While I confess that I checked out this movie just to see the recreated Overlook Hotel sets, I was pleasantly surprised that it was actually an interesting story and a fun ride.
Considering that China has nearly 1,200 coal burning power stations, and has added 21GW of new coal power this year alone (a ten year high for coal power growth) I'd be curious to take a closer look at the math that supports this story.
It was quite a bit more complicated than that. It didn't help that Reza Shah was sitting on massive amounts of oil while also being a little too cozy for comfort with the Nazis. Of course it was the British who found oil in Persia in the first place so there are multiple tendrils of culpability.
Of course there's no actual gold in that room (unless you walked in wearing some). If there's a better metaphor for the empty lie of this administration, I don't know what it is.
China brought 21 gigawatts of new coal power plants online in 2025 alone, and now has nearly 1,200 total in Mainland China. So those “implications” need to sink in faster.
As a lifelong Apple user (since 1978) I feel this. In recent years they've added so many complexities, watering down the intuitive quality of their operating systems that were previously their hallmark.