orcrist

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

To talk about police as being honorable community service members and then Chicago in the same sentence is rather entertaining because that city has a very long history of dirty cops, and I think everyone knows it? That's kind of common knowledge.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I hope so, but if I were betting, I would bet that actually the s*** show will continue. Too many very rich people have too much money invested in real estate speculation, and you know they're going to pressure their friends in Washington to not take away their honey pot.

I could be wrong, I sure hope I'm wrong, but this doesn't feel like the climate where we can expect to see significant victories that would benefit the average person. Not yet. Maybe soon? I don't know.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

What you said makes sense from a technical standpoint but not from a practical standpoint. If I'm losing good adblock on Chrome, but good ad block still works on Firefox, it would be easy for Mozilla to put up some blog posts or tweets or whatever to point out that they are a great option, because they're adblock isn't going anywhere.

This is an obvious concern for many users, Mozilla has the capability to issue a press release or anything at all, and they've chosen not to do so. Therefore, people are reasonably questioning why they've chosen not to do so. Free marketing but they're throwing it away, and their best defense for doing nothing is essentially what you wrote, which is essentially to dodge the precise issue at hand.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 22 hours ago

Oh I mean he's lying. He knew Trump was horrible. Everyone did.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

All of the conservatives who are coming out against Trump now are just bad liars. Everyone knew, at least for the last decade, how bad of a human being the man was and is.

I understand that sometimes you have to make tactical alliances for politics, but to come along later and say that you don't know a certified scumbag is in fact a scumbag, that's just unbelievable. I would prefer if they come up with a plausible lie. For example, they could say that they knew he was bad personally but they thought his policies were constructive, or they believed that he would try to clean up the swamp, or they thought Hillary was going to be a disaster so they needed to oppose her by any means necessary, or anything that might have a grain of truth to it. Those things might also be lies, but at least give us something. Show some decency.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I agree with you, and another way of looking at it is that the system is working perfectly as intended. The people who are happy with it are the ones who have the power to change it, but they don't want to, because there's no benefit to them.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 23 hours ago

They usually are.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

Obviously that's true for some people to some degree, but it turns out that policies matter as well. If we only focus on the popularity contest aspect, you can get someone like Reagan who has charisma who will come in and cause great devastation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You wrote "even" which has obvious implications about reliability. Be real, my dude.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

I've been watching for the last three decades, seeing very little truth on Fox. You can pretend otherwise, if you want.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is too simplistic, isn't it? At work maybe we have no choice. My AdBlock is still working on YT. So I don't need to bail on Chrome yet. (I did, but I didn't need to.)

What happens as the ad blockers get worse, as Google disables more and more functionality? This will be the fun time. It's not hard to switch browsers, after all. And people know this. So of course they don't worry about it.

 

Can you think of any titles from real journal articles or essays that are eye-catching?

I'm writing a document for high school students taking an English writing class, and rather than create my own examples, why not use real ones? Several of my students have expressed frustration, and I have some guidelines and brainstorming tools, but what I don't have are two dozen neat examples.

 

OSAKA – An American man known for streaming provocative videos has been arrested on suspicion of breaking into a construction site in Osaka, police said Friday.

Ramsey Khalid Ismael, 23, known as "Johnny Somali" on YouTube, was arrested with another American, Jeremiah Dwane Branch, 24, who says he is a university student, according to police.

Ismael's videos include those in which he makes light of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and makes racist comments about Japanese people.

The two men allegedly made an unauthorized entry into a hotel construction site in Osaka's Chuo Ward on Aug. 30 with Branch filming a masked Ismael at the scene, according to the police.

They have told police they will not speak until they see lawyers, police said.

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