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Lol, what?

So were you able to find a "academic source" that audited the media in this way?

Exactly who else is going to cover the % of negative media coverage on Trump, in your mind, other than a "right wing" source?

asdf21on Resignation Letter

Also, you're completely wrong about Fox. I don't generally watch mainstream news period, but one day it was on in a hotel, and like you, I expected neutral to positive coverage on Trump.

It was just the opposite, like 20 minutes straight of "Russia Gate," just endlessly hyping up and trying to validate the scandal. If Fox is a friend of Trump's, he doesn't need enemies.

asdf21on Resignation Letter

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/rich-noyes/2019/11/12/i...

96% Negative Spin from the main 3 networks.

>Silent on Economic Success: Despite record highs in the stock market and a fifty-year low in the unemployment rate, the President’s handling of the economy was given a stingy 4 minutes, 6 seconds of airtime during these six weeks, or less than one percent of all Trump administration news (645 minutes).

asdf21on We are all prisoners of groupthink

No, it's nothing new... here is an article about the same thing from 2017... unless they have changed, BLM is a separatist movement.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/07/black-lives-matter-ra...

asdf21on We are all prisoners of groupthink

>Imagine using your career position as a platform to argue that Black Americans should use “separate but equal” facilities in 2020.

Isn't that one of the core tenants of the BLM campaigns? "Separate but equal" community policing for African American neighborhoods..

asdf21on We are all prisoners of groupthink

>You're free to register transwomen-are-men.com or get-the-blm-facts.com

For now... there have been other domains whose registrars have been repeatedly banned / revoked for "hate speech", Daily Stormer comes to mind.

asdf21on U.S. Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native American reservation

Well, sorry, I don't know anything about native American reservations... but I assume people just can't move into them willy nilly.

asdf21on U.S. Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native American reservation

Dumb question... but can I still move to Tulsa?

asdf21on U.S. Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native American reservation

He's obviously mocking the use of the word... can people here not understand context?

asdf21on Professor solves 240 computer science exam problems in 4 hours [video]

Agreed. The reason its not that way is that schools are mostly state-run daycare programs, setup so that parents can work, not a genuine implementation of skill building.

asdf21on The wild economy of tabletop board game funding

Got popular in 2005 - 2006 in California

asdf21on Ask HN: After Slate Star Codex, where are the nuanced discussions?

We definitely know different groups of people.

asdf21on The neoliberal era is ending. What comes next?

From the get go, it was estimated that 80% of the world population would be infected within 18-24 months.

All the shutdown was intended to do was to "slow the spread" from the 18 months to 24 months, and to hopefully keep hospitals from being overwhelmed.

Once we knew how infectious it was, Covid was always expected to infect nearly everyone eventually, whether the economy was shut down or not.

asdf21on Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse

If you start posting substantive points arguing against socialism / big government you get warned. If you argue about the warning you get banned.

YC is not really any better and the main mod is a self-admitted (although he took it down now) far leftist.

One time I found all the UBI threads and every flagged / mod warned post was someone arguing against UBI (that’s apparent a flame war), but endless idealistic rambling about how great it would be was totally fine.

asdf21on Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse

If you follow spez at all that shouldn’t surprise you.

Hell he directly edited the comment database on the_donald one time

asdf21on Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse

I met him years ago, he was never ok

asdf21on Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse

You literally can’t debate any controversial issue / cultural topic without it being called “hate” now...

asdf21on Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development

You mean it's fine to let some groups get away with much more, out of guilt.

asdf21on Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development

So you know who you're talking to?

asdf21on Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development

Mhm.. yeah I've never been able to follow that line of reasoning.

I'm a gay person and if I call someone the f-word I would generally mean it as a slur / insult.

Bigotry / offensive words doesn't just lose meaning because you're a minority.

asdf21on Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development

In restaurants I worked in a long time ago, servers would just call black people "Canadians" -- for instance, "Nope, don't sit those Canadians in my section, they don't tip."

Good luck filtering for stuff like that. And even if you did, people would just come up with new version.

Re: The core problem... Why would having extreme right wingers use your site even be a problem? Presumably extreme left wingers are okay?

asdf21on Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development

Pretty gross to respond that only people on the right use "slurs," after being given several examples of why various minorities would want to use them.

I'm pretty sure the n-word is used a lot more by black people than by "right wingers"

asdf21on Facebook announces policy changes ahead of 2020 elections

Considering that politicians / law-makers / the state are allowed to use violence to enforce laws, it's an absurd policy to say that Trump can't threaten violence on twitter.

asdf21on Facebook announces policy changes ahead of 2020 elections

>We can't force drug users to not own drugs

Sure you can, and we do all the time, we lock them in cages.

asdf21on When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com

Realty.com on a iPhone XR

asdf21on What vertical farming and ag startups don't understand about agriculture

After watching that video, it seems like you could just mulch large areas of "dry land" and it would have a similar effect more quickly. The pruning (and rotting of the wood) is what is fixing the soil right?

asdf21on Why some nations are rich and others poor (2016)

By hording the wealth you mean drastically increasing GDP?

asdf21on Why some nations are rich and others poor (2016)

Have you tested this hypothesis? It seems that South Africa is wealthier than neighbors, for instance.

asdf21on Hertz SEC Filing: Up to $500M Common Stock

Just wait until PCG exits bankruptcy this week! It'll probably get swarmed by investors trying to "buy the dip", even though the shares are very diluted now