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by coolso 5y ago
Perhaps GP supports informative journalism, just not one with an “Americans are bad and should be ashamed for being richer than other countries” narrative?
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> Likewise CNN made fun of Joe Rogan for taking Ivermectin because we don't want general public to experiment with alternative medicine. It's better to just stick to the proven stuff. Ivermectin is not alternative medicine. Ive
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Didn’t the engineers also find that it would only sink a few inches, but it ended up sinking over a foot in a fraction of the time?
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> The same NYTimes that shilled the Iraq War for Bush? Organizations can’t change at all within 20 years? Democrats have changed just as much in general. 3/4 of the stuff the blue check marks talk about on Twitter wasn’t even mentio
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> Smacks of someone who simply has a different perspective on diversity and freedom rather than a goal of increasing it. One only needs to look at the comment sections - if they even still exist - of various websites to notice that by na
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Legislative and executive action to disincentivize the manufacturing of cheap (and less cheap) goods produced overseas and incentivize the revival of US manufacturing. China is the reason Amazon is so big.
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Well, my personal process usually starts with finding the top rated items related to what I’m looking for on Walmart/Target/Amazon/Home Depot/Lowes/B&H. Then I do a bit of DDGing to cull the herd. When I get to
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I’ve been “burned” by Wirecutter many a time. While they have the best presentation of any product review site, and I’m a huge fan of the quality of the NYT’s work in general despite being on the opposite end of their bias spectrum, the rea
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> or that Google et al. are, of their own accord, interested in going out of their way to burn PR (and real premium subscriber dollars) to aid the administration? Given that after Trump won in 2016, a video leaked of a Google meeting of
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> How does the dislike button indicate propaganda? Take the Gillette ad as a great example. No dislike button? Now the “lack of downvotes” can be used to indicate the normalization of such propaganda and imply people support the message.
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Gillette / Proctor & Gamble are having a mega celebration today.
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The word “toxic” is real, but also annoying too.
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Local online article writer offended at something again, writes many paragraphs about it, stopping just short of demanding said offensive behavior be made illegal. More at 11. Here’s Why.
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That unfortunately does not mean it’s not a real disorder. Just that science hasn’t accepted it. But scientists are just as infallible and biased as everyone else. As are the media which may choose to cover some science rigid viewpoints whi
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As much as I despise Google and AMP, the one upside to AMP was it allowed you access to almost every online news article that was behind a payroll. You could just Google the title of a paywalled article, click on the AMP version, and view t
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It’s not irrelevant because Presidents always place pressure on the Fed. The Fed isn’t the only issue at play here either.
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More mean tweets would have been far more calamitous than, well, everything we’re seeing today?
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It’s a funny IP address meant to hopefully make you think Google is cool now.
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> There's been plenty of active mainstream reporting of Merck's new COVID pill, as well as other promising treatments. What are you talking about? I'll preface my comment here by saying I'm very pro-vax, and after a s
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> supporting hate That is a bold, unfounded, unappreciated accusation. I do not support hate. I support gut feelings borne in truth. I will continue to not give free car rides to homeless people and to offer to help carry groceries out t
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It’s hard to write 20 consecutive blog posts without seeming extremely pretentious. To the average Twitter user, massive Tweet chains means the person has something really important to say. The fact that they’re getting around the max tweet
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> group selection has been mostly rejected by modern evolutionary biologists Not all things rejected by modern science is rejected for scientific reasons, unfortunately.
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Prejudice is also why we’re all here today, it has very well documented implications when it comes to survival among other things. Ignoring and censoring the truth because it’s mean can be far more dangerous with far more disastrous effects
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Because that’s too obvious and also Facebook’s userbase’s ideologies lean the opposite direction from the establishment, and Facebook is their best tool for sharing information that happens to run counter to what the establishment (media, g
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> I'm confused by the laser focus on FB all of a sudden. You have to look at in the context of the 2016 election. Once it was discovered that the winning team utilized Facebook in a way the losing team had no concept of (or more lik
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> Also, the last update was in 2001. As a result, I found myself reading the entire page, all the way through to the end.
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Didn’t you hear? Losing your US-manufacturing job so everyone can buy cheap throwaway Chinese goods with loads of fake reviews is actually good for the economy, or something. You should be made fun of for thinking otherwise.
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It’s forced obsoleting. Forced existence is the pushback. There are better methods though I agree. When we finally bring more manufacturing back to the US I think that’ll be a natural way to put a damper on Amazon’s harm to our country
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@Saddlerustle, that’s a very legit 5-star Amazon review if I’ve ever read one!
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I’ve cut back on my Amazon purchases 90%. It’s been nice visiting actual stores and getting something same-hour. Sometimes I pay a dollar or two more. But buying local(er) feels good for my soul. It’s nice not having to wonder if every sing

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