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Exactly, TV networks and publishers exist, but are not the modern equivalent of the Illuminati (like some portray the GAFAMs)

Knowledge is power. You can be as easy or as difficult to monitor as you choose to be.

I would say that "all politics in the media are extreme" but moderates don't make the news. It is a perception thing.

Agree about the numerous possible meanings. Generally folks refer to either romantic or family based aspects of love, though technically it includes o...

There are interesting French cave experiments where folks live away from time cues. Turns out that the natural biological clock runs on a slightly lon...

I don't disagree with you (or him). But in my experience insults and attacks, while somewhat effective against beginners, is also a beginner's strateg...

I classic example of paralysis by over-analysis. Not uncommon in youth where there is an abundance of intelligence and a lack of wisdom. One benefits ...

GFA (not A & M so much) are the equivalent of TV Networks in the 60's. Where are the networks today? Nowhere. What is social media going to be in 50 y...

An excellent illustration of folks' mistaken understanding of what is private information and what is public.

Speaking of lawyers, nice try in smokescreenism, but: 1) Obama had been a sitting US senator, thus had experience in government 2) Therefore your erro...

Jut so you know there is a movement on the Pro circuit to have let serves go (just like during a rally), though to be fair it is out of an interest to...

Perhaps you didn't read my posts correctly. My issue is not a comparo of one level of experience vs another, it is the idea that having no experience ...

I don't have a problem with the arithmetic, rather with the central premise. That is, while many label human experiences as suffering and joy, and see...

Identifying a negative facet to a complex situation is not sufficient to label it as negative. IRL essentially all complex issues have negative as wel...

I have to hand it to you, your logic is internally consistent. Though whether a cloud fairy is this or that has almost no practical application.

Vulnerable means: can get the disease. Invulnerable is synonymous with immune, the vaccinated plus the recovered. Since those among the vulnerable who...

Several things: first, we don't need to "kill" viruses, we just need to deprive them of hosts. Thus viruses don't need to be "attack"ed. That's the va...

I agree with term limits for the executive branch for two reasons, to prevent a monarchy and because in our system, until recently, presidential candi...

The competition between sportsmanship and winning is as entertaining as any other (artificial) dichotomy. As opposed to the OP, both are actually lion...

It is an error to propose that he alternative for a domesticated animal is to be wild (since they're not wild animals) rather it is to not exist.

If you address a "subjective" issue like aesthetics, statistically, psychologically and neurologically, there are clearly objective aspects to it. How...

The lesson (came to fruition in the early 21st century) is that the balance inherent in democracy, that is that the top of the pyramid has fewer votes...

Twitter effectively deposed him awhile back.

Oh, I'm sorry, not trying to be cagey. POTUS 45 is the most obvious recent example, (for those who follow news).

No I don't have any information on the OPC, apparently it was hacked awhile back so maybe it's getting repaired? Unfortunately other than age trends, ...

I have an example worse than the current Congress...

A couple of things. First the current mutations are covered quite nicely by the vaccines. Secondly, the difference in hospitalization rate between tho...

If you (like I do) feel that factory farming is immoral you won't support it. This is separate from the issue of random employees of a factory farm ab...

Yeah that's the standard line. Unfortunately, governing (like every other activity) benefits from experience. Those without it just aren't as good at ...

Dude, you only addressed half of your proposal (letting gramma die), you left out the don't social distance and close businesses part. That's what's g...

I think you answered your own question.

Absolutely. Changing to an electric car after the Exxon Valdiz catastrophe is logical, buying gas from Shell and boycotting ExxonMobil is not.

Wow, where to start? Firstly, the hospitalization rate of adults between 40 and 79 is about one third of those over 80. So letting the virus run rampa...

While true, that is also true of almost every experience.

Right now? Term limits were big news from 1992-1994 and the 22nd amendment passed in 1951. Old news...

Firstly, congrats on the baby. Luckily for me I had 6 weeks of paternity leave and I commonly worked nights so getting up in the middle of the night w...

Politics is the one area where acquiring work experience is considered to lead to a lesser work product. Completely illogical. Imagine using the same ...

A couple of things. Firstly I wouldn't classify either as a lie since their audience didn't deserve the truth, ie it is an inappropriate question. Not...

I get what you are trying to accomplish, I am more practically minded, thus I commonly take the issue of consciousness the next step or two, to the pr...

No need to invoke the Interweb, this sort of "dilemma" could have been made when agriculture was invented. Did every town dweller understand what went...

One's interest in change is inversely proportional to the level of advantage one wields.

Not necessarily altruistic, but giving or thoughtful, yes. You bring up a good point that it is very possible that helping someone to experience somet...

The OP brings up several semi-unrelated issues. Namely, abuse of factory farmed animals is by definition not the intention of the business. Thus it is...

Artists can do anything, but IMO artists should either reflect life as it is, that is giving voice to an underappreciated opinion, or to display a fac...