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  • How Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence on Oct. 7 - The New York Times

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  • I don't understand why folks think that posting articles that document one side's atrocities is implicitly advocating for or justifying the other side. That is just the scope of the article and we need accuracy to make sense of all the shit going on.

  • Kinzinger says Christians who back Trump ‘don’t understand’ their religion

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  • I went to a Lutheran University. Entered with some C.S Lewis style views, exited agnostic AF. But it was my religion and philosophy professors with Masters of Divinity that really pushed me in that direction. Despite exiting less religious than I entered, I exited with more respect for religious thought than when I entered.

  • It’s “shakeout” time as losses of Netflix rivals top $5 billion | Disney, Warner, Comcast, and Paramount are contemplating cuts, possible mergers.

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  • Channels are TV Programmers have. Studios technically can be independent of the programmer channel since the programmer orders the rv show production from the studio. The distribution platform was cable or broadcast (over the air). What folks seem to want is a cable package all over again, just cheaper and without hardware fees and without ads. Not sure how you can have all 3 of those things though. If you cut ads, it probably looks just as expensive if not more expensive than cable. The economics of ESPN worked due to it being bundled in every basic cable package. If you go a la carte I don't think the sports fans will like the price that is no longer subsidized by all the bundles of folks that don't watch sports.

  • How Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence on Oct. 7 - The New York Times

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  • Ironically, it's probably in part due to how shit the world is you hope there is a god.

  • Kinzinger says Christians who back Trump ‘don’t understand’ their religion

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  • Yeah. Folks don't understand theology and exegesis in religion. The critics of religion are guilty of the same problem the evangelical right: biblical literalism. Literalism is a modern method of interpretation where texts historically read as "mythos" arr now read as "logos".

  • Steam keeps on winning

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  • So your years of relevance are supposed to be 22 to 35 years old.... What do people do with the last 30 years of their work like before they retire? I don't think you understand how careers work. And ideas don't just magically stop after you turn 30.

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    Pro-Palestine activists block entrance to JFK airport

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  • 12 people blocking traffic to an airport just makes you look like an ass hole, not part of any movement. New Yorkers aren't going to be sympathetic to this shit, even if they agree with your stance. Seeing so much more chatter on threads about how to be pro Palestine, without being associated with these dumb activists. They are not helping their cause.

  • Steam keeps on winning

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  • What are you talking about. Millennials are just now turning 40 years old. Gen X is the age of the major CEO's and leaders in the industry. How do millenials "get out of the way" when they finally are hitting mid career where they have a say?

  • Steam keeps on winning

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  • So much contradiction and ageism in this comment. Older people are the problem thinking of games they were 15 years ago, but also aggressively pushing micro transactions that a pretty new for non mobile games in the past 10 years.

  • Steam keeps on winning

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  • It's not narcissism. It is a rational decision with major upside if you can pull off building your own storefront and launcher. If you can stop paying steam 30 percent of every sale, and have direct access to the user for data collection and targeted advertising, you try to execute. There is a ton of upside for Epic, EA, or Ubisoft to go direct to consumer and not have a middle man (and possibly be the middle man for others).

  • TikTok’s content on some political subjects aligns with the Chinese government, study says

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  • Yeah. But they are saying the data is demonstrating that for non controversial hash tags, there is a lot of similarity between Tik tok and Instagram. But when it comes to hash tags that are controversial from a CCP POV, there is a strange disparity between hash tag prevalence. So it appears that this is due to intervention from the tik tok platform. But the data can't definitively say who is responsible for this censorship of hash tags or conversations on CCP controversial subjects.

  • Free returns are going away

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  • How often are returns defective vs just didn't want/didn't fit? If the item is defective you can't restock it. If the item isn't defective that's where more cost might come in to get the item back in circulation to be sold.

  • What's up with Epic Games?

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  • There's not really a good answer other than convenience. Folks view Steam as the benevolent convenient monopoly. They want it to be their store for everything, their launcher for everything, their friends and social networks for all gaming on PC and what not. Epic is behind on feature parity and function, but even if it did have parity, I think gamers still want the convenience of one store/library/friends list.

  • TikTok’s content on some political subjects aligns with the Chinese government, study says

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  • Well I think the question they are asking is why some content is promoted or demoted, not a question of whether it is happening according to the article.

  • New York governor vetoes bill that would ban noncompete agreements

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  • Aren't non competes generally very difficult to enforce? The people I've known that have gotten in trouble with non compete agreements are those in management positions that engaged in very active poaching of their old teams within a specified time frame.

    Also, given the nature of remote work and hiring, I kind of have a mixed feeling. What does this kind of state regulation in a VHO/WFH environment do to NY workers in a job market with flexible location? These regulations really should be at the federal level.

  • TikTok’s content on some political subjects aligns with the Chinese government, study says

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  • I think it's a fair conclusion, and the conclusion is caveated saying more research is needed.

    Conclusion: Substantial Differences in Hashtag Ratios Raise Concerns about TikTok’s Impartiality. Given the research above, we assess a strong possibility that content on TikTok is either amplified or suppressed based on its alignment with the interests of the Chinese Government. Future research should aim towards a more comprehensive analysis to determine the potential influence of TikTok on popular public narratives. This research should determine if and how TikTok might be utilized for furthering national/regional or international objectives of the Chinese Government. Should such research determine that TikTok users exhibit attitudes and assessments of world events aligned with the information distortions that we have discovered, democracies will need to consider appropriate counter-measures to better protect information integrity and mitigate potential real-world impacts.

  • TikTok’s content on some political subjects aligns with the Chinese government, study says

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  • A new report from the Network Contagion Research Institute says that TikTok likely promotes and demotes certain topics based on the perceived preferences of the Chinese government. 

    It's not about what it hosts, it's what it pushes and promotes. And this was research on politically sensitive subjects.

  • New Study: At Least 15% of All Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public Opinion

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  • Lol. Not all people that ban you are trump lovers. You might just be being an asshole and breaking the rules.

  • Israeli Evidence of Hamas Command Center in al-Shifa Hospital Falls Short: Report

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  • I'm guessing it was more of a "this is justifiably a military target, let's maximize collateral damage."