There's a gif of a woman opening an umbrella toward the camera that has a big upraised middle finger on it. Every picketer needs one of those umbrellas for necessary shade. Compelling images for the drones every news org would have overhead.
I can't say whether in this case things are legit (and I sincerely doubt that it is), but I was shocked when I moved to California and saw how some trees get cut back to stumps every year. They grow right back the next year!
(A SMOKE-FILLED ROOM SOMEWHERE IN UNVERSAL STUDIOS)
EXECUTIVE: So Charlie, tell me. Have the ungrateful wretches quit picketing and accepted our very generous pay cut and digitizing?
STUDIO ASSISTANT: Uhh no, JP, dey ain't.
EXECUTIVE: What are we going to do? Didn't they like having free garbage dump privileges?
STUDIO ASSISTANT: Naw, JP, dey don't. But dats ok, see? I hired a, uh, specialist to... assist wid da strikers. Come in here, Louie. JP, dis is Louie "Hatchet" Fettuccini. He's an... an arborist. Ain't dat right Louie?
LOUIE: Huh huhhhh...
EXECUTIVE: How is an arborist going to help us?
STUDIO ASSISTANT: Oh well, ya see dem strikers is picketin' on Barham, right? An it's kinda hot, ya know? Well Louie here is gonna assist dem strikes wid some... er... tree trimmin, ain't ya Louie?
LOUIE: Huh huhhhh...
STUDIO ASSISTANT: Brilliant. Now that’s what I call out of the box thinking.
Actors who work for a living, spend most of their time going to interviews for the next acting job, and
depend on residuals to help make ends meet, these are the bad guys? These are the actors who
support the movies and TV shows we all enjoy watching, the ones who don't live in mansions in
Beverly Hills, the ones who don't have full time jobs outside the industry because they have to have free time to go for interviews with 19-year old casting directors, the ones who do it all their lives
to be in the movies and who get old and depend on benefits from their unions - these are the actors who are asking for too much? What is wrong with this picture?
The guy who makes $27 million a year and can't figure out how to make his company's business plan pencil out says the writers' demands are "unrealistic." Let's replace HIM with an AI algorithm.
They murdered those trees.
"unintended challenges for demonstrators, that was not our intention"
The double negative was not unintended.
Orcs!
There's a gif of a woman opening an umbrella toward the camera that has a big upraised middle finger on it. Every picketer needs one of those umbrellas for necessary shade. Compelling images for the drones every news org would have overhead.
"High wind season"? I live but a few miles from there and there is definitley no "high wind season". What utter BS.
It’s fine because Kevin McCarthy is gonna plant a trillion trees
TREE LAW TREE LAW TREE LAW
"We...are working to provide some shade coverage. We continue to openly communicate with the labor leaders on-site to work together during this time.
As part of this effort, we're handing out previously rejected manuscripts to writers and head shots to actors that they can hold over their heads."
Time to switch to a sit-in strike then.
Of all the idiotic bullshit. Cause the strikers cant just carry umbrellas.
This is emblematic of everything wrong with capitalism - a willingness to destroy everything around you for petty ends.
Not sure there are any leaves left on those trees. What a bunch of fuksticks
I wonder how many of those trees will survive.
All of them. They've been trimmed like that many times.
I can't say whether in this case things are legit (and I sincerely doubt that it is), but I was shocked when I moved to California and saw how some trees get cut back to stumps every year. They grow right back the next year!
Done in the winter, that's fine. Little trauma to the tree then. The middle of summer is for emergency work.
I'm guessing they weren't licensed Union arborists.
So do I go see Oppenheimer/Barbie or sit it out in solidarity?
Everything that SAG-AFTRA has put out so far says not to boycott films/shows. See what you were planning to see.
When Neil Gaiman tells me to boycott, I'll boycott.
Speakin' o' which, I got to see a preview of Good Omens 2 the other night. They did a pretty good job of preserving Pratchett's off-tilt humor.
Do you want to create public sympathy for striking workers? Because this is how you create public sympathy for striking workers.
More like 100 degree plus these days.
It hasn't cracked 100 in LA yet this year.
(A SMOKE-FILLED ROOM SOMEWHERE IN UNVERSAL STUDIOS)
EXECUTIVE: So Charlie, tell me. Have the ungrateful wretches quit picketing and accepted our very generous pay cut and digitizing?
STUDIO ASSISTANT: Uhh no, JP, dey ain't.
EXECUTIVE: What are we going to do? Didn't they like having free garbage dump privileges?
STUDIO ASSISTANT: Naw, JP, dey don't. But dats ok, see? I hired a, uh, specialist to... assist wid da strikers. Come in here, Louie. JP, dis is Louie "Hatchet" Fettuccini. He's an... an arborist. Ain't dat right Louie?
LOUIE: Huh huhhhh...
EXECUTIVE: How is an arborist going to help us?
STUDIO ASSISTANT: Oh well, ya see dem strikers is picketin' on Barham, right? An it's kinda hot, ya know? Well Louie here is gonna assist dem strikes wid some... er... tree trimmin, ain't ya Louie?
LOUIE: Huh huhhhh...
STUDIO ASSISTANT: Brilliant. Now that’s what I call out of the box thinking.
Actors who work for a living, spend most of their time going to interviews for the next acting job, and
depend on residuals to help make ends meet, these are the bad guys? These are the actors who
support the movies and TV shows we all enjoy watching, the ones who don't live in mansions in
Beverly Hills, the ones who don't have full time jobs outside the industry because they have to have free time to go for interviews with 19-year old casting directors, the ones who do it all their lives
to be in the movies and who get old and depend on benefits from their unions - these are the actors who are asking for too much? What is wrong with this picture?
The guy who makes $27 million a year and can't figure out how to make his company's business plan pencil out says the writers' demands are "unrealistic." Let's replace HIM with an AI algorithm.
Better yet don't replace him with anything. Or how about offering his job to the lowest bidder like God intended crapitalizm to work.