[-] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 3 weeks ago

All neutrality is false.

This is media literacy 101. Once you can get past this, you find that outlets that wear their bias on their sleeves are refreshing over those who feign neutrality. They begin to come.of as aloof and condescending, because that's exactly what they are. It's not journalism, it's theatre. Same thing goes with regurgitating exactly what government spokespersons say: that's not journalism. Journalism includes investigation and critique. It's not possible to give an unbiased critique.

Looking at you NYT, you fucking dumpster fire. I only keep you around because a dumpster fire can provide warmth.

I read from multiple sources to cross-reference what narratives are being pushed, and I find news outlets who are often labelled "biased" are the ones most likely to just lay everything on the table. They aren't deliberately trying to direct you into how to think because they assume you agree with them. "This happened and we think it's bullshit!"

You're also more likely to hear about stories that are left out or considered unimportant or are intentionally censored by the mainstream outlets. It's more often the case that they will censor themselves than the government will directly get involved and this is far less from smaller news groups who don't worry about being labelled as biased.

[-] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 month ago

I like to click on phishing links and send them messages in the password section. Hopfully they find it entertaining.

[-] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 month ago

I will, but this is an 8 hour series.

[-] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 2 months ago

By brewskies, you mean Mt Dew and Doritos, right?

[-] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

What’s on shopping lists this school season? Parents plan to spend the most money on clothing and accessories for their kids (44%), followed by groceries and food (17%), school supplies (16%), electronic devices (8%) and after-school programs (8%). Speaking of – after-school programs, such as sports and clubs come with their own price tags, setting parents back even further.

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More than half (53%) of parents said they planned to shop Amazon Prime Day sales

Do these people realize Amazon slowly creeps up the price before these sales so they can drop them back to normal and make it look like a good deal? All retailers do this shit.

Fuck, schools were chronically under-funded when I was in K-12, but their budgets just continue to get tighter each year. Parents and teachers are buying supplies for the classrooms that should be provided by the school.

"You're required to go, but we won't provide the necessities for your studies." Look ahead and they'll make it voluntary (and even more expensive) to attend after elementary school so they can shove the older kids back in their mines and McDonalds.

[-] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 3 months ago

25% of all people are trans but haven't realized it yet.

[-] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 4 months ago

I find Yandex to be useful for some topics, but not great at others, similar to Bing and Google.

Yandex is good for escaping Western imperial news and for piracy.

Google is better for scientific research (not in general, just compared to these other two sites and definitely worse than the sites directly meant to search for publications).

Bing is...just different from Google. I guess it's easier to escape the sponsored posts.

[-] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 4 months ago

It's not selfishness and greed so often as it is fear and ignorance. Education remedies the ignorance and steels people against the fear that keeps them from working together against a seemingly more powerful force.

[-] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It doesn't.

Unionize. Individually your power to change things is weak, together your power is strong. The only thing power listens to is a greater power and the reality is that your bosses likely rely on you more than you rely on them.

I guarantee you do have useful skills and that they are better than what an LLM can produce. Don't listen to the hype that will be used to justify taking your ability to live from you in exchange for higher profits.

[-] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 8 months ago

They can't find the war assets the Pentagon bought either.

If they can't find the money they spent to kill people, why would they spend more money to heal people? They need to focus on fixing their Pentagon audit issues by not doing anything about the audit issues first!

[-] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 11 months ago

Idk comrade, that sounds a lot like communism.

[-] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 year ago

"It's been working all along, just look at our stock performance!" - US military contractors

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