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by jajag 7y ago
From the start of the AMA: "the public defender ... didn’t have time or the resources to prove my innocence". The defence isn't supposed to have to prove anything, that's the job of the prosecution - but what surprises m
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by jajag 7y ago
I totally agree with you - there's nothing wrong with bias, and it's completely unavoidable in the modern media context. News media needs to be honest about its biases, whilst still upholding standards of reporting & journalis
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by jajag 7y ago
That's an unachievable ideal, particularly and especially for complex stories (e.g. just about any political story) where there are too many facts to report, to much backstory to fill in, and an editor has to make a decision about what
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by jajag 7y ago
I find the idea that there can be an unbiased news source deeply problematic. All reporting of an event has to be from a perspective, and has to make decisions about what to report, what to leave out; what to emphasise, what to play down.
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Learn to Stop Worrying and Love Technical Debt(marker.medium.com)
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by jajag 7y ago
Related article in the same issue: https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2019/11/americas-drift-to...
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NASA probes oxygen mystery on Mars(bbc.com)
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by jajag 7y ago
The article itself is very well written - intimate and sensuous.
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by jajag 7y ago
Judge the content not the source.
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The Hubble constant: a mystery that keeps getting bigger(theguardian.com)
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Ancestral home of modern humans is in Botswana, study finds(theguardian.com)
13 points by jajag 7y ago|2 comments
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The WeWork debacle should be an indictment of modern finance(theguardian.com)
44 points by jajag 7y ago|26 comments
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A Million People Are Jailed at China's Gulags(haaretz.com)
19 points by jajag 7y ago|2 comments
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Objectivity Is Relative(outlawpsych.com)
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by jajag 7y ago
In Russian, use Google translate.
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Record Methane Emissions in East Siberian Sea(news.tpu.ru)
2 points by jajag 7y ago|1 comments
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by jajag 7y ago
I'm currently learning Spanish, and have to say that I don't find noun gender to be a huge problem, as generally (apart from some exceptions) if it ends in 'a' then it's feminine, and if 'o' then masculine
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by jajag 7y ago
Ok, what counts as the "left" in the US and most European countries promoted globalization - the unreconstituted hard left, sure, not so much. I agree with you that this is a consumption problem, but globalization is what has driv
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by jajag 7y ago
True, the right has been in outright denial of the facts, but the left has also been in denial about the contribution its policies have to the problem - they after all have been the cheerleaders for globalisation. No one is going to come ou
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by jajag 7y ago
A lot of that air pollution is emitted producing products for the US & European markets.
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Balance of Power: The Economic Consequences of the Peace at 100(nature.com)
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by jajag 7y ago
God forbid that voters have a say!
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by jajag 7y ago
All true - and yet this parliament seems remarkably reluctant to allow the electorate the opportunity to correct this state of affairs.
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by jajag 7y ago
Well, (a) it's a hell of a lot faster than it has been for most of my life, and (b) it means that in my lifetime, a lot of the places I know & love will be seriously affected by - if not completely lost to - sea level rise. I get t
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by jajag 7y ago
But things do move that quickly. Current projections [1] have global sea levels rising from anything between 0.3m and 2.4m by the end of the century. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_level_rise
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by jajag 7y ago
This is a whole part of the problem. Globalisation and the offshoring of manufacturing to the east has meant a corresponding offset of emissions from the Europe and the US to China and other places. We in the West have to take some responsi
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by jajag 7y ago
We had massive child mortality rates in 1900.
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by jajag 7y ago
Some info on the Xuchang skulls mentioned in the summary: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/03/ancient-skulls-may-b...
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Dust cloud sparked explosion in primitive life on Earth, say scientists(theguardian.com)
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by jajag 7y ago
With climate change stalking in the background, I really think it's too early to say whose century - whether China's or anyone else's - this will be.

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