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and thus america became that much more like russia

pretty much yeah. only it's not that the cat grows upeand has to deal with how gorgeous it is, it's that the cat, who was always a skunk and didn't realize, just needed to keep looking for their people. there's a line in one piece

"the world is too vast for anyone to be born into it alone. take to the sea. you will find your people"

glad you put in the effort instead of using ai tho

we had this book! it's about self perception. i don't think it was literally titled this, but i vividly remember the illustrations and it starts with that the other cats don't like the smelly cats stench, and then they don't like its games, but then it finds some animals that appreciate its stench and doing handstands with it, so they go home to their community where the smelly cat meets its birth mother, a skunk. on the last page the smelly cat is shown with the skunk, and they're both skunks

what the fuck is the constitution?

they fell for that authoritarianism is inherent and exclusive to communism. corporate authoritarianism tricked them into thinking it was their only protection from authoritarianism

he runs his aspect of the business as a tiny fascist dictatorship. he wants yesmen, not actual applicants

where you at that they haven't? asking for a researcher

No I know the PACs have more monetary power than we do. But Kamala stopped getting as much funding when she turned to them instead of us. The PACs love republicans because the republicans will do anything for money

For the downvoters, this is a thing you'll hear a lot around military people

oh god, it's so noticable

• yeah music is fine, mostly
• my $40 bluetooth set needs resync like once a day. it happens automatically, but while it does everything stutters
• i get high pitched hiss on ALL bluetooth, even $300 sets. i think i'm just sensitive to it. i hate it
• when the cable degrades i buy a new cable
• i run into issues with interference with all bluetooth devices about once a month here where i am. i'm near a military post though, so who knows what they're pumping out

audio cables don't matter beyond the $5 range. what you're experiencing with expensive cables is placebo in that case. for me the annoyances with bluetooth are:

• lag
• a/v resync
• high pitched hiss
• having to keep headphones that used to just plug into the phone charged
• the fact that bluetooth headphones degrade over time, giving them less longevity than wired
• interference

i understand there are people in this thread that don't miss headphone jacks, but to act like bluetooth is flat superior is to ignore that bluetooth has genuine downsides that just a wire doesn't

The thing to understand is that a journalist and an outlet have different motivations and goals. A journalist seeks to get the truth put int front of people. An outlet seeks to keep the wave forms going out. The outlet has a variety of motivations for this, and each outlet will have different balances of these motivations. The most common motivations are money, a desire to get the truth in front of the people, and personal political influence for the owner of the outlet. Given that the journalist and the outlet are not necessarily aligned, the journalist makes a deal with the devil every time they work with the outlet. They are ultimately making a choice between more reach and more integrity because the biggest outlets skew further and further away from getting truth in front of the people being their primary motivator.

So what does this all mean? It means you can actually learn a lot about how news media works by studying street art. The basic mechanism of street art is that you are co-opting a wave form to disseminate your message to people who didn't ask for it. A jounralist does the same thing when they make their deal with the devil at the outlet. They follow the rules of the outlet to get their message in front of people who would not have otherwise seen it. The good news is that this outlet, commondreams, has a strong track record of seemingly being motivated by getting the truth in front of people. However, they have a strong enough record and reach that they also have the attention of the FCC who could be wielded against them, so it seems the editors have requested the language be adjusted to keep the waveforms going out.

However, there's also another possibility. Journalism, just like street art, is a community. What one journalist takes up, so will another. If one journalist talks about "purchasing goodwill" suddenly that's the terms that this will be discussed under by multiple journalists. Some journalists for the less good outlets weaponize this and perform a process called "sane-washing" where they create new euphemisms (newspeak, effectively) to let other journalists pick up and use. In the street art community we call this a "meme." Yes. It's a meme. We're all netizens. We know what a meme is and how they work. How many memes have you disseminated without ever thinking about "Who created this? Why did they create it? What was their goal? When did they have the time to create this (if the meme is time relevant)? What is this meme saying to me, what is it saying when I share it, and is that something I want?"

If you're like most people, you probably didn't put that much thought into any of that when disseminating a meme. But a lot of meme creators do. You know. It's ironic. Alex Jones called his show "info wars" and then just broadcast a bunch of bullshit. But at the very core of his show was a truth. There is an information war going on. It's just that Alex Jones is not on the side he claims to be. His show's purpose was to disseminate right wing memes and influence culture at large to become more right wing. In this he succeeded.

Anyway. What the fuck was I talking about? Oh yeah. "Purchasing goodwill." So. There's several possibilities here.

1. The journalist originally wrote "bribe" and the editor changed it
2. The journalist originally wrote "purchasing goodwill" because it's a meme that started with another journalist
3. The journalist originally wrote "purchasing goodwill" because they're performing the sane-washing (I think this is the least likely scenario given the outlet)

If you want real actual news about the things going on, here are some outlets to keep an eye on:

• commondreams.org
• propublica.org
• itsgoingdown.org
• anarchistnews.org

(worth noting, I am biased towards anarchist news sources because of my world view. But! Because of my world view, I also think it is better to present your bias and say "Here's what I think and here's how it influences how I engage with the propaganda machines around us" than it is to say "I'm an unbiased sources writing from a position of authority" because the latter is inherently a lie. Everyone is biased. Everything is biased.)

Staying put and giving Reddit money is the real loss. We fundamentally disagree about what the fight is and what winning looks like. Also I don't know where you're reaching your conclusion that there's no technical information here. We have wikis, we have discussions, we have high quality interactions. But the core essence of how we think we take the power back on the internet is different, and we're not ever going to overcome this, so I think this is the end of the conversation

They need to be immune to so many different PACs. And they need to learn the lesson Biden and Kamala didn't: you actually get more funding my courting us, the people, than you do the corporations. Yeah, the corporations have more money, and they'll give you some, but they'll give more to the republican candidate, and what's more, there's more of us.

we're the product, not the customer. reddit doesn't own anything of value that we can't have for ourselves or do for ourselves here, or on other, non-reddit communication networks. they didn't want us to leave, they wanted us to change behavior to match their vision. instead, we're here, having this conversation away from their influence. we won this small victory in a grander fight against hypercapitalism. the real challenge is that the banks choose winners and losers

what do you mean?

What a terrible terrible example. Bottled water is just theft

time for james donald bowman to tour russia, see what's going on there