I think tiktok is bad, it's definitely a problem for misinformation or whatever, but i'd still say that 80% of our information problems with respect to the voting public comes directly from cable news
The Chicago White Sox have announced their promotional days for 2024:
-We Hate Puppies Day
-We Steal Candy From Your Baby Day
-I'll Pickpocket You Sunday Half-Price Tickets Day
If it's the wrong judgment call to be too risk-averse in 2020, and there are "very real trade-offs and costs on either side," what would we call a status quo where the costs are testing, masks and ventilation, and instead we picked an extra ~3.75 million children becoming ill each year forever?
Not to casually enter a super polarizing and fraught issue but I think not going back into in person school in the fall of 2020 was at the time a defensible, prudent/cautious call but also I think the subsequent evidence shows that it was the wrong judgment call.
It's that time of year again: feeling cozy, falling asleep earlier, and wanting like, a solid month off from work to just loaf around and read books. it's not happening but i wish it every year
Wondering if I should vote for the Richmond County DA running unopposed, or the city councilman running unopposed, or the judge running unopposed. democracy is hard but it's good having options
Politicians lie about a lot of things, but the way they can go on television and just say "human shields" with absolutely no evidence or pushback is astonishing every time i hear it
Breaking News: The FBI searched the home of Mayor Eric Adams’s fund-raising chief, Brianna Suggs, who is deeply entwined in efforts to advance the New York City mayor’s agenda.
personally feels like in 10 years people will just always pretend it was a mistake that should have never been done in the first place. but there was never anything to stop it when it was starting. ah shucks
Aides tell Mayor Adams that the floodwaters are threatening the deposits of minerals and gems beneath the New York City that give it its special energy. He hops into a city vehicle and drives it down the sidewalk to a restaurant owned by someone who has been imprisoned twice for Medicare fraud.