newswriter99

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by newswriter99 5y ago
You ignored their points entirely so I'm not sure why anyone should have to read that BS wall of text.
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by newswriter99 5y ago
Ah Wikipedia, the word of god.
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by newswriter99 6y ago
"Oh noes, the corporations used science! That's not fair!" Find me a "credible source" that shows natural gas contaminates water. Go ahead. I'll wait.
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by newswriter99 6y ago
> I'll take a step back from "burning", because that seems hard to prove, but it most certainly does contaminate ground water Fracking wastes (the sluice of water, sand and a scant amount of chems) does not equal natural g
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by newswriter99 6y ago
>Yeah, I love lighting my water on fire and fracking earthquakes Natural gas from fracking does not cause burning tap water. https://www.cred.org/is-fracking-connected-to-burning-tap-wa... Fracking-related earthquakes ar
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by newswriter99 7y ago
I stand by SPIDR. Found it via 4chan. Comments section get get a bit /pol/ but I think it adds a refreshing reminder of what the internet used to be like before we started posting our names and mugshots. http://spidr.t
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by newswriter99 7y ago
> The place has no life on it, it's barren due to the altitude and the lack of oxygen. No animal, plant or human ever ever lived up there. Are you lying through your teeth or just uneducated? There's several species of plants t
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by newswriter99 7y ago
Try being white trash in a poor part of the south and get back to me how "easy" things are.
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by newswriter99 7y ago
And yet lower income groups, who tend to have junk food diets, also tend to have more unplanned pregnancies.
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by newswriter99 7y ago
Jack MacReady: It's obvious the bastard's got lyme disease! Bill Pardy: What? Jack MacReady: Lyme disease. You touch some deer feces, and then you... eat a sandwich without washin' your hands. You got your lyme disease! Bill
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by newswriter99 7y ago
>The rest of the world is already beating us on energy. [citation needed] We literally usurped control from OPEC thanks to fracking technology, which almost no one else in the world is using. EDIT: And let's mention our LNG exports
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by newswriter99 7y ago
Change the word "plan" with "dream" and the article looks a lot less like a one-sided editorial. Articles like this start off from the angle of "we should do this" and in my opinion that's a BS way to fram
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by newswriter99 7y ago
They didn't specify what kind of information in the header. So you could either assume ALL information is like junkfood and drugs, or you could assume people are filling up on information and becoming more intelligent (which I assume N
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by newswriter99 7y ago
TL;DR clickbait is addictive. “And just as our brains like empty calories from junk food, they can overvalue information that makes us feel good but may not be useful—what some may call idle curiosity.” THAT is the point of the article. Cra
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by newswriter99 7y ago
I wonder how William Gibson feels about coining "cyberspace" only to live in a world where "cyber" has been reduced to chat room banter and low-brow humor.
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by newswriter99 7y ago
You're on to something but it's a tiny bit more complicated than that. Take general assignment reporters for example. They have to learn how to learn. What I mean is, they're experts on digesting new information. Because they
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by newswriter99 7y ago
Probably worth noting I've been in journalism going on a decade now. It's a bit too easy to simply write off ALL journalists (no pun intended) as "not that bright". You may as well say most people aren't that bright
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by newswriter99 7y ago
Came across that in audiobook form not long after a really toxic abusive relationship with someone who suffers from a textbook case of narcissistic personality disorder. The chapter about the author's wannabe hustler friend described t
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by newswriter99 7y ago
AP style should really push journalists to use the term "cybercriminals" over "hackers". I'm not the first to say it but the issue is growing, and it's only going to make the public more leery of any tech-minde
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by newswriter99 7y ago
Yes, I also have a handful of cherry-picked anecdotes about how city-folk are closed-minded, pompous, rude and bigoted. I guess that means I'm right too, huh?
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by newswriter99 7y ago
Not all the time. Source: reporter
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by newswriter99 7y ago
It's in the writing. Look at the headline: "Too many people want to travel" Funny how she didn't give a damn when it was just her group getting to travel. Now that there's the rest of us getting to do it? Oh, that&#
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by newswriter99 7y ago
That's my point. From my perspective, the headline isn't: "There are too many humans" Instead it's: "It was better when only us privileged humans got to do this thing"
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by newswriter99 7y ago
God forbid we have more people entering the middle class, who want to explore the world. I hate how preachy publications like Vox and The Atlantic can be. The writers come from these urbanized, upper middle class backgrounds and have no sel
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by newswriter99 7y ago
I haven't clicked the OP's link but I can already answer with confidence: No. 1-Don't write a headline as a question 2-Don't write a headline with a question that can be answered "no".
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by newswriter99 7y ago
The headline "Two programmers played a pivotal role in the birth of chaos theory" would have done a lot more to further the right of women to be in the STEM fields. Pointing out they're female only further makes it look like
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by newswriter99 7y ago
"Eban advises consumers to research who manufactures their generics and look up any problems that regulators have found out about them." The whole point of government agencies like the FDA is to perform inspections that consumers
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by newswriter99 7y ago
"By year 2030" So much for "ban all burning of fossil fuels today"
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by newswriter99 7y ago
This is the short version of my argument.
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by newswriter99 7y ago
>we should ban all burning of fossil fuels today. Doing so would create all the incentives needed to answer the question of storage vs nuclear in a very short time, That's not how public opinion, politics or economics works and if y

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