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Time to punish bad behavior – St. Louis Jewish Light

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As a society we seem to tolerate and even encourage bad behavior. Our major institutions, such as public schools and government, do not do a very effective job of using rewards to incentivize good behavior and punishments to dis-incentivize bad behavior.

We can debate the relative merits of using rewards and punishments as tools to influence conduct, whether in parenting, the justice system, or other areas of human endeavor. Rewards today are handed out indiscriminately, while punishments tend to be scarce.

To the extent that carrots and sticks are employed as behavior modification techniques, the former are much more in vogue than the latter, as positive reinforcement is viewed as far superior to negative sanctions. From Dr. Spock disciples to character education gurus to penologists, experts on human behavior seem punishment-averse.

The no-spanking philosophy of child-rearing has morphed into a no-consequences culture generally. There is the self-esteem driven trophy syndrome in school and little league sports that rewards the slightest accomplishment. The reluctance to penalize poor performance extends now to college, where the customer is always right, everyone is a critical thinker and coddling paradigms combine to produce ever-increasing grade inflation.

The ultimate example of our punishment-averse mindset is the growing deincarceration call to release inmates from prisons on the twin assumption that sentences are too harsh and jails only produce more hardened criminals. The once ballyhooed broken windows theory of policing, which prescribed zero tolerance for accepting even the most minor infractions, has gone out the window, a victim of the post-Ferguson demonization of law enforcement. Where once we tried to internalize the norm that it is wrong to jump subway turnstiles, the new norm is it is wrong to lock up folks who steal and reveal 750,000 classified, highly sensitive national security documents.

Is it possible we are devaluing punishment as a way to help shape behavior that benefits both the individual and society? We constantly hear about research claiming punishment does not work. Yet, speaking for myself, when I was driving on Highway 40 recently and saw a sign warning Hit A Worker Pay $10,000 Fine and Lose License, it got me to slow down. I doubt I was the only motorist so impacted.

It got me to thinking, why dont we put up signs on the roadway warning Get your high school diploma, then get a job, then get married, and only then have kids, or else you have a high probability of ending up poor? Even more incentivizing, how about a sign that says Put marriage before the baby carriage, and you will have an 86 percent chance of having an income in the middle or top third of all incomes?

These data are based on numerous empirical studies done by both liberal and conservative research organizations, such as the Brookings Institution and the American Enterprise Institute, which conclude that, if one were to follow a relatively simple sequence of behaviors, poverty could be virtually eliminated. (See George Will, Listen Up, Millennials, Theres Sequence to Success, Washington Post, July 5.)

But instead of sending a message to young people that bad life choices have consequences, our leading institutions excuse such behavior as rooted in poverty and addressable through massive welfare programs.

This is not rocket science. It is common sense, backed by science. The same folks on the left who criticize Donald Trump as (being morally flawed and anti-scientific) are in no position to throw stones themselves. They have contributed to the collapse of the norms Will and others celebrate, as liberal media such as The New York Times are at best nonjudgmental about marriage and having kids out of wedlock and at worst question and thus undermine the institution of matrimony and family values. And they ignore the substantial science behind the sequencing hypothesis.

We have no problem growing the nanny state when it comes to education campaigns and laws relating to climate change, seat belt safety, labeling of cigarette packages, anti-bullying, multicultural competency, and other such issues. Is it too politically incorrect to hammer away, also, at the themes suggested above, at a time when the Pew Research Center reports the share of Americans who are married is at its lowest point since at least 1920 and the out-of-wedlock birthrate is roughly 50 percent?

The larger matter here is that social justice and compassion, which are wonderful aspects of Judaism, must be joined with some sense of personal responsibility, which has been lost along the way. Granted, some people have more choices than others. Nonetheless, we all have choices.

A good place to start is in the schools. There is a big movement in schools today to teach the whole child, that is, to cater to not just the academic but also social-emotional needs of students. Grit is the latest educationist buzzword, referring to developing ones capacity for self-control, delayed gratification, persistence, and resilience. However, it is not clear how such qualities can be cultivated in a no-consequences environment.

Many schools no longer allow students to get a failing grade, which means students rarely have to test their coping mechanisms. As a result, on those occasions when they are faced with adversity, they get stressed easily and can experience serious mental health problems, a growing reality widely reported by school counselors at every level.

Of course, poverty, mental illness, crime, and other problems are complicated and defy simple solutions. One modest proposal is that, from the cradle to the grave, we give a little more love to the first half of the tough-love equation. Each of us and the society as a whole will be the better for it.

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Professor Criticizes Beijing Censorship At University of Montana’s ‘Confucius Institute’ – Newstalkkgvo

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History Professor Steven Levine is a specialist in East Asian affairs at the University of Montana. Fluent In Chinese, Levine was partly responsible for bringing the Confucius Institute to the state, a decision he now says was a mistake that has opened the door to Beijing soft power.

When I was at the Mansfield Center as Associate Director, I was partly responsible for bringing the Confucius Institute to the University of Montana, and, frankly, now I regret it because the Confucius institute, which is not particularly active actually at UM, is in fact an instrument of Chinese soft power.

Levine says the Confucius Institute offered money and language opportunities to the cash-strapped university, but he has come to be very critical of the educational structure of the institute.

The teachers are very carefully vetted to make sure that they dont differ one syllable from any of the official lines in Beijing, Levine said. As you get beyond the basic ABCs, so to speak, of Chinese, the books that are used and the teachers that are teaching them are forbidden by their contract from speaking about things like Tibet, for example, or Taiwan, or Liu Xiaobo, the Noble Prize winner that just died. They are constrained and censored basically.

Levine says it is unfortunate that Montanas education system cannot supply language teachers and funds to teach one of the worlds most important languages, rather than rely on Beijing.

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This 31-year-old Ron Paul Republican is now the mayor of Ocean Springs, Mississippi – Rare.us

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By Andrew Marc Di Giovanna

In June, 31-year-old Shea Dobson unseated Democrat Connie Moran from her position as mayor of Ocean Springs, Mississippi. Though Moran was a three-term incumbent facing an opponent with no previous experience holding political office, Dobson won a decisive, double-digit victory, garnering 55 percent of votes to Morans 45 percent.

Dobsons story begins in 2008. While visiting his father in Tennessee, Dobson watched a presidential debate featuring former Congressman Ron Paul (R-Tex.), who immediately caught his attention. Feeling inspired, Dobson started closely following Congressman Paul and set out on a roadtrip to participate in the Revolution March on July 12 of that year. That was really when I [realized] its not just a couple friendly people, theres really something here, Mayor Dobson commented.

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Then, in 2012, Dobson began canvassing and knocking on doors for Congressman Pauls second presidential campaign. With the help of his fellow liberty-leaning conservatives, their team took over our entire county republican party and sent a 100 percent pro-Ron Paul slate of delegates to the state convention, Dobson boasted.

That was only the beginning of Dobsons involvement in the liberty movement. In 2013, he founded a Young Americans for Liberty (YAL) chapter at the University of Southern Mississippi and was quickly promoted to Mississippi State Chair with the organization. After graduating, he moved on to work for the National Association for Gun Rights (NAGR), Concerned American Voters, Students for Liberty (SFL) and Americans for Prosperity (AFP), in addition to canvassing for Senator Rand Pauls 2016 presidential campaign and later volunteering for Gary Johnsons independent run. Dobsons extensive involvement in grassroots activism and various leadership roles provided him with the experience and vision necessary to take on his next big move a bid for the mayoral seat in Ocean Springs.

Throughout the mayoral race, Moran repeatedly criticized Dobson for his youth and inexperience, which he fiercely combated. Ive been on the ground working with people, Dobson said. Thomas Jefferson signed the Declaration of Independence when he was 32. Dont tell me that young men cant do great things.

Instead, Dobson used his youth to reach the voters of Ocean Springs. Having previously been a passive observer in the political scene, Dobson is familiar with the attitudes many voters have about discussing politics. You [have to] talk to people about their average, everyday lives, Dobson explained. Taking a more grassroots approach, Dobsons volunteers were composed of local residents and friends of his. By having more of a politically secular base, Dobson was able to keep his message intact and reach constituents in ways his opponent could not.

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After taking office on June 30th, 2017, Mayor Dobson is off to a solid start but there are certainly challenges, such as excessive city-level regulations, that he intends to address. He is confident in the character and good-heartedness of Ocean Springs residents to work together in addressing the needs of their community. His election represents the spirit of the American people who are simply fed up with establishment, salesman type politicians, willing instead to elect a man with passion and principle. Dobson intends to Get people working towards a common cause for the betterment of his community.

When asked what advice he has for liberty activists seeking to run for office, Dobson said, Theres no perfect time to take on a project. Dont be afraid of how big the mountain is to climb. Surround yourself with good people [who ]are [willing] to work hard and do everything they can to help you out. Keep your head down when it comes to a lot of the political chatter. Work hard, and tell the truth.Dobson will be at the YAL National Convention in Reston, VA this week to speak with and guide 400 liberty youth activists.

Andrew Di Giovanna serves as California State Chair with Young Americans for Liberty, where he empowers activists at the local level. Andrew currently studies Biology at Citrus College with an aim to practice orthodontics.

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What the Gay Lobby Doesn’t Want You to Know – Church Militant – Church Militant

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A decade ago, personal video testimonials of people "coming out" as gay exploded on YouTube. Now, search the term "ex-gay," and you'll find an explosion of testimonials from those who've left the homosexual lifestyle and have never looked back.

But this is the news the LGBT lobby doesn't want anyone to know, because it bursts the myth that people are "born that way" and they can never really change. So invested are they in the narrative that they've lobbied states to outlaw reparative therapy voluntary counseling that helps diminish or eliminate unwanted same-sex attraction. Currently, nine states and counting have banned such therapy for minors, meaning youth who seek help in ridding themselves of homosexual desires can no longer do so with a licensed therapist in those states.

But counselors are hitting back. Remarkably, in a stunning federal filing in May, tens of thousands of licensed therapists and clients lodged a massive fraud claim against the LGBT lobby accusing them of misinformation and outright lies regarding the "born that way" narrative and reparative therapy. And secular media are propping up the fraud, promoting the false notion that reparative therapy resorts to torture, shaming and "shock treatment" none of it true.

The late Dr. Joseph Nicolosi, a pioneer in reparative therapy, helped many men recapture their heterosexual orientation.

"Homosexuality is not about sex," Nicolosi said. "It is about a person's sense of himself, about his relationships, how he forms and establishes relationships, his self-identity, his self-image, personal shame, his ability to sustain intimacy."

"Homosexual behavior is always prompted by an inner sense of emptiness," he explained.

Often, when childhood wounds were healed, men would find their same-sex desires diminish or disappear completely, replaced with a healthy, heterosexual attraction.

"Findings from preliminary data collected over a 12-month period indicated statistically significant reductions in distress and improvements in well-being, significant movement toward heterosexual identity, and significant increases in heterosexual thoughts and desires with accompanying significant decreases in homosexual thoughts and desires," he summarized.

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Investigator: Driver part of larger human-smuggling scheme – The Denver Post

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SAN ANTONIO Investigators believe a truck driver accused in the deaths of 10 people found inside a packed, sweltering tractor-trailer is part of a larger organization involved in human smuggling that authorities are trying to identify and dismantle, a U.S. immigration official said.

Some of the 29 identified survivors told authorities they hired smugglers who brought them across the U.S. border, loaded them onto trucks that took them to the tractor-trailer, and marked them with different colored tape to identify them to various smugglers who would be picking them up after the tractor-trailer reached its destination.

Were certainly not stopping at looking at the driver. Were trying to investigate and identify the different cogs, the stash houses, the other members, where the money came from, Shane Folden, special agent in charge of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcements Homeland Security Investigations office in San Antonio, told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

The driver, James Matthew Bradley Jr., 60, of Clearwater, Florida, is facing charges of illegally transporting immigrants for financial gain, resulting in death. Bradley could face the death penalty if convicted. Authorities allege he drove a trailer full of immigrants from South Texas that was discovered in the parking lot of a Walmart in San Antonio early Sunday morning.

Folden said charging Bradley is just the first step in the case as investigators work to find others involved in the scheme, including those responsible for facilitating money transfers and bringing the immigrants across the border.

The ultimate goal is to dismantle the complete organization. You dont get there by only focusing on one aspect. You have to look at potential targets and potential related locations, both north and south, he said.

U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar from Texas said he was informed by law enforcement that the tractor-trailer cleared a Border Patrol checkpoint Saturday night, about two hours before it was discovered, roughly 29 miles (47 kilometers) north of the border on Interstate 35 near Laredo. Cuellar said he didnt know whether the immigrants were loaded into the truck before or after it crossed the checkpoint.

U.S. authorities are still trying to determine how many people were inside the tractor-trailer because some fled before police arrived, Folden said.

Thirteen people who rode in the trailer remained hospitalized Tuesday in San Antonio, said ICE spokesman Greg Palmore. He declined to say how many were critical or in life-threatening condition. Officials said at least 29 people survived the smuggling attempt.

Delmin Daro Lpez Colomo, 23, a Guatemalan survivor who remained hospitalized, said the migrants in the tractor-trailer were delivered by various different smugglers, according to Cristy Andrino, the consul of Guatemala in McAllen, Texas.

Adan Lara Vega, 27, a migrant from Mexico who survived the smuggling attempt, told the AP on Monday that they boarded the truck on a Laredo street Saturday night for the two-hour trip to San Antonio. He said the trailer was already full of people, but it was so dark he couldnt tell how many.

At least some of the survivors are likely to become witnesses and receive consideration to remain in the United States to testify, Folden said.

Its likely that most if not all of the survivors will be allowed to stay in the country to help authorities in their investigation, said Jeff Vaden, a former federal prosecutor who helped oversee the prosecution of a 2003 smuggling attempt in Victoria, Texas, in which 19 people died.

Vaden said many of the more than 50 immigrants who survived that attempt were able to identify the people who harbored them or transported them or to whom they paid or spoke. Thats what enabled the government to put together the larger smuggling case above just the driver. Just like in any crime, the victims are critical witnesses. Vaden is now a partner at the Houston law firm of Bracewell LLP.

Jacob Monty, an immigration lawyer in Houston, said the help survivors give to authorities could lead to permanent residency.

Bradley, the driver of the truck found in San Antonio, remained jailed Tuesday. He had his commercial driving privileges for a truck driver suspended by Florida three months before Sundays deadly smuggling attempt, officials said Tuesday.

Court records show Bradley had been repeatedly cited for violating federal motor carrier safety regulations in Iowa dating back to 1995. At least two of the tickets were for logging more hours than allowed.

Federal regulators said they are also conducting an investigation into an Iowa trucking company whose name was on the trailer. Brian Pyle, owner of Pyle Transportation, said the trailer had been sold on May 10 to an individual in Mexico, and Bradley was working as an independent contractor to drive it to Brownsville, Texas, to carry out the sale.

Its unclear what will happen to one of the migrants who died, identified as 19-year-old Frank Guisseppe Fuentes. His parents, who live in Maryland and are in the U.S. illegally, havent yet told Guatemalan officials what they want done with his body. Andrino, the Guatemalan consul, said they may fear agents could come after them if they claim their son.

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Human Ken Doll Rodrigo Alves is ‘waiting for his new chin to arrive in the post’ ahead of 35k surgery binge – The Sun

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Human Ken Doll Rodrigo Alves is 'waiting for his new chin to arrive in the post' ahead of 35k surgery binge
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THE HUMAN Ken Doll's new chin is in the post - and the Brazilian reality star can't wait to unpack it and get it under his skin. The 34-year-old star - real name Rodrigo Alves - revealed he is waiting for the odd delivery at a hotel in Kish, Iran ...

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Plummeting Sperm Counts Could Result In Human Extinction, Doctor Warns – HuffPost UK

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A doctor has warned that rapidly declining sperm counts could result in humans becoming extinct.

Dr Hagai Levine led a team of researchers who analysed the sperm counts of men from North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.Results showed they halved between 1973 and 2011.

Dr Levine told the BBC: If we will not change the ways that we are living and the environment and the chemicals that we are exposed to, I am very worried about what will happen in the future.

Eventually we may have a problem, and with reproduction in general, and it may be the extinction of the human species.

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The study suggested the rate of decline in sperm counts among men living in Western countries is continuing and possibly even increasing.Meanwhile, there was no significant decline in South America, Asia and Africa.

Having a low sperm count can make it more difficult to conceive naturally, although successful pregnancies can still occur.

Some experts were critical of the new studys findings, noting various flaws, and added it may be too soon to draw such conclusions about human extinction.

But writing in the journalHuman Reproduction Update, the studys authors said further research is urgently needed to get to the bottom of why mens sperm counts are declining so much.

According to the NHS, problems with sperm, including a low sperm count and problems with sperm quality, are quite common in the UK - affecting one in three couples who are struggling to get pregnant.

The studys authors linked a range of lifestyle and environmental factors to the problem including:endocrine disrupting chemicals, pesticides, diet, stress, smoking and obesity.

Dr Helen Webberley, who runs the online healthcare serviceMy Web Doctor, said the results of the research were alarming but added there are various lifestyle changes men can make to improve sperm health.

Few of these will come as much of a surprise: maintaining a healthy diet, limiting alcohol consumption, stopping smoking and taking regular exercise, she told HuffPost UK.

Having a clear overview of your reproductive health can be useful and relevant tests - such as testosterone levels and knowing your sperm count - can provide a clearer indication of the situation.

She added:The environmental factors are worrying and feel a little out of our control, so more research in this area would be good. There are new studies ongoing into whether anti-oestrogen medications that we use in the treatment of female breast cancer, or even the female fertility drug, Clomid, can help when used in male patients - and we have seen some encouraging results.

Having said that, prevention is always better than cure and we, as a nation, need to accept that we can have a positive impact on our reproductive health by adjusting our lifestyle.

Professor Geeta Nargund, medical director ofCREATE Fertility,said more needs to be done to educate men and boys about their fertility.

The findings of this study are extremely important and raise public health concerns when it comes to male fertility, she told HuffPost UK.

It is about time that we start educating boys and men about the effects of smoking, obesity, exposure to pesticides and plastics, and sedentary lifestyle on their reproductive health.

We also need to address the possible effects of maternal smoking and exposure to hormones in pregnancy, during a critical window of foetal testicular development.

I urge the Department of Education to include fertility education as part of the curriculum in secondary schools, as it can help raise awareness and prevent future infertility.

10 Things You May Not Know About Your Fertility

1. Your fertility is mostly determined by genetics, which influences how many eggs you are born with. Doctors believe that the number of eggs you have at birth determines the length of time you will remain fertile. At birth, women have about two million eggs in their ovaries. For every egg ovulated during your reproductive life, about 1,000 eggs undergo programmed cell death. Other things, such as smoking cigarettes and certain types of chemotherapy, can accelerate egg cell death and promote an earlier menopause.

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An Airline Just Started Using Ethereum Blockchain to Issue Tickets – Futurism

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In Brief On Monday, Russian airline S7 began using a blockchain platform for their ticket sales. The move is evidence of both Russia's interest in the technology and a worldwide shift toward a future supported by blockchain.

Russian magazine Kommersanthas reported that the airlineS7began selling tickets using an Ethereum blockchainon Monday. The countrys largest private financial institution,Alfa-Bank, is supporting the move, which was made to simplifypayments and decrease settlement times between airlines and agents a process that usually takes two weeks.

The decision may have been made to get ahead of another Russian airline, Aeroflot, which recently released a request for proposals on how to incorporate cryptocurrencies into their own services.

S7s decision to utilize Ethereum represents two wider trends in the world of blockchain. First, Russias interest in the technology. This is reflected by the central banktesting an Ethereum-based blockchain systemand Vladimir Putin optimistically announcing that blockchain is essentially the foundation for creating brand new business models at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum.

Second, the move shows a worldwide increase in the integration of blockchain into everyday transactions. The system has been adopted by shipping companies such as Maerskand retailers like Walmart to keep track of shipments, and if S7s integration is successful, citizens outside of Russia could soon find themselves booking their own travel on the blockchain.

Disclosure: Several members of the Futurism team, including the editors of this piece, are personal investors in a number of cryptocurrency markets. Their personal investment perspectives have no impact on editorial content.

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China’s New Quantum Communication Network Will Be Unhackable – Futurism

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In Brief China's new quantum communication network in the city of Jinan is expected to change cryptography for the better. As computers become more powerful, current encryption methods become less reliable. Quantum cryptography will be a key technology for addressing this. Securing the Internet

For a country notorious for its restrictive internet policies, China seems to be taking the lead on developing next-generation internet communications. The city of Jinan is set to become the hub of this quantum communications network that will boost Beijing-Shanghai internet when the project is launched by the end of August. It is set to become the worlds first unhackable internet communications network.

Unlike encryption methods that hide the key under difficult mathematical problems, quantum communication and cryptographyuse entanglementto do the trick. Concretely, the key is embedded in photons (light particles) and sent ahead of the encrypted message a method called quantum key distribution (QKD).

Communication becomes unhackable this way because any attempt to intercept the key would be obviousto the sender and the intendedrecipient. Whats even more impressive is that China has the technology to extend quantum communications up to 400 kilometers (about 250 miles), as previously demonstrated in a quantum cryptography research in Hefei.

As technology becomes increasingly more complex, computers are becomingincreasingly more powerful. This puts current encryption methods in danger, as number-crunching becomes easier with powerful computing power. Number-based keys need to be prolonged and constantly updated to keep up. QKD potentially solves all of this.

Yet, for the most part, it seems China is leaving the West behind in pursuit of this technology. For a long time people simply didnt think it was needed, Myungshik Kim from Imperial College, London,told the BBC. The mathematical difficulty of the current coding system was so high that it was not thought necessary to implement the new technology.

Recent security breeches and hacks, of course, reveal the error of this thinking. Thats one reason why China is pursuing quantum communication, but the tech has a number of other possible applications as well.

We plan to use the [Jinan] network for national [defense], finance, and other fields, and hope to spread it out as a pilot that if successful, can be used across China and the whole world, Zhou Fei, Jinan Institute of Quantum Technology assistant director, previously told the Financial Times.

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New Action Movie Stars The Rock and SiriReally – Futurism

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In Brief Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Apple's Siri have teamed up to make a "movie" that is actually an extended ad depicting the utility of the latest iteration of Siri, integrated with everything from Lyft to FaceTime to iTunes.

If youve read the title, then youre probably aware of an upcoming film circling an unlikely duo. The movie is called The Rock x Siri: Dominate The Day, and is actually an ad styled after the kind of crazy, possibly comedic action move Dwayne Johnson has become famous for. Like last years extended commercial collaboration between Taylor Swift and Apple Music, this project is Apple plus celebrity mojo plus, this time around, Siri.

According to Johnsons Facebook post, the movie is the dopest and funnest, and Siri is the greatest co-star of all time. She certainly received top billing on the poster no photo though. Check out the full movie here:

The Dominate the Day theme plays on Johnsons unlikely all-talented persona depicting him as a chef, fashion designer, fresco painter, jumbo-jet pilot, musician, and bonsai artist all with the help of Siris FaceTime-, iTunes-, and Lyft-integrated help. The idea is that you too can accomplish an unbelievable list of things with the help of Siri, even if youre not The Rock.

Dominating your actual day is optional.

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