There are money people?

Not all the tials were crewde.

How does that affect the newsworthiness of a protest? It seems like you just came up with two bigger, higher priority stories that they should be covering.

That took seconds, listening to everything Jordan Peterson puts out takes hours and hours.

I know one woman who, from her 60s to her 80s, lived in a building that she co-owned with two good friends. Each one had her own full apartment. But, they were able to support each-other. I also know plenty of younger women who have roommates.

I don’t think being single necessarily means being alone. Although, it’s true that modern western society makes the coupling up option much more low-friction than other ones.

You don’t need to stay with a devil at all.

Some women are apparently terrified of being single. I’ve known some who have never been single for more than a few days since they turned 15 or something. I know it can sometimes be more complicated than that, but it’s a contributing factor.

That’s also bad. You regularly hate-watch him? Don’t you have anything better to do with your time?

It should only take you about 15 minutes of watching him to understand his gimmick. He used undefined and undefinable terms like “cultural marxism”. He cherry picks out of context sciencey stuff to back up his point of view. He acts super serial all the time to make people think he’s a serious person. That’s it. You don’t need to watch any more.

Imagine how Dunning Krugerey you have to be to think that 10 years off an on in the military, plus a lot of time as a talking head on TV is the appropriate background to be Secretary of Defence.

I’m sure that the average Secretary of Defence probably has to face imposter syndrome all the time. But this guy, nope, he’s so confident that he belongs that there isn’t even a nagging voice saying “hey, maybe you shouldn’t be sending this confidential information to your relatives and friends”.

“A currency is a standardization of money in any form, in use or circulation as a medium of exchange, for example banknotes and coins.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency

It doesn’t meet the requirements to be a currency. It’s a commodity.

Gold isn’t a currency, it’s a commodity.

It’s not necessarily your opponent who has to have a conscience. Sometimes it can be people they depend on.

Like, with Gandhi, the British Empire didn’t really have a conscience. But, there were reporters present, and they reported on what happened. The story got out to regular people in Britain, to regular people in India, and to people worldwide. The British empire knew that if they let Gandhi die, India would erupt, other countries would boycott them, etc.

Why?

And, part of the reason for that is section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996.

No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.

If a TV station or radio station has a call-in show and the caller swears, it’s the station that gets fined. If the station runs a late night informercial where someone is defamed, the station is liable. But, do it online and you’re fine. The YouTube algorithm can pick out the juiciest, most controversial, most slanderous content and shove it into everyone’s recommendations and only the person who posted that content is responsible.

Section 230 makes sense in some situations. If you’re running a bulletin board without any kind of algorithm promoting posts, then it makes sense that you shouldn’t be held accountable for what someone says in that bulletin board. But, YouTube, Twitch, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc. have all taken it too far. They don’t personally create the content, but they have algorithms that analyze the content and decide who to show it to. They get the protections of a bulletin board, while curating the content to make it even more engaging than a segment on Newsmax or MSNBC.

Luckily, they probably won’t have any.

“When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart's_law

Or, if you prefer a clip from The Wire, juking the stats.

No? Where don’t they do that? Is what they have similar to the terrible US system?

This is why strikes are more newsworthy: they disrupt things.

With a protest news will cover:

1. That it happened
2. What the protest was about / why it happened
3. How many people were involved

After that, you’re basically done, other than maybe taking some pictures of interesting signs or costumes.

With a strike you get all the above plus:

1. What services are disrupted
2. What is being done to end the strikes
3. What’s being done to mitigate the disruption
4. What people who are disrupted feel about the strikes

The disruption part is key, because disruptions lead to other disruptions and that leads to a new story.

Look at the coverage of the trash collectors’ strike in Birmingham

1. First paragraph: the disruption being caused
2. Second paragraph: more about the disruption
3. Third paragraph: what’s being done to end the strike
4. Fourth paragraph: what the strikers want
5. Fifth paragraph: what the strike is about
6. Sixth paragraph: what the authorities are doing about the disruption
7. Seventh paragraph: more about the disruption
8. Eighth paragraph: more about what’s being done to end the strike
9. …

Or look at the coverage of the transport strikes in Greece. Again, because a lot of things are being disrupted, there’s more to talk about.

Part of the reason that disruption is key is that there’s a long chain of side effects. For example, with the garbage strike there’s uncollected garbage. That has a side effect of attracting rats and other vermin. People worry that that might have a side effect of causing disease outbreaks. That might have an effect on the already strained public health system.

In addition, the more disruption, the more pressure there is to fix it. That results in various people passing the buck / blame to other people, which results in more news-worthy things to write about. You get conflicts between different levels of government. Conflict is interesting, so it’s something that makes the news.

A protest on the weekend that doesn’t really disrupt anything just isn’t going to get the same level of coverage.

11 days until May Day which would be the perfect opportunity for a really disruptive general strike. But, I guess Americans aren’t concerned enough about the state of their country to really disrupt anything yet.

Annoying.

Probably true, I just didn’t want to risk it because I’d been burned by an unexpected update.