Dwayne Johnson has been showing back up in WWE events, and I do get the sense that he’s tapped out on the Disney end of the money funnel. With all that Saudi cash flowing into combat sports and with Vince McMahon getting dragged out back like the rabid dog he is, I wouldn’t be surprised to see Johnson springboards from Vince’s old position to a political campaign, with his eyes on the White House.
Gotta distance himself from the wildly unpopular current liberal President if you’re even going to begin that transition.
I think there’s something to be said of the flattening of culture that has come out of this.
You have a region that’s got a broccoli glut and a region that’s got a quinoa glut. Historically, these local maxima of produce would inform a bunch of the habits and inclinations of the society, as they leaned into what they had in abundance. You’d have a city with a giant broccoli on their crest. You’d have “Broccoli Cookoff Season”. You’d have all sorts of broccoli derivatives like seasonings and dyes/textiles and plants that produce calcium supplements from the excess, etc, etc.
Now all that excess broccoli is owned by a Mega-Corp. Nobody in town really gets to see the benefits of surplus or access a virtually free super-abundance. It either gets shipped out or destroyed and the town probably benefits more financially from a bad crop than a good one. There’s relatively little pride in what the city produces, because they’re all day laborers working precariously for a company that cycles them through multiple farm yards miles apart. There’s very little free time to exploit the excess or to develop these cultural artifacts iconic to towns.
And, in the end, you may stop producing broccoli locally in its entirety, because real estate is owned by one family three states away and they’ve decided to shift marketing to a less labor/resources intensive product.
We won’t be like China. We’ll be more insulated and divorced from Chinese media, culture, and conversation.
That’s the stated end goal. Bringing up sharp walls between nationalities in order to control the flow of information between people.
If we keep TikTok open, we risk exposing American young people to Chinese norms, ideals, and social standards. We might even be exposed directly to Chinese mass media (ie, propaganda).
This is a real security risk, as it raises a possibility that younger Americans won’t accept American mass media at face value.
Both physical and digital Switch games include what Nintendo calls technological protection measures, or TPMs. As Nintendo itself explains in one of those takedown notices, “When a game is started on the Nintendo Switch console a Game TPM is decrypted using cryptographic keys that are protected by Console TPMs. The games themselves can then be decrypted by the decrypted Game TPMs so the game can be played.”
The DMCA includes a section that says “no person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title.” In other words, any attempt to bypass DRM is a violation of copyright law no matter the intent - or at least, that’s how Nintendo interprets the law, and that argument has been very effective at getting hosts like GitHub to take down software like Lockpick and SigPatch-Updater.
Love to live in a society where private property is real and personal property is not.
If leftists ran the country, Trump never would have been elected President. He would have been assigned the job of co-hosting award shows with Kathy Griffin and Joan Rivers, until he OD’d on cocaine in the late 90s.
Putin is deeply unpopular. Also everyone in Russia is brainwashed. Also the election numbers are made up by a fake guy doing fake things. Also there’s going to be a huge Navalny protest vote and only I can tell you what it is. Also Russians are naturally evil because they support Putin.
We give them billions a year! We buy and sell each other guns and bombs and shit all day long! We send our chief executives to fucking fundraise off one another endlessness.
ISRAEL’S PM IS FROM PHILADELPHIA!
I would LOVE for the US and Israel to end this utterly toxic relationship.
Oh my... (hexbear.net)
Russian "invasion/genocide" and Israel's "response to a terrorist attack". Every. Fucking. Time. (hexbear.net)
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Paramount's slate of upcoming films includes Star Trek, Transformers, Ninja Turtles, Smurfs, Bee Gees & more (www.joblo.com)
Paramount’s slate of upcoming films includes new entries in popular franchises, a Bee Gees biopic from Ridley Scott, and much more
Xi meets Lavrov, reaffirms China's emphasis on partnership with Russia (www.globaltimes.cn)
It's over. (hexbear.net)
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YES (hexbear.net)
When you know it's a trap, but you're still lured in anyways (hexbear.net)
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Palestinian protest in Tokyo (hexbear.net)
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Tokyo Cherry Trees in Shinjuku Gyoen National Park (hexbear.net)
japan-cool...
Trump seems to be taking a better stance on Israel than Biden is (hexbear.net)
Now we’re gonna get all the lemmy people pouring in here talking about how Hexbear loves Trump.
TikTik regulation bill’s future looking wobbly in Senate as calls—and threats—pour in: ‘OK, listen, if you ban TikTok I will find you and shoot you’ (fortune.com)
The young voices in the messages left for North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis were laughing, but the words were ominous....
(CW: Racial slur) Turkish person: "Yes we're inferior, but on the inferiority scale we're better than refugees" (hexbear.net)
I noticed similar sentiments to this before; why are some Turkish people kissing up to Europeans like this?
Universities Have a Computer-Science Problem (www.theatlantic.com)
Poland activates air force as western Ukraine and Kyiv come under ‘massive’ Russian attack (www.theguardian.com)
Poland says Russian missile targeting Ukraine’s Lviv region violated its airspace while Kyiv suffers third pre-dawn attack in four days...
White House Agrees To Ban Pride Flags At US Embassies In Spending Bill Deal (www.forbes.com)
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Korean Protest for Palestinian 2 (hexbear.net)
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Korean Protest for Palestinian (hexbear.net)
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How does anybody think this is a solid plan (lemmy.ml)
Nintendo knows it can't prove emulation is illegal, but its latest tactic is very effective at knocking out sources of Switch piracy (www.gamesradar.com)
Tits out but SFW, jack. (hexbear.net)
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Hexbears are actually massive Trump fans (hexbear.net)
“Trump doesn’t live in our heads rent free” proceeds to start calling communists trump supporters because they hate Biden aswell
Love the idea that the way Putin maintains power is by having a guy make up election results by hand (hexbear.net)
Like not even a computer, it’s a guy that makes up the best numbers....
Gosh I can't think of even one (hexbear.net)