isles

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[–] isles 36 points 7 months ago (1 children)

"We're whalers on the moon!"

[–] isles 1 points 7 months ago

"nah baby, for sure I used the gel"

Though this little gem was in there: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/12/03/male-birth-control-pill-indonesia/19825387/ 99% effective with rare side effects?

[–] isles 2 points 8 months ago

The answer is there, keep wondering 🙂

[–] isles 2 points 8 months ago

I was on a trip just yesterday and saw one for the first time on a picnic table, thanks for sharing!

[–] isles 5 points 8 months ago

If cops aren't required to know the law, why am I listening to one? An attorney would have been better.

[–] isles 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

"Snitches get stitches" Doesn't quite roll off the tongue.

[–] isles 7 points 8 months ago

Absolutely, this study from Berkeley from 2014 said beef should be $30 / lb, without subsidies. Inflation-adjusted (with caveats), it'd be ~$40 / lb today.

[–] isles 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's a delightful response to my snarky comment, thank you.

I agree, the incentive structure is such that it undermines the goals of journalism. Compounded with a firehose of misinformation, even full-time journalists must be overwhelmed.

I'm unwilling to give them a pass, however. Their job is to report accurately, they understand the risk of reporting things that are not fully vetted, and choose to anyway. As you say, they're complicit.

[–] isles 2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Surely you're not accusing the media of any malfeasance!

[–] isles 7 points 8 months ago

(adult users of TikTok? This sounds so weird and foreign to me; I must be too old)

https://backlinko.com/tiktok-users

TikTok has 1.25 billion monthly active users, nearly half of Americans are on TikTok. The majority of people on TikTok are adults.

[–] isles 6 points 8 months ago

They don't have to - if the penalty is a fine, then it's just the cost of business. Everyone is fine with the system - as long as the profits gained from breaking the rule are bigger than the fine, behavior won't change.

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