berniepebbles

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Comment · 5 years ago
What’s wrong with new News channels?

If we maintain the status quo, we’ll have cronies like Jeff Zucker taking the reigns of an established (fake) news organization, pushing propaganda that’s convenient for their world view all while claiming to be objective.

Refer to the CNN exposed / Jeff Zucker tapes if you’re curious to learn about how CNN decides what the narrative is.

Comment · 6 years ago
I didn’t claim conspiracy, but the media doesn’t decide elections.

Trump is definitely an outsider.

Comment · 6 years ago
Let’s be honest, these are activist sources who all happen to be left leaning.
Comment · 6 years ago
Could you elaborate how fox is worse?

Is this because you disagree politically or because they’re “beyond the beyond, they’re way worse” or whatever thoughtless, meaningless comment Was typed?

Comment · 6 years ago
I'd say a link to snopes.com is a less than brief search.

People should steer away from fact checkers. It's a lazy way to confirm your own opinion.

Comment · 6 years ago
These should be avoided. Ranking articles? How about visiting the sources and reading what they have to say instead of taking peoples word for it. I always call bs when left leaning sources, who are just as opinionated as the right leaning sources, are closer to “neutral” than the right leaning sources are to neutral. It paints a picture that right leaning sources are “closer to the extremes” when I believe the opposite is true.
Comment · 6 years ago
1. How do you select your sources? *edit grammar

2. How do you decide whether to label a source as left, or moderately left? What is the political spectrum?

A. What would you assign brietbart news? B. Why wouldn’t you give new york times a “objective” tag? (That’s what they claim to be. /s)

I think new york times is as far left as vox. Your website seems to paint them as moderately left.

Comment · 6 years ago
It’s valuable when fellow HN users highlight questionable details buried in User Agreements (UA). Thank you!

It would be great to hear a response from the founder on this point.

Does Github’s UA have the same requirement for all of their users software?

Comment · 6 years ago
The climate is ever changing.

Is it possible it is the driest year on record for reasons outside of human impact?

Do we understand weather patterns enough to be confident in the conclusions?

Could the driest year on record be a random event?

This author seems to be reaching a conclusion first, then finding data to support that conclusion. Any time there is a superlative, we can conveniently apply the climate change label to it.

How about some humility?

I try to take these in good faith, but the author’s bio descriptions and stated employment at left leaning organizations are also reasons I approach this with skepticism.

Comment · 6 years ago
It depends... When asked by regulators, 5% market share. When asked by customers, 35% market share.

Joking aside, Peter Thiel has great commentary on how companies avoid the monopoly label by claiming to be part of a larger community. A classic example is that Google search has at least 70%+ market share. However, when asked by regulators, they’re a “tech company” with many competitors and have a significantly lower market share.

Comment · 6 years ago
This is promoting victim culture. Many red flags and many GoFundMe links.

If you can’t afford a lifestyle, move. If you can’t afford the lifestyle, but continue to live there, don’t create a gofundme and craft a sob story highlighting your negligence.

On a positive note, you can get a job, graduate high school, and not have kids out of wedlock (dogs are not cheap either). You have all 3 of those going for you. You are tougher than you think.

You should reject all of those GoFundMe dollars or have a plan to repay people who donated.

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