I always had “Galtieri biopic starring Noddy Holder” but this is the better answer

Arthur Conan Doyle is a better chronicler of the fin de siècle than Henry James

Have had this song running round my head all day 🥲

Also works for the Vice President

Only if it’s from the Hamburg region of Germany, otherwise it’s just sparkling bean

I know it’s just a dumb Truth Social post and not in the top 100 dumb things he has done but at least you’d expect him to know about tax avoidance and the entertainment industry.

Tariffs aren’t applied to services and if they were it would be a complete morass. Filmmakers are, famously, experts at fiddling costs and revenues to make their profits disappear when the taxman comes knocking 1.

1. Brooks, Melvin, “The Producers” (1967)

When a foreign film is shown in the US, the foreign rights owners are granting the US distributors a local license to display the film and getting fees in return.

These bear no relation to the nominal costs of physical goods being exported — they’re normally a share of box office receipts.

I know it may seem a minor thing, but when foreign films are shown in the US, the trade that is going on is not “reels of films being exported to the US”.

The biggest exporters of such film, tariff code 3706, are Thailand and Czechia, with 43% of the market. The US has 13%.

It’s an interesting and grim partition fact that the Pakistan Hyderabad used to be a largely Hindu city and the Indian Hyderabad used to be largely Muslim. Very few Hindus left in Sindh these days, although I think the Telangana one is roughly 50-50.

The tiny clipart of the Charminar is the giveaway, but I like to think that was just slotted in by a graphic designer who didn’t know the difference

Although of course very few big players in this game are in a better position to buck the CW than Zuck, thanks to the dual-class share structure. But he still goes along with it…

This is a laboratoire, not a UNESCO conference!

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