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Zo Kravitz and Channing Tatum Are Engaged After 2 Years of Dating: Sources (Exclusive)

PEOPLE first confirmed Kravitz and Tatum were dating in summer 2021
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Channing Tatum and Zo Kravitz are headed to the altar!
Multiple sources tell PEOPLE exclusively the couple who were first linked in 2021 are recently engaged.

Over the weekend the stars were photographed leaving a Halloween party, and Kravitz (dressed as Rosemary Woodhouse from the 1968 horror movie Rosemary's Baby) seemingly showed off her new engagement ring in the snaps.

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The Batman actress, 34, previously opened up about her relationship with Tatum, 43, in a cover interview for GQ's 2022 Men of the Year issue, praising him for being "just a wonderful human."

"He makes me laugh and we both really love art and talking about art and the exploration of why we do what we do," Kravitz explained. "We love to watch a film and break it down and talk about it and challenge each other."

The two stars met during the casting process of Kravitz's upcoming directorial debut Pussy Island. And Tatum, Kravitz said, went on to be her guardian on set.

"Whether it was making me tea or pouring me a drink or going to whip someone into shape or whatever he really was my protector and it was really wonderful and sweet," she shared.

Kravitz added of the actor, "I think if you can do something like that together, it's a good test. And we came out even stronger."

A source told PEOPLE last year that the couple, whom PEOPLE confirmed were dating in summer of 2021, were "very happy" together.

"Their careers are a big focus and they share this passion," the insider said. "When they are off, they are very low-key. They enjoy quiet date nights with friends but most often just hang out at home."

"Channing is serious about Zo. It's not a casual relationship," added the source. "They have been exclusive for a long time."
While he didn't address their romantic relationship, Tatum told Variety in February of that year, "She's a perfectionist in the best possible way."

In Pussy Island, Tatum who's dad to 10-year-old daughter Everly (with ex-wife Jenna Dewan) stars as a philanthropist and tech mogul named Slater who whisks away cocktail waitress Frida (Naomi Ackie) to his mysterious private island.

In her cover interview for WSJ. Magazine's Fall 2022 Women's Fashion issue, Kravitz said she was "really grateful that this movie has brought him into my life" in a creatively collaborative way.

"When you make things with people it's a very sacred space, and when you're compatible with somebody creatively it often opens up other channels, because you're kind of sharing all of yourself," she explained.

https://people.com/zoe-kravitz-channing-tatum-engaged-sources-exclusive-8384773

Theyre putting their clothes on the dirty floor? Ew

FDA warns 26 eye drop products, including from large store brands, could lead to eye infections and vision loss

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Twenty-six over-the-counter eye drop products including those sold under store brands such as CVS, Target and Rite Aid, could lead to a serious eye infection resulting in vision loss or blindness, the US Food and Drug Administration warns.

FDA warns against using certain eye drops over microbial contamination

The agency found insanitary conditions in the manufacturing facility and positive bacterial test results from environmental sampling of critical drug production areas in the facility and is recommending the products be recalled.

The eye drops, sold under the brands CVS Health, Rite Aid, Target Up&Up, Leader (Cardinal Health), Rugby (Cardinal Health) and Velocity Pharma, are supposed to be sterile.

There are no reports of injuries from using the products at this time, according to the FDA, but the agency says that anyone who has signs or symptoms of an eye infection after using these products should talk to their health care provider or seek medical care immediately.

It also advises that anyone with these eye drops should discard them immediately.

Target, Rite Aid and CVS are removing the products from store shelves and will stop selling them online. The products sold under Leader, Velocity and Rugbys names may still be in some stores or available online and should not be purchased, the FDA said.

Earlier this year, the FDA issued a warning not to use several other eye drop products due to microbial contamination. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the use of eye drops contaminated with a drug-resistant bacteria resulted in some patients experiencing vision loss, surgical removal of their eyes and death.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/10/30/health/fda-eye-drops-infection-risk/index.html

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ClayGuida posted...

Hopefully this causes others to primary him.

Not gonna happen.

Ass.

https://twitter.com/RitchieTorres/status/1714440303019479173?s=20

https://twitter.com/RitchieTorres/status/1714442774257258762?s=20

I actually have liked all the series Ive seen besides Secret Invasion. Which sucks because that one really shouldve been amazing. I think the only one I didnt watch is Hawkeye, just because I find him and his abilities boring.

Still have to watch a bunch of the movies. I just have to get in the mood because its not easy for me to sit through movies without being distracted by my phone.

Where will I get my porn?

Rep. Ritchie Torres: Democratic Socialists are indoctrinating young Americans with anti-Israel hate in moral monstrosity

By Ritchie Torres

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Oct 7 is a day that will live in infamy as the most gruesome terrorist attack in the history of the Jewish State.

Thousands of Israelis were murdered, raped, tortured, and abducted as hostages. Ten percent of the members of an Israeli kibbutz, Kfar Asar, were massacred.

About 260 young Israelis partying at a music festival were gunned down. Babies were butchered, burned and beheaded.

The ONLY morally acceptable response to such incomprehensible terror is overwhelming outrage at the boundless barbarism of Hamas.

While most of the civilized world, led by President Biden, rightly recoiled in horror at Hamas and condemned its terrorism immediately and unequivocally, Israels ideological enemies here in the US found cause for celebration at the sight of dead Jews.

Imagine, for a moment, the inconsolable grief of a Jewish mother whose baby has been butchered to death. Could you imagine anything more callous and cruel than telling that grieving mother: You had it coming. You and your people brought the terror upon yourselves.

Those were the shocking sentiments of the New York City-Democratic Socialists of America (NYC-DSA), which wasted no time in holding a hate rally romanticizing the terrorism of Hamas as resistance.

The DSA was hardly alone in blaming the victims of terrorism rather than the terrorists themselves.

Something is rotten in the state of America. When the institutional leaders in our country cannot condemn the cold-blooded murder of Israeli children and civilians with moral clarity, one must ask: what kind of society are we becoming?
What does the silence and indifference and cowardice from these so-called leaders tell us about the depth of anti-Semitism in America and the reckoning required?

The time has come to confront not only the symptoms but the disease: a Democratic Socialist industrial complex that indoctrinates young Americans with an anti-Israel hatred so virulent that it renders them indifferent to the deadliest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.

Anti-Israel extremism, which has been given a veneer of mainstream respectability in law schools and legislatures, is aided and abetted by the sheer spinelessness of so-called leaders from public officials to the presidents of colleges and universities.

Days of silence were often followed by words of cowardice, if there were any words at all.

Northwestern University, for example, said it had no plans to put out a statement officially stating a University position. Imagine that: a university that cannot be bothered to take a position on a pogrom against Jews. Have we learned nothing from the long and ugly history of Anti-Semitism?

There is nothing accidental about the disregard for Israeli life that revealed itself in the wake of Oct. 7. The dehumanization of Israeli victims follows inevitably from the hyperbolic and systematic demonization of Israel itself.

Anti-Israel hate and hysteria have been allowed to fester freely in academia, social media, the political arena, and elsewhere. It has been propagated by Astroturf activists and academics, amplified by their enablers in elected office, and subsidized by government and civil society.

When people are made to believe the most dangerous lies about Israel that Israel is the root of all evil on earth; that it is a 75-year occupation that must be wiped off the map from the river to the sea; that Israelis are not civilians but settlers who can be fairly targeted for resistance; that Israelis are committing genocide and ethnic cleansing against the Palestinians and harvesting their organs and using the blood of their children; that Israel is always the aggressor and Hamas always the resister: when you tell so many lies and incite so much hate, what do you think will happen?

How do you think the believers internalizing these lies will respond to the savage slaughter of Israelis? This is a moral monstrosity made in America, and one that America must unmake.

The anti-Israel hate increasingly possessing the American mind is a demon that must be exorcised from our body politic. For America cannot long remain a decent society if the next generation of Americans are made to be indifferent to the barbaric butchering of Israeli civilians and children.

I, for one, stand with Israel as it seeks to defend itself. Despite the profound pain of the present, Israel will emerge from it all better and stronger than ever before.

It will outlive the pernicious lies and the dangerous demagogues who tell them. It will outlive the extremism of the DSA and BDS. It will outlive the terrorism of Iran and its proxies, Hamas and Hezbollah.

Israel will live on for the next 75 years and beyond. Resilience is the DNA and destiny of the Jewish people and the Jewish State. It always has been and always will be. I am as certain of that as I am of anything. Am Yisrael Chai.

Ritchie Torres is a Democratic congressman representing The Bronx

https://nypost.com/2023/10/15/rep-ritchie-torres-democratic-socialists-are-indoctrinating-young-americans-with-anti-israel-hate-in-moral-monstrosity/

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cjsdowg posted...

He tried to murder a black child. What more do you want.

And he also had a list of children of color he was going to murder, starting with the victim.

'Devastating': Colorado father says race was behind school stabbing attack on Black son

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A 12-year-old student has been charged in what prosecutors say was a "bias-motivated crime" in Denver, Colorado. The victim's father is convinced his son was targeted because he's Black.

Theodore Temple said his 12-year-old son was in art class earlier this month when the attack happened.

Without warning, another student at the Denver middle school stormed into the classroom wielding a knife, which Temple said he used to stab his son repeatedly. Teddy Temple did what he could to fend off his assailant, but his father said the unprovoked attack sent the boy to the hospital with wounds to his head, neck and shoulders.

But the assault wasn't the end result of a school yard scuffle that had escalated too far. The boys, who had once been friends, "never had a verbal altercation, never had a physical altercation," said Temple, who told USA TODAY in a phone interview that the attacker's motivation was much more sinister.

Temple believes and the charges against the juvenile suspect seem to support that his son was attacked because of the color of his skin.

Last week, the 12-year-old boy suspected of carrying out the attack on Oct. 5 at Marie L. Greenwood Early 8 school was charged with attempted murder and a "bias-motivated crime," the Denver District Attorney's office confirmed to USA TODAY on Monday.

District attorney's spokesman Matthew Jablow told USA TODAY that the student attacker was also charged with weapons possession on school grounds and impeding school staff.

The Denver Police Department, which arrested the boy the same day, referred all questions to the district attorney's office on Monday.

Father says son's attacker embraced Nazi ideology

Temple said he was there Thursday for the suspect's first juvenile court hearing, which the judge closed to the media and the general public.

It was there where Temple had an up-close seat as he said prosecutors outlined all the ways in which the investigation revealed the extent to which the 12-year-old suspect had become fascinated with Nazi paraphernalia and ideology.

Prosecutors claimed that among the boy's online research interests included school shootings, hate crimes and the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, Temple said.

At the hearing, Temple said he learned that the accused attacker had a list of people who he was going to kill, along with their race. The first name on it, Temple said, was his son's.

Jablow declined to specify what led prosecutors to determine that the crime was "bias-motivated" and did not respond to USA TODAY's requests about what happened during court proceedings.

The student has been charged as an aggravated and violent juvenile offender, which are specifications that could increase the penalties if he is convicted, Jablow said.

"It was painful enough that my son was injured in that way, but to learn that he had 100% intention of killing him for racial motivation, that's been the hardest pill for us to swallow," said Temple, who has six children with his wife ranging in ages between 7 and 16. "I am pleased with the extent and severity of the charges; it lets the community know how close we all were to something much more devastating happening."

Victim's father said attacker had hurled racial slurs before

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Temple said it had been no secret that the boy accused of attacking his son harbored apparent racist beliefs.

Just a week prior to the attack, Temple claims that the student had been disciplined for calling another Black student a racial slur. His own son was also the target of the boy's racist vitriol, Temple said, some of which was hurled at the boy online and some of which was said right to his face.

The boys had once been friends, but Temple said Teddy distanced himself from the other student during the summer.

"There had a been a history of racial slurs or racial bullying from this child," Temple said.

After the attack, Temple said his son only spent a short time at the hospital before he was able to return home. The family has created a GoFundMe page to raise money for Teddy's medical expenses after he was treated for a head fracture and required stitches.

"He was fearful at first, there was terror in his face when I first got to the hospital," Temple said. Since then, "we're kind of surprised at how well he's doing emotionally and physically."

Denver school district declines to comment

It's unclear whether the student has or will face any disciplinary action within the school district.

Scott Pribble, a spokesman for the Denver Public Schools, told USA TODAY that the district has not issued a statement about the incident. Pribble declined to offer additional details, citing both the ongoing police investigation and federal privacy laws shielding juvenile students.

Teddy was able to return last week for two half-days, but Temple said his son and his other children at the school will soon be transferring to a new school within district. The father lamented that his son had to experience so young the hatred and racism that exists in the world, but Temple said he impressed on all his children one uplifting message.

"We've had conversations about race and how they present themselves, how they're perceived," Temple said. "But I tell them there's way more good people in this community, there's way more good people in the world."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/10/16/colorado-boy-charged-stabbing-bias/71205557007/

The game is so outdated. I thought it would be dead by now, but it just keeps going.

Guess there are a lot of skinny men over there like me. Because so few US brands sell waist 26. Their small in mens actually fits me

NPC posted...

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Sorry, I searched Vaughn and X-Men and nothing came up. Thats why lol

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Matthew Vaughn says he was so upset over studio execs intentionally tricking Halle Berry to sign onto the film that he walked away from the project.

Argylle director Matthew Vaughn has explained his exit from X-Men: The Last Stand, which he attributed to the treatment of star Halle Berry.

In 2000, Berry made her debut as Storm in the original live-action X-Men film, going on to reprise her role for three sequels. The third film of the original trilogy, 2006's X-Men: The Last Stand, was originally set to be directed by Vaughn before he handed over those duties to Brett Ratner. While at New York Comic-Con, per THR, Vaughn addressed why he left the project, claiming he was offended by studio executives intentionally misleading Berry into signing on.

Vaughn explained, I went into one of the executives' office and I saw an X3 script, and I immediately knew it was a lot fatter. I was like what the hell is this draft. He went, Dont worry about it, and Im like, No, no. Im the director. Im worrying about this draft.' He wouldnt tell me, so I grabbed it literally it was like a crazy moment opened the first page, and it said, Africa. Storm. Kids dying of no water. [Storm] creates a thunderstorm and saves all these children.'

Vaughn had no apparent issue with the scene, describing it as a "pretty cool idea." However, the director said he learned quickly thereafter that there were no intentions to actually shoot the scene. According to Vaughn, it had only been added to this one particular draft of the script that was to be sent to Berry in order to dupe her into signing on. Vaughn said that was the moment when he realized he wanted nothing to do with the film.

[I went,] What is this? [They said,] Oh, its Halle Berrys script. I went, OK, because she hasnt signed up yet. But this is what she wants it to be, and once she signs up, well throw it in the bin,' Vaughn said of the situation. I was like, Wow, youre gonna do that to an Oscar-winning actress who plays Storm? Im outta here. So I quit at that point.

Matthew Vaughn Would Direct a Separate X-Men Movie
Vaughn would later swing back to the franchise as the director of the 2011 prequel X-Men: First Class. Berry would also later return for one more X-Men film when she reprised her role for 2014's X-Men: Days of Future Past. Vaughn contributed to the story of that film with Jane Goldman and Simon Kinberg.

https://www.cbr.com/matthew-vaughn-x-men-the-last-stand-halle-berry/

This feels awfully fascist.

Organizers cited the Israel-Hamas war as the reason for stepping back from honoring a novel about the 1949 murder of a Palestinian girl by Israeli soldiers.

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The Palestinian author and essayist Adania Shibli in 2021.

An award ceremony that was set to honor a novel by a Palestinian author at the Frankfurt Book Fair next week was canceled on Friday due to the war in Israel, according to Litprom, the German literary association that organizes the prize.

The novel, by Adania Shibli, is titled Minor Detail in English and tells the true story of the 1949 rape and murder of a Palestinian Bedouin girl by Israeli soldiers, according to its German publisher, Berenberg Verlag.

A German-language version translated from the original Arabic was published in 2022, and a previous English translation was nominated for a National Book Award in 2020 and the International Booker Prize in 2021.

The ceremony was intended to celebrate the novel for winning the 2023 LiBeraturpreis, a German literature prize awarded annually to an author from Africa, Asia, Latin America or the Arab world and presented at the Frankfurt Book Fair, one of the global publishing industrys largest gatherings.

The controversy in Germany surrounding the novel began this summer when Ulrich Noller, a journalist on the Litprom jury, resigned over the decision to give the literature prize to Ms. Shiblis novel. A literary critic with Die Tageszeitung, a left-leaning German newspaper, reignited the debate this week, accusing the book of portraying the State of Israel as a murder machine, though other German critics have praised the novel.

The Israel-Hamas war has inflamed longstanding divisions among Germanys cultural institutions over support for Israel. In 2020, dozens of the countrys foremost cultural groups raised concernsthat they could face charges of antisemitism over links real or perceived to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel, known as B.D.S. Germanys Parliament has designated B.D.S. as antisemitic, and called on Germanys states, which provide the majority of arts funding in the country, to deny subsidies to groups or individuals that actively support the campaign.

Juergen Boos, the Frankfurt Book Fairs director, said in a statement that the organization strongly condemned Hamass barbaric terror against Israel, adding, Our thoughts are with the victims, their relatives and all the people suffering from this war.

Politics have sometimes loomed large over the Frankfurt Book Fair, which became a stage for European leaders to campaign against rising far-right partiesin 2017, and faced a boycott from Iran in 2015, when Salman Rushdie attended the event. (Mr. Rushdie is set to return to the fair this year.)

In the statement, Mr. Boos said that organizers had spontaneously decided to create additional stage moments for Israeli voices at the fair.

The event will be held from Oct. 18 to 22. Litprom said it is searching for a suitable format and setting to hold the award ceremony after the fair concludes.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/13/books/frankfurt-book-fair-cancels-award-adania-shibli.html

When a and an arent used properly. Makes me want to scream because it sounds so terrible.

Straight men are so weird. Its interesting that they complain so much about dick, yet when that guy who flashes his big dick to them on Omegle theyre amazed.

A lot of people lying.

Public transit

Theyre selfish and dont understand what it means for the future of the world, and us. They dont see the severe consequences in letting Russia take Ukraine.

*Mansion

I dont understand all the negative reviews. This is a great Haunted Mansion film. I loved the characters. They all really got a chance to shine. And the cast is exceptional.

Wow, seems like a lot of studios are going under lately.

What the hell is wrong with the American people?

tremain07 posted...

Nobody likes Harris, not even harris, she's done absolutely nothing to stand out in Biden's adminstration to the point all we know about her is apparently she's shit to her staff and doesn't want to do the job and progressives despise her so much that they run videos telling their auidences that Harris is gonna be the reason Biden would lose to Trump

Shes done her job as the VP.

Biden was a rare exception of a VP. Most VPs will never become a standout like him in that position.

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She was supposed to be lead girl in Bow Wows music video. Until she refused to go to his hotel room. Then, she was replaced by Angela Simmons. Chris Brown stepped up and let her be lead girl in his music video instead. Then, years later she was the new host on 106 & Park, and he was angry. He hazed her on there by talking over her, messing up lines, pausing, and telling her to talk when it wasnt her turn. Then Drake was the guest one day and he set Bow Wow straight and he was nice to her from then on.

This forum is worse with how many people are pissed about black people, women who dont look sexy for the straight male gaze, and gay people in video games.

streamofthesky posted...

They put out a software fix, you can get it for free.
I've seen some posts saying it worked and others that it doesn't, but at least they're trying.

Kias and Hyundais are sold all over the world, including many countries poorer than the U.S., and yet this is a uniquely U.S. problem.
How about we hold the fucking criminals responsible? So many of them get caught, released, then steal and crash another one the same fucking day.

They created the problem in the first place by leaving out the immobilizers. Other countries were strict on this. But the US lets these corporations get away with so much.

Really nothing can be done to hold these companies responsible. This country sucks

Shes not even a good singer or performer.

So this is probably a really stupid question. But all my life Ive been using liquid soap and Ive decided I want to make a change.

A couple questions I have:

1. Do you just rub the bar on your skin?
2. How do you properly store it and allow it to dry if you cant leave it in the bathroom? (Id have to bring it into my room lol)

And just any othero info I should know. Thanks.

I dont trust anyone who criticizes Democrats and the left more than, or equal to, Republicans and the right.

The worst are landlords. I think theyre one of the biggest contributors to the housing crisis.

Shouldve saw this coming with how much theyre following each other. When Max (Zaslav) removed a bunch of original content, the others soon followed. Password sharing crackdown too.

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Really blows my mind

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House Republicans on Wednesday approved a measure to slash Defense Secretary Lloyd Austins salary from more than $221,000 annually to less than $1, based on their dissatisfaction with his work so far.

The move has little chance of becoming law, but underscores the growing animosity between conservatives and military leaders reporting to President Joe Biden. House Democrats dismissed the move as little more than a political stunt.

As part of debate on the fiscal 2024 defense appropriations bill, GOP lawmakers approved multiple similar proposals to cut salaries for Defense Department positions they dislike.

The Pentagons director of diversity and inclusion, the head of the departments equity and inclusion office, the militarys chief diversity officer, and the assistant secretary of defense for readiness a transgender woman were all targeted with amendments that would trim their annual salary to less than $1.

Austin, as Bidens top civilian military leader, was lambasted by Republican lawmakers on the House floor Wednesday for the chaotic withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, the militarys recent recruiting shortfalls and COVID-19 vaccine policies during the pandemic.

Many Americans agree: We do not want the United States military led by failure, causing us to be weak, said Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green, R-Ga. and sponsor of the Austin salary provision. We need to pass this amendment.

A proposal to cut Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milleys pay to $1 was also floated by Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., but dismissed by party leaders before Wednesdays debate.

Greens amendment was approved by a voice vote.

Democrats did not press for a roll-call vote which may have prevented the provision from being adopted.

However, the pay cut is already unlikely to advance beyond the House, given Democratic control of the Senate and Democratic dissatisfaction with the defense budget bill. Party leaders have already publicly opposed the appropriations plan over Republicans inclusion of controversial social policy provisions, including language that would overturn the Pentagons abortion travel leave rules and restrict medical care for transgender troops.

You may disagree with the administrations policies, as we all have done over the years with different administrations. But Secretary Austin has done nothing to merit this, said Rep. Betty McCollumn, D-Minn., and ranking member of the House Appropriations Committees defense panel. Theres no need for us to make such a personal, drastic attack by eliminating his pay.

The White House has already threatened to veto the appropriations bill.

Republican leaders also included other amendments offered by the right-flank of the party, including the Freedom Caucus, on the floor. An amendment from Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, would bar the Pentagon from implementing President Joe Bidens climate change executive orders, mirroring language he added to the defense policy bill in July.

A bevy of other bipartisan amendments would dock funding from the Defense Departments Operation and Maintenance account in order to bolster various research and development programs.

The House is expected to vote on the full defense spending bill later this week. Even if it passes, a government shutdown starting Sunday remains likely, since House Republicans continue to disagree with Senate Democratic leaders over federal spending levels for a short-term government funding bill.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/secdef-austin-salary-cut-1-180848504.html

These people are the worst. And it sucks that so much that so many gamers and fantasy fans are like this.

pegusus123456 posted...

It's like in a video game where a bunch of smaller slime monsters form together into one giant slime monster

Great post

Netflix, Disney, Max and More Team to Form Streaming Innovation Alliance Lobbying Group

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A new trade group the Streaming Innovation Alliance brings together Netflix, Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount and other players to promote their interests to politicians and government entities. It marks the first time competing streaming-video providers have banded together in a unified lobbying front.

The launch members of the Streaming Innovation Alliance (website at this link) are: AfroLandTV, America Nu Network, BET+, Discovery+, For Us By Us Network, Max, the Motion Picture Association, MotorTrend+, Netflix, Paramount+, Peacock, PlutoTV, Telemundo, TelevisaUnivision and Vix, Vault and the Walt Disney Co. The SIA will advocate for federal and state policies that build on the strong, competitive, and pro-consumer market for streaming video, according to the group.

Companies notably absent from the Streaming Innovation Alliances initial roster include Apple, Amazon, Google/YouTube and Roku.

The Streaming Innovation Alliance has tapped two well-known DC leaders as senior advisers: Fred Upton, a Republican who is a 36-year veteran of the U.S. House of Representatives, and Mignon Clyburn, a Democrat who served as acting chair of the Federal Communications Commission.

The group said, Charles Rivkin, chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association, played a leading role in organizing the SIA. Streaming provides great value, vast programming choices, and unprecedented options for consumers, Rivkin said in a statement. The MPA looks forward to working with the SIA and its members to ensure federal and state policy propels this incredible innovation forward and doesnt undermine the value and diversity consumers are enjoying today.

Clyburn commented, Streaming services have opened up a new era of progress for program diversity that is bringing relevant stories and options to historically underserved communities at a record pace while opening doors for production jobs to people of color that have been shut for decades. Any policy that drags down streaming would turn back the clock on this vital progress as well.

Upton added, The rise of innovative, new video streaming services is an American success story we should celebrate and encourage, not smother with obsolete and ill-fitting rules and regulations designed for completely different technology, products and business models.

As part of the launch, the SIA released the results of a recent poll finding that 70% of registered voters view streaming services favorably or very favorably, with approval even higher among younger voters and in communities of color. In addition, by at least a 2-to-1 margin, voters worry new regulations could require streaming services to collect more data or deter them from offering sensitive programming, while two-thirds of those surveyed fear new rules will threaten diverse and independent services the most, according to the SIA.

https://variety.com/2023/biz/news/streaming-innovation-alliance-netflix-disney-max-1235735932/

Which guy was hotter?

https://youtu.be/8kBIBQhALvk?si=Mzh358h7vlZEWcsR

Another irresponsible gun owner getting someone killed. They shouldnt have had the gun in that position, facing the door, by a dog and loaded.

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LINDEN, Texas (KLTV) - Police are investigating a possible accidental shooting that took place as an employee set grocery bags near a rifle on a customers vehicle back seat.

Officers responded to a fatal shooting on Friday in the parking lot of Crump Food Store in the 700 block of West Houston Street, according to a release from Linden Police Chief David Dulude.

Dulude said the incident took place shortly after 3:30 p.m. Witnesses reported a store employee, Larry Lawrence, 39, of Queen City, was placing groceries on the back seat of a vehicle near a dog. He reportedly began to pet the dog, when a .22 rifle, also located on the back seat, discharged and struck him in the chest.

Witnesses said they tried to resuscitate Lawrence, and first responders were called.
Upon arrival, EMS attempted life-saving measures, but Dulude said Lawrence was pronounced dead at the helipad site.

The chief said that although the incident appears to be accidental at this time, the case is under investigation. Exactly what caused the rifle to fire remains unclear, Dulude said, but he expressed condolences to Lawrences loved ones.

https://www.kltv.com/2023/09/23/store-employee-fatally-shot-while-helping-customer-put-bags-vehicle-2/

I have no faith in America. For now Im just grateful I live in California, a very blue state. Minorities in red states are about to have it much worse.

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In a statement, the association said the risk lies not with engineered stone itself, but poor adherence to safety measures by fabricators, arguing that safety regulations need to be simplified and rigorously enforced. Members of the Stone Coalition, which represents fabricators as well as manufacturers, said an L.A. County ban would have severe economic consequences and argued for additional enforcement and training on workplace safety, especially efforts to eliminate dry cutting.

And the Los Angeles County Business Federation contended that enforcing safety regulations will do more to prevent disease, while not adversely [affecting] the cost of construction at a time when Los Angeles is seeing a devastating housing crisis.

But Raphael Metzger, a Long Beach attorney who represents Segura Meza and other workers suing manufacturers of engineered stone such as Cambria and Caesarstone for damages, argued that typical respirators and other standard measures dont go far enough.

Even with many wet methods, workers can be exposed to dangerous levels of silica and need additional protection, NIOSH research has found.

Nearly half of the workers suffering silicosis in the UCLA and UCSF study said their workplaces were using water to control dust. Roughly a quarter said they always had respiratory protection. Fazio said studies have found that in many shops, dust is so thick in the air that respirators cannot filter out a sufficient amount.

Metzger argued that the kind of sophisticated and costly measures that would be needed to reliably protect workers cutting engineered stone are not economically plausible in an industry where immigrant workers typically labor in small shops and are often paid in cash. Engineered stone is too dangerous to be used safely, he said. If theres any industrial product that should be banned, this is the product.

Segura Meza agreed, calling it very deadly. Vasquez, with Pacoima Beautiful, said that when she and Cabrera started talking to workers about engineered stone and silicosis, many of them asked, How come they dont do anything with the stores that sell the products?

In Australia, where the government is weighing whether to ban engineered stone, a professional group whose members assess worker health hazards concluded that the high concentration of silica in engineered stone makes it difficult for measures such as wet cutting and ventilation to adequately protect workers.

Additional measures for respiratory protection are needed, but such systems have largely been absent from this sector, the Australian Institute of Occupational Hygienists wrote. In light of those concerns, it recommended prohibiting engineered stone containing more than 10% crystalline silica, but said it would also support banning all engineered stone because of the rigorous compliance needed even at a 10% level.

In California, existing rules to protect workers have often not been followed, state regulators found. Cal/OSHA, which is now hustling to draft emergency standards to protect California workers in the stone cutting and polishing industry, found rampant violations of the current standards when it looked closer in 2019 and 2020.

Despite the rise of the deadly disease, homeowners and other consumers shopping for countertops know little about the threat it could pose to the workers behind the surfaces in their kitchens and bathrooms, Fazio said. Engineered stone is now estimated to represent more than 60% of materials used for countertops, the L.A. County business federation said, and market researchers say its popularity is only expected to rise.

Engineered stone is everywhere and people have no idea, Fazio said. Consumers have a right to know that the countertop that might be the cheapest one ... may really be costing folks lives.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-09-24/silicosis-countertop-workers-engineered-stone