Boss makes a (million) dollar, I make a ~~dime~~ tenth of a penny, that's why I let crows eat my entrails on company time. :-P
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How did you know that I was referring to (that famous person) from (the other side)? Blast, I would have gotten away with it too if it weren't for you meddling sleuths! :-P /s
Yeah, and CGP Grey, Ian Danskin's Innuendo Studios, I enjoy the Crash Course series though more classes than topical, and Kurzgesagt is amazing though has their own type of bias.
But if I want to know something about e.g. Boeing or train derailments or a deep dive into student loans, or something I did not even know that I wanted to know about e.g. the current status of ethical farming wrt chocolate, or food delivery apps, he has it all covered. So it is not only the depth that is fascinating, but the width and breadth of coverage as well (both wrt a single video and moreover the number of those total).
Unfortunately it mixes in opinion and interpretation directly integrated alongside the delivery of the facts. So it is funny (juvenile), informative (truly!), and overbearing all at once, and seems designed to leave you feeling more informed than you actually are upon watching.:-(
Still, they offer so very many videos on so very many topics, and I have never seen anything these days that comes close - e.g. their Boeing video describes more in 10 of its 30 minutes than a typical TV "documentary" these days (at least, of the type my mother watches), and then it goes on to cover essentially what a full length feature film documentary would cover, all in something digestible while eating a lunch (or two). And I respect that so much - that takes effort and skill that is hard to match.
You:
Google's response:
Now we have graduated to the disinformation age:-(
If you don’t test, it doesn’t exist.
The problem... - sigh, here we go again, like every other time before it - is funding: who is going to pay for it?
The federal budget for 2024 was supposed to, and did, start on October 1, 2023. However, that budget was never approved until one House speaker lost their job, and the job of the second is now very much in jeopardy for "colluding" with lawmakers on both sides, which used to be called "governing" but now people scream as if it is tantamount to treason - except ofc whenever they themselves do it and then it's all okay, obviously (eyeroll).
In this environment, even "normal" functions are being halted, and there is no excess capacity for things that would require above and beyond. Maybe individual states can start picking up the slack, or collections of them? Maybe a company can volunteer to pay their shareholders less in return for doing such testing, or even transparently raise the price of the goods, letting consumers know what additional value they are getting from the more expensive product? As if a sufficient number of people would notice and do anything other than simply purchase the cheapest one, as always?
And maybe our media can stop being shocked every time this happens? I for one no longer consider it "cute". Whatever happened to factual reporting, that doesn't attempt to affect outrage, especially for something like this where that would have already happened anyway!?
Therefore I choose to blame myself: perhaps I should just block any article from the NYT, if this is simply always how it is going to be from now on...
Somehow I feel like you would know better than I on the matter pertaining to this subject... (Lemmy equivalent to "username checks out"?:-P)
Mustache only=sexual predator, goatee=evil, etc. - facial hair never lies!:-P
Yup, sounds about wrong :-P