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Scarier than the current reality of some 50-ish% of voting adults wanting Trump?

Kids can't do anything to me. But adults control the world right now.

Amazon probably shits out more profits in a single day than the entirety of Washington Posts yearly running costs.

Jeff Bezos does not give a shit.

I bet you Amazon's New World MMORPG lost more money than all of these subscribers gave put together.

Not yet.

Trump needs to lose still. But if Bezos is thinking of a Trump win we need to think about news in a Trump America. Wash. Po bends the knee before Trump is even President so it's not going to be independent anymore.

And if Post isn't independent anymore pre-Trump, then it won't ever be independent moving forward.

Bezos is safe in any case. His actual money is in Amazon, not WashPo. This move to cancel is purely based on news and trust. I have no expectations that Jeff Bezos gives a shit about my subscription (or anyone else's for that matter)

There are worse actors than Wash Po. Twitter for example is far worse but is continuing to survive off the back of Elon Musk enormous wealth. It's seriously not looking good for media moving forward.

But that's also why we are here on Lemmy. A little rebellion of our own away from Reddit / Twitter / Facebook.

Newspaper media is the small fry today.

What newspapers are people looking at? I cancelled my subscription so I need a replacement.

For me, The Guardian is the current top of my list. But I'm really trying to find a good US based paper or news site.

I'm considering NPR as well.

I'm not necessarily against a weekly paper like The Economist. But it'd be different than my daily routine I've gotten used to. But there's solid arguments that a weekly routine for news is healthier.

67 million Americans watched the Trump vs Harris debate on the night it aired dude. And people like me watched it soon later (it took me a day or so before I personally found the time for it).

Assuming ignorance is messed up. People know what they're voting for.

I'm fine with right wingers in my media honestly. I need to see their arguments anyway. I don't want to be blind to what the far right is talking about.

But with that being said, the NYT has a lot of questionable stories. Beyond just right wing trash that I honestly am cool with.

Florida going for Harris is a huge wtf in this blog post. It's a bold prediction far against every other poll I've seen.

If Harris wins FL, then Trump is just completely fucked.

Mind you: FL is basically Trump's home state as New Yorkers dont like him, and Mar-a-lago resort was his main base of operation in 2016. I find it very unlikely for Trump to lose FL, even with all the points brought up in this blog post.

I'm cancelling too but I'm not convinced on NYT or The guardian yet.

NYT strikes me as horribly inept at technology. Guardian is foreign (granted: UK is barely foreign lol but foreign anyway). I'd like to support an American paper if at all possible.

Guardian is good material though. It's a top contender for now but I'm still looking for American papers. Surely something in this big country is worth supporting?

I mean, maybe I just support aftermath.site (aka: Kotaku before they quit/were replaced with the new writers). Video game news + politics is kinda what I'm interested in, but Aftermath.site (and Kotaku of old) didn't even pretend to be neutral or facts based.

I guess the modern Internet means that I need to pick and choose a-la-carte.

Kung Fury still has the best spine joke.

Trump likely isn't a Billionaire btw.

Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 (which make up Volume 1) is repeatedly mentioned to be special and fundamental to the rest of the book series.

Well maybe if you started on book 1 chapter 1, you'd know how to read these books.

Why didn't you start with the fundamentals book Volume 1?

You just jumped directly into complex combinatorics and then complained that the material was too difficult.

My parents watch FOX. The goal isn't to get the die hard MAGAts, but instead someone who is willing to listen. Anyone at all.

It's a people problem. The people don't want to fix even well known technical issues.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DBCzHeiNSVH/

The James Comey-esque "October Surprises" are coming in on the other side, in support of Kamala.

Trump seems to have completely lost it this past week. Maybe Trump's mental abilities recover in a few days, but we already got the clips we need to damage his campaign further.

Early cryptocoins had the right kind of nerds who cared about solving problems with a strange new digital... thing.

After a few years, the community stopped solving problems and focused on money-making instead. Its a distressing and sad thing to watch, but as it became obvious that Crypto was a ponzi / money making scheme, the nerds and problem-solvers disappeared. Its very demoralizing to see your hard work used for... well... evil. Maybe not the biggest evil but wantonly stealing funds through convoluted tricks and supporting literally black market evils is evil. A lesser evil than murder but evil nonetheless.

There's nothing fundamentally wrong with BTC. Its just technology. But the cryptocoin world has drawn all the evil people to it, to the point that the well-meaning community has collapsed. You only see assholes with BTC these days.

As much as I want to buy into this optimism, I’m having trouble equating Harris’s marginal lead in the average national polls with a comfortable electoral college lead.

Trump can win Nevada, North Carolina, Georgia, AND Arizona but Harris would still win if she gets Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin.

That's a comfortable lead no matter how you spin it. Its a lead, but within the margin of error. So there's work to do, in particular we must now step to the polls and vote. Close this out.

National polls don't matter. Ignore them. Focus on the electoral college maps and the specific states.

Early voting starts next week for me... I guess my state is just later than all of yalls....

Then the next Billionaire with a massive ego and huge budget comes out and makes another one.

Or we get Jack Dorsey making a new company for a 3rd time.