Miscellaneous And Off Topic Subjects

[THE_WIZARD_]

...you could have stopped at "Talent" and that post would have been perfect AA...

[AlabamAlum]

OWIZ COMIN'!! OWIZ COMIN!!

[THE_WIZARD_]

...you....light up my life...

[Wild Hoss]

...you could have stopped at "Talent" and that post would have been perfect AA...

The post would have been even better if he'd stopped where it said "Log In". JMO.

AA:

hi!

[THE_WIZARD_]

harsh...and I like it...

[hack]

What are the grave consequences and when do they happen? It's been a warning since Hamilton prevailed over Jefferson.

There won't be any. It should be smaller, but there won't be consequences.

[WM Wolverine]

The Wire is worth watching a 3rd or 4th time after college football season.

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Jeff brings up the point that the average person doesn't care about the validity of his news source and prefer to read whatever back up their beliefs. Legitimate sources of news are competing for clicks with partisan biased & propaganda websites. This competition for clicks damages the quality of news reporting and were left with the mess of news we have today.

[Wild Hoss]

That's the way...uh-huh, uh-huh...I like it...

[THE_WIZARD_]

shaddup

[froot loops]

Never seen the Wire, heard a lot of good things about it and it's available on Amazon Prime.

[entropy]

[ame]https://twitter.com/g_s_bhogal/status/905487144160038912[/ame]

Some validation to the idea that Twitter is an echo chamber


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[WM Wolverine]

What might not be factored in the Twitter echo chamber is the amazing amount of bot accounts during the election cycle. Most on twitter likely follow their own partisan news sources, there is not much ability for one to even see the other side unless they choose to.

[hack]

Point is it is possible to understand events and develop a well informed opinion about them at all levels. Not easy, especially for average man who may not look at multiple sources and critically exam them and maybe even more difficult for above average man who is doing that but is time constrained by work and has family responsibilities.


Pick and choose five, and, maybe yes. Pick another five on which you can be stale and still probably right. And, in some case, pick getting your facts straight or your underlying concepts, but not both. As an example, this week's Economist story on The Ambassador Bridge, to use a local/relevant case. Three factual errors, but they nailed the conceptual stuff.

IMO things have become incredibly complicated. We are foolish to think we understand any one current event and its underlying dynamics unless we are exposed to it and thinking about it on a regular basis and are regularly updating what we know and refining our conclusions. There's no dipping in for a quick immersion and coming out with lasting and accurate comprehension.

Which is why Wiz has the right idea. We should all find three indestructible punchlines and base all discourse on them.

[AlabamAlum]

Never seen the Wire, heard a lot of good things about it and it's available on Amazon Prime.

You need to sit down and binge watch it. Seriously.

[Dr. Strangelove]

It will never be repaid and the consequences for that will be grave.

Is there really a niche of intelligent people in this country that truly think the enormous amount of national debt is a GOOD thing?

Debt CAN be power and leverage...but only so long as the other party still has hope of being repaid. Knowing where that tipping point is and being able to maintain that balance seems like the tricky part.