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Cake day: March 11th, 2024

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  • At least the CCP is open to criticism and debate about their actions back then.

    If you go to Tiananmen today, you will see and hear a lot of discussion of this troubling time in China’s recent history. Sure, sometimes the debate about one party authoritarian rule vs the colonial nature of Western-style democracy can get heated, but there are police around in clearly marked uniforms to make sure it doesn’t get out of hand. Never again!






  • “Starting with Studios, the $400 million+ year-over-year decline during Q1 was primarily due to the very tough comp we faced in games against the success of Hogwart’s Legacy last year in the first quarter, in conjunction with the disappointing Suicide Squad release this past quarter, which we impaired, leading to a $200 million impact to EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortisation) during the first quarter,” CFO Gunnar Wiedenfels said during the investor call after the report was published.

    This doesn’t line up at all with what Insider Gaming wrote. I don’t think they know how to interpret company financials.

    Costing revenue itself is a questionable phrase. A game can miss its revenue target, but that’s not the same thing. Here it looks like earnings were lower by $200M due in part to more than $400M lower revenue comparing to a Q1 2023, which had the Hogwarts Legacy release.






  • Did you edit your comment or did I not read after the first sentence?

    The protest turned violent after counter-protesters attacked. Was that not reflected in the article after the headline was updated?

    Look, I get that you want to see the headline more specific so it’s clear which team was violent, but can you really make a whole vlog about manufactured consent out of this?

    Here’s the first paragraph of an LA Times story this morning about the police clearing protestors:

    UCLA was rocked by violence when a group of counterprotesters arrived on campus Tuesday night and clashed for hours with students who had set up a pro-Palestinian encampment.

    It goes on to be clear who instigated:

    During that time, there was a series of attacks on the camp and fights as the pro-Palestinian group tried to defend their space.

    Is this pro-corporate propaganda manufacturing consent? What kind of propaganda do I need to read to start using “manufactured consent” as regular parlance?


  • They changed the headline from being about class cancellation after counter-protesters attacking to being about the president investigating after protests turned violent.

    I have to assume this whiny guy is upset that the counter-protesters (pro-Israeli) were no longer highlighted as the violent side.

    I see updated headlines for evolving stories all the time. Headlines are never the whole story and they need to be concise. The story was originally about classes being cancelled, then moved to an investigation. If you read the articles, did they not both talk about who attacked whom?

    What does this have to do with manufactured consent? The victims of the violence in the protests now consented?