- You: "The national debt is 39 trillion. Who pays it?"
- Government: "Future generations."
- You: "They didn't vote for it."
- Government: "They'll understand."
- You: "You're spending money from people who aren't born yet."
- Government: "It's called fiscal policy."
- You: "It's called taxation without representation."
- Government: "You're not an economist."
In 2002, Brad Pitt walked off a Darren Aronofsky film called The Fountain, seven weeks before cameras rolled. Warner Bros had already sunk $18 million. Around 400 crew members in Australia lost their jobs overnight, and the finished sets were auctioned off.
Pitt still owed Warner Bros a movie. That debt became Troy.
So the role he spent years regretting began as a legal settlement. He trained six months for a character he accepted to avoid an exit fee, then tore his Achilles tendon playing Achilles.
Then the story flips. Aronofsky rebuilt The Fountain at half the budget with Hugh Jackman. The passion project Pitt abandoned over creative differences grossed $16 million. The contractual punishment he hated grossed $497 million.
And Troy was the first film ever produced by Plan B, the company Pitt had founded months earlier. Plan B went on to win Best Picture for 12 Years a Slave and Moonlight.
The movie he calls a mistake built the company behind his greatest wins.
Las mujeres no abusan menos que los hombres, es que su abuso no es considerado violencia.
Las mujeres abusivas son más peligrosas que los hombres abusivos porque la violencia de ellas ni siquiera se considera como tal.
- You: "Why does the central bank hold gold?"
- Government: "Tradition."
- You: "If fiat is so good, sell the gold."
- Government: "Well, gold is a stable store of value..."
- You: "Say that again?"
- Government: "Tradition!"
- You: "You keep the hard money and give me the paper?"
- Government: "You're not an economist."
‼️ Steam is hosting malware again, this time in a custom map for the game MECCHA CHAMELEON
Loading the map quietly writes a Windows command file into the player's Documents folder, which then opens PowerShell in an invisible window and tries to download a second script from a server.
The dropped file was recovered. The second stage 404'd, so nobody knows what it does yet. We're working on that.