TheSambassador

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[–] TheSambassador@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Welcome to most modern journalism! Remember when every news org started spending time going to Twitter to get the general population's reactions (instead of actually interviewing real people and figuring out how actually widespread a viewpoint is)? It's been downhill from there.

Combined with most people only reading headlines, news organizations almost never providing context for most actual facts, and wealth concentration like we've never seen, the current state of news media is pretty dire.

You can get people to assume almost any cynical worldview you want when you can chip away at their belief in humanity by repeatedly showing only the worst examples of it. This is what conservative news media has been so good at - getting them to believe a specific image of "liberal" and allowing that image to represent ALL liberals instead of just the most extreme side. Honestly, it feels like most people on the left are similarly starting to use dehumanizing language to describe conservatives. All this leads to people avoiding communication because they assume that everyone on "the other side" believes insane nonsense. Sometimes they do. A lot of times, they don't.

[–] TheSambassador@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

Most Bethesda RPGs are going for bredth instead of depth. They give you a giant world to explore and usually throw you into that world with complete freedom relatively quickly.

I generally agree that Skyrim (and Oblivion to be honest) aren't particularly strong games when you look at pretty much any individual system, and the games don't interest me much, but I totally get the appeal.

[–] TheSambassador@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

It's a comedy about working women getting revenge on their gross, sexist, terrible boss. It's not a morality tale, it's a satire.

[–] TheSambassador@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Out of curiosity, have you been a moderator before?

It's a fairly thankless job that you volunteer for. Most people aren't doing it out of some lust for power, they're just doing their best and sometimes make bad calls.

Are there shitty ones out there? Sure. But many of them are just trying to make nice spaces for their interest.

[–] TheSambassador@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Honestly the movie still holds up. It's a great time. Not sure what's creepy or inappropriate about it?

[–] TheSambassador@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I mean... Some food does literally just exist and we go out and eat it.

[–] TheSambassador@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It felt like he was taking offense to throwing in the South African thing. But I could be wrong.

[–] TheSambassador@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There's a part of a highway near Denver where it'll tell you to take a "slight right to stay on highway", and there is literally no possible turn or off ramp there.

[–] TheSambassador@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've always heard that weed smokers have less dreams, but as someone who kinda started doing it more regularly within the last year, I haven't experienced that? Honestly I think I tend to have more vivid and weird dreams when I've smoked before bed. Do some people not get the REM suppression?

[–] TheSambassador@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

School isn't just learning the stuff in the classes. It's the shared experience too. It's the teachers holding you accountable for learning.

"Going to school" is a very different thing than just trying to learn on your own. Self motivation and time are a huge barrier for a lot of people. I think the OP was imagining being able to go to school every day and just take classes for free with other people also interested.

[–] TheSambassador@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Almost all the airlines are doing that these days.

[–] TheSambassador@lemmy.world 40 points 2 months ago

Until we can make crossing those lines painful for those companies, they'll keep doing it. Unfortunately, I think convenience is always going to beat morality if you leave it to "voting with your dollar", we need actual regulations from our governments to combat this shit.

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