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by newswriter99 7y ago
"If these jobs pay so poorly, it follows that many potential journalists will do something else instead." Oh wow, find my comment in this thread because you basically got my number.
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by newswriter99 7y ago
If you're from the working class and too introverted to network properly, don't try freelancing. I got out of school in 2012 at the peak of newspapers bleeding to death. All my contacts (a small pool given my non-flagship universi
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by newswriter99 7y ago
I love the debate about what is or is not "nature" these days. We try to separate humans from other organisms because our use of tools/building nests is so far advanced from say, what an ant produces, or a bird making a nest,
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by newswriter99 7y ago
I live in a badly-ventilated room in a converted loft with no windows and constantly worry about this sort of thing. Other than buying oxygen-producing plants (which tend to die on me when my back is turned) I'm not sure how to allevia
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by newswriter99 7y ago
If you currently sleep <7 or >9 hours dont take this as a prescription to change your sleep pattern. So if you sleep 7, 8 or 9 hours you DO need to take this as a prescription to change your sleep pattern?
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by newswriter99 7y ago
Harsh, but I work in the industry and I know exactly what you mean. That's why writing business news is where it's at. The ability to slant writing becomes harder, but not impossible, when you're talking about finance and pri
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by newswriter99 7y ago
Can't read this at work, but based on the comments I get the feeling this is a bit romanticized about who the Yakuza are and how they operate. After reading about the case of Junko Furuta however, I have less of a benevolent opinion of
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by newswriter99 7y ago
"Yakuza is a different breed say than Hell's Angels, Mafia and Vor V Zakone" That's because Hell's Angels is a 1970's outlaw motorcycle group of misfits, the "Mafia" is (I assume you're reffering
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by newswriter99 7y ago
How did I not hear about Cat's Cradle until just now. I burned through the top 100 sci-fi books (audiobook versions, but still) in 2015. Somehow this wasn't on the list.
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by newswriter99 7y ago
Trying to copyright organic life is tricky because as Jurassic Park taught us, stuff tends to get out. So did the farmers "steal" the potatoes used for lays chips, or did they have no choice in their selection due to factors? Mon
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by newswriter99 7y ago
In the 1990's? You'd have thought that'd be far enough removed from the current journalism climate to still have some level of ethics and professionalism. I got into journalism in 2009, three years after Craigslist began kill
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by newswriter99 7y ago
"mostly college educated, live in a large city, have a sense of professional ethics, are exposed to people from a variety of backgrounds and ethnicities" You're making "cosmopolitan bias" look good, when it's n
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by newswriter99 7y ago
You have to consider the economies of scale. A few dollars multiplied over millions of manufacturing orders and shipping costs. And that's just cost. The reason I'm stressing about virgin plastic over recycled is also in considera
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by newswriter99 7y ago
The amount of people posting how "plant-based plastics" are the solution goes to show just how out-of-touch most of us are with being poor or stuck in an underdeveloped nation. It's easy to spend more on "sustainable&quo
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by newswriter99 7y ago
"The answer is to stop making the endless flow of single use plastic" What's the question? Because I can tell you right now that plunging us back into a world of expensive commodities won't be accepted by most consumers.
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by newswriter99 7y ago
No you're right, we should go back to not having cheap, affordable packaging the world over. That way people in developed nations can go back to paying through the nose for shipping products, thus making products cost more, thus loweri
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by newswriter99 7y ago
"One question is what is the price to create this new plastic" You actually hit the nail on the head better than I did. Virgin resin is cheaper than recycled plastic. Which means that manufacturers have an incentive to buy fresh p
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by newswriter99 7y ago
Petrochemical reporter here. The article fails to describe whether this plastic behaves like polyethylene, which can be pliable and flexible, or polypropylene, which is rigid and brittle. Or any of the other dozens of varieties of plastics,
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by newswriter99 7y ago
>In either case, there is nothing wrong with wanting attention Yes there is. It leads to narcissism and unwarranted feelings of self-importance. If you think that modern social media isn't harming society by funneling straight to p
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by newswriter99 7y ago
And a popular conjecture of that is the women don't actually want to kill themselves as much as they want attention.
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by newswriter99 7y ago
" World built for men" where women regularly outlive men, where men statistically commit suicide more often, where more men than women are homeless, where men do more manual labor jobs than women, where women have the ability to s
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by newswriter99 7y ago
Is that you're rebuttal? Attacking my character?
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by newswriter99 7y ago
Do you think that "random male scientist #237" would be getting as much news coverage, photo-ops and retweets by "YAAS QUEEN SLAY" females as Katie?
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by newswriter99 7y ago
We live in a world where journalism coverage on television shows being torrented are being taken down by corporations abusing laws put in place by decrepit legislators who don't fully comprehend new technology. This cyberpunk timeline
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by newswriter99 8y ago
If Katie was a man, no one would care about her.
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by newswriter99 8y ago
Story is written by an "environmental crime" reporter, so I'm going to assume is slanted from the start. Other posters have already said it: Story is DuPont's waster solutions segment is opening a reverse osmosis water f
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Chinese Scientist Claims to Use Crispr to Make First Genetically Edited Babies(nytimes.com)
1 points by newswriter99 8y ago|0 comments
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by newswriter99 8y ago
I disagree. If you spent two minutes rolling some white paint on a white canvas because your "abstract message" was about the void of space, it's not profound, you're being an ass. Conversely if you spent at least five h
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by newswriter99 8y ago
Story author is Nick Paumgarten. Staff writer at the New Yorker for 13 years. Seems to favour stories on sports talk radio, internet dating, a bit on the WEF (World Economic Forum). His Twitter (grand total of 20 tweets) has a mugshot of a
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by newswriter99 8y ago
I don't think this is as much of a troglodyte statement as much as it is a lack of personal autonomy and freedom. The user isn't against the horse-less carriage out of fear, he's against the horse-less carriage because the op

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