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If you like international and eclectic news, come and join me at @worldwithoutus (Link for Lemmy = worldwithoutus).

I've also started helping out at @worldnews, (Link for Lemmy = worldnews), @movies, (Lemmy = movies), and am a ghost at @13thfloor (Lemmy = 13th Floor).

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It sort of feels like whoever wrote this thinks christianity and atheism are like ethnic groups and they are at war with each other.

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Yeah I heard the Ron Howard narrator voice in my head saying "...he wasn't".

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I remember being young and thinking middle-aged people are staring at me because they want me /they disapprove/whatever.

Now I'm middle aged myself, I know the staring is way more likely to either be something along the lines of "ah that kid is so 90s, I never had that green colour but blue Fudge used to wash out to green like that..."

Or "have we run out of natural yoghurt, we bought that 500ml pottle last week but we had curry twice, maybe I should get some more..."

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Who drew this? I really like the style of the cat's face.

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No, my personal recs are turned off and the household recs are mostly cat videos.

The worst thing the shorts ever recommends is right wing us politics content like non ironic trump clips or people supposedly being "owned" by Shapiro types.

Movie industry demands US law requiring ISPs to block piracy websites (arstechnica.com)

**Opponents say SOPA-like proposal would block plenty of legitimate websites.**Motion Picture Association CEO Charles Rivkin yesterday said his group plans a major push to impose a site-blocking law in the US. The MPA will "work with members of Congress" to require Internet service providers to block piracy websites, he said...

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@brianstorms good point!!

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You wouldn't download a car.

It's weird, if they at least appealed to respect for creatives or something it would be more sympathetic but they always choose these really weird rhetorical directions.

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I agree. I don't like when he gets them onto sports but apart from that he's a darn good interviewer.

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Probably because Starship Troopers isn't PKD. It's Heinlein.

Kind of funny to imagine what it would have been like if it had been written by PKD. Johny Rico would have spent 1/3 of the book going through a divorce and the troopers would have all been on halucinogens.

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50 Shades of Grey.

The film is silly and mediocre but the book is next level terrible.

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Only ex military caste have power because they are the only people who can vote or hold public office.

There's this respected teacher guy in it who goes on about how violence solves everything, hero's main trajectory is for him to become really on board with that setup. Bunch of capital punishment, whipping etc.

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Yeah I found it boring as well. But yeah that would explain it!

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Been a long time since I read it too but basically you had to do federal service and military was the most popular branch of that. But the book is mostly interested in military and high up characters talk about their military background etc. It's definitely fascist.

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Yes the Houthi movement are in control of large swathes of Yemen. Basically the US started drone bombing the hell out of Yemen back in the 2000s and what always happens happened - it drove way more people into a group that was opposed to the West.

As for the topics of the article, here's a mainstream news article that covers some of the same ground, and here's a rightwing news source. Join the dots, the main topic of OPs article is credible even if you have reservations about the tone.

(The famine in the last article has been going on for the better part of a decade without western powers caring so Sky's very hypocritical.)

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Ah that's such bad timing. Really brave making this film in Ghana even before the bill though. I hope it gets wider release someday.

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I don't think it's that. Still plenty of good ideas they just get bought and shelved.

If we look at the history of Hollywood in recent decades, periods of remakes/"existing viewer franchise" properties always come at times of economic retrenching.

It's risk aversion from investors. They'd rather a smaller but predictable level of return on everything than having studios take some creative chances.

Which is where @MNByChoice's point comes in, the fewer parent companies the more this becomes normalized.

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Return to full-blown famine.

This whole thing is such a travesty.

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