TheSanSabaSongbird

TheSanSabaSongbird , 5 months ago to Memes in "Patriots"

The short version is that it was about the transfer of power from hereditary nobility to a different elite consisting of wealthy merchants and "gentlemen" farmers. This transfer was already happening anyway throughout the British Empire, the Americans just wanted to speed it up and codify it.

TheSanSabaSongbird , 5 months ago to Technology in Ex-CIA computer engineer gets 40 years in prison for giving spy agency hacking secrets to WikiLeaks

Several things can be true at once. We don't have to be all-in on one side or the other of the Snowden affair. I've never understood why people seem so eager to pick a team on this issue.

TheSanSabaSongbird , 5 months ago to Memes in Math

I don't think Lemmy is ready to hear that kind of thing.

TheSanSabaSongbird , 5 months ago to Memes in Math

True, but not for the reasons that most people think.

TheSanSabaSongbird , 5 months ago to Memes in Math

Ok, the fact that you honestly believe this is how legitimate newsrooms work is both deeply disheartening and an indication of how little the average person knows about the news business.

Editors decide what gets published, not the editorial board which is an entirely different and unrelated body that traditionally has zero contact with the content side of things. In the business we say that there is a "firewall" between the editorial board and actual news content. The NYT or WaPo would have mass resignations of their reporters if either of their editorial boards tried to influence content.

Ownership is a bit different and obviously --as we know from the Murdoch empire-- can influence content, but in traditional operations they've always been very hands-off. It's a fact, for example, that Jeff Bezos doesn't care what the WaPo publishes and has no interest in it beyond as a business concern.

Editors do have control over content, but overwhelmingly they are concerned with doing a good job and furthering their careers and professional reputations. You're completely misunderstanding the incentive structure in mainstream news media. Outside of the extremist advocacy journalism ecosystems --mostly but not only on the far right-- no one has any incentive to push an agenda and risk ruining their career by getting something important wrong.

TheSanSabaSongbird , 5 months ago to Memes in Math

Unfortunately advocacy journalism is very much a legitimate type of journalism, just ask Glen Greenwald, who I fuckin' hate.

TheSanSabaSongbird , 5 months ago to Memes in Math

It's more of a cause or a movement than an organization. I guess I don't know why that should be difficult to understand.

TheSanSabaSongbird , 5 months ago to Memes in Math

Oh so now you are arguing that deadheads were an organization too? Really? In what universe?

TheSanSabaSongbird , 5 months ago to Memes in Math

Infamous is the word you're looking for.

TheSanSabaSongbird , 5 months ago to Memes in Math

Yeah that's bullshit. There isn't some secret cabal that's in charge of US journalism anymore than there is in the UK. What really happens is that because the old news-media business models have been utterly destroyed by the Internet, there's a giant and never-ending competition for audience and everyone knows that sensationalism sells.

You have a similar problem in the UK but it's not as pronounced because the BBC is government funded and even though it's far from perfect, it does set a kind of baseline. Your other big news organizations are just as bad as in the US though. Your tabloids are actually a lot worse than ours, which is saying something.

TheSanSabaSongbird , 5 months ago to Memes in Math

While I understand what you are getting at, for the record that's not what linguistics is about at all.

TheSanSabaSongbird , 5 months ago to Memes in Math

You obviously know nothing about linguistics.

TheSanSabaSongbird , 5 months ago to linuxmemes in Arch BTW

I think this can be the case, but I also think intent has to matter. I don't see any evidence that OP intends to be transphobic.

TheSanSabaSongbird , 5 months ago to Memes in You're just a kid, how would you know what you want for the rest of your life?

I believe you are the one who is confused and making unwarranted assumptions here.

TheSanSabaSongbird , 5 months ago to Memes in You're just a kid, how would you know what you want for the rest of your life?

I don't know how it is for you, but when I look back at 24-year-old me, I am not impressed. I guess what I'm saying is that there are a lot of us who definitely don't have their shit together when they're 24. They say your prefrontal cortex isn't fully developed until 25 at the earliest, but I feel like it was closer to 30 for me. Granted, I'm kind of a dummy anyway, so this probably doesn't apply to everyone.