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DigiDemiFiend

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DigiDemiFiend 96 points 2 years ago

For a serious answer, as someone who grew up in a family that couldn't afford cable television. DBZ, Sailor Moon, and Pokémon all aired on network, antenna, televison in the morning before school or after school throughout the 90's.

So it's probably a function of income more than race. All the poor white kids I grew up with worshiped those three shows too.

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DigiDemiFiend 62 points 2 years ago

There's a scene in the netflix show, Daybreak, where RZA as a narrator explains how eastern warrior culture became popular in the black community. Which is what i thought of reading your question. I couldn't find a clip but here's an article about it, and the relevant quote:

"It's not your fault you want to be a samurai," says RZA. "See, that's the economical pressure being expressed as warrior code. It started when young black men couldn't afford to go to the movies, so we watched kung fu reruns. We found beauty in things that had been neglected." He explains the socioeconomic forces that raised a whole generation of "blerds," spinning out into everything from Jim Kelly to The Last Dragon to Kendrick Lamar's "Kung Fu Kenny" to The Boondocks to Wu-Tang Clan itself.

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DigiDemiFiend 39 points 2 years ago

The ratio of comments that get the joke vs comments that don't is troubling

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DigiDemiFiend 32 points 3 years ago

Legitimately my biggest complaint about Cyberpunk 2077. Was a huge relief when they added the system to glamor gear

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DigiDemiFiend 32 points 2 years ago

Ok... but your analogy doesn't make any sense in this context. X isn't eating lunch next to the EU. They're selling sandwiches over the internet in the EU. The EU sent a letter pointing out that his sandwiches in the past have contained shit and we now have laws in place regarding shit filled sandwiches, so do not sell sandwiches that contain shit within our borders or we will pursue legal action against you.

Also, quit your bullshit. If the EU just blocked it outright there'd be a huge outcry about them censoring free speech.

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DigiDemiFiend 28 points 2 years ago

I mean, pornhub pulled access to their website from my state and others because of state laws. Surely it couldn't be that hard for X

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DigiDemiFiend 27 points 3 years ago

He's been trying to get that speaker spot for years, you have no idea what you're talking about.

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DigiDemiFiend 26 points 3 years ago

Additionally, if you click on that #1 Higher Education, it explains that it's based on the share of citizens who have degrees and student loan debt, which could all have little to do with the colleges in Florida. It also takes graduation rates of Florida colleges into account, which is an important metric, but without some context showing the quality of the programs, it doesn't mean much.

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DigiDemiFiend 22 points 3 years ago

He's absolutely free to say that. The advertisers are also absolutely free to decide they don't want to do business with him anymore. That's not censorship, it's the market and freedom of association.

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DigiDemiFiend 17 points 2 years ago

I never realized it when I was young. Watched this with my kids this year and was quite taken aback by what a massive dickhead Santa is in this story.

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DigiDemiFiend 15 points 3 years ago

The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or The Roly-Poly Pudding

It's a goddamn horror story

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DigiDemiFiend 14 points 2 years ago

Thank you for the confirmation, I was wondering why the school had would step down over it and figured it was something like that.

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DigiDemiFiend 13 points 2 years ago

I really don't understand your point at all. The EU sent them a letter pointing out that they have new laws and will be enforcing them. It's on X to follow those laws, not follow them and pay the consequences, or geofence their service.

If Europeans want to go the site they will if its blocked or not, if it's geofenced or not. VPNs exist. The point isn't blocking X or preventing people from reaching it. It's serving notice that they will be subject to the law

And it's not like there's one big ISP run by the EU where they can flip a switch to block X. They'd have to force each ISP to do it.

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DigiDemiFiend 13 points 2 years ago

The internet is indeed international, and also very much subject to territorial law. This is not new.

If you bother to read the article or the letter, no one is trying to keep people from accessing the site. They want X as a site to stop actively and knowingly pushing false information.

Imperialism is bad, so we have common ground there. However, not really relevant here.

Sincerely, have a good one and take care of yourself.

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DigiDemiFiend 10 points 2 years ago path: 0 12141177, hotness: undefined, score: 10, children: 0
DigiDemiFiend 9 points 2 years ago

Yes, anything is an improvement over what I'm working with.

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DigiDemiFiend 9 points 2 years ago

Does a Gacha count as gambling? I'm still missing some ZZZ Agents and some Nikkes

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DigiDemiFiend 9 points 2 years ago

You might have something there

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DigiDemiFiend 9 points 2 years ago

Eventually, first two seasons of DBZ aired on syndicated TV. Cartoon Network picked it up in 98

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DigiDemiFiend 8 points 2 years ago

The response being "How so?" Doesn't really make sense. The natural response would be something like "What is it?" But you could probably get away with "What do you mean 'finally'?" and that would get you to the punchline that the joke is long overdue, like a book you checked out and never returned.

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