We do too, so I just tell my team to flag everything as spam

I just realized who this picture reminds me of. It’s the old paint huffer guy meme - Patrick Tribbet.

Anyone else see the resemblance? https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/paint-huffer-guy-patrick-tribett

Of course not, that isn’t what I mean. I’m taking about why media in general reports as “straight news” the inflammatory blathering of political figures. Whether you as the reader agree with it or not, these kind of statements in headlines get the publisher clicks.

Clicks == revenue for for the media site, so they are incentivized to provide more content like that. Politicians need exposure more than just about anything, so they tend more towards that kind of language in part to get greater exposure through those venues.

I don’t think people posting content like this to aggregators like lemmy are in that incentivizing loop directly, but users engaging with the content even if they hate does incentivize the behavior further(albeit in a very small, incremental way).

For one simple and depressing reason - people click on it. That’s the dopamine button for modern media outlets online; those clicks are the cash register ringing.

If you want to figure out a way to elevate the discourse you have to disrupt the payment model - at the end of the day people do what gets them paid. Doubly so when the harm it causes is anonymized by operating in corporate aggregates.

Ah yes. Donald Trump, Scourge of America, Sorrow of democracy, Trump the Floridian, Trump the Cruel, Trump the Torturer, Trump the Despised, Trump the Unholy.

You’re suggesting his crimes warrant execution by poison, bring shot, stabbed, hung, stretched, disemboweled, drawn and quartered? Ouch.

Jean-Baptiste. Emanuel. Zorg.

A “Cluster of Fucks”, maybe?

You have to admit it’s a bit catchier than “Room of Blowhards Making Shit Up for Useful Idiots”

So I don’t wholly disagree with your point, but even if I take that context at face value it still comes off as “ hey if your orgs are designed in perfect harmony w/ your objectives, your product will meet those objectives”.

Sure that’s logical as far as it goes, but it’s pretty much never the case in practice that you have a context that’s actually optimized to needs like that.

Lol. They absolutely do listen to scholars, and just like any other political group, they act on what they say when it’s convenient.

Federalist society is covering its bets here - putting up sone legal footholds for old establishment conservatism to use if they become handy - while doing so in such a way they don’t put themselves on the outs too unforgivably if Trump and his ilk weasel this way through this mess like they have so many times before.

By that logic photography is not your work either

I could stand to hear a little more.

Some petty ass old boys network tries to strong arm local journalist nerd over some Facebook wall drama about a DUI, fails to consider the size his microphone.

When a gerontocracy puts a 30-something in charge of a problem, it means they do not give a fuck about said problem.

I did not get the impression you had to fight him at all, though I chose to do so knowing I was in league with the duregar. Sounds like you deliberately picked a fight with a guy that had a lot more friends than you — I would kind of expect that to be hard.

I’m on the spicy instance? I couldn’t tell.

“The obvious alternative is to become a subscription-based service like Netflix and Amazon Prime. Given the BBC’s global brand recognition and its reputation for producing premium content, it could become the largest and most profitable streaming service in the world.”

Wow. That is an… optimistic… take.

Is a cat waving its tail under his nose?

Hydrogen fires have the same characteristic as i understand it

It’s very standalone. It’s based in the forgotten realms universe in terms of lore, so it has a ton of depth there. The actual story arc though seems totally unconnected to the previous ones at least ten hours or so in.