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It's kind of crazy that the late Christopher Hitchens used to write for Vanity Fair not that long ago. I don't think he'd approve of that type of "hyperbole".
 
My theme of the day is: both sides are shitty and use the same tactics, at this point. You can't believe anything you read. Or rather, you shouldn't, until you look into it yourself. Although that can be quite hard to do, these days.

It's a tragic irony that we have essentially infinite information available at our fingertips in this day and age... and yet, the truth is perhaps more indistinct than ever.
 
Xorkoth said:
My theme of the day is: both sides are shitty and use the same tactics, at this point. You can't believe anything you read. Or rather, you shouldn't, until you look into it yourself. Although that can be quite hard to do, these days.

It's a tragic irony that we have essentially infinite information available at our fingertips in this day and age... and yet, the truth is perhaps more indistinct than ever.
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There are a few places that do decent reporting from each bend. I really like revolver news, Darren Beatty doesn’t write shit without the receipts. As establishment as axios is, they tend to lay it out decently. As much of a rag daily mail is, they have some diamonds in the rough, I like places not afraid to anger a certain political persuasion.
Now anything owned my the murdochs, bezos, Ny times is all complete trash and I’ll never click it. Also anything owned by Steve jobs’ widow is hot garbage.
 
Xorkoth said:
My theme of the day is: both sides are shitty and use the same tactics, at this point. You can't believe anything you read. Or rather, you shouldn't, until you look into it yourself. Although that can be quite hard to do, these days.

It's a tragic irony that we have essentially infinite information available at our fingertips in this day and age... and yet, the truth is perhaps more indistinct than ever.
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This has been my position for quite some time. 👍
 
Daily reminder that the jobs report is yet more propaganda. It cracked me up that the “establishment survey” is used for their headlines. Interesting read
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Yet Another Month of Questionable Federal Jobs Data as 310,000 Fewer People Report Having Jobs | Ryan McMaken

The Bureau of Labor Statistic (BLS) released new jobs data on Friday. According to the report, seasonally adjusted total nonfarm jobs rose 339,000 jobs in May, well above forecasts. The unemployment rate rose slightly from 3.4 percent to 3.7 percent (month over month).
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Xorkoth said:
My theme of the day is: both sides are shitty and use the same tactics, at this point. You can't believe anything you read. Or rather, you shouldn't, until you look into it yourself. Although that can be quite hard to do, these days.

It's a tragic irony that we have essentially infinite information available at our fingertips in this day and age... and yet, the truth is perhaps more indistinct than ever.
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We're faced with too much information. Our brain yearns for simplicity and we can get what we want by just falling towards the extremes. It's just simpler to think in black and white. Given the deep social complexity we're creating, this simplicity of thought is really at odds with our reality. It's like we're losing the ability to think and we need that more than ever. The problems we are facing do not have simple solutions, no matter how much we want them too. We're a species ruinously divorced from the environment we evolved in, and sort of washed up on the shores of a world we can't navigate. No wonder things are bleak for many of our fellow apes.
 
Nows a good time to be in the censorship business
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@shellenberger: Stanford wants to "govern" how we get information in order to save democracy. Naturally, they're calling their new censorship initiative, "Project Liberty." news.stanford.edu/report/2023/06… Democrac...…
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Seems like "Democracy" is now just rule by the media apparatus (unelected branch of the government). Anything or any information/beliefs they don't like is a "threat to democracy" which is why they hate Twitter and Facebook
 
Electrum1 said:
Seems like "Democracy" is now just rule by the media apparatus (unelected branch of the government). Anything or any information/beliefs they don't like is a "threat to democracy" which is why they hate Twitter and Facebook
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It’s been this way for a while. Anyone that supported the orange man has known this since like 2016.
 
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