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Comment by kgarten | Hacker News Reader

If you are missing JRE, just download it: https://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp

Still wondering why this is on hacker news :)

I was at a party in Western PA where some friends of family were hosting a UFC party. At the party was a guy with a JRE shirt. While Java's not my favorite, I was happy to at least meet another developer and talk about tech stuff. It took around 3-4 sentences into that conversation to find out it mean Joe Rogan Experience instead of Java Runtime Environment, and there are few times I've been that disappointed.

Because it's at the intersection of technology, censorship, and broader culture.

censorship and broader culture? Maybe you are commenting on the wrong article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30122252

;)

I'm not sure what you mean. Are you expressing that Spotify taking down episodes is not censorship? Or that a popular podcast with 11-million listeners is not a significant cultural node?

OP's joke is to maintain that JRE is Java Runtime Environment. In that context, a tech support complaint about missing that dependency is something you would not expect to see on hacker news.

Was just a light-hearted joke about JRE. I was first thinking this post is about the Java Runtime Environment.

Considering censorship ... not sure if it is, seeing that Rogan also seems to condemn some language he used in those episodes now. Maybe it's just a change of heart :) How do you know?

The link was just a slight quip, about what the biggest, recent news about censorship for me was: if you are a school teacher in McMinn County, Tennessee, you are not allowed to use "Maus" anymore in class. There are really worse things going on than a couple of old episodes with profanity being taken down by spotify or by Rogan himself.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/02/the-inside-stor...

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