JudgeHolden

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[–] JudgeHolden 2 points 1 year ago

The internet itself is far more to blame than either of the factors you cite. Why? Because it destroyed journalism's traditional revenue model and in so doing murdered local news. Only the biggest legacy news organizations can still make ends meet through a subscription base, so the result is that everyone else is left churning out bullshit clickbait articles in a competition for views.

"Information wants to be free," was the mantra of the early internet, and that's nice as far as it goes, but good journalism is expensive and when we gut the revenue stream of an entire industry, we shouldn't be surprised that what's left kind of sucks.

[–] JudgeHolden 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Jaron. It's Jaron. Pronounced with a J sound, not a Y.

[–] JudgeHolden 1 points 1 year ago

Jaron. It's Jaron. Pronounced with a J sound, not a Y.

[–] JudgeHolden 8 points 1 year ago

A lightweight Linux distro can get you the same results with current software. Hell, even Ubuntu will. The deterrent has always been that you have to tinker with it to get it to work right, but that's a lot less true now then it was in the past. I recently installed Ubuntu 22.04 on my wife's old iMac and it's lightening fast and worked straight out of the box with no tinkering whatsoever. It's about 20 times faster than it was running iOS.

[–] JudgeHolden 1 points 1 year ago

That's a CNN link. The original is BBC. If it's a wire story it could easily be the same text though.

[–] JudgeHolden 1 points 1 year ago

You have to be a tribal member to get casino money. You can't just roll up and say "I'm a 16th Cherokee, where's mah money?!" Some tribes have even started to disenroll people, which has led to some ugliness.

[–] JudgeHolden 1 points 1 year ago

You have to be a tribal member to get casino money. You can't just roll up and say "I'm a 16th Cherokee, where's mah money?!" Some tribes have even started to disenroll people, which has led to some ugliness.

[–] JudgeHolden 4 points 1 year ago

You have to be a tribal member to get casino money. You can't just roll up and say "I'm a 16th Cherokee, where's mah money?!" Some tribes have even started to disenroll people, which has led to some ugliness.

[–] JudgeHolden 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That 99% claim seems ridiculously high to me. Do you live in Oklahoma or something?

[–] JudgeHolden 13 points 1 year ago

They were wrong. Spaniards are definitely not considered Latino here.

[–] JudgeHolden 3 points 1 year ago

On the flipside, it's also true that if we all simply give up and don't have kids because the future looks so bleak, by definition we are admitting to a kind of psychic defeatism and epistemic hopelessness. Having kids is one of the best ways for regular people to have any hope of influencing the future.

[–] JudgeHolden 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"the US is a Republic not a democracy..."

Thanks for telling us that you don't know WTF you're talking about.

This idea of yours, that republics and democracies are somehow mutually exclusive concepts is a deeply stupid category error that has zero basis in political science (to say nothing of practical reality) and almost always is the redoubt of those who wish to justify the dysfunction of the current status quo.

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