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From the television era: Don't watch news channels; important news will be on all the channels.
by kps 1y ago
From the television era: Don't watch news channels; important news will be on all the channels.
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- 0xbadcafebee 1y agoThen you're only getting things important to viewership. Nobody's putting an economically critical trade deal on all the channels, or a genocide in Yemen. But Princess Diana dying, that's gonna get coverage.
- 6LLvveMx2koXfwn 1y agoEspecially as she's supposed to have died 28 years ago.
- JumpCrisscross 1y ago> Especially as she's supposed to have died 28 years ago If you don’t watch television news, flipping through the channels can be genuinely surprising. Because if it’s Princess Diana’s birthday, I almost guarantee one of them will be running a retrospective segment.
- stevage 1y agoI'm not convinced there is really any important news.
- throwanem 1y agoThere's a spectacularly untimely take...
- stevage 1y agoFor most of the world, war between two countries in the middle east doesn't really have any direct impact, right? Liek, if I didn't know about it, nothing would change for me.
- throwanem 1y agoI suppose I don't know. Does your economy use much oil?
- stevage 1y agoLet's say the price of petrol goes up for me. Does it matter if I know why?
- throwanem 1y agoI feel like it can matter a lot to be able to make a reasonably reliable prediction about whether it's likely to go up or down tomorrow and by about how much, and thus whether and when to act on the potential need to ensure some sort of access to supply. For me, that largely entails just not doing anything. I do own a car but rarely use it since my neighborhood is very walkable, and the tank is usually close to full. Even my lawn tools are electric. But if I relied on gasoline for a commute (for instance) then being able to make good guesses about getting hold of it is advantageous, in a way that is fungible and easily shared.
- fastball 1y agoAt that point you may as well day trade oil futures. Its at least easier than trying to time when to fill your gas tank based on geopolitics.
- throwanem 1y agoYou say that as though they were two semiotically distinguishable activities. Futures trading is wholesale and what we talked about is retail, but they are the same general line of business and if you think no one would ever do it to try to avoid waiting all day for an empty pump, then check out how the 70s oil shock and supply crisis - the last time anyone ever dared "sanction" the U. S. and A. - played out here domestically.