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Sure. A poison is just harmless. This is the kind of nonsense that makes you "science groupies" look no better than members of the American Family

Actually yes, poison is harmless in most cases. No matter how much you may think that the food that you eat is "natural", "organic", "pure", "homeopathic", "in tune with Gaia", or whatever your fetish may or may not be, you're still going to end up with poison somewhere in the mix. I'm not setting it, it's just a fact.

The key thing that you're overlooking is that it's the dose that makes the poison, not the substance itself. Take meadow saffron for example; extremely deadly plant, eating a leaf will most likely cause an excruciatingly painful death, but eating a tiny fraction of the leaf relieves gout. And then there's always water; dinking too much of it at once will lead to an unpleasant death by hyponatremia.

Glyphosate is similar. Trace amounts on food won't do anything to you, neither long term nor short term. The main issue with glyphosate is that it is a skin irritant, but in concentrations a few hundred orders of magnitude above what your thinking. EPA bribe conspiracy theories notwithstanding, given there is so much hate towards it, I think some well funded hippie group would have found something in the 28 years that roundup has been a thing. That is, of course, if they can manage to pull it off without scientific fraud, because they're having a hard time doing it any other way for their other pet cause.

http://www.slate.com/articles/...

Unfortunately, the fraudulent "truth" is the only one they're willing to accept, it seems.

"they also do not agree with persecution or scapegoating of people who disagree with them, or the burning of books and censoring of facts deemed heretical (hate facts"
Which right wing conservatives are these? You'll find plenty of counterexamples including many in elected office.
And tell us who are the ones looking to promote creationism and remove evolution from science textbooks. Or telling government scientists they can't discuss climate change
http://www.slate.com/articles/...

If you don't understand the reason for the improvements then yes you'll write things that reflect your lack of understanding.

Um...did you read a different article than I did?

1. Absolutely none of those details were in the one linked here.

2. It's not like Tesla hasn't done pretty much this exact thing in the past.

I'm not so sure about that. Certainly back when I went, if you didn't apply in your senior year of high school you missed out on certain opportunities. Even one year off unless you were in community college put you in the "non-traditional" crowd and effectively limited your choices of schools that would accept you.

It doesn't surprise me that schools would attempt to push people towards a path that results in the most money for the school even if it is a disservice to the individuals involved.

In a perfect world where everyone knew what they wanted to do with their life at 18 and was mature enough to take advantage of all of the opportunities they have with regards to education, I'd agree with you completely. However, we know that isn't the case from the data: Only 19% graduate on time.. Worse still 30% will not finish at all essentially dropping or failing out. That is not good and we as a society need to be aware that what we might want and what happens in the real world are two very different things. Kicking and screaming at reality are unlikely to yield different results.

I was talking about freedom to go out and play with other kids outside or away from adults, not to sit alone in their house or attend supervised structured activities. And yes, you can quite easily find tons of data to support this.
http://www.slate.com/articles/...
https://www.psychologytoday.co...
https://www.psychologytoday.co...
Just to start. A few seconds on Google will back up every word in my post.

Nuclear power and GMO foods are going to save us? Really?

Solar is dwarfing nuclear.

As for GMO crops, um, no. Just no.

Do you realize the connection between the nitrogen cycle, fossil fuels, and the 1973 oil embargo?

In a nutshell: World populations grew faster than land based plants can fix nitrogen from the atmosphere. The natural carrying capacity of this planet using sustainable traditional agriculture is about 2 billion humans. Oddly enough, about the time that the world population level reached 2 billion humans, the most technically advanced society at that time created a process to make large scale artificial fertilizers (and explosives) and a major engine of the industrial revolution. Both powered by fossil fuels. Farming commenced on a massive scale. And war, but that's just entertainment for idiots and of no real importance.

Fast forward to 1973. A new world power (USA) pisses off the a little Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, and finds itself with insufficient energy to function. Everybody scrambled to find a way to fuel airplanes, cars, and tractors. Monsanto discovers that a chemical chelator that removes calcium, manganese, magnesium, copper and zinc (trace elements essential for most forms of life on earth), also kills weeds. Go figure. This seems to suggest a way to conduct large scale farming without having to till the earth, which greatly reduces the fuel needed to farm. Fast forward a bit, and now we have GMO crops that survive occasional applications of this new miracle herbicide. And then there's the unregulated application of this new herbicide on wheat. Because Profit.. And it seems to be everywhere.

Sadly, many forms of animal life that come in contact with Monsanto's creation get cancer, have the epithelial lining of their intestines die, and get misdiagnosed as having Celiac disease. And those that aren't so lucky end up morbidly ill and dying prematurely due to complications of a diet high in high fructose corn syrup (high cholesterol, heart disease, etc.)

Now connect the dots... stay with me here:

GMO foods today have their origin in a lack of energy and environmental planning. These are contributing to CO2 levels and a whole collection of ensuing health and environmental disasters.

Stop spewing carbon, stop processing food with short sighted techniques that result only profit for some and misery and death for most. And please realize that messing with plants has the potential to cause death and misery on a truly global scale. Do you really want to go there, for profit?

Using statics for the effectiveness of Amber Alerts from AmberAlerts.gov is a little like going to JimBeam.com and expecting them to tell you the less savory statistics on alcohol abuse and drunk driving. While it no doubt does some good, most impartial assessments of the Amber Alert system have shown it to be at best a miss-allocation of resources (often only effective in custodial disputes where the child isn't in danger) and at worse a thinly veiled attempt at security theater.

Slate
ResearchGate.net
Washington Post

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https://whyy.org/segments/blac...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0...

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

https://www.independent.co.uk/...

https://www.bitchmedia.org/art...



and on and on and on, just from the first page of my links search. I'll leave finding the hundreds of stories about white people stopped in black "drug areas" as an exercise, it's not much harder to find as many as you want to know it's a problem too.

In most companies, if the first tier of tech support is unable to resolve your issue it gets escalated to a 2nd tier of support personnel. At Apple it gets escalated to black hole, requiring customers to file class actions to get resolution.

Riiiiiiight.

Prove it.

So that's why, when a man reported that iTunes "ate" his song-Library, they ultimately sent not only a special version of iTunes with some additional logging features, but then actually flew TWO engineers from the iTunes DEVELOPMENT TEAM across the country to his HOUSE to see if there was something particular about his computer, network, music files, etc. that was causing the issue.

The debugging session proved unsuccessful as Apple couldn't reproduce the reported issue; but apparently later found a bug in iTunes that might have been at fault.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bus...

Yep. Straight into a Black Hole.

Sigh. The average teacher working time in the US per year is 1900 hours per the OECD; which yields an hourly rate of $32. Facts are a pesky thing.

Statutory working time for teachers in the US is 1600 hours according to the OECD, not 1900 hours, yielding an hourly salary of $37.50 (that's slightly less than you get from the number of working days). However, it is unclear whether teachers even reach that, since they don't even reach statutory in class hours.

and must concur with your statement that you and your family have "the lowest test scores and lowest IQs."

Reading and reasoning aren't your strength apparently. You're confusing averages and individual performance. On average education majors have some of the lowest IQs among college majors, which is why on average they earn less and why the Brookings study is bullshit. Furthermore, those statistics apply to US degrees and are another symptom of America's broken education system; they don't apply to my family.

I can see why you are bitter.

I'm not bitter, I'm angry, there is a difference. I'm angry that people like you promote screwing over both American kids and American tax payers. And don't try to fool people: you have a personal stake in this, whether you admit it or not.

And squirrel aficionado:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bro...

Well, the last time we had an earth-shaking announcement about a comet, the story wasn't the comet. This article buries the lede and doesn't address the real story here: what kind of shirt was the spokesman wearing when he made the announcement? Because we know, from direct empirical observation, that that information is more important than humanity literally landing on a comet.

The spokesman's description of the difficulty of the Rosetta mission? "She's sexy, but I never said she was easy." The reaction was immediate:

This is a photo of Matt Taylor. He was watched by millions as he landed his robot on a comet, while wearing an exploitative sexualized shirt.

His shirt says to girls watching from their elementary classrooms: Science is not for you. You shouldnâ(TM)t be an engineer sending robots into space.

His shirt says to women in STEM: I have no respect for you as a professional. When I look at you, I see a sex object, and not a colleague.

"His shirt says to women in STEM: I have no respect for you as a professional. When I look at you, I see a sex object."The Bad Astronomy blog said: If you think this is just a bunch of prudes, you're wrong. It's not about the prurience. It's about the atmosphere of denigration.

Speaking for the highly respected The Atlantic, journalist Rose Eveleth brilliantly captured what that shirt represents in a community that continues to struggle, if not outright fail, to respect women: No no women are toooootally welcome in our community, just ask the dude in this shirt.

The spokesman broke down in tears the next day and apologized. He said, "I made a big mistake and I offended many people and I am very sorry about this."

If you can force a rocket scientist, celebrating the accomplishment of a lifetime, to cry and grovel and beg forgiveness on international TV for wearing a shirt, you are not unempowered.

Hillary's campaign employed DC crooks too.

Podesta group working with Manafort (surprise surprise):

http://thehill.com/policy/nati...

And possible collusion with Ukraine:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the...

It was also gerrymandered up the wazoo when Democrats were in power.

Yes. Reynolds v. Sims and Baker v. Carr. Of course, those Democrats were often entirely different in politics. Such is history.

Gerrymandering simply strengthens whoever is currently more popular.

Wrong. In some cases, actually weakens those who are more popular, as shown in Wisconsin and North Carolina.

If congressional districts were assigned rationally, Democrats wouldn't do very well anyway

Yes, but that's because your definition of rational which is 100% Republican Agenda. You do realize your biases, however, are not supported in actual math that is independent of your partisan bias.

The only way Democrats could do well if the US went to strict national popular majorities, but that is utterly unacceptable and incompatible with federalism.

Or you know, actually voting. Of course, that is utterly unacceptable to the Republican agenda which relies on voter suppression.

In actual fact [people-press.org], liberals only make up about 17% of the US political spectrum and California is thoroughly unrepresentative of the country.

Actually, California is highly representative of the country, and it's only because of zealots like you that it gets demonized as some outside nemesis.

The reason Republicans are so strong is because Democrats have fallen out of favor with the political center: moderates and independents.

Also untrue, the truth is quite contrary.

It is actually the Republicans who have become more extremist, but they rely on moving the perceptual concept to turn the tables instead of embrace reality.

I'm a good example of that: I used to be a registered Democrat but loathe what the Democratic party has become over the last decade. I won't vote for Democrats again until they clearly disavow people like Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton, Corey Booker, and Elizabeth Warren.

You're actually a good example of the lying fraud of the GOP, as you vacuously and repetitively pretend to claim to be a Democrat and a moderate, yet entirely espouse the hard-core right-wing agenda, and blame Obama for creating conflict.

Tell you what, maybe people will believe you when you disavow individuals like Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thoma

If someone broadcast a "weird" transaction

"...using this one weird old trick."

You've clearly never heard of California

http://www.slate.com/articles/...

He doesn't have concerns over it's monopoly level of power... he has concerns that the owner publicly says Trumps an idiot. https://slate.com/business/201...

The problem is Trump is a think skinned little twat that acts like a toddler with diapers full of shit; his supporters aren't much better.

Instead of puking all over a solution because Apple, you should be treasuring a company that actually values security and takes the effort to make it all fairly secure.

Security is not the same as privacy. Apple shares your data with its "strategic partners". And more.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/fut...

https://www.wired.com/2016/06/...

https://www.macrumors.com/2017...

https://www.theverge.com/2017/...

It would not be denied. Prisoners are required to receive proper and up to date medical care.

HAHAHAHAHAHA! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! And also ABAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Now pull the other one.

Actually your evaluation doesn't match the numbers. I decided to go through the entire Wikipedia list starting in 1900 and counting by state by decade, then pulled in a "gun control grade" published in Slate in 2015. I've also marked the highest number of shootings per decade. If there was a tie I marked them all. If you only start in 1970 only two of those 5 states you mention - FL, TX (with gun grades of F) - show up as having the highest number of shootings. The other states in the top 5 after 1970 are CA, MI, IL and OH (IL and OH had same number) all of which have gun grades higher than F. Seems your interpretation of the data is backward.

1900: CA: 4 IL: 3, KY: 2, AK: 1, CO: 1, IA: 1, MA: 1, MS: 1, SC: 1
1910: CA: 3, KY: 2, MO: 2, NY: 2, PA: 2, FL: 1, IL: 1, KS: 1, MN: 1, ND: 1, UT: 1, WA: 1
1920: GA: 2, OH: 2, OK: 2, IL: 1, KY: 1, PA: 1, UT: 1
1930: MA: 2, MN: 2, IA: 1, KS: 1, NY: 1, OH: 1, PA: 1
1940: NY: 5, CA: 1, OH: 1, OK: 1
1950: NY: 9, IL: 2, NC: 2, MD: 1, MA: 1, MO: 1, PA: 1
1960: CA: 2, FL: 2, MN: 2, NC: 2, TX: 2, AZ: 1, DC: 1, IL: 1, IN: 1, NY: 1, SC: 1, SD: 1, WI: 1
1970: CA: 4, MI: 4, TX: 3, IL: 2, MO: 2, OH: 2, PA: 2, VA: 2, AL: 1, CT: 1, IN: 1, KY: 1, MA: 1, MS: 1, NJ: 1, NY: 1, OK: 1, WA: 1, WV: 1, WI: 1

1980: MI: 5, CA: 3, IL: 3, MO: 3, AR: 2, TX: 2, AL: 1, CO: 1, CT: 1, FL: 1, IA: 1, KS: 1, MS: 1, MT: 1, NV: 1, NH: 1, NC: 1, OH: 1, OR: 1, PA: 1, SC: 1, UT: 1, VA: 1, WA: 1, WI: 1, WY: 1

1990: NY: 6, CA: 4, TX: 4, FL: 3, GA: 3, OH: 3, PA: 3, SC: 3, TN: 3, AR: 2, KY: 2, MN: 2, WA: 2, AK: 1, CO: 1, CT: 1, DC: 1, ID: 1, IL: 1, IA: 1, MA: 1, MI: 1, MS: 1, MO: 1, NM: 1, NC: 1, OK: 1, OR: 1, VA: 1, WI: 1, WY: 1

2000: CA: 6, TN: 5, FL: 4, IL: 4, LA: 4, PA: 4, AR: 3, OH: 3, VA: 3, WA: 3, MD: 2, MI: 2, MN: 2, MO: 2, NY: 2, WI: 2, AZ: 1, CO: 1, DC: 1, IN: 1, MA: 1, NV: 1, NJ: 1, NC: 1, OR: 1, SC: 1, VT: 1, WV: 1

2010: CA: 18, FL: 13, TX: 9, GA: 8, NY: 8, AL: 6, MI: 6, OH: 6, IL: 5, WA: 5, IN: 4, MD: 4, TN: 4, AZ: 3, CO: 3, KY: 3, LA: 3, OR: 3, PA: 3, UT: 3, VA: 3, WI: 3, CT: 2, IA: 2, MA: 2, MS: 2, MO: 2, NM: 2, SC: 2, HI: 1, MT: 1, NE: 1, OK: 1, SD: 1

California wins the top spot in 6 of the 12 decades, NY wins it 3 times

The top 5 states for school gun shootings total since 1900 are:
1. CA - 45
2. NY - 27
3. FL - 24
4. IL - 23
5: TX - 20

The top 5 states for school gun shootings total since 1970 are:
1. CA - 35
2. FL - 21
3. MI - 18
4: TX - 18
5: IL & OH - 15

Of the states you listed according to the gun grade at Slate
FL, GA, NC, TN & TX all have an F.

The grades for states with strong control on the lists above are:
CA: A-
NY: A-
MI: C
IL: B+
OH: D

And as for your firearm deaths per 100,000, since we're talking about criminal gun violence here, you might want to look at the chart of murder's by gun per 100,000 o

Is it a response to this, passed by the Senate 2 days ago?

What happened instead is the FOSTA-SESTA package, in which House lawmakers have incorporated the worst provisions of both bills in ways aimed at making internet companies more subject to prosecution and lawsuits and more prone to censor users' speech online.

According to the EFF:

SESTA/FOSTA will silence online speech by forcing Internet platforms to censor their users.

I was watching some SNL skits yesterday, and I noticed a pattern. There are 3 types of skits:

(1) Shit that ain't funny, because they're afraid to say anything controversial. These skits usually have a decent premise and 30 years ago would have been a howl. Today, they are garbage devoid of any comedy. An example is some Aer Lingus bullshit about a dog on the runway. Irish commenters on the video are baffled about what stereotypes they're taking the piss of. None, because they are too sensitive to actually make any ethnic jokes.

(2) Shit that would get me fired, but they can say it because they're a liberal mouth piece. Basically, anything about the relations between the sexes, or other PC drivel. Usually not very hard because they're trying so hard to avoid wrongthing.

(3) Jokes that are intentionally written not to piss anyone off, but still end up funny. An example of this is the joke where 4 kids try to buy beer and use outrageous costumes and acting.

This isn't YouTube; this is our society. Won't be long before all we have are cat videos. And if you think you can still crack a few jokes with the boys, the girls are coming to ensure that you're never without female oversight. And, they don't just want participation; the girls want to change it all around too (they're open about this!). In the Boy Scouts, girls will once again have to fight for themselves in a male-dominated space. Soon you'll never be free of the social shaming from women for saying shit that's not PC (and the definition of PC will keep expanding).

She was pushing a bicycle. Maybe that, instead of increasing visibility, led to her death. Autonomous cars have a problem detecting bicycles and Uber knew that since 2016 and chose to go on regardless, claiming its rejection of government authority was "an important issue of principle.". Looks like criminal neglect to me, at least.

By the way, when human dieoff's hit 50-90% then decarbonization can occur as nations collapse and return to pre-industrial carbon usage. Could that actually happen. A growing body of research suggests that, with a healthy dose of scienctific controvery, that the century of the little ice age was caused by deaths in the highly populated americas.

https://www.scientificamerican...

http://www.slate.com/blogs/fut...

https://phys.org/news/2011-10-...

My turbo research before I'm off to work is that it could be a small-ish meteoroid in free fall. It appearing as a cold white object in the IR-camera's "black mode" could be due to it still retaining the near-zero Kelvin temperature from space, though I'm unsure how the atmospheric entry would have affected that.

Noted scientific skeptic Phil Plait's article on a possible event such as this: http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad...

Featured video (1m 50s in): https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

All of these sound trivial and obvious, and will be nuked into orbit under Alice vs CLS Bank.

Yes, people choose prostitution as a career and many do so independently and enjoy doing it. Read up on the subject. https://www.washingtonpost.com... and the many posts at https://bebopper76.wordpress.c... and https://www.theguardian.com/co... and http://www.slate.com/articles/... are good places to start on your journey to not blindly buying into the prevailing narrative of bullshit.

Slate.com

Bradbury’s title refers to the auto-ignition point of paper—the temperature at which it will catch fire without being exposed to an external flame. In truth, there’s no authoritative value for this. Experimental protocols differ, and the auto-ignition temperature of any solid material is a function of its composition, volume, density, and shape, as well as its time of exposure to the high temperature. Older textbooks report a range of numbers for the auto-ignition point of paper, from the high 440s to the low 450s, but more recent experiments suggest it’s about 30 degrees hotter than that. By comparison, the auto-ignition temperature of gasoline is 536 degrees, and the temperature for charcoal is 660 degrees.

It would take a few minutes for a sheet of paper to burst into flames upon being placed in a 480-degree oven, and much longer than that for a thick book. The dense material in the center of a book would shunt heat away from the outside edges, preventing them from reaching the auto-ignition temperature. This is also why it takes so long for a campfire to reduce a log to ashes.

Bradbury asserted that “book-paper” burns at 451 degrees, and it's true that different kinds of paper have different auto-ignition temperatures.

The majority of Americans disagree with you on DC vs Heller. Even Slate, no fan of the right, concede that.

http://www.slate.com/articles/...

Heller is a much better choice. Scalia wasn't just the deciding vote. He wrote the opinion. Americans support his position and the right it protected. In a CNN/ORC poll taken in June 2008, just before Heller, 67 percent of Americans said the Second Amendment guaranteed "that each individual has the right to own a gun," not just "the right of citizens to form a militia." In a 2012 Pew poll, 67 percent opposed "banning the possession of handguns except by law enforcement officers." In a CNN/ORC poll, also taken in 2012, 89 percent opposed "preventing all Americans from owning guns"

But fascist? Citation please.

IMHO

There is little arguing that Pence is a dyed-in-the-wool Right-wing fundamentalist Christian. His religious beliefs alone tend to confirm that.

However, the article and examples you've provided here bring for the question; Does Pence himself actually believe the fascist statements he's making, or is he doing nothing more than re-enforcing the beliefs of his boss? Damn near every one of his statements was doing nothing but re-regurgitating exactly what his boss says and believes.

All this talk about impeaching Trump; perhaps we shouldn't overlook the fact that if Pence went against Trump sideways enough, he would likely be removed from office. Perhaps it's just semantics at this point, but it's interesting nonetheless. How valid are any VPs beliefs? If there was ever a position that could be labeled "King Ass Kisser", VP would sure as hell be the one.

But fascist? Citation please.

IMHO

They had to move to CGI due to the various accidents that happened when doing things for real. Actors (Vic Morrow, Renee Chen and Myca Dinh Le), got killed when a helicopter got buffeted by explosions and sliced into them during the filming of an episode of the Twilight Zone

So it is far safer to just use hand weapons for a scene and composite in the gun smoke and bullet holes in the suitcase right where the directors wants them than to redo the scene each time until they get it "good enough".

when habeas corpus may be suspended

Have you "read up" on this? With regards to the suspension of habeas corpus, if the government is tyrannical and the people rise up and use their dick extenders to secure a free state then it isn't a "rebellion". Now, tyrannical governments being what they are will call it a rebellion - in which case you have a civil war on your hands. Either side can make whatever arbitrary edicts they like and the "legitimate" edicts are those of the winner.

This is nice article touching on the subject

Oh dear, you sad semi-literate Trumpie, you missed all the references (not one of them is Reddit). Here they are so you can improve your reading skills.

1) The Guardian - Trump Tower meeting with Russians treasonous, Bannon says in explosive book

2) NBC - A Panama tower carries Trump’s name and ties to organized crime

3) Global Witness - Narco-A-Lago: Money Laundering At The Trump Ocean Club Panama

4) The Guardian - Trumps Panama tower used for money laundering by condo owners, reports say

5) Sketchy Donald Trump Deal Eyed For Ties To Iran | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC

6) The New Yorker - Donald Trump’s Worst Deal:
The President helped build a hotel in Azerbaijan that appears to be a corrupt operation engineered by oligarchs tied to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard

7) NPR - The New Yorker Uncovers Trump Hotels Ties To Corrupt Oligarch Family

8) Business Insider - Dossier author Christopher Steele: Trumps hotel and land deals with Russians need to be examined

9) New York Times - Trump Associate Boasted That Moscow Business Deal ‘Will Get Donald Elected’

10) The Washington Post - Trump’s company had more contact with Russia during campaign, according to documents turned over to investigators

11) Slate - An Intriguing Link Between the Mueller Investigation, Trump, and Alleged Money Laundering

12) GQ - Inside Donald Trumps Election Night War Room

13) Politico - Trump’s mob-linked ex-associate gives $5,400 to campaign

14) Raw Story - Longtime Trump business partner ‘told family he knows he and POTUS are going to prison’: report

15) The Spectator - Forget Charlottesville - Russia Is Still The True Trumps True Scandal

16) McClatchy - Donald Trump and the mansion that no one wanted. Then came a Russian fertilizer king

17) New York Times - Tracking the Yachts and Jets of the Mega-Rich

18) McClatchy - Trump, Russian billionaire say they’ve never met,

For a source to be labelled as junk news at least three of the following five characteristics must
apply:
* Professionalism: These outlets do not employ the standards and best practices of
professional journalism. They refrain from providing clear information about real
authors, editors, publishers and owners. They lack transparency, accountability, and do
not publish corrections on debunked information.
* Style: These outlets use emotionally driven language with emotive expressions,
hyperbole, ad hominem attacks, misleading headlines, excessive capitalization, unsafe
generalizations and fallacies, moving images, graphic pictures and mobilizing memes.
* Credibility: These outlets rely on false information and conspiracy theories, which they
often employ strategically. They report without consulting multiple sources and do not
employ fact-checking methods. Their sources are often untrustworthy and their
standards of news production lack credibility.
* Bias: Reporting in these outlets is highly biased and ideologically skewed, which is
otherwise described as hyper-partisan reporting. These outlets frequently present
opinion and commentary essays as news.
* Counterfeit: These outlets mimic professional news media. They counterfeit fonts,
branding and stylistic content strategies. Commentary and junk content is stylistically
disguised as news, with references to news agencies, and credible sources, and
headlines written in a news tone, with bylines, date, time and location stamps.

So lets take Slate for an example. A quick look shows that they pass the bar for Professionalism, as they identify their authors, and they make corrections. They're not counterfeit, as they don't mimic another news organization. And a quick look (I'm not a normal reader, obviously) shows that they seem to pass the Style and Credibility sniff test. Biased? Potentially. But they'd need to fail all 3 of those to get picked up as fake news.

Lets look at Drudge. Fails the Professional test on a couple accounts. While yes, it's an aggregator, it doesn't have any accountability, authors listed, and doesn't publish corrections. Obviously fails on Style. And I think the Credibility is a fail as well, as they don't seem to be doing a lot of vetting at all - it's a giant unorganized mess of links to both pretty legitimate MSM sites as well as some crackpot ones.

I'm honestly unsure why you feel that these two are on the wrong side of the fake news line. It seems pretty clear-cut to me, based on their metrics. And while I agree that some of these are somewhat unrelated to the quality of the reporting, without doing a deep analysis of the reporting itself, which would be a hurclean effort, I think it's a reasonable proxy for the quality of the stories.

I don't see any real bias in how they laid out their selection method. Given that this is coming out of Oxford in the UK, I have a hard time believing that they would be manipulating this research to favor one US political party over the other. That's a rather serious claim, and I'd expect such a claim to come with some serious evidence to back it up. You being angry that you are fed fake news isn't really that sort of evidence.

Easy - vaccinations make you retarded.

You think anti-vax is a leftwing conspiracy theory? Hmm.

https://twitter.com/realdonald...

https://www.infowars.com/resea...

GM tomatoes turn you into fish

This doesn't exist.

Bush bombed the WTC

9/11 "false flag" conspiracies are a conservative phenomenon.

http://www.slate.com/articles/...

Since the Ukrainian vote to join the EU, Russia has gone on an all-out propaganda offensive with the intention to split the west and weaken NATO. Russia regards the Ukraine as its "home-turf" and buffer against perceived NATO "aggression", and it regards the EU as the gateway to NATO membership for eastern European countries that were formally part of the Soviet Union.
Russia feels as if NATO is encroaching on its sphere of influence and waging an "underhanded" war of political expansion. Looking at a map you will see how one by one, former Soviet republics have been converted into NATO countries.
Russia also feels that this NATO expansion is a violation of a promise made to Gorbachev at the dissolution of the Soviet Union, that NATO would not expand to the east.
For this reasons Russia has decided to go on the offensive and start fighting NATO. Not by military means, since it does not have the means to seriously compete with NATO, but by information warfare, taking full advantage of the traits of our open societies, such as freedom of speech and of the press. Using fake news and trolls that sow discontent and dissent, it intends to cause a rift between our countries and institutions.
Russian agents already provided plenty of cannon fodder to the Brexit crew and succeeded in swaying public opinion. Everything that causes a rift through the EU and NATO is good for Russia.
Russia is very active in spreading fake news and inciting discontent around far-right groups in Europe, using the refugee crisis to full effect (fake news about rapists, terrorists and other criminals among refugees) to strengthen the far-right and to politically destabilize European nations, especially Germany and France. Fortunately these activities have only had marginal success thus far, with the far-right Front National in France and the AfD in Germany gaining some votes, but not enough to pose a serious threat to the political establishment.
It had resounding success in the U.S. were it just so managed to tip the scale in favor of Trump, the weaker candidate, and the US government and especially foreign policy is practically paralyzed and ineffectual at the moment. If you want some information or evidence on these activities, it's really only a good google search away.
Russian activities in Germany and Europe:
https://www.nato.int/docu/Revi...
http://time.com/4889471/german...
https://www.politico.eu/articl...
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...

On Russia's overall strategy and interference in the US:
https://www.newyorker.com/maga...
http://www.slate.com/articles/...

That should be a good start to get an idea.

Only problem is that housing is unaffordable.

Though there is a bill in the works to fix that.

Way to wish away the reality of the situation. Yes, extremists - like crazy lefties who want to silence speech

You appear to have an extreme case of irony deficiency. You should get that looked at.

"Crazy censoring lefties" is a talking point of your particular tribe of extremists who are desperate to accuse everybody else of your own crimes.

Rapper Common Disinvited By University As Commencement Speaker Over Song Lyrics
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Drexel censures professor for white genocide tweet.
Firing of Shirley Sherrod - Wikipedia
After news reports on tweets, queer advocate fired from Claremont Colleges
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How about people that care for the health of their youth and know they can't delete their accounts so just want to fix facebook http://www.slate.com/articles/... Amid skyrocketing youth suicide? Yeah top Marks Mark if you enjoy killing people! Its your company and your New Years Resolution to fix Facebook. Try a subscription model and don't sell out the youth. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/n...

Yeap, totally didn't happen. ISPs never blocked or throttled anything.

Yeah, I see it, but would want more evidence to believe it. The US median was $59k in 2016 for all households. There's no way NYC is that low. In fact, NY state was $54,659 in 2009. Are they claiming that NYC was lower than the state average of an earlier year? That said, the Slate article below does point out how much of NYC is rent controlled with people staying in places for 20+ years. Are places like that available to folks just starting out?

Reference:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://www.slate.com/articles/...

If you were a baker, or web developer (pick a service industry gig, it really doesn't matter), and someone you knew to be a neo-nazi, antifa (Really, whatever your personal bogeyman happens to be) wanted you to do perform work for hire, for them -- would you tell them to fuck off?

Are neo-nazis and antifa protected classes in the state of Colorado? Nope, but gays are. But what's with the incessant false equivalencies - the subject of gay rights come up and people who want to defend homophobia just can't stop making irrelevant comparisons. IQ's just drop 50 points on the spot.

Like when marriage equality was making its way through the courts and people just couldn't stop saying that if gay marriage was legalized, then the next step was pedophellia and bestiality. Which prompted articles like this: How To Explain Gay Rights To An Idiot.

That article needs to be updated. For the people who then started running around insisting that everyone who supported gay marriage must now also support polygamy, because reasons. And for this utterly asinine idea that anyone's body is a public accommodation.

No bigot in history has come out and said, "hey I'm a bigot who harbors completely dislike to other people for who they are". They all have "reasons" for the bigotry. Native americans were savages who had to make way for manifest destiny. Jews couldn't be trusted because Elders of Zion. Gays can't have rights because then so too must have pedophiles and Nazis. It's all the same crap, just different words and victims.

The prostitution hypothetical is apropos though

As apropos as bestiality was before it. Which is to say, not at all. Not remotely close. No cigar. It's that bigoted discrimination is impossible to defend on the merits, which is why you stretch farther than Mr. Fantastic and Gumby put together to come up with these false equivalencies.

Do you have a Ph.D in dumbfuckery to have to have this explained to you?

Ah, so it's the "anonymous Internet commentator Uberbah says it's different" limiting principle. Got it. Hopefully you've contacted the Supreme Court and imbued them with your infinite wisdom on how easy this all is -- they were actually struggling with the issue, but this should clear everything up.

Do tell where the Supreme Court is struggling with the notion that the bodies of prostitutes are public accommodations.

One of the few times you were funny, Ratzo.

Perhaps you should consider consulting fate, on whether to continue posting or not after this triumphant peak, by means of erotic asphyxiation next time you play with your hamster in the closet.

Why don't you offer to spank him with a Forbes magazine with Trump's face on the cover?

https://slate.com/news-and-pol...

It had been more than 24 hours since something insane and disturbing had emerged about pornographic actress Stormy Daniels’ alleged 2006-era affair with Donald Trump, which was a long time by this fast-evolving story’s standards, but Mother Jones has now delivered the goods:

According to 2009 emails between political operatives who were at the time advising Daniels on a possible political campaign, [Daniels] claimed that her affair with Trump included an unusual act: spanking him with a copy of Forbes magazine.

The Forbes issue in question, MoJo goes on to report, may have featured Trump and his children Don Jr. and Ivanka on its cover. And when taken in context, this bizarre detail may go further to confirm Daniels’ story than anything that’s been reported elsewhere, because she apparently disclosed it casually—rather than as part of any premeditated media strategy—after someone she was working with on a potential Senate campaign (!) in Louisiana happened to see Trump’s number in her phone. From Mother Jones again:

According to a May 8, 2009, email written by an operative advising Daniels, who asked not to be identified, Daniels at one point scrolled through her cellphone contacts to provide her consultants with a list of [potential donors] on the list: Donald Trump.

The operative later wrote the following to a professional acquaintance:

“She says one time he made her sit with him for three hours watching ‘shark week.’ Another time he had her spank him with a Forbes magazine.”

James Clapper, head of the NSA, lied to congress while under oath and suffered no consequences whatsoever: http://www.slate.com/articles/... . That's what I call lack of enforcement.

Yes, that's what technology does. Ikea even changed the shape of its mugs:

Companies like Ikea have literally designed products around pallets: Its “Bang” mug, notes Colin White in his book Strategic Management, has had three redesigns, each done not for aesthetics but to ensure that more mugs would fit on a pallet (not to mention in a customer’s cupboard). After the changes, it was possible to fit 2,204 mugs on a pallet, rather than the original 864, which created a 60 percent reduction in shipping costs.

Where you might need 5 truckers to ship as many mugs as sold in a fortnight, now you can do it with 2 truckers. Never mind that the wooden pallet eliminated 90% of the labor (jobs) associated with shipping an amount of goods in the first place.

It still takes some labor to produce the pallets--lumbering, milling, assembling, and even shipping--and that's much less labor than what you eliminate from the shipping process.

IKEA changing mugs did not cause a global impact in the job force. Even if 50% of the lumber industry were impacted today, that represents 150,000 jobs. That's not even close to what AI and automation is looking to eliminate.

The jobs aren't going away; things are getting cheaper, we can buy more, and we'll end up with the same number of jobs and more stuff.

You can do all this for now. Going forward, automation will continue to march forward and consume jobs that will not be replaced. Automation is targeting the transportation industry. Imagine if 20 - 30 years from now the job of human driver no longer existed. Millions of jobs disappear. And that's but one industry automation is targeting. Automation is working in parallel across many industries, making that impact considerably larger.

I favor recycling some of that new productivity into time by lowering the definition of full-time working hours, though.

Certainly a 20-hour workweek being considered full time would benefit humanity. We would actually learn to enjoy life, as a work/life balance becomes far more reasonable. Unfortunately, this will still not be enough to alleviate the pending impact of automation and AI driving the concept of human employment into extinction. UBI won't be a viable answer either unless you are accepting to an income and lifestyle of welfare, which is what UBI will ultimately pay. Without income, the economy collapses into a shadow of its former self.

Yes, that's what technology does. Ikea even changed the shape of its mugs:

Companies like Ikea have literally designed products around pallets: Its “Bang” mug, notes Colin White in his book Strategic Management, has had three redesigns, each done not for aesthetics but to ensure that more mugs would fit on a pallet (not to mention in a customer’s cupboard). After the changes, it was possible to fit 2,204 mugs on a pallet, rather than the original 864, which created a 60 percent reduction in shipping costs.

Where you might need 5 truckers to ship as many mugs as sold in a fortnight, now you can do it with 2 truckers. Never mind that the wooden pallet eliminated 90% of the labor (jobs) associated with shipping an amount of goods in the first place.

It still takes some labor to produce the pallets--lumbering, milling, assembling, and even shipping--and that's much less labor than what you eliminate from the shipping process.

The jobs aren't going away; things are getting cheaper, we can buy more, and we'll end up with the same number of jobs and more stuff. I favor recycling some of that new productivity into time by lowering the definition of full-time working hours, though.

Thanks, American Govt for lending our tax money to Tesla and getting them all back 9 years earlier than expected with full interest.
https://www.tesla.com/blog/tes...
Maybe the knuckle-draggers, once they go electric, will also repay their loans.

If they are trying to fully repay the government they have a long way to go.
http://www.latimes.com/busines...

And then there is this too
http://www.slate.com/articles/...

But... second amendment!

The courts have ruled that there is no second amendment right to be armed in your own home when the police pound on your door at unusual hours without reasonable suspicion, probable cause, or a warrant.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the...

The recent Kansas case applies whether you are armed or not and it is not even the only murder by swatting incident this year.

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

anti-ISIS "rebels" *cough* Al Qaeda *cough* CIA...

drones to here, guns to there
Money! Money! Everywhere! (this from almost two years ago) Tell me truthfully, is anybody really surprised why they're still around?

Oh, the twisted web...