That’s very common for a company to have its IPO in the middle of a bubble and then drop only to come back to their bubble-price 10 years later. In the meantime they have the opportunity to suck up cash.
That’s what happened to Amazon and many others during the Dotcom bubble. They reach their Dotcom bubble prices back pretty much right before the 2007 crash.
Who wouldn’t jump on the opportunity to release on an industry-wide bubble ?
The goal of the stock market is to get financing to corporations so that they can expand and invest which takes years in real life to pay off.
You can listen to Jeff Bezos talking about it interview after interview (not the only company).
He had all that money from the IPO but the price took a decade to recover, despite all the warehouses and servers and numbers of customers growing. The stock price is not necessarily a good indicator of the health of a company.
If they make a profit that would be huge already. All the big tech lost money every hours, every second for decades. But overtime they created habit in their customers, new shopping patterns and what not. The culture changed. Now they make those insane profits.
Racism, can be institutionalized or personal, in this case it’s both.
Yes, it’s kinda low (no genocide or other horrible stuff), just someone not hiring other people, but imagine if this becomes a trend.
However you look at it, the fact that she wouldn’t hire white people is still discrimination.
Bad is bad, no matter who does it, white, black or eastern Asian or whatever other obsolete or newer word they have to describe people.
Haha, I won’t bother with the trailer, especially if it spoils too much.
I’ll probably watch the movie though.
At the very least I hope the atmosphere will be good.
At the end of the day, it’s fiction, (hopefully) at least they’ll offer us some entertainment and hopefully immersion and somewhat accurate stuff/portrayal of that era and the gladiatorial games/events.
You probably wouldn’t be able to make a movie or TV show that depicts the full historical accuracy of the Roman Empire because the film regulator board wouldn’t allow it to be released; the level of violence and inhumanity you’d experience from a true full depiction would be traumatising. All these historical movies and TV shows coming out based on the Roman Empire are just Hollywood nonsense, whether it’s Woke or not. You would never imagine the amount of horror that took place back then.
Have you ever seen this movie depiction of Rome? It is supposed to have a decent rating on IMDB. Apparently, this was hated by film critics but praised by historians!
Although this revolves more around the infamous Roman ruler ‘Caligula’, who was notorious for his cruelty, perversion, and madness, I haven’t seen it yet, and I do want to watch it out of curiosity, but I’m quite hesitant because I’ve heard rumours from people that it’s quite sick in some parts. They weren’t just Caligula, though; even Emperor Nero was a terrifying nutter, if not worse.
The thing is that there was such thing as ancient propaganda.
Whenever Rome got a new Emperor or a new dynasty established, they would throw dirt on the previous Emperor, they would always bicker for laws to be changed, Patricians/Senators always favored true own interests, plus the Pretorian Guard was changing emperors like they were shoes, in a Roman fashion, by brutally murdering them, if course.
Indeed.
Rome had a HUGE Enemy, who tried to Conquer them, who was a constant threat to their expansion and even to their survival, and that was Carthage.
What happened when Rome won the final war and conquered their capital?
They burned it down, killed most Carthaginians and enslaved the rest (also, Genghis Khan did the same, to those who didn’t submit to his rule, many other Conquerors did it, most Civilizations/Cultures were quite barbaric/cruel back then)…
And they were utterly cruel, either when it comes to punishments or to entertainment.
So, yeah, it would be quite the horror, to see all their bad deeds on screen, yet i bet that (some) people would love such horror…
One of the worst flops in gaming history. 8 years of development to shut down in 2 weeks. Look at the character designs and you’ll have all you need to know about the game
That’s a good perspective. It’s forcing us to take the good choice…but we keep digging the hole deeper xD
Catering to their investors demands…unless somehow the people in their ad represents whoever is buying Jaguars. Maybe that’s how a Jaguar owner looks and we’re all living under a rock yknow…
Before my friends pointed out to me who she was, I noticed she had a captivating sort of confident energy about her. I like to zone out and really let go into the music, and I sensed she was noticing me and gravitating towards me almost like we were dancing in sync for a bit. Then later on back at the bar I found out who she was!
