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Clinton Huxley » 21 Jun 2012 » 14:10:36 GMT
What do you guys make of talking heads going on about our silence regarding other conflicts since Ukraine?
Are they lying, desperate for a hook, dumb as a box of rocks, all of the above?
Probably all of the above, since it's the bloviating class.
I've seen several pundits going on about how the trouble in Palestine is ignored, but every day there's a story in my morning newspaper. So I take these guys with a grain of salt.
If a reporter gets the facts wrong, there's generally a retraction or correction to follow. If they make stuff up, they tend to get fired or demoted. Pundits generally get away with a lot more.
This is one topic I wouldn't mind hearing from Seth about, preferably in a different forum, since he's worn both hats.
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Thanks for the opportunity comment on the kid again.
Look, Hermit - another chance to say how EXACTLY I'm wrong, and spout more bile about a kid who was attacked by (among others) a rioting convicted child-rapist.
I noticed you missed it. Must have been while accusing me of trolling.
You can ignore my questions though. I know what kinds of 'facts' get checked by you, and they certainly AREN'T the kind YOU got wrong.
Just including that quote above in case Hermit missed it again.
The least trustworthy media outlets are pretty much in concert about the invasion of Ukraine. I sure hope the billions being sent there aren't going to the wrong people. That probably can't happen with foreign aid though. Zelensky, as a comedian funded by an eastern european oligarch, seems as trustworthy as Biden.
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Thanks for the opportunity comment on the kid again.
Look, Hermit - another chance to say how EXACTLY I'm wrong, and spout more bile about a kid who was attacked by (among others) a rioting convicted child-rapist.
I noticed you missed it. Must have been while accusing me of trolling.
You can ignore my questions though. I know what kinds of 'facts' get checked by you, and they certainly AREN'T the kind YOU got wrong.
Would you look at that. Totally ignores Hermit's post and goes straight to attacking Hermit. THIS is why you are a troll.
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I never liked Trump. I couldn't watch his show. What's to like?
If all the corporate media teams up to smear someone, it's worth wondering why.
Recently, Bezos (WaPo) hunted down a shitposter (libsofticktok), doxxed her, and even bragged about exposing her.
Bezos bragged about exposing her? Bezos hunted her down? Um, bullshit.
Sent from my penis using wankertalk. "The Western world is fucking awesome because of mostly white men" - DaveDodo007. "Socialized medicine is just exactly as morally defensible as gassing and cooking Jews" - Seth. Yes, he really did say that.. "Seth you are a boon to this community" - Cunt. "I am seriously thinking of going on a spree killing" - Svartalf.
Yes I know Bezos owns it. But he didn't do those things. Claiming that he did makes you look silly.
Sent from my penis using wankertalk. "The Western world is fucking awesome because of mostly white men" - DaveDodo007. "Socialized medicine is just exactly as morally defensible as gassing and cooking Jews" - Seth. Yes, he really did say that.. "Seth you are a boon to this community" - Cunt. "I am seriously thinking of going on a spree killing" - Svartalf.
Thanks for the opportunity comment on the kid again.
Look, Hermit - another chance to say how EXACTLY I'm wrong, and spout more bile about a kid who was attacked by (among others) a rioting convicted child-rapist.
I noticed you missed it. Must have been while accusing me of trolling.
You can ignore my questions though. I know what kinds of 'facts' get checked by you, and they certainly AREN'T the kind YOU got wrong.
Would you look at that. Totally ignores Hermit's post and goes straight to attacking Hermit. THIS is why you are a troll.
Not to worry. I did not miss the demand by our member from Yellowknife because I proved him wrong as early as almost a year ago.
Found some footage (age-restricted) of what happened. It is a pity you won't watch videos that threaten to disagree with your sentiments.
At 1:51 Rosenbaum can be seen running after Rittenenhouse. At 1:53 Rosenbaum can be seen hurling a plastic bag toward Rittenhouse. It falls short. At 1:58 the video recorder loses sight of Rittenhouse and Rosenbaum among some cars parked along the road. Between 2:00 and 2:04 five shots can be heard. Between 2:06 and 2:07 there are another three shots. The act of a hero protecting private property? Eight shots at close range over a period of seven seconds to disable a man who was dangerous despite being unarmed?
Rosenbaum was shot in the back, the right groin, left hand, and left thigh. His lung and liver were perforated, and his pelvis fractured. He also sustained a graze gunshot wound on his right forehead. It is murder.
it was a protest, according to you. I'll have to pay attention to your definition of murder the same way.
Going by those posts, the argument in defence of someone who shot eight bullets at someone at point blank range is that it happened while someone else tried to set fire to a gas station during a protest at the same time. You can't have a discussion about the murderer with people who think that is a valid argument. That's why I don't bother with Daggles' demand to prove him wrong. He'll just reply with another irrelevance.
The video I linked to is no longer available, but you can see the same footage here.
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I remember a fellow basically chortling with glee when a whistleblower who reported malfeasance by the former president was 'doxxed' by right wing types. That was good, but outing a prolific shitposter who calls themself a 'wire service' for [the conservative disinformation echo chamber] is apparently not so good. Whatever.
Of the 310 segments that covered inflation, eight identified profiteering as a causal factor, while 50 put the focus on workers, either in the form of labor shortage or supply-side social spending arguments (the latter being a proxy for the former). While labor market trends have had an inflationary impact, the disproportionate focus on them, without mention of the underlying conditions that lead to labor shortages in the first place, erases the culpability of corporations. And as economist Dean Baker (Beat the Press, 11/10/21) explained, it would be a "perverse" solution to inflation to put "downward pressure on wages" by increasing unemployment, when companies are already incentivized to "innovate to get around bottlenecks…in ways that could lead to lasting productivity gains."
An NBC Nightly News investigation by Jacob Ward (1/22/22) was one of the only segments that focused on the inflationary impact of market consolidation. Tyson, Cargill, JBS, and National Beef, Ward reported, "control roughly 85% of all beef production in America, and saw their profits tripled during the pandemic." Other references to the meat trusts were limited to Joe Biden's plan to apply pressure to meatpackers and Tyson's decision to raise prices due to "escalating costs" (NBC Nightly News, 12/10/21, 11/15/21). This angle was absent when it came to other powerful industries, however.
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There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia."
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"This is how humanity ends; bickering over the irrelevant."
Clinton Huxley » 21 Jun 2012 » 14:10:36 GMT
Five years ago, Facebook gave its users five new ways to react to a post in their news feed beyond the iconic “like” thumbs-up: “love,” “haha,” “wow,” “sad” and “angry.”
Behind the scenes, Facebook programmed the algorithm that decides what people see in their news feeds to use the reaction emoji as signals to push more emotional and provocative content — including content likely to make them angry. Starting in 2017, Facebook’s ranking algorithm treated emoji reactions as five times more valuable than “likes,” internal documents reveal. The theory was simple: Posts that prompted lots of reaction emoji tended to keep users more engaged, and keeping users engaged was the key to Facebook’s business.
Facebook’s own researchers were quick to suspect a critical flaw. Favoring “controversial” posts — including those that make users angry — could open “the door to more spam/abuse/clickbait inadvertently,” a staffer, whose name was redacted, wrote in one of the internal documents. A colleague responded, “It’s possible.”
The warning proved prescient. The company’s data scientists confirmed in 2019 that posts that sparked angry reaction emoji were disproportionately likely to include misinformation, toxicity and low-quality news.
That means Facebook for three years systematically amped up some of the worst of its platform, making it more prominent in users’ feeds and spreading it to a much wider audience. The power of the algorithmic promotion undermined the efforts of Facebook’s content moderators and integrity teams, who were fighting an uphill battle against toxic and harmful content.
The internal debate over the “angry” emoji and the findings about its effects shed light on the highly subjective human judgments that underlie Facebook’s news feed algorithm — the byzantine machine-learning software that decides for billions of people what kinds of posts they’ll see each time they open the app. The deliberations were revealed in disclosures made to the Securities and Exchange Commission and provided to Congress in redacted form by the legal counsel of whistleblower Frances Haugen. The redacted versions were reviewed by a consortium of news organizations, including The Washington Post.
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"It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice.
There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia."
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"This is how humanity ends; bickering over the irrelevant."
Clinton Huxley » 21 Jun 2012 » 14:10:36 GMT