Powderhorn @ Powderhorn @beehaw.org

Unemployed journalist, burner, raver, graphic artist and vandweller.

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Friendly reminder: Do not make up your own headlines when posting here. You are asserting a sectarian allegation as fact. The full hed is:

"MAGA demands immediate arrest of former FBI director James Comey after he 'called for assassination' of Trump"

... which is pretty much a day ending in "y". "Former Official Mean to Thin-Skinned Supposed Strongman" is his whole shtick.

Regardless, the whole "story" is a mess that never should have seen the light of day. MAGA is not an organization that can demand anything, and things only deteriorate from the first word of the hed.

The Daily Mail is not a serious news outlet, and I'd appreciate you not posting propaganda in a news community.

The quality of questions fell off a cliff well before Match Group came in and really enshittified the whole affair. I soured on continuing to answer questions once the new ones were almost exclusively false dichotomies.

Meet people online via shared interests. I'm not one to tout Reddit, but really engaging in niche communities there gives you wide exposure specifically targeted. Don't expect immediate results, but it is a valid method.

"If I had a million dollars? Two chicks at the same time."

I agree reasonable people just move forward to the next thing, but we aren't all still of clubbing age, and internet dating is shit.

I can finally wipe my ass!

So far, the garage is working out well.

This is a "good in theory, bad in execution" example. Absent any context whatsoever for where things went wrong, it's platitudes masquerading as an AI version of whoever wronged you.

I have a giant corpus of increasingly testy emails with my ex (it got to the point that actual conversation was impractical without the situation immediately escalating, so despite sharing a bed, we resorted to email), but I'm not feeding that to an LLM, and without that, there's no way to know to be able to say things like "I'm sorry I threw physical objects at you" -- which would be out of character for her in the first place. She has the ability of Trump to admit error, which is to say none.

I get the demand for such "solutions" but worry about the actual psychological effects. Turning abusive partners (or friends) into sympathetic characters who regret their actions has no basis in reality and could actually make matters worse.

Surely, you can paint with a broader sexist brush.

I've been through multiple rounds of therapy. The issue is the quality of care available to anyone who doesn't have upwards of $100 a week (insurance only covers MSWs, and sometimes, you need a Ph.D. to really help).

Well, I'm not sure that

It is too soon to know if he can stop taking the medication completely, but the dosage is greatly reduced. And he is well enough for the team to start planning to discharge him home from the hospital. He is meeting developmental milestones and his weight is now in the 40th percentile for his age, but it is not yet known if he’ll be spared a liver transplant.

counts as "healed." (emphasis mine)

This certainly sounds like a promising medical advancement, and the article goes out of its way to point out the extent to which federal funding made it possible. But the hed oversells the current state of affairs.

First off, that's not a pub I'd have expected to see this in, but media literacy being taught to teens (if they listen) is a very necessary thing.

Still, the situation is more complex than this story distills it down to. One major problem is cops love talking to reporters if they think they've gotten something right, and shut the fuck up when errors are pointed out. Which, OK, that's what we've got investigative journalism for.

But you can't FOIA on deadline, and the editor would still rather have something local for tonight from the beat reporter -- whatever it may be -- than running 10 more inches of wire.

And the funding just isn't there for monthlong investigations unless you get to the highest firmament of journalism.

At the newsroom level, there's no malice aforethought. Think Hanlon. These are people trying to do their jobs and working with what they're given with limited time available, under the perennial rule that "if it bleeds, it leads."

Perhaps at the corporate level, there's some larger thing at play. But there's no fucking way Mike Reed is micromanaging every lead editor at Gannett into providing stories sympathetic to cops. (I mean, first of all, that would suggest some level of interest in news.)

This is not to say there's nothing to see here, keep on moving. It is a problem, and there are unethical journalists out there (the cop reporter at my first paper was sleeping with a source and we all knew it), but this is a societal problem, not a journalism one.

To frame it as such is disingenuous. Now, as for broadcasting? Not my wheelhouse, but they're in the entertainment business, not news. Of course they're going to have different standards.

OkCupid.com (founded 2004) asked users a wide range of multiple-choice questions. It then went further by also asking them to specify the responses to those same questions they wanted to see from prospective partners.

I met both my ex-wives on OkCupid ... in 2004. Of course, I had no idea I met my second wife before getting serious with the first.

I put scores of hours in answering match questions, and the whole experience was, dare I say, fun. Longform profiles with candid photos and the ability to see how answers differed so you could get the dealbreakers out of the way before wasting any time messaging.

Oh, and it was completely free.

I tried a few apps after getting separated in 2016, but the experience was truly a nightmare. I'm not a terrible-looking guy, but my looks are not what has ever drawn anyone to me, it's how I comport myself. This is completely useless on these apps. It felt like high school popularity contests, which I was happy enough to escape the first time, except that to participate in any meaningful way, you have to pay.

I did find one use for them, and that was getting drunk with my girlfriend (who I met at work) and mocking profiles.

Given the timeline between writing and release for any modern television show, it's highly unlikely that was the intent. That it now dovetails is coincidence.

Torrenting has never looked better.

Admitting error only happens in functional marriages these days. Certainly not from corporations and politicians.

The unfortunate thing is this won't go anywhere. There's no real chance of impeachment until 2027. The Qatari jet is generating murmurs in the GOP, but it'll take a while to fully tank the economy.

Which he'll blame on someone else, so he'll retain his core base. But at a certain point, the pitchforks and midterms come out.

There's a bit too much both-sidesism for my taste as well, but here I think they're going for historical context, which is relevant and also serves to show the absurdity of MTG's actions.

Sounds like he should jump over to adult entertainment.

What people should do has historically been at odds with their actual actions.

Quick folo: The friend who let me ride out the cold snap in his garage in February ... is letting me ride out this heat wave in his garage. Wasn't my first choice, but apparently despite gunning for liver failure, I retain some sense of self-preservation.

I nearly passed out from heat exhaustion yesterday in the van and realized I had to make the call.