I agree with you about being skeptical here. It appears that this was likely just someone who screwed up. I doubt it was a conspiracy or intentional. In fact, both parties ended up suing to keep polls open:
As ballots ran short, groups filed two lawsuits to try to give people more time to vote Tuesday night. One was filed by the nonpartisan group Mississippi Votes, and the Mississippi Republican Party initially supported it. The other was filed by the Mississippi Democratic Party.
Yeah, no, I don't like the smell, taste, or texture. I have made natto for her in an instant pot, though. She said it came out okay but I still didn't eat it!
Hah, my Japanese wife has convinced me to eat them too. I eat about 50% of them now.
Honestly, as replacements for their legacy, these look spot on. Modern versions of what came before. I'm so glad the postal workers are receiving new, safer equipment.
Right now, if he were able to convert all of his $241.8B to cash, then distribute it evenly among all of the employees at all of his companies, he could give each of his 146,000 employees $1.6M.
No one person should be that wealthy. I don't necessarily think that billionaires should be abolished, but I do think they should be paying a shit load more in taxes than they are.
Also, before anyone says it, yes, I know it's not as simple as converting his holdings to cash. I'm just saying "if it were possible".
Right? The $5k dependent care FSA does save me about $1k per year but I'm still shelling out $21k for day care with $16k taxed.
Whether they have wifi on ship or not isn't the issue. Sometimes, when a ship goes into an operation, they will turn off all signals except passive or directed signals so that they can't easily be detected. Having a communications signal that isn't under the control of the ship's officers is a huge security risk during operations.
Someone is going to be court martialed over this.
If you go to the community there are some pinned posts that contain the archive links.
Like, you hire a contractor to do work for you and ask them to let you apprentice for them at the same time and they go for it? I would love doing this so I don't have to hire a contractor the second time! What do you say to them to get them to agree?
Entropy Man would be a scary accidental villain. Just random acts of chaos as they go through life until enough shit goes wrong and they become persecuted. The they learn to use their powers for revenge against an unjust society.
I take it that you would argue that the media bias bot is worse than nothing?
I'm not arguing in favor of the media bias bot in particular here. I'm just kind of thinking about what might be a better solution. Given the fractured media landscape at the moment, it seems unreasonable to expect everyone to immediately have know the various biases of each news source. Having tools that help with that, even if they are themselves biased, seems like a good starting point for understanding the bias of different news organizations. Is there a better way to develop a similar tool that provides more useful information?
Okay, I can certainly see that perspective and, after reading the link posted by @ayyy@InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works I can see how this scale is problematic in other ways since news bias isn't one-dimensional.
Is there a better way to educate people about the bias of particular new organizations, though? It seems unreasonable to expect everyone to develop their own individual assessment of every news organization. There are simply too many of them offering too many different spins. This attempt at providing something easily digestible seems like a reasonable starting point. It's certainly not perfect and has a lot of room for improvement but is it worse than nothing?
Thank you for the link, that was helpful!
This is an honest question because I see the media bias bot being consistently downvoted and don't understand why. Can you fill me in? Why is the media bias bot hated so much? It seems fairly reasonable in its assessments. For example:
- Daily Vox: Left with High factuality
- Huffington Post: Left with Mixed factuality
- MSNBC: Left with Mixed factuality
- NPR: Left-Center with High factuality
- Reuters: Least Biased with Very High factuality
- Forbes: Right-Center with Mostly Factual factuality
- Fox: Extreme-Right with Mixed factuality
- OAN: Extreme-Right with Low factuality
- Newsmax: Extreme-Right with Low factuality
- Infowars: Extreme-Right with Very Low factuality
- Conspiracy Level: Tin Foil Hat
- Pseudo-Sci Level: Strong
Late to the party, but I think that fit the scene well.
I've been wondering since I fist started reading these; what the hell is Everett wearing? Is he wearing a onesie and a cardigan?
But but they erupted by saying "Swifties for Trump' obviously don't know who Taylor Swift HATES" and "Oh i just know [Tree Paine] is writing up a GOOD lawsuit". The absolute fury of the eruption came through when some random person said "Real Swifties hate Donald Trump btw".
An absolute and unmitigated ERUPTION of FURY!
I think the more egregious part is that all of the networks covered Trump's press conference, then failed to cover Harris' speech. Giving air time to one candidate and not the other is not balanced reporting. It is giving free publicity to one candidate over the other. They went to Trump's house on short notice rather than cover Harris' public speech with plenty of notice.
I'm a white guy from a fairly non-diverse city. I was at a grocery store today where a cashier opened up their line to serve me and, I thought, the person behind me. As they were serving me, though, they put up their lane closed sign right in front of the black man behind me. The buy was just trying to purchase some tuna, bread, and peanut butter.
The cashier basically decided to serve me, a middle class white man, but refused to serve the black man behind me. I was so shocked that I didn't say anything. It is possible that I misunderstood the situation but it seemed so blatant.
What should I have done in this situation? Should I have spoken up? Would that have just been more embarrassing for the man who was being discriminated against?
Honestly, I'm still just in shock to see someone treated so poorly when they were simply trying to buy food for themselves. I recognize that means that I'm sheltered but I also feel like I should be able to use my unearned privilege to help others who are being discriminated against.
I keep running into issues where I'm unsure of which account I'm currently using. It would be nice if it were more obvious at all times. Two things that would help me are:
- always display the current user somewhere, regardless of what content is being viewed.
- allow setting different color themes for different users.
