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Meme - "Pineapple on pizza makes sense if you think about how the sweetness of the pineapple counters the saltiness of the cheese, meats and sauce but you ๏ฌat lined taste bud having hoes wouldn’t understand that."
Apple treats you like a user, Android treats you like an admin. : r/Showerthoughts
Richard Hanania on X - "Strong evidence showing that getting a PhD is extremely bad for your mental health. A new paper uses Swedish medical records and matches them to the full population of PhD students for which the authors could get gender and birth year data from 2006 to 2017. After some exclusion criteria, they end up with a sample size of 20,085 individuals. The paper compares PhD students to those who have masters degrees and don't start a PhD program. Before starting a PhD program, people who stop at a masters and those who go on to seek a PhD have similar rates of psychiatric medication use and hospitalization. A few years into a PhD program, however, 40% more individuals are on psychiatric medications, before the number falls off as people leave or finish their studies. You see the same pattern with psychiatric hospitalizations. PhD students are up to 150-175% more likely to be hospitalized after starting a program! These are incredible numbers, too massive to be the result of chance or a flaw in the methodology. This is comparing the same people over time. If you're considering a PhD program, and the terrible job prospects and waste of time aren't enough, here's yet another reason to stay away."
S-WoPEc: The Impact of PhD Studies on Mental Health—A Longitudinal Population Study
Meme - "Convinced my 44 year old therapist to confront her husband about not liking her instagram posts and left the session feeling so empowered by the realization that while she can't make me better, i can make us both worse."
U.S. 666 is gone, but signs went first - "The main stretch of asphalt that cuts across northwestern New Mexico's desolate mesas is living out its final days as the Devil's Highway, but drivers wouldn't necessarily know it. Not a single sign remains labeling it as the infamous U.S. 666. "Since the reports that we were changing the name, we virtually had everything stolen. It was a feeding frenzy," said S.U. Mahesh, spokesman for the New Mexico Department of Transportation."
Meme - Kyle @kylewendland: "Herbert the vacuum seems a little dramatic"
"Herbert requires your attention. Herbert is stuck near a cliff" *Herbert tripped on step*
Meme - Ashley Fitzgerald @RizomaSchool: "I just discovered something called accidental baroque which are photographs that feel like baroque paintings. I love this as a genre so much. Send me your accidental baroques."
Meme - "Your granny watching you squirt all over the blanket she knitted *old ghostly woman in clouds looking down*"
Meme - "Love Museum. No Sex *no sign over doggy style couple* *white brunette woman pouting and pointing to sign*"
Meme - *Tinder*
"About me: Just looking for someone to fuck me as hard as possible right in front of my cunt roomate until she gets uncomfortable and moves out."
Meme - *Tinder*
*Asian woman exposing cleavage*
Ariel 21
looking for someone to hold my hair back while I snort a fat line"
Possum Reviews on X - "What if I need to be able to go somewhere at a moment's notice and I can't wait for the bus? What if I need to transport hundreds of pounds of equipment? What if I need to get somewhere during a blizzard or thunderstorm? What if I need to get more than one gallon of milk?"
Possum Reviews on X - "Some of the replies have led me to believe that every single anti-car person thinks everyone lives in the city, lives alone, and doesn't work."
Stonetoss Comics on X - ">insists public transportation is good
>creates the lowest-trust society possible so it is a nightmare to use
haha cool"
On public transit
Making the 407 free would do nothing to solve traffic : r/ontario - "Not gonna happen. For a true high speed system, we need more tracks and to do that we need real estate. Getting the real estate among all the NIMBYism and environmental assessments is just never going to happen without billions and billions of dollars. Thats before a track ever gets laid. Nevermind that the ridership is never going be there between London and Toronto to ever justify the cost. Toronto to Montreal sure, but that still suffers from the problems noted above."
Uncle Roger sets new Guinness World Record - "Comedian Nigel Ng, better known as Uncle Roger, set a new Guinness World Record over the weekend for the largest gathering of people dressed as his character, just days after opening his fried rice restaurant in Malaysia."
The Guinness book of records has become like the Malaysia book of records
Hillel Neuer on X - "Meet the 2024 U.N. Human Rights Council, now in session. More than 60% are serial abusers of human rights, including: ๐จ๐บ Cuba ๐ถ๐ฆ Qatar ๐จ๐ณ China ๐ธ๐ฉ Sudan ๐ช๐ท Eritrea ๐ฉ๐ฟ Algeria ๐ฐ๐ผ Kuwait ๐ง๐ฎ Burundi ๐ธ๐ด Somalia ๐ป๐ณ Vietnam ๐ง๐ฉ Bangladesh ๐ฐ๐ฟ Kazakhstan Each was elected by the UNGA."
Emil O W Kirkegaard on X - "Remember that democracy always improves with the expansion of the franchise. To young people, to poor people, to women, to criminals, to noncitizens, soon to children too. And finally of course international democracy to bring it all together."
Zimbabwe to cull 200 elephants to feed citizens left hungry by drought - "Environment Minister Sithembiso Nyoni told parliamentarians last week that “Zimbabwe has more elephants than we need and more elephants than our forests can accommodate.” She added that overpopulation by elephants “causes lack of resources” for their sustenance, which fuels human-wildlife conflict in the country... Farawo, however, said Zimbabwe’s decision to slaughter elephants — its first cull since 1988 — was part of wider measures to reduce conflict between elephants and humans, following a series of elephant attacks on humans. “The animals are causing a lot of havoc in communities, killing people. Last week, we lost a woman in the northern part of the country who was killed by an elephant. The previous week, the same thing happened. So it (the culling) is also a way of controlling,” he said. At least 31 people have died in Zimbabwe this year as a result of conflict between humans and wildlife, local media reported."
Damn colonialism!
Yann LeCun on X - "People studying misinformation lean left for two reasons: 1. scientists lean left, regardless of specialty, because they care about facts. 2. misinformation today primarily comes from the Right ("they're eating the dawwwgs!") which makes it worth studying and fighting against for people leaning left."
Eric Weinstein on X - "This *is* what science looks like right now. Does this sound like real science? Even at a passing level? Just see. Read it. “People studying misinformation lean left for two reasons:” Extraordinary claim. Supported by….? I mean…Huge if true! I would have thought there would be complicated effects of political economy in science funding as well. But there is no discussion of any such effects. It’s just two causes. Who knew.
“1. scientists lean left, regardless of specialty, because they care about facts.” I mean….damn. I don’t even understand the argument. It feels like “because” is doing all the work here. No discussion of history (e.g. The Mansfield Amendment), incentive structures, institutional dependence. Just a bald assertion known as an appeal to authority. The author is a professor, after all.
“2. misinformation today primarily comes from the Right ("they're eating the dawwwgs!") which makes it worth studying and fighting against for people leaning left.” Appeal to ridicule. Strawmanning. Yes, Donald Trump is no scientist. But the Institutional Left has been wrong all over the place, no? On sex, heritability, public health, viral origins, migration externalities, and prediction of elections via failure to adjust for preference falsification at scale.
What is this? I don’t know. It’s not the science you grew up witb that changed everything and illuminated the world. My point is not to vilify Dr LeCun. It is to point out what institutional science NOW looks like. It used to look totally different. But in 2024, it looks like exactly like this. This tweet ⬇️ below. Learn to spot it."
Charging… on X - "Dr Umar explains why he left Islam ๐ณ “Why do i need to learn the Arab language to worship God”"
LindyMan on X - "Anyone who looks into Islam for more than 10 minutes comes to this conclusion. The prophet, the language, the holy sites, the book, the Seyyidis, the pilgrimage, the clothes all originate from one place and one certain people The only way out is to do what the Iranians did and create a completely parallel system, with its own prophets, pilgrimages (arb'aeen) and alternate history. In a way, the religion is like Dubai. You're allowed to live there, but there is a caste of true citizens."
Meme - "SYRIA REALLY NEEDS OUR HELP. JUST KIDDING, THIS IS DETROIT"
Meme - Myron Gaines @unplugfitx: "The Japanese are OPENLY racist, biased, and don't give a flying fuck about inclusivity like the west. They have one of the strongest economies in the world and almost zero crime. People don't have to accept your world view and that's totally fine."
Callisto Roll @callistoroll: "Another disgraceful example of businesses in Japan not being welcoming to tourists."
"There is NO
No! Vegetarian menu
No! Vegan menu
No! Halal menu
No! Take-out
All menus include chicken and pork.
Cash Only!"
Letting diners know that the establishment cannot cater to them is somehow being unwelcoming. Such entitlement. Small businesses must cater to every preference known to man, or they are being nasty
Terry Newman: CTV delivers another shameful example of anti-Poilievre bias - "someone from CTV appears to have chosen a clip from CPAC with a statement from Poilievre that was about a “carbon tax election,” not dental care, placed it in the segment in a way that appeared to present Poilievre as directly attacking the program, and apparently edited his words resulting in the decontextualization and apparent misframing of Poilievre... This, of course, isn’t the first time the Conservatives have accused outlets of being biased towards them. Who among us can forget the “ How do you like them apples ” interview where reporter Don Urquhart casually accuses Poilievre of being a “populist” and suggested that he was “taking pages from Donald Trump’s playbook.” When Poilievre pressed him to explain what he meant by these phrases, he couldn’t. This kind of hyperventilating biased coverage of Poilievre is constant from all progressive fronts. The Toronto Star and CBC painted a Poilievre conversation with anti-tax protestors as an endorsement of unknown and unsubstantiated far-right activities . The Canadian Press made the claim that Poilievre was moving conspiracy theories from “the fringes of the internet to mainstream thinking” when he criticized the World Economic Forum . No evidence was offered to support this assertion, and the fact that Liberal and NDP MPs have been similarly critical of the WEF was ignored. When progressive parties start waning in popularity, the discourse noticeably shifts to accusing conservatives of engaging in “far-right” rhetoric. We’ve come to expect this from MPs while engaged in political theatre, but journalists appear to have made it their side gig . CBC tried to aid Trudeau in an attempt to associate Poilievre with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones , simply because Jones said he liked Poilievre’s policies. Ditto, Press Progress . And, in probably the worst self-own I’ve ever seen, a Canadian Press reporter tried to repeat Urquhart’s disastrous apple approach with Poilievre at a gas station during a media availability, asking him if he was “trying to court the far-right vote.” Somehow surprised by his response to her loaded question, she tweeted, “He would not answer the question, saying my question sounded like a CBC smear job and a distraction from the real issues.” Where are these journalists learning their interview skills? Look, it’s entirely possible what happened at CTV was an honest mistake. But it is entirely understandable the Conservatives reacted the way they have. Either way, our media environment cannot go on this way. Reporters must engage with their subjects in good faith and with charity. Otherwise, no one will give them an interview. It’s common sense. That doesn’t mean journalists can’t ask tough questions and reveal hard truths. They can and should. It’s the job. It just means those questions can’t be loaded or wracked with conspiracy theories, association fallacies, and name-calling, and, as CTV has recently learned, framing and editing practices must be fair to all political candidates, not just the ones whose policies they prefer. Our goal should be to provide accurate information to Canadians so they can make informed decisions. CTV failed horribly in that respect, accidentally or not."
Damn fascists! How dare they criticise the media?!
CTV says staffers who altered Poilievre clip 'no longer' work for its news team - "The network said it "conducted an investigation to determine whether a breach of our editorial policies and practices had occurred in this case." It said the probe found "two members of the CTV News team are responsible for altering a video clip, manipulating it for a particular story." The network said these actions "violate our editorial standards and are unacceptable.""
CTV's Poilievre meltdown is bad — but it could get so much worse - "the pink slips look a lot less impressive considering the network’s initial response to the scandal made no mention of any forthcoming investigation: “A misunderstanding during the editing process resulted in this misrepresentation,” CTV’s original statement read. Not only was that woefully insufficient, it’s not clear now whether it was even true. So as is so common in Canadian politics, we have arrived at a sort of worst-of-all-worlds situation. The Conservatives have perhaps their most compelling single data point to support their contention that the mainstream media are biased against them. CTV arguably looks like it didn’t take the matter seriously enough to begin with, and then caved under Conservative pressure. Caving is alway better than not caving when, like CTV, you’re 100 per cent in the wrong, but it’s a hell of a lot worse than not having to cave in the first place... Some have even suggested this is simply a matter of Poilievre being thin-skinned toward journalists — as if other party leaders would just shrug off such a flamboyant manipulation. (The Liberals sure weren’t happy back in 2008 when CTV broadcast the disastrous false starts to Stรฉphane Dion’s interview with anchor Steve Murphy.) This week, Liberal strategist Sarbjit Kaur declared herself aghast that these two people actually lost their jobs, dismissing the admitted manipulation as no big deal. “When media are caving to angry partisan mobs … we’re in big trouble.” Immigration Minister Marc Miller had earlier waved the controversy away as “another Pierre Poilievre hissy fit against the media.” “So Mr. Freedom … orders his MPs not to talk to news orgs that won’t parrot Conservative talking points,” sneered Taleeb Noormohamed, parliamentary secretary to Heritage Minister Pascal St-Onge, who claims to cherish and wish to support good-quality journalism in Canada. And here’s St-Onge herself, putting that misapprehension to bed: “(Poilievre’s) hidden agenda: to not have journalists ask him difficult questions.” To my astonishment, some journalists, former and even current, took against CTV’s actions or partially defended its reporting. Adam Vaughan, a former City TV journalist and Liberal MP, added a typically unique twist to the affair: “Re-arranging and deliberately fabricating a quote is wrong,” he wrote on X, “but … would dental care survive a non-confidence vote?” “Bad journalism,” Vaughan conceded, “but is it inaccurate?” Then there was the Toronto Star’s Susan Delacourt. “I think this is CTV saying they fired the people who offended a politician,” she ventured. Her Friday column cited “what (Poilievre) saw as a ‘malicious’ editing job on some of his recent remarks, implying he was trying to bring down the government over dental care instead of the carbon levy” — without even mentioning CTV’s admission of wrongdoing. Dismal. One thing we can definitely take away from all this: Liberals do not, in fact, actually care about good journalism — or at least they don’t care about it enough not to support bad journalism when they think it helps them, which is a distinction without a difference. And having said we’ve arrived at the worst of all worlds, all this presents an obvious chance for things to get much worse indeed. The Liberal government provides robust taxpayer subsidies to the media — some more directly, as with newspaper publishers like Postmedia (which owns National Post), and some of it more indirectly to broadcasters like CTV, through program funding, licences, and market protection. A bare minimum for supporting those subsidies is that your government shouldn’t play favourites with the media according to ideological leanings. (Or at least you should cloak such decisions in the language of not meeting “journalistic standards.”) And yet, Noorhamed in particular — who, remember, is parliamentary secretary to the minister responsible for these handouts — is always eager to criticize Postmedia for criticizing the Liberal government … because Postmedia collects government subsidy... Noorhamed and other Liberals often sound like they absolutely hate their own media-subsidy programs, precisely because they contribute to what they consider “bad” journalism — i.e., journalism that criticizes them, focuses on their idea of “the wrong things,” spreads their idea of “misinformation.” It’s not hard to imagine the Liberals altering the “standards” for subsidies in the future to more shamelessly suit their purposes"
Biased journalism is only a problem when it hurts the left wing agenda. Only Fox News and the Daily Mail can be criticised
NP View: CTV got it wrong. Media dismissals of that fact are even worse - "Until only recently, Justin Trudeau enjoyed what appears to have been the longest media honeymoon of perhaps any prime minister. And yet, when the opposition Conservatives point out the obvious bias, or avoid media questions, reporters and columnists gasp as if democracy is crumbling before them. Pierre Poilievre is accused of all sorts of nefarious and evil actions and intensions. A grand narrative is always asserted, but rarely is it ever backed up. Examples are not hard to find. A Toronto Star columnist has argued Poilievre would try to claim elections Conservatives lost were illegitimate, or rigged. No evidence was cited. A Canadian Press story accused Poilievre of spreading conspiracy theories. Again, no evidence was cited. A CBC story accused the Conservative leader of pandering to an extremist group called Diagolon and the only evidence cited was that he walked past a door with some graffiti scrawled on the bottom. Much of the same media has been remarkably incurious about any number of Liberal government scandals. Chinese election interference? Actually Poilievre is the one to blame for making such a big deal of it, according to some writers. Pressuring the attorney general not to prosecute a politically important Quebec company? Why should we care about that? Inflation? an invention of Poilievre’s imagination. And on and on and on it goes, media parroting Liberal talking points, running interference for Trudeau, and imagining the worst of Poilievre. For those worried about polarization in our society, all news media need to take better care to ensure they are reporting in good faith... when a CTV News report last month featured a clip of Poilievre speaking that was altered... Ask most journalists in Toronto, as well as any Liberal MP, what they think of this mess and, predictably, they respond by clutching their pearls. How dare the Conservatives bully the media? How dare CTV cave? When comparable behaviour comes from Liberals, such as after the media accurately reported on the SNC-Lavalin scandal ( “the allegations in the Globe story this morning are false”) or, again, accurately reported on foreign election interference (it is the media that is guilty of “foreign interference”), or the fact the Liberal gun ban initially included hunting rifles (“misinformation”), you can’t throw a stone without finding a reporter or a pundit willing to back the government... Case in point comes from Globe and Mail columnist Andrew Coyne, who argued last week that the reaction to the manipulated clip was overblown. The CTV employees weren’t rightfully removed from the newsroom for failing the most basic of journalistic principles, they were, according to Coyne, canned as a “sacrifice” to placate Poilievre. As for the offence itself, one can almost hear Coyne rolling his eyes, “It’s one quote in one story on one network on one day.” Well, no, it isn’t just one story on one network on one day, it is the clearest example of a general anti-Conservative bias in the media that has long existed. Perhaps the extent of the bias is exaggerated from time to time, but the fact it exists is unmistakable. Even so, the issue with CTV’s manipulated story isn’t bias, it’s about integrity. It shouldn’t be a partisan issue, and the fact that some journalists wish to make it partisan suggests a bias. Coyne went on to assign motives to CTV executives and intentions to Poilievre that he had no way of knowing... we all have a duty to get it right. Integrity is the news media’s best resource, and if clear violations of integrity are dismissed because they involve a politician the media doesn’t like, more serious problems abound than simple bias."
Toronto Star on X - "CTV wasn’t out to get Pierre Poilievre. The truth is more alarming. There is going to be something ugly about coverage of the next election. A lot of people covering it are going to be doing so knowing Poilievre may end their employment. #Opinion"
Jonathan Kay on X - "When Trudeau put journalists on Ottawa’s payroll (35% of salaries), he *guaranteed* that media loyalties would be corrupted—since getting Trudeau re-elected is the only way to ensure the cash keeps rolling in. Some of us have been saying this for a while:"
Conflict of interest is only a problem when it threatens the left wing agenda
Allan Stratton: Liberals corrode politics with pearl-clutching 'homophobia' cries - "Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre continued the attack, noting the condo’s master bathroom with its “handcrafted copper soaking tub.” Prime Minister Trudeau’s response was that he’d just spent time at the residence “engaging with international leaders,” to which Conservative MP Garnett Genuis heckled, “Does he engage with them in the bathtub?” Trudeau accused Genuis of making a “ casual homophobic comment” and NDP whip Heather McPherson demanded that Genuis “apologize for his homophobic and disgusting comment,” later adding that “It makes this an unsafe work environment for so many of us.” Genuis denied the allegations: “It had nothing to do with sex. I wasn’t thinking about sex at all.” He asked that MPs remember the context of Poilievre’s bathtub dig. “The point of that comment is to illustrate that, of course, meetings don’t take place in a bathtub. A luxurious bathtub has nothing to do with meetings.”... Any LGB or T parliamentarian who thinks Genuis created an unsafe work environment is too precious to be an MP. Nor would they have survived the 20th century... If people apologized every time they were misinterpreted, the world would be one non-stop apology. This is especially true in an age that valorizes victimhood and provides incentives for the professionally offended. Further, as Hardie well knows, non-apology apologies only lead to further attacks. And such performative sensitivity is especially rich from a Liberal Party that routinely spouts Hamas talking points without apology to Canadian Jews. Liberals have worn out the springs of their fainting couches with their non-stop attempts to cast their opponents as bigots regardless of issue or context. Disgracefully, Trudeau linked Conservatives to white supremacists and Nazis during the convoy protests and accused them of racism for raising concerns about Chinese scientists at a Winnipeg lab who leaked classified material to the CCP military. Trudeau offered no apologies for white supremacist and Nazi slander, nor for his racism allegations when the rogue scientists were fired, and the depths of this national security scandal were made clear. And the charge of racism has always been strange coming from a prime minister whose blackface escapades — even one — would have felled any Conservative leader on the spot. Whatever the party, refusing to consider intention and context is ultimately self-defeating. It reduces the effectiveness of a party’s talking points and opens it to charges of hypocrisy. Poilievre has an objectively nasty style, but it’s hard for Liberals to make that case without appearing hypocritical when they indulge in equally vicious knee-jerk accusations of racism and homophobia. Similarly, the Liberals are profligate self-indulgers: witness Trudeau’s $6,000-a-night stay in London for Queen Elizabeth’s funeral and his lavish high-carbon junkets. Diluting serious examples of Liberal extravagance by insinuating crooked cronyism in the purchase of an official consular residence in New York reeks of shabby politics. Social media partisans should also touch grass. Liberals outraged that Conservatives mock Trudeau’s socks should recall that Trudeau himself has made them part of his political brand , even drawing attention to them at meetings with unimpressed world leaders... Intention. Context. They matter. And the inability of our political class to grasp that simple truth leaves all of us wanting a bath."
