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No, I want this https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a25677/ak-47-history-1110/ https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a25677/ak-47-history-1... Particularly o

No, I want this https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a25677/ak-47-history-1110/ https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a25677/ak-47-history-1... Particularly over some QAnon believer’s tweet roll. If you’re an expert or in a position of particular insight, a great deal of articles are going to have annoying errors or miss context. It’s like Neil Degrasse Tyson getting angry that we say the sun sets when it’s actually the earth rotating. This hasn’t gotten any better with amateur journalism and less sophistication. Having left at least one environment where I considered my insider information to give me a superior perspective, I realized my insider position itself created bias. We’re all subject to Rashomon, and should be in conversation with each other to hone working models. NB I know people with A+ or MCSE certs that obtained them as part of the non-collegiate path into tech and who are genuinely great engineers.

renewiltord 6y ago
Sure, but they literally read the wrong numbers. They read operating cost as net revenue or growth as total revenue or some such nonsense. Haha! Some dumbass out there reading Bloomberg probably believed it too. Sucker. Not only did I have insider info, I also knew the public source from where they got it and how they misread it. And yeah, I'm also sure there's at least one car out there with a J D Power award that isn't crap. Maybe not two, but maybe one. I actually enjoyed the linked article - though I don't know how true it is. Just finished it. To butcher a famous quotation: "God made America a superpower and Vietnam a small jungle state. Sam Colt made them equal".