Better Ukraine than my crane. *Ba-dmp-Bump!*

> They lied about Covid (Chinese bio-weapon)

Are you saying the media argued it was one, because I honestly didn't see that claim outside of the weird right wing media I try to avoid but Slashdotters link to from time to time. It clearly wasn't a bio-weapon.

> lied about it's threat-level. (It was relatively harmless)

The first wave had a death rate of about 2%, which is extremely high for this kind of virus. Long COVID is also a factor - it wasn't known what the long term effects would be, but it turned out to have them. Now, again, the weird right wing stuff may have claimed otherwise, but this absolutely was covered by the media.

> Campaigned to force mRNA experimental Genetically Engeered substances into people's bodies

OK, I think I get where you're coming from. You get your news from Facebook, right?

WSJ is owned by Rupert Murdoch and is essentially a version of Fox News aimed at people you can't easily lie to. If you think it's left wing you not only haven't read it, you barely know anything about it other than the name.

CNN has been drifting rightward for years, albeit dialing it back periodically when their ratings collapse as a result. Turns out Fox News viewers aren't going to watch an outlet that's constantly called "leftist" by the right wing, while liberals and the left do not like media that's both right wing and inaccurate. CNN's natural bias is towards corporate interests, not the left. It's just considered left wing by the right because of decades of smears, interpretations of poor journalism as "left wing", and, well, a lack of viewing by the audience that considers it that.

CBC I can't comment upon.

American TV News started going downhill in the 1990s. It has nothing to do with so-called bias - that's simply what the right wing have insisted on promoting as a way to cast doubt on legitimate news. It has to do with sloppy reporting, a failure to check sources, or have their content reviewed by subject matter experts. Part of this is the nature of the beast, viewers want their news to be timely, and their cable bills low. Part of it is that the professionals and the people who own the news organizations just do not care. They want ratings, not Pulitzers.

Diversity and unity are orthogonal. Diversity always has been a strength, a monoculture is a shitty way to live.

Nobody sane wants to live in an environment where everyone is like them.

Given what's happened since 2016, largely as a result of the extreme right wing media's lying since the 1990s, I think it was the wrong call not to kick out Fox News. It would have upset the establishment, but let's be quite honest, the country is at an end, the constitution isn't worth shit, human rights abuses are now mainstreamed, and much of this is due to the malign influence of a single Australian media baron, and the unwillingness of the Democrats to fight back or the establishment to recognize what's happening.

America is dead. Iranians can stop chanting that slogan now, they got what they wanted.

So you admit you're lying?

Well one is fascist and the other isn't, which should be a major thing even someone far removed from it and used to just comparing political parties to some crude "mid point" between your two dominant parties should be able to notice.

I mean seriously, this "both sides are the same" shit needs to stop. The Democrats are obnoxiously corporate, sure, but they're not trying to roll back protections for marginalized groups, they're not trying to dismantle democracy, they're not building concentration camps, and they haven't created a secret police with a budget larger than the fucking Marines solely to enforce one relatively unimportant set of laws as brutally as possible knowing it'll also result, and has also resulted in, harm to innocent Americans who haven't done anything wrong. They are also, for all their faults, pro-science.

How are they the same?

Really...

It's Not Just Epstein. MAGA Is Angry About a Lot of Things

I don't know who you're talking to, but while they're generally happy with him, Trump supporters call him out fairly frequently when they think he's getting squishy on something. They were mad at him for the Syrian involvement in the first term, and in just the last few months they've been unhappy about both the strike on Iran and his flip on the Ukraine war, both of which they maintain we shouldn't be involved in at all. There was criticism of the Intel purchase. There was criticism about his vacillation a few months back on H1B's. A cursory glance at any Trump-friendly forum over the post few months will show lots of threads where his supporters are questioning or opposing him on something. They're not the thralls without a will of their own you seem to think they are.

When I use AI tools in topics that I know well, often which I learned in university, I can easily pick out errors in AI output. Those errors occur quite often.

In topics that I don't know, it's damn near impossible to pick out errors. I'm fairly confident those errors still exist. But, I can't see them due to my own knowledge limitations. Regardless, the AI remains confident regarding all output whether correct or not.

The knowledge provided by university which is denoted by those fancy degrees is arguably more valuable in the era of AI due to hallucinations. You need humans who can tell when the AI is correct or not.

"But I find it laughable to argue the federal government or any government is efficient."

Well, you're wrong. Medicare is more efficient than insurance companies, since it's not trying to make a profit for shareholders happy to profit from suffering.

They've been pushing this narrative that media can't be trusted. This then allows them to shape stories to fit their own right-wing agenda. Witness for the past 5 years all the whining about a "stolen" election. Almost every day for Biden's term that fake story was pushed out, mainly by their stooge Trump, but definitely put out there on other sites and roundly repeated by the dullard MAGA crowd.

Never mind that the Fox tabloid jumped wholeheartedly on this bandwagon and got bitchslapped for almost $800 million for pusing the lie, or that several attorneys were either suspended from pracitce, criminally charged, or disbarred for repeating the lie in court. Nope, the election was stolen and the media is lying because . . . reasons.

Then of course there are the calls of "FAKE!" every time the truth is put out. Such as when repeating the decaying coleslaw words of dear leader Trump. Repeat his own words and you're called out for being "fake news".

What makes this story so hilarious is that the same people who claim to have low to no trust in media are the first ones to go rushing to the same media to see who the new white guy is shotting up a church or school. They want to see if their biased perceptions are true and when the story doesn't match what they think, they claim the story is false because . . . reasons.

Even more hilarious is when people claim they no longer listen to the media but instead get their news from various social media sites. Where do they think the people posting screenshots are getting their information from?

Turmp is right. Smart people don't like him because he caters to the poorly educated (a group he says he loves) who will lap up any bs he or Project 2025 or the late Charlie Kirk spit out. Because instead of looking at reality, they want to believe there is some vast conspiracy by news media to lie to them, to withhold the truth. Except, when the truth is out there, these same people claim it's all lies. They can't have it both ways (they can, but it shows their stupidity). Either you have to accept these people are doing their jobs reporting on corruption, reporting on who's doing what underhanded thing, who's committing genocide, or you don't. You don't get to pick and choose like all the Senators and Representatives who claim the election was stolen, except for their election.

"So next I would hope for traditional "safety nets" of family and community to kick in."

Why do you want the least efficient option? You hate things that make sense?

I bet most the AI hiring is spam/scam co's looking to automate and customize spam. Unlike real work, the "AI slop factor" isn't a show-stopper in Spamville.

Yes, in the Dark Patterns Department. They were competing with Amazon.

"Cloud" is out, "AI" is in, until it isn't.

I hope the AI hype poppage is a soft landing rather than a repeat of 2008. That one hurt.