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@fenomas said: Aside: if you're looking for stuff like bias in news articles, you really shouldn't just look for stuff like word choice, that merely includes the possibility that your premise is true, you should be looking for stuff that excludes…
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@fenomas said: @Bill said: You say that the statement, "The mainstream media is overwhelmingly liberal biased" is a falsifiable statement. I agree. I don't see how you can believe it, though, unless you accept my assertion that it's…
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I'm constantly questioning my own beliefs. The farther out on a limb I'm willing to go about an issue correlates pretty well with how much I've made sure that I'm not being nuts. You say that the statement, "The mainstream media is overwhelmingly…
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Not just about sex: throughout our bodies, thousands of genes act differently in men and women
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Clme, I don't know much about radio shows. I haven't listened to the radio, other than incidentally, in a long time--well over ten years. I do know that some conservative talk shows found a big radio audience. The explanation that I've read is that…
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There are things that are difficult to measure, but are still obviously true. If you dismiss analysis of writing as being inherently non-objective, we have nothing left to discuss.
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The pot called the kettle black.
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More on apparent media bias: You keep asking me to convince you of things that are utterly obvious to me, and I'm sure I've discussed this before. You need to look at things like presentation order and word choice. What information is put at the …
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@fenomas said: When I see each latest Trump idiocy, I sometimes wonder if Bill is still into him, and if so how he rationalizes it. The above quote was the start of this discussion. I have now told you several times over the last year-and…
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racist jack-o'-lantern incident
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The Emperor’s New Ads
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Thank you. I consider it an acknowledgement that the other side isn't free from bias. However, the two sides are nowhere near equal in size. The press is overwhelmingly liberal or progressive. By the way, your premise is incorrect. I'm not biased…
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Take a look at how the BBC and Yahoo present essentially the same facts. They are both presented in an anti-Trump way, but one is spun much more negatively than the other. Edit: This is relevant, and spun the other way. Edit: Today's Pat Bucha…
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We having members of the press acting overtly partisan. That is new. They have been partisan for decades, at least, but this is the first time they haven't bothered being subtle about it. By the way, the war widow thing was spun up by the press a…
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Hey, Clem, she just had a good rant that answered your question. She started with Twitch. To paraphrase, she was showing cleavage on Twitch and realized that Chaturbate was more honest. If she was going to be an exhibitionist, she was going to be a …
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If you look at the way the press has been spinning things, it's clearly partisan. The bias used to be subtle most of the time, but with Trump the press is openly hostile. And by "Trump" I also mean his advisors, appointees, and adult family. I st…
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Fox News is one news provider. Let us say, for the sake of discussion, that they are total Republican shills. I honestly have no idea whether or not they are. Now, whatever the position of Fox News, I can go to Google News and see the headlines c…
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I never said Fox wasn't influential. I said it didn't set the agenda. The New York Times does, (and has for generations).
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It was a close election. There are fair arguments that lots of different things swung the election including Hillary not being black, the terrorist attacks on cops just before the election, and the Black Lives Matter riots.
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* If they are inclined to terrorism, a few white nationalists can do a lot of damage. In terms of political power, though, they are a small force. * The New York Times is the newspaper read by all the other journalists, including television journal…
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I don't have any idea. Wednesday I was looking for pretty naked girls, and I found her on Chaturbate holding forth on the reasons for and uses of religion. I checked a few minutes ago, and she was talking about the morality of bombing an entire coun…
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camgirlhippienerdgoddess
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@fenomas said: @Bill said: As for sentences being contradictory, how so? I don't use Fox News. That doesn't imply that I don't use other news sources. As written. If you honestly don't know what happens at Fox News the…
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I've assembled my own computer before, but I asked myself if I really felt like messing around with it. The honest answer is that I didn't, so I just ordered a Dell from Amazon. Considering how long I tend to keep computers, an extra hundred bucks o…
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I thought about just replacing the power supply. This thing is about seven years old, though, so it's probably time to replace the whole computer anyway. I'm going to get another desktop. I really don't have much use for a laptop.
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I've lost the ability to get into the Halloween spirit, but I still can admire those who do.
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Huh, I thought I replied to this the other day, but it has disappeared. Anyway, I agree that factionalism has become destructive. As for sentences being contradictory, how so? I don't use Fox News. That doesn't imply that I don't use other news s…
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@fenomas said: @Bill said: There is a whole bunch of stuff that gets spun this way by one group and that way by another group, and I just ignore it all as trivia. On things that matter: This is delusional. What we obje…
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I agree. That one is good.
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The Whateley Academy: I've been sidetracked in my reading of Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War, mainly because the writing style is beyond dull. It has been a long time since I've had such trouble getting through a book. In the meantime, I'v…