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musefan wrote: I need to start drinking more whiskey, obviously
Some say that's good advice for doing the CCC anyway! 
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92. Terribly rich with song (5)
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Choir ?
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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So society has basically burned to the ground since I posted here regularly. One thing I see a lot is older people sure they know 'the truth' based on something they saw on YouTube. Certainly news sources seem a lot more partisan to me than they used to be and it's hard to find unbiased news as opposed to seeking out world events filtered through either side of politics.
So, where do you get your news? Or are you just hiding under a rock waiting for the storm to pass?
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I quit watching the news a few years ago. In order to do that I have to be ok with not being up on current events. In my situation I can be, and nobody knows I don't know what's going on. This keeps me at least not fretting about that. I have enough to be concerned with without the cares of the world.
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Thing is, something big, like Notre Dame, will appear on my feed. I generally know when someone famous dies the same way.
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Christian Graus wrote: like Notre Dame
Christian Graus wrote: when someone famous dies the same way.
What famous people have died by being engulfed in flames while being renovated? I can't believe I missed that!!
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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same, given up watching the news.
even less watch the news talk/analysis shows because those are all about ratings rather than truth, don't wanna soapbox it but how often have these 'wise' analysts been wrong about the Don, brexit, China... wrong far more often than right even to the point of embellishing untruths? Farking clueless the lot of them. (Line them up next toin front of (save bullets) the movie critics - another waste of skin that lot are.)
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In fairness, people who were going to vote for Trump or Brexit, knew they were racists and lied to people taking polls.
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Scores of years ago I started listening to SW news - every country had an English service.
That's where I heard so many versions of the same story - and watched as stores evolved (not the event, but how it was spun) as each weasel nation tried to look blameless.
In a sense, part of what you speak of is business-as-usual.
What's changed is the availability of a means for anybody to be heard by scillions (perhaps zillions) of people. Post what you want - it may be looked at; adopted; repeated; embellished.
One thing that's become apparent - the democratization of a having a world-wide voice isn't necessarily a good thing. Not, at least, if it's available to everyone - the same people we call 'users" don't suddenly develop brains in how they operate
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Same here. I have enough to worry about close to home, without getting my nuts in the grinder over the to-do in Washington or elsewhere.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary Wheeler wrote: I have enough to worry about close to home, without getting my nuts in the grinder over the to-do in Washington or elsewhere.
I view it as entertainment, these days.
OK, so we're getting closer and closer to jackboot governments, but you've gotta laugh, haven't you?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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'news' - it's interesting what passes for 'news' these days .. most Aus TV channels at the moment think its
a) anything to do with the upcoming election
b) anything to do with Royals, MAFS, Kardashians
my 2c, c) none of the above (and YouTube would be the LAST source of 'truth')
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Yeah, I don't even watch news much any more. I generally hear if Channel 7 does something particularly racist but otherwise, I don't pay attention. I do keep tabs on the political parties we have now (Anning is recruiting members, there's a ton of other fringe lunatic parties appearing), so I know about things like the recent flap over solar cars, but I don't watch any actual news source.
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Mostly old-school:
1. Local paper delivered every morning.
2. Sunday New York Times (also delivered).
3. Twitter 'Trends for you'.
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The paper here is awful. I read The Guardian online. The local paper has a subscription model now, and I respect their right to try to stay profitable, but they publish nothing I'd be willing to pay to read....
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Most local papers are really not that good (mine included). I think of my subscription as a donation trying to save an endangered species. They are most likely doomed, but it's a worthy cause nevertheless.
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Christian Graus wrote: I read The Guardian online
This is the one publication (I refuse to call it a 'newspaper') I wouldn't touch with the proverbial barge pole. They make CNN and the BBC look positively unbiased. Their writers are progressive-left-wing liberals who look at every problem through the prism of identity politics.
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As far as I can tell the only thing the news is interested in these days is the Bachelor and MAFS.
I stick to PhysOrg.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Oh, God. I am still confused by the juxtaposition of the suggestion that gay marriage has made marriage meaningless, and MAFS. I saw a lot of chatter about 'teachable moments' in MAFS, but I ignored it. I still couldn't tell you who was on it.
And now we have 'bachelor in paradise', there's just an endless stream of them. On the good side, have you been paying attention is nearly on again.....
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Christian Graus wrote: have you been paying attention is nearly on again
I didn't notice. I probably wasn't paying attention...
cheers
Chris Maunder
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