@shmibs@alex@lain The difference is in the result, Fox News dominates ratings.Everyone else keeps dropping in viewership, yet they don't course correct to say the same things Fox News says. Indicates to me that money is not the driver here, power and/or ideology is.
@shmibs@alex@lain Whoever the orders come from, there is a relationship between the journalist and the viewer, expected trust is being betrayed.And very clearly, it's not being betrayed for money. Demonstrably so: if it were the case they'd tell lies that their audience wants to hear and become popular (like Fox News) and not lies against them or encouraging them to tear one another apart (like everyone else). Lying for profit is a benign evil compared to the poison in today's media.
@alex@lain Ultimately it, like the majority of problems in modern life, is due to the mainstream media and news's dereliction of its duty to the truth and to society, creating an epistemological crisis that might actually end the current world order. It may seem like social media made it worst, but all it did was expose that the media were rotten through and through, much more than we've ever known before, something that was hard to notice when they controlled and filtered mass communication inside a population.
@lain@Moon@Xalef@georgia@xj9 I find it returns pretty reasonable numbers in finding the lower bounds of a man's dating range (ie: the most likely scenario people are interested in). The age gap between Mitsu and I is about that (plus 1 year since yesterday). It's elegant too since the range widens as people get older and their age starts having less bearing on their development. But I'll admit it seems tuned to lower bound of a man's dating range; I've known one woman in her thirties or late 20s dating a guy in his early 20s and it looked weird and off-balanced which makes me think the range is probably tighter in that scenario.
I was in the bathroom, Mitsu was putting away the dishes and cleaning the pan we used for supper, and then a shriveled up green bean fell from *nowhere* in the pan.Mitsulder: "This is clearly paranormal activity"Guizzully: "There must be a rational explanation for this!"
@shmibs@Mitsu Yeah, us too. We'd wouldn't have lunch when visiting. There's still samples, but it's less often cooked food now and more like chips and the like
@lain Do they even realize what they imply with this stuff?"Shut up, don't think, just comply"I'm an optimist, I think a lot of them would feel quite sick if they realized that's exactly their messaging. But decades of horrible propaganda has created these memetic defense mechanisms by which they isolate themselves from the realisation of what they've become.
@Moon Maybe it's just me, but I would have had a lot more trust in the vaccines and in the process had the health authorities not approved them so easily. Just saying "we have stringent requirements" isn't convincing when you have points like the above article floating around that are not being addressed at all. If there is a reason why they can feel confident despite this, they need to have press conferences explaining themselves. Absent that, I'm forced to conclude this was just rubber stamped.
@rru142@Moon Maybe it's just me and I'm more "special" than I'd like to be, but hearing leaders be unsure of themselves actually makes me a lot more confident in them. Because it reassures me that there is a thinking process behind their pronouncements, and not just obstinacy or blind ideology.
@shmibs@augustus@lain At this point, the most "vaccine hesitant" education level is Ph. Ds. And the most hesitant sector is healthcare workers. I don't think the "you wouldn't understand, citizen, just comply" argument is very justified.