First off you don’t have statistical evidence since you also have to compare it to the number of people who were abused and haven’t abused anyone. The fact that you’re a statistic is probably because you were reported as being abusive. The reason why it seems deterministic is because non-abuse isn’t something that people report. The key word is “believe” which means you can believe whatever you want, actual experience is less malleable than belief.

Hollywood is legit dying. COVID+strikes+inflation+higher interest rates+LA fires have pretty much decimated the industry. There is cost cutting across the board. No one wants to take risks.

The fact that Bill Maher is on there with Joseph Stalin just goes to show that TV is what the world is for some people. Even though one person’s actions lead to the deaths of millions of real people and another said a joke that made you angry, it seems like the same thing because it’s all make believe. Ultimately these things are apolitical. Its people interacting with characters in a narrative–there is no real interaction with any real politics.

Recently Amazon invested $5B in Anthropic tied to a commitment for Anthropic to spend $100B in AWS infrastructure over a decade. So for $5B, Amazon now has $100B of business in the books. These circular investments is just the printing of imaginary money.