As an organization who’s job is to collect blood for transfusions, they actually just really suck at their job.
Every time I see #CBS beg people to donate #blood, I’m like “half of this is because of your own incompetence as Canada’s blood collection agency and your ultra conservatism when it comes to criteria”.
#CBS lives in perpetual fear of the 90s, which makes them do stupid things like still refusing blood from people who lived in the UK like 25 years ago. And continually making up new exclusions and rules that constantly decreases the pool of #blood donors.
Not to even mention the stupid logistical problems like “we’re only really open during business hours on weekdays and half day Saturday and not at all Sunday”.
✂️ #TedKoppel travelled to SC and reports on a local newspaper Renaissance—small-town papers defying death by collaborating, funded in part by readers. Keeping elected officials honest is part of the goal, and it's working.
🤦🏿♂️ the average American isn't worse than the average person in other countries in the world. That's not what's going on.
Our problem, is that all of our institutions are configured to allow the most racist, sexist, ignorant, and violent minority of us, to terrorize the rest of us without punishment or consequence.
The net result is a flow of our society away from what the vast majority of us want, and towards objectively horrible outcomes.
#CBS’ 1973 Saturday night lineup, crafted by iconic programmer Fred Silverman, is still remembered as one of the greatest lineups ever assembled.
8:00: All in the Family
8:30: MASH
9:00: The Mary Tyler Moore Show
9:30: The Bob Newhart Show
10:00: The Carol Burnett Show
Keep in mind that there was no streaming, no recording & watching later, no extra airings. You had to be there at your tv on the night to watch it... and people did, in big numbers.
#TIL that CBS Studios used a DMCA takedown to get an Android app called Tricorder removed from app stores. They could claim with some justification that "tricorder' is a trademark (disclaimer; IANAL), but the name was not the problem. Apparently they were claiming to own a copyright on Michael Okuda's visual design for the Tricorder UI.
It appears that a lot of people don't understand the implications of laws like Utah's -- which will extend beyond the state, and be copied by many other states -- involving limits on children accessing social media. In order to prevent children from creating social media accounts by themselves, it is required that ALL adult users of social media be identified via government IDs. This is literally the beginning of Chinese-style control and tracking of ALL Internet usage here in the U.S. Nothing less.
#Utah's social-media law threatens crucial civil liberties of...adults:
"it is required that ALL adult users of social media be identified via government IDs. This is literally the beginning of Chinese-style control and tracking of ALL Internet usage here in the U.S..."
This will be a blueprint for other #RedStates, says #CBS:
"...Arkansas, Texas, Ohio and Louisiana, have similar proposals in the works, along with New Jersey. "
A Delaware city is set to give corporations the right to vote in elections (old.reddit.com)
A Not The Onion story.