Ford should just fucking fire Jim Farley. He's been an absolute disaster for the company because he's a fucking incompetent inbred.

Can brainworms alone cause medical data hallucination?

You're welcome?

Depends in part on whether the cable is allowed to slide freely in the tether loop. If it is, then any extra length can come from the entire cable, or at least a large enough portion of the cable to prevent it from snapping, I would think.

Muslims are doing your mom WHILE eating your dog, white people are not coordinated like that. Shuddup maga!

"Toldja DEI would turn the world into a shithole, Trump always right. It was nice and white for a reason! God wanted it that way, he told me while I hit a hole-in-one from a million yards, true story, everyone saw it! Then the radical woke left made Santa and Areola the Mermaid black, so sad, they ruin everything, including my digestive system, can't eat KFC anymore said my doctor, the world has gone to Hell, lots of Hell, so we have to work harder to repair it like Columbus did to the Mayflower, rescuing the chosen people from Hannibal Lecter and woke sharks. You know, sharks wouldn't eat people if they weren't woke, RFK tested them in my Big Gold Bathtub, so beautiful, bling bling, blong blong! #MAGA!"

SpaceX donated fifty Starlink terminals

The world may be saved from disaster by Elon Musk? gag me!

As soon as I purchased Intel stock, they lost their mojo.

I'm waiting for these clowns to screw up bad enough that even their fans have to realize they are bozos with snake oil (or on snake oil). For example, let him nuke a hurricane and then have to evacuate two South Eastern states because of radiation risk.

It makes sense for rural areas with rough or winding roads. If something goes wrong, there's not a lot to kill, other than sheep. They could fly around small towns to avoid population.

Seems like with an anchor and a solid styrofoam buoy or similar, they could float the line a few feet above the sea floor on a flexible tether and prevent this problem more permanently.

Apple's were the first ones that anyone took seriously. Before that, you mostly had HTPCs, which were kind of niche.

Wow. Today I learned about two devices I had never heard of. But look at the user interface of the Samsung tablet from that era and the GridPad tablet. Compare with the Palm. They're nothing alike.

Now tell me the Newton UI wasn't a major influence on Palm's UI.

The appearance of Fox News was when any appearance of trying to be honest in newmaking went out the window. So yes, it really is. They made the talking head gallery into an art form.

Before that, there was a clear line between news and interviews, and biases were largely subtle, mostly in the form of choosing which stories to cover, rather than in the form of deliberately interposing large amounts of commentary into the coverage itself. This is not to say that there weren't editorials, but they were clearly delineated from the news portion of coverage. After the rise of intentionally biased news sources, that all stopped.

And no, most major news outlets were not intentionally biased before that. They had biases because the individual people reporting had biases, but that's not the same thing as the corporate entity dictating that bias by fiat. Most journalists prior to the Fox News era would have resigned rather than put up with that. It was very much seen as a violation of journalistic ethics back then.

Well, one of those is basically the same as one of mine, to be fair. IMO, it's not 24-hour aspect that's the problem. It's the entertainment aspect. CNN was founded in 1980, and Headline News was founded in 1982. The quality of news/journalism didn't really start to decline rapidly until the late 1990s, and it cratered by the mid-2000s.

Before Fox News, CNN was the only 24-hour news source. It had no competition, so it had no incentive to spin the news and sensationalize it to get viewers. If you wanted news some time other than first thing in the morning, noon, or 6-ish in the evening, you went to CNN. When Fox News and MSNBC started competing, they added more entertainment to differentiate themselves, the 24-hour news-entertainment cycle became a thing, and things went horribly wrong.

But I mean if you think news quality started going downhill significantly before the mid-1990s, I'd be curious to know when you perceived the decline.

s/many/nearly all/

It turns out that when advertising is free, the worst elements of society that provide the least benefit to society take advantage of it to bad ends.

Wish I had met him, but sadly, I didn't, so I can't say. I did meet Sam Donaldson (who overlapped with him at a different network) and Katie Couric (who missed overlapping by only a few years at the other major network), and they seemed like decent people. I'd imagine Cronkite was as well. Most of the journos back then were.

The fact that part of what is ostensibly mainstream media spews stuff that would lead to a post like this is exactly why trust in the media is at an all-time low.

Back in the 80s and before, journalists actually had to take the time to learn enough about their stories to sound intelligent. And that meant that when they interviewed a talking head in politics, if the politician lied, the journalist would often correct them.

In the post-news era, we started seeing more and more talking head "news", where news channels spent more and more of their time having guests on the show who spew whatever bulls**t they want and nobody calls them on it.

And in the post-truth era, that level of idiocy began bleeding into the news, with "journalists" putting spin on the news, with the destruction of fact checking, and with the quality of the reporting spiraling.

What do I blame for this? Two things. First, the rise of Fox News, created by Rupert Murdoch to be an intentionally conservatively biased news source. Second, decades of media consolidation producing steady declines in pay and in job availability for people who work in journalism, leading it to become a less and less desirable field, resulting in most of the best and the brightest choosing other fields. This is not to say that there aren't intelligent journalists, just not nearly as many as a percentage of the total. Also, media consolidation has resulted in fewer voices in general, which further erodes trust.