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Comment Re:Trying to care... (Score 1, Interesting) 79

Prime Video thumbnails aren't the actual issue, they're just a symptom. What will you do when all of history is edited to be exactly how the people in power want it to have been?

It's not even a new issue. Remember edited re-releases like E.T. where the police / federal agents are holding walkie-talkies instead of guns, or Star Wars and Han doesn't shoot first. Back IRL Trump has people censoring The Smithsonian to remove things that make America look, or people feel, bad.

Comment Re:Evolution in Action (Score 0) 96

For hunter-gatherers (which we were for most of a million years) an older female can continue to dig roots and pick berries, but an older male can't keep up with the hunting party. If the older male has some talent like flint knapping that would still make them valuable to the group, but any older female can continue to cook and herd the children.

And older men can't start helping out with the things older women do because ..?

Guessing... Pete Hegseth's "Warrior Ethos"? (From a guy who's pretty liberal with the hair gel. (pun intended?)) :-)

Comment Re:MAGA was successful (Score 3, Interesting) 195

even MAGA does not agree on everything

MAGA is a party/movement of exclusion, based on if one is MAGA enough and an ever narrowing definition of that. Anyone who doesn't agree with the current definition too hard and/or for too long won't be MAGA anymore. Trump easily discards even very loyal people if they don't conform; he may take you back if you have something he wants/needs, but he won't ever forget your transgression -- for as long as he can actually remember things anyway. Current toadies will be happy to remind him, though perhaps not entirely accurately. His brain operates on a LIFO model.

Comment Re:Meanwhile here in the US (Score 2) 146

We are about to hand out 600 million to coal companies. Those donations to Trump were money extremely well spent.

Yup, 'cause those renewables, generating 54%, are a scam; that's Trump told the U.N. anyway.

(Guess he would know. More seriously, if he actually believed that, he'd be all -in on them. /s)

Comment Re:"public" interest (Score 1) 78

If anyone actually tuning in? Last time I tried to talk to someone about broadcast TV they told me they don't like pirating. Also, ATSC 3.0 looks like complete advertising garbage.

I'm pretty sure the local OTA broadcasters are also on the local cable too. I'm sure companies like Nexstar and Sinclair own other media outlets, like radio and perhaps print...

Comment Re:"public" interest (Score 4, Interesting) 78

It is about controlling what you see and hear. They want only MAGA everything and to stifle everything else.

I remember reading that continued Nexstar w/Tenga and Sinclair w/whoever mergers would give them each presence in something like 80% of U.S. broadcast markets. Do we really want 2 companies controlling that much?

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