Hmm! Yeah, all that is pretty important, especially if it's particularly bad information that contributed to setting off a powder keg.
Good to know, actually. The way it took out all those branches it'd just as easily take out a finger!
https://www.npr.org/2024/08/05/nx-s1-5063345/misinformation-online-fueled-all-out-race-riots-in-the-united-kingdom
The headline of this article is misinformation online.
As far as I can tell, the story of a bunch of schoolchildren getting stabbed by a migrant is absolutely true. So where's the misinformation? 3 kids are dead. That's true. Where's the misinformation?
The headline of this article is misinformation online.
As far as I can tell, the story of a bunch of schoolchildren getting stabbed by a migrant is absolutely true. So where's the misinformation? 3 kids are dead. That's true. Where's the misinformation?
I gave left wing economic media (specifically NPR's planet money and apm marketplace) a chance earlier this year, but they failed catastrophically. One was going on and on about making everything a federal regulation, the other was cheerleading over the employment numbers never once mentioning that almost every employment report for the past year has been revised downward. Contrast with guys like Peter Schiff or Maverick of Wall Street who were calling their shots whether it was an R or a D in office.
Absolutely no debate that whatever your thoughts on trump, a lot of his decisions weren't very good. It was extremely politically popular sending out all that money, but racked up the debt and further cemented stagflation as inevitable.
Electric hedge trimmer is now officially one of my most fun lawn tools.
It's like swinging around a light saber, the little branches just fall like friction isn't that even a thing.
Especially nice on the sort of branches that are pokey and nasty to snap off by hand.
Anyone with a yard and trees should look into one.
It's like swinging around a light saber, the little branches just fall like friction isn't that even a thing.
Especially nice on the sort of branches that are pokey and nasty to snap off by hand.
Anyone with a yard and trees should look into one.
I have to start taking a look then. One of my metrics for news sources is whether I find out about things that are happening before they become major news, and unfortunately a lot of the mainstream news outlets fail miserably in this regard. It often leaves me having to follow somewhat Fringe outlets not because I necessarily agree with everything that they have to say but because at the very least I seem to be getting a taste of what's going on in the world for real.
The leader of Bangladesh has fled to India.
It took me a while to figure out why there were protests, it seemed like the media really wasn't interested in talking much about it.
Turns out 55% of government jobs were held in a "quota system" that set aside jobs for the descendants of "freedom fighters", women, and minorities. Only a tiny portion of jobs are judged by merit. In 2018 there was a big movement to dramatically reduce these quotas and they won, but recently the changes were rolled back leading to the current protests.
It seems crystal clear why the establishment media isn't taking about the motives behind the riots in detail, it's a riot against something they're all fundamentally in favor of implementing here.
It took me a while to figure out why there were protests, it seemed like the media really wasn't interested in talking much about it.
Turns out 55% of government jobs were held in a "quota system" that set aside jobs for the descendants of "freedom fighters", women, and minorities. Only a tiny portion of jobs are judged by merit. In 2018 there was a big movement to dramatically reduce these quotas and they won, but recently the changes were rolled back leading to the current protests.
It seems crystal clear why the establishment media isn't taking about the motives behind the riots in detail, it's a riot against something they're all fundamentally in favor of implementing here.
The end of Moore's law has been catastrophic for processor makers, whatever they pretend.
I think all the numbers are heavily gamed, we've been in a bad recession for a while hidden by the fact that prices are way higher than they're saying but wages are totally stagnant, and employment doesn't matter because whom cares if everyone's employed if they can't afford to not eat stray rats under an overpass?
I think it's a good example of politicians doing something that's less effective and more politically acceptable.
It isn't like anyone disagrees information asymmetry (the landlord knowing more about local prices than the tenants) can help drive up prices, but what's going on here is like someone who is a habitual drunk driver promising to put a speed limiter on their car so they won't exceed the speed limit. That's great, but it's not the problem.
The problem being that they're attracting lots of people to the region but there just aren't that many places to live. This is the fundamental market imbalance that leads to higher rents in the bay area. Their options are to take measures to make the city less attractive to live in, do things to help improve supply such as rezoning, or try to push some of the WFH folks who don't even live in the city to release their empty apartments back into the market.
Most of those will piss off someone or other, so they won't do any of that and instead do the thing that won't break anyone's heart and appears to be "something" but also won't really change anything.
It isn't like anyone disagrees information asymmetry (the landlord knowing more about local prices than the tenants) can help drive up prices, but what's going on here is like someone who is a habitual drunk driver promising to put a speed limiter on their car so they won't exceed the speed limit. That's great, but it's not the problem.
The problem being that they're attracting lots of people to the region but there just aren't that many places to live. This is the fundamental market imbalance that leads to higher rents in the bay area. Their options are to take measures to make the city less attractive to live in, do things to help improve supply such as rezoning, or try to push some of the WFH folks who don't even live in the city to release their empty apartments back into the market.
Most of those will piss off someone or other, so they won't do any of that and instead do the thing that won't break anyone's heart and appears to be "something" but also won't really change anything.
She can use the non-achievements she ascribed to Biden. "I was in meetings, with people! Important people!"
Uh... good for you?
Uh... good for you?
Can't complain there's no culture being produced if we aren't willing to support the people who put the work in. I picked up a copy (thankfully a good number of people on the fediverse bought my book too, though it's not going to set any sales records)