play princess and silly sidekicks (in this case a talking goat and puffy star) movie before, and waited this one out for Disney+ (another potential catalyst for dwindling Disney moviegoing). Audiences and critics smelled that the movie reeked of corporate product rather than magical event. Essentially, a studio is in trouble when its movie's narrative is more about a celebration of the company's birthday than a riveting piece of content.
Haunted Mansion
Disney
Net Loss: -$117M
This movie, which opened July 28, was the first big casualty of the strike with its cast unable to show up at the pic's Disneyland premiere, which the studio billed as a fan event. Above all, Haunted Mansion burned down because of its release date, opening in the wake of Barbie and ahead of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, thus losing out on the younger-skewing audience it wanted. At the end of the day, the 2003 Eddie Murphy version, unadjusted for inflation, made more money with its domestic take of $75.8M and global of $182.2M.
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What happens when you don't suspend a student. A case study.
— SageOnTheStage (@sage_stage) May 27, 2024
About 15/16 months ago. A student is chronically disruptive, and is intentionally miserable to his teacher. The teacher is at her wits end, and meetings are held to figure it all out. Here's what happened
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The user was @MarseyIsMyWaifu
Proving that they are Canadian and we should all mock them for being born Canadian.
Please do the needful and donate shit awards to @@MarseyIsMyWaifu
The funny part is I wasn't even trying.