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1y ago
So why did the network fold so quickly? It's a simple enough explanation "we not journalists, these are all made up jokes and parodies, we send our condolences to the family ... etc". They folded because they knew how the sta
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1y ago
There was some initial social media reaction portraying this guy as some hard right fascist or whatever, as well. So it wasn't something just Kimmel had come up with. It could be that by the time the show started more evidence came out
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1y ago
However the same website they describes the exceptions and limits: https://www.fcc.gov/media/radio/public-and-broadcasting#JOUR... > Hoaxes. The broadcast by a station of false information concerning a crime o
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1y ago
> It’s actually a terrible excuse as the backlash is demonstrating. Even if they were about to axe the show all along it would have been a good idea to delay that to avoid the appearance they were caving to government pressure. But that
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1y ago
The executive branch controls the FCC which controls broadcasting licenses. Specifically broadcast journalism over the air is controlled https://www.fcc.gov/media/radio/public-and-broadcasting#JOUR... Note: > N
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1y ago
As it turns out the government can dictate how the broadcast frequencies are used, including dictate things about the content. The company could have switched to online only and continued the show. Heck, they should have called uncle sam&#x
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1y ago
> A big corporation would never, ever do something like cause a delay so people cool off and don't bother actually canceling later. They better be sure there are no disgruntled or unhappy employees and no layoffs coming up, otherwis
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1y ago
Wonder if this is a coincidence that the other major discussion item on the front page is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45305845 (Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says) with the large majo
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1y ago
> but one thing worth noting here is that the primary problem that damn near every other country on earth has isn’t immigration, it’s brain drain. It's great if you only root for the US, but taking more global perspective, let'
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1y ago
I think it's more about the visual style overall with or without text. It's not just DK book but Designs for American Museum of Natural History and other example. Software packaging, especially from Microsoft had it. The text is o
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1y ago
The blog post that broke the camel's back? It's often a matter of timing -- just enough after the update was around, time of day, day of the week, no other major or interesting news, etc.
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1y ago
I haven't updated my iphone 14, and seeing posts like these makes me want to wait longer. Does anyone enjoy or like the changes after the upgrade? Are there any worthy tradeoffs like "ok it's slower but at least I can now do
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1y ago
> The guy was at best confused in his ideological leanings. He held midly leftist ideas on some issues and right wing ideas on others, like on gun ownership. I am wondering how did Jimmy know what his leanings where? It didn't seem
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1y ago
> The Irgun was forcibly integrated into the IDF, claiming dead and almost triggering a civil war. So that means the terrorists, especially the leaders, were tried and punished for their crimes?
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1y ago
They remind me of the floor of the black lodge in Twin Peaks.
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1y ago
These are fun, I like that Encarta of the 1990s has it's own style -- Utopian Scholastic https://cari.institute/aesthetics/utopian-scholastic . DK (Dorling Kindersley) and especially Stephen Biesty's books use
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1y ago
Fair enough, but it's written on a bullet meant to assassinate someone in real life. Had it been in the context of playing video games, I would see it just being a game quote. Ok, fine, but then "Bella ciao" is an anti-Nazi a
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1y ago
This is a great map, they should show it alongside the typical one when teaching geography. I'll show this to my kids later, see what they think and ask them to find some countries on it. A similar change of perspective "trick&quo
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> It originated as a form of collective narrative control, the source of which is thus far unknown. That's the part I am curious about. Some clues like the killer's parents I can see, but the bullet markings and riding on Trump
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1y ago
> Is "the left" more, less, or equally responsible for Kirk's murder The real question is how did Jimmy become so sure it was a maga trumper. His quote: > MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murder
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1y ago
> my org that we begin to use LLMs to generate entire NIH stacks from the ground up. I'm tired boss. It's all fun and games until DeepSeek starts checking if it's used inside an $enemy_of_state_org and generates subtle bac
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> The MAGA Gang (is) desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them I've heard this before, but where did this originate? Did Jimmy just make it up or was he quoting some sou
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1y ago
> We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” the ho
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1y ago
They just observe you, then you're good to come in.
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> The wife’s description of the charges is not honest. See all of the other comments which revealed a much longer list of offenses he committed. Yeah, good point. That happens sometimes. It's sad, people just see reddit as sort of a
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1y ago
> I can attest as a personal experience in the past that this kind of behavior is not uncommon with feds, and has happened even before the current administration One the first comments on reddit was actually: > … in trump's ameri
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1y ago
> > But recently, we have one of those very rare cases where we know exactly what Steve Jobs would not have done. >Oh well. There is a slight difference. It’s a case were we can’t necessarily see how to do something well, but we ca
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1y ago
Just wondering how can we tell? Have you caught some ChatGPT prompts leaking into the content, or it's just the good 'ol "em dash" frequency distribution?
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1y ago
And how many people outside of Minnesota you think would know her. I bet the majority of people in MN wouldn't didn't know who she is. For instance do you know Brandon Ler, the Montana House of Representatives speaker? Or, say, Na
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