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Comment Re:Dumbing down (Score 1) 40

If PBS stopped making that content, perhaps local public broadcasters could make higher quality content on the same subjects with a lower budget.

Welcome to making science content for the masses and all ages, you do have to simplify things a bit.

I don't think it was PBS that was stopping local broadcasters from doing that up to this point, PBS exists because most places do not in fact produce such content given their own initiatives. Video production is more accessible today than anytime in history, nothing was stopping this.

Comment Re:Conservatives cause this (Score 1) 87

Oh college students are supposed to spare the feelings of conservatives. Maybe they need their own safe spaces they clamored against for rage bait for so long.

By conservative media I mean the entire apparatus from Fox, to the alternative cable networks, to the social media influencers to the podcasts to the Youtube channels where they are all lockstep in talking points and messaging.

Where do I get my viewpoints from? Probably what youd call "liberal" media but I almost don't really trust them so I like to look at source documents because most headlines and "just so" narratives (like all colleges being dominated by super progressive wokies) are true a littl ebit but nowhere near the degree.

Also I'm not the one out ehre making really strong claims with really strong opinions and when pressed if they are accurate respond back with "well, let me go ask gpt if that's actually true"

Comment Re:Dumbing down (Score 1) 40

First off that's talking about guests, guests aren't typically paid for appearances you silly goose.

Also how many liberals are guests on Fox, Newsmax, OANN, etc? Also they don't mentioned if the I'm sure reputable journalists at... let's check, fucking Newsbusters (says a lot about your media diet) did their journalistic due diligence and asked PBS why that was the case. Maybe they ask a bunch of conservatives and they get turned down because so many of them prefer to go to their multitiude of safe spaces where they can circle jerk each other and never have to face a challenging question (like the President!)

Yet again, if you all want to bring back the Fairness Doctrine by all means, let's have at it but you all are the ones who killed it.

Comment If you're not going to put effort into make it (Score 1) 5

Then why should anyone put the effort in to watching it?
That's the problem with AI slop. You cut humans out of one end of the equation but don't realize that also is going to remove humans for the other end.

The media executives of the world must think we're all pretty stupid if they think that your average consumer is OK with ever decreasing quality of content. It gets to a point where watching grass grow is more entertaining than confusing moronic slop, and nobody is getting paid then.

Comment Re:Conservatives cause this (Score 1) 87

I will take your non answer as "yes, i get this viewpoint from social and conservative media". Moving on.

Point out where I said that.

Banning arguments or speakers is cringe and should not happen on campus but again, I don't think that happens as much as conservative media wants us to believe.

If you are ideas are unpopular or you are dogshit at arguing them out (most conservatives today) that's different, that's called get better arguments.

Not the college kids fault the conservative movement is bereft of principles or ideas. College Republican groups exist in like almost every school, their elders have just left them adrift outside of support of Trump.

Comment It's just a recap trailer (Score 1) 5

Now tell us how long it took to put this together, what all the data processing time cost and compare that to the day or two to pay a competent editor to put a recap together.

I swear half the things these companies want to replace employees with is literally just malice, they just hate having to acknowledge some people have skill syou have to pay them for, it eats the executives up. They don't care if it costs more so long as some employees get screwed, they need to know their place.

Comment Re:Conservatives cause this (Score 1) 87

Do you attend or work at a university or is this all coming from alternative and social media reporting? There's a pretty stark difference between say, law and economics departments and your liberal arts department.

Colleges are filled with 18-24 year olds, how do we expect them to act? Also you're in college, you're not supposed to be "avoiding" alternative viewpoints and arguments, its actually where youre supposed to confront and discuss them, you're supposed to have some radical thinking in college, it's the last place you can do those things before adulthood.

Comment Re:Okay. (Score 1) 125

In short: All of this is the consequence of post-WW2 ultra-empowerment of the executive by the legislature.
We like to blame the guy instead of the laws that enable him.

The system was designed to survive a mini-mussolini. The system was not designed to protect against a legislature that did not jealously guard its power.

Comment Re:Conservatives cause this (Score 1) 87

And neither does humanities or social sciences is my point. The dominance of "woke progressive" programs is a conservative media bogeyman creation, as I said.

Also you do still need humanities and arts. We agree on business and law being flooded so I would prefer those people go into arts besides thoughts. America has dominated arts and entertainment for like a century.

Comment Re:Okay. (Score 1) 125

You're making it sound like Trump cares about the law. The republicans are too scared to speak up against him, the tame SCOTUS won't do anything... Your country's legal systems are effectively toothless.

This is hand-wavy bullshit.

Trump gets to rule by fiat and the Republicans and their backers have spent much of the last 8 years ensuring that their loyalists are in key positions.

This is ignorant bullshit.

I mean there are military troops in several US cities which are there on very dubious grounds (read: obviously there to punish and intimidate those Trump perceives as enemies and by enemies I mean people who didn't vote for him) above the express wishes of state governments or the local population.

The grounds are dubious, because the laws that allow for it are ambiguous as fuck.
Those troops are doing nothing but protecting Federal property, because that's all he can do with the ambiguous laws selected.

So why do you think Trump will care about any other law? There's no-one to stop him.

I don't think Trump cares about the law in the slightest.
But yes, there absolutely is an entire system to stop him, including the troops you're so afraid of.
They have a duty not to follow illegal orders. The best he can do is do a shitty job of coloring in the lines.

Your political talking-head regurgitations aren't helpful.

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