So the Republican Party's propaganda outlet, Fox "News", holds a joint press conference for the candidates. The "moderators" asking questions are in-house Fox propagandists, who are as generally servile as expected.
You might expect the rest of Big Journalism to call this the farce it is. Of course not.
The hordes of journalists "covering" tonight's Republican joint press conference are only the latest evidence that Big Journalism relentlessly wastes valuable resources on made-for-TV infotainment.
Just imagine all the actual journalism those people could be doing if they weren't wasting time and money in Milwaukee.
Having been listening more to older #music lately (60's, 70's), tuning in to a modern #mainstream radio station for the first time in ages is almost jarring in how lifeless the music feels in comparison. It's produced beyond perfection, on the grid, pitches corrected, mixes aced etc. killing all the life in the music in the process. #musicproduction
Awww... Poor #RFKjr. He's such a persecuted #victim. How dare the #media report on the things he says! And people like him always try to hide behind the #FirstAmendment, as if the First Amendment was some sort of validation of his #deplorable remarks. You're not a victim, Bobby. You're just an #entitled D-bag who wants to dodge #accountability for your destructive #lies.
Verdacht auf Beweisunterdrückung durch griechische Ermittler
Nach der Schiffstragödie mit mehr als 500 Toten und Vermissten vor der griechischen Küste fordern Experten international unabhängige Ermittlungen. Überlebende berichten von unterdrückten Beweismitteln und manipulierten Protokollen griechischer Ermittler.
@tagesschau Gerade ein Volk was immer geteilt hat. Doch denke ich das bei Ihnen die Kapazitäten genauso mal erschöpft sind. Doch unsere #OERR#Mainstream#medien berichten wieder und das immer zu einseitig. Was vielem Kritisieren😇
I hate the #UnitedStates with every piece of me. I am ashamed to have been born here. I am distraught that my ancestors were ever born and that they ever had to endure the nightmare that is #PlantationNation. I am disgusted that I fell for the ruse and thought it was safe to have children. Now they are stuck in this #whitesupremacist hellhole that is getting worse each day. Thank God they got their degrees already. But my grandkids and nieces and nephews... sitting ducks for the Kens and Karens of the evil Unwarranted Default (#mainstream, #whitegaze, #centrist#AmeriKKKan society and the unendurable, unjust #statusquo it accepts and which it commands, abuses, and threatens the oppressed people it exploits to tolerate and support) and its inhumane, irredeemable #systemicracism. The #SCOTUS is a prime example of why I am over the human species and why I believe it has EARNED the punishment of #climatechange. No decent species would allow white supremacy, much less mandate it and profit from it. Any species that would do that deserves extinction. Given what I see happening in the US each day, I pray that day comes SOON.
In the world of nail polish there are three main groups. Each group has it's pluses and minuses. There is nothing that makes one group better then the others, all polish is amazing but there are differences that may effect how you shop. Let's dive in....
My character's knowledge ends way before my knowledge of the subject ends.
#Fantasy#magic systems often fail to impress because lots of detail, except where the reader can intuit a logical loophole, is a bad thing! The reader will often assume the gaps for you. I must remind myself every so often that a story is entertainment, not a treatise or thesis on speculative science, sociology, or engineering, especially after all time I spent on the research. When I wrote from a prize-fighter's POV, I learned how training felt, and the injuries, but I didn't presume to write the coach working their miracles. Only enough to convince.
I try to be imprecise, even about what I know a subject very well. Well, heck, I recognize I could misunderstand somethng! I then lampshade enough to ensure the story makes sense and to keep the plot logically together. I would, for example, make sure to understand the limits of a submersible pressure vessel (I don't) and get that much right. I'd also work on the jargon. My character would then be passenger told not to touch anything, and not an engineer or pilot.
A tactic I use is to consider secondary characters to provide "details." I include lieutenants, clerks, and engineers to do real work, maybe letting them talk down to the MC because the MC couldn't possibly understand and is wasting their time. This excuses lack of detail.
Everyone is a lay person about something, many many somethings, IRL. To the extent that I don't know how to maintain my car, build my house (I actually did), generate my electricity, butcher my meat (thinking about which turns me into a vegetarian for a few hours), and piloting an airplane, I make my characters the same way. Builds a sense of #Verisimilitude
SAVING AMERICA! THE GOP'S NEW SLOGAN! SAVING AMERICA FROM? ALL THE BILLS THAT WOULD HAVE IMPROVED THE AVERAGE AMERICAN'S LIVES, RETSORED SOME BASIC RIGHTS AND HELPED THE AVERAGE AMERICAN FAMILY!. THE DEMOCRATS ARE FAR FROM PERFECT BUT, THE GOP ONLY OFFERS HATE, DIVISION AND PANDERING FOR THE RICH AND PROTECTING THEIR LYING, CORRUPT MEMBERS, REVENGE INVESTIGATIONS THAT WASTES TIME AND MONEY AND FIND NOTHING? THE WHITE RACIST AMERICAN HAS TO REALIZE THEY CAN STILL HATE AND HAVE NICE THINGS! LMAO!
In the end, it was easier to transfer my payments to my other bank and close my account than to get n26 to understand that some Irish addresses have house names, not house numbers.
Some of you know I have been working on non-profit funding to create an organisation ("IFTAS") to support moderators and admins. This is a non-profit entity that employs moderators and advisors to improve the tools and policies we have access to, and to present a strong voice to platform developers describing the tools and features needed to conduct the work.
@jaz@moderation This is quite vital, as we all know that #mainstream#SocialMedia does have a far more refined tool suite to do so, including #reputation managment of those reporting and pre-sorting options.
Went to a well-known language enrichment centre to enquire about 'foreign language' lessons for my girl. I pity the centre manager. She gets a lot of shite from parents. This is the one thing we (non-international) schoolteachers are spared from. Helicopter parents with a severe case of comparitis. #mainstream#learning#parents
The difference between Indie, Boutique and Mainstream
In the world of nail polish there are three main groups. Each group has it's pluses and minuses. There is nothing that makes one group better then the others, all polish is amazing but there are differences that may effect how you shop. Let's dive in....