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Drake and Kendrick were friendly - ish - around 10 years ago but they’ve been souring since then.

Drake and J Cole recently collaborated on a song, First Person Shooter.

Kendrick Lamar threw the first recent punch with a line on Like That that specifically calls out Drake and J Cole about that song.

J Cole released a diss track in response, 7 Minute Drill, went to bed, woke up, and then decided he didn’t want the smoke and removed himself from the situation and removed the song from streaming services. Drake took the bait and released Pushups and Taylor Made Freestyle (which he’s being sued for for other reasons).

I’m just gonna quote the wiki article for the next part:

In response, Lamar released “Euphoria” on April 30 and “6:16 in LA” on May 3. Drake responded with “Family Matters” later that day, accusing Lamar of being a domestic abuser and alleging that one of Lamar’s children was fathered by Dave Free. Roughly twenty minutes later, Lamar released “Meet the Grahams”, accusing Drake of sex trafficking, being a sexual predator, and fathering another secret child. Lamar then released “Not Like Us” the following day, further accusing Drake of pedophilia and disrespecting the rap scene. On May 5, Drake responded with “The Heart Part 6”, denying Lamar’s accusations and claiming that his team gave Lamar false information about the secret child. A music video for “Not Like Us” was later released on July 4.

After seeing what Kendrick did to Drake, it is popularly believed that J Cole made the correct move. J Cole managed to neatly sidestep this entire beef and let Kendrick hit Drake with a biblical level smackdown.

We had the Fairness Doctrine up until 1987 when, guess who, Ronald Reagan killed it.

The Fairness Doctrine wasn’t anything close to what I’d call a comprehensive solution to this problem, but it was about the last time that journalists were held to any sort of legal standard. After it was repealed you can pretty much say whatever you want on your news network unless you get sued for libel by an individual, and even that isn’t actually a crime, it’s a class 2 misdemeanor. Just write the affected party a paycheck and do it to someone else tomorrow.

This sounds exactly Aussie enough to be true

Astral Yeehaw, what a fucking band name, that’s legendary

I have really, really mixed feelings about this. On one hand I understand that YouTube is a business and Google needs it to at least approach profitability. If nobody watches ads and nobody pays for premium, there’s no profit. No profit means the adpocalypse gets worse to make up costs, or else the service gets shut down.

On the other hand YouTube is such trash compared to what it was even just a couple years ago that I also use an alternate front-end.

I don’t want it to disappear because I really don’t think anyone else has the resources to do what Google has done with YouTube. If we lose YouTube, especially if we lose it and aren’t left with access to the data store of existing videos, we’ve lost an incredible amount of information. Millions of hours of tutorials and good information will be taken away from the world, not to even mention the billions of hours of entertainment. I don’t want to lose YouTube and what it means for international informational accessibility. But I’m also not going to sit through twice as many ads as I have video.

I foresee YouTube going to a cable-TV-like subscription only model in the future. I don’t like it. But I don’t see how else they actually lift themselves out of this hole they’ve dug.

https://youtu.be/kkfIXUjkYqE

“got covid”

Man, Lyles showed up with covid. On one hand I genuinely do understand, you have an opportunity to compete in the Olympics, you’re going to take that opportunity come hell or high water. But that was seriously a dick move on his part. Let’s just show up to the most crowded international event in the world and just expose everyone to a potentially deadly disease… In a world that makes sense that could be an actionable legal offense.

Are there really, though? Especially ones that pay a wage you can live on. Those are rare, and generally already occupied by someone who isn’t leaving unless forced to.

Everyone wants to be like “oh if you don’t like it then just quit” but if every restaurant server in your city took that advice I guarantee there would be a huge stink about it. We’ve been hearing it for years already with the “nobody wants to work anymore” - no, people want to work, they need to in order to survive. Just, nobody wants to work for your shitty wages that they can’t pay for both rent and groceries with.

Yeah but Valve, who is making this game, made SteamOS and the Steam Deck in house. It’s their own product. It would be a monumentally stupid move to release a first party game that doesn’t run on their own first party hardware.

Yep. I respect my father in as much as he gave me a shining example of what not to be if I want to respect myself. I would be a different person without that “guidance”.

A pretty significant number of relatively disconnected cultures all have ancient legends of dragons or creatures very like them.

Always thought that was sort of neat.

Ditto this but with Metal Gear Solid. I always felt like there was a ton of potential in there for a show or a movie and if we’re being honest, half of the MGS games are just movie-length cutscenes anyway. Hideo Kojima wants to make movies but he’s trapped in a game development company.

Oh you’re in for a treat my friend. I can’t think of another show based on a game that even approached the level of quality and care shown in Castlevania. Traditionally those shows or movies based on games are pretty shit. But Netflix seriously knocked it out of the park with this one.

It’s not all that different than, say, Batman’s Alfred. The Super-Butler is also definitely a trope I’ve seen in a few places.

It is in this thread, it posted two days ago with a high reliability rating. People downvoted the shit out of it.

Those people who do that, will also definitely do that in the workplace. You’re getting an accurate image of the person.

GPS is good enough now to know what room you’re in, I’ve tested it at my house. It can tell the difference between the 30 feet or so between my bedroom and front door. Someone else in this thread says it’s accurate to about 5 meters.

If all that they have to continue throwing at this war is casualties, Ukraine has already won. Russia may have plenty of meat left but they do not have equipment left. And no war, especially a modern one, is going to be won without equipment and vehicles. Ukraine has NATO support behind them and Russia has… North Korea, maybe China if they’re feeling charitable that day.

It’s the glasses and the thousand-yard stare into the sun

Sounds like it’s been calling out low-credibility garbage and somebody doesn’t like that. Why? Got some sort of stake in misinformation?