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Cake day: April 29th, 2025

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  • Holy crap

    “Surveillance shows a male exiting a black BMW carrying an M4 rifle in his right hand. The building security camera footage shows the shooter entering the lobby, turning right, and immediately opening fire at an NYPD officer. He then shoots a woman who took cover behind a pillar. He makes his way to the elevator bank, where he shoots a security guard who was taking cover behind the security desk. One additional male was shot in the lobby, per his own statement.
    “The shooter then calls the elevator that opens in the lobby. A female exits the elevator, and he allows her to pass him unharmed. He goes up to the 33rd floor and begins to walk the floor, firing rounds as he travels. One person was struck and killed on that floor. He proceeds down the hallway and shoots himself in the chest,” she said.

    So it sounds like she was the woman hiding behind a pillar, not whoever was targetted on the 33rd floor.

    edit: and another article mentions he blamed the NFL for a brain injury. It looks like he was targetting the NFL’s headquarters but went to the wrong floor.






  • Well the the real world version of Hollywood Accounting - they just use inflated costs. Usually a large studio will outsource aspects of the production to smaller companies. Those companies could be a wholly owned subsidiary, a company owned by an exec or a close connection of an executive, or even an internal department. The important aspect is each of them will be able to set the price for the service they provide at a very highly inflated amount relative to the cost. This allows the production to claim they spent $5 million on lighting when the actual cost was closer to tens or hundreds of thousands. Did the difference in cost and price ever actually exist? Was that money ever actually paid? That depends on the scheme and who is the recipient. Either an exec is trying to siphon corporate cash off to himself or family. Or they’re trying to inflate production costs for a failed movie (Coyote v Acme, Batgirl, etc) to make it appear as if the company made no taxable profits at the end of the year.




  • It’s hollywood accounting at it’s finest. They make the film cost a fortune to produce, because they use department billing to turn $1 of cost into $40 of expenses. Then they burn it to the ground and say they realized $250M of losses when it really only cost $20M to produce. And don’t forget that a huge amount of the cost was just paying themselves enormous salaries to figure out how to make it a net loss for the company from a structured tax perspective.