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Cake day: June 5th, 2023
  • Otter@lemmy.catoMovies@lemmy.world•Netflix’s Conquest of Hollywood is CompleteEnglish
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    10 days ago

    Even more baffling is the claim:

    Warner Bros., for its part, has managed to find continued success with theatrical releases, both blockbuster franchises (the DC universe) *{and two small budget indie films that turned into hits and tripled their budgets, for a business nonetheless still bleeding profits}

    The DC Universe is WB’s leading success story? The universe with famously more flops than box office winners??

    Didn’t they also cancel a bunch of smaller projects for tax reasons

  • Otter@lemmy.catoYou Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK about this Italian tradition of putting corrupt politicians in a cage and dipping them in the water
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    10 days ago

    If anyone is more familiar with this, what is the culture around this like? I get the feeling that the nominations would be for scandals that are “bad” but not so “bad” that people are actually angry about it. Do people usually accept the punishment if nominated, has anyone said no?

    Some interesting bits:

    Before the Tonca comes the Tribunale di Penitenza (Court of Penance) during which members of the “court” name someone as deserving of being dunked in the river and make their case for the nomination. The comedic satire—which features a judge, defense attorney, prosecutor and someone playing the role of the accused—eventually finds some innocent while declaring the serious offenders guilty and condemned to the Tonca as a penalty. Reportedly, Tonca is held on the final Sunday before June 26 when the festivities come to an end. Last year, it happened on June 19 and six people were found guilty.

    In today’s time, the ones who are nominated are not blasphemers but they might have done something which was scandalous or controversial. While it is mostly politicians who are nominated, this is not always the case.

    Last year, the nominees were the last four presidents of the province for delaying a new hospital and a nurse who was charged with falsifying COVID test results. Not all people are nominated for serious offenses. Two politicians were put up for punishment for their opposition to a concert by popular Italian singer-songwriter Vasco Rossi.

    The final verdict comes a few days later and the ones who are deemed the worst are placed inside the cage. The person is ceremoniously dunked in the river three times, just as it was done in the past.

  • Otter@lemmy.catoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world•People espousing that unions don't work should have a look at police unions.
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    12 days ago

    For those that haven’t read the link

    A company or “yellow” union is a worker organization which is dominated or unduly influenced by an employer and is therefore not an independent trade union. Company unions are contrary to international labour law (see ILO Convention 98, Article 2).1 They were outlawed in the United States by the 1935 National Labor Relations Act §8(a)(2),2 due to their use as agents for interference with independent unions. However, company unions persist in many countries.

    A company or “yellow” union is a worker organization which is dominated or unduly influenced by an employer and is therefore not an independent trade union. Company unions are contrary to international labour law (see ILO Convention 98, Article 2).1 They were outlawed in the United States by the 1935 National Labor Relations Act §8(a)(2),2 due to their use as agents for interference with independent unions. However, company unions persist in many countries.

    I also didn’t know this:

    Japan

    Main article: Labor unions in Japan

    Company unions are a mainstay of labor organization in Japan, viewed with much less animosity than in Europe or the United States. Unaffiliated with RENGO (the largest Japanese trade union federation), company unions appeal to both the lack of class consciousness in Japanese society and the drive for social status, which is often characterized by loyalty to one’s employer.25

  • Otter@lemmy.catoTechnology@beehaw.org•Volvo invented the three-point seat belt 67 years ago; now it has improved it
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    17 days ago

    Volvo’s new central computing system, HuginCore (named after a bird in Norse mythology), runs the EX60 with more than 250 trillion operations per second. It has been developed in-house, together with its partners Google, Nvidia, and Qualcomm.

    “With the HuginCore system we can collect a lot of data and make decisions in the car instantly and combine that with the belt’s ability to choose different load levels,” says Åsa Haglund, head of the Volvo Cars Safety Center. “A box of possibilities opens up where you can detect what type of crash it is and who is in the car and choose a more optimal belt force.”