Originally posted by Elbow
Apparently doing this cost them nearly 10% of their subscribers overnight.
No endorsement = an implicit endorsement of Trump.
Years of steroid use has turned Bezos into a fascist.
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Originally posted by Fonaplats
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Americans all seem so certain their vote matters.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/28/jeff-bezos-washington-post-trust/Actually reading this at length, it seems to be a manifesto to shake up way the media narrative is presented in order to improve buy in.
In the annual public surveys about trust and reputation, journalists and the media have regularly fallen near the very bottom, often just above Congress. But in this yearβs Gallup poll, we have managed to fall below Congress. Our profession is now the least trusted of all. Something we are doing is clearly not working.
Let me give an analogy. Voting machines must meet two requirements. They must count the vote accurately, and people must believe they count the vote accurately. The second requirement is distinct from and just as important as the first.
People are noticing. They don't trust us, voting machines or politicians.Likewise with newspapers. We must be accurate, and we must be believed to be accurate. Itβs a bitter pill to swallow, but we are failing on the second requirement. Most people believe the media is biased. Anyone who doesnβt see this is paying scant attention to reality, and those who fight reality lose. Reality is an undefeated champion. It would be easy to blame others for our long and continuing fall in credibility (and, therefore, decline in impact), but a victim mentality will not help. Complaining is not a strategy. We must work harder to control what we can control to increase our credibility.
Our journalists are pretending there is no problem.Presidential endorsements do nothing to tip the scales of an election. No undecided voters in Pennsylvania are going to say, βIβm going with Newspaper Aβs endorsement.β None. What presidential endorsements actually do is create a perception of bias. A perception of non-independence. Ending them is a principled decision, and itβs the right one. Eugene Meyer, publisher of The Washington Post from 1933 to 1946, thought the same, and he was right. By itself, declining to endorse presidential candidates is not enough to move us very far up the trust scale, but itβs a meaningful step in the right direction. I wish we had made the change earlier than we did, in a moment further from the election and the emotions around it. That was inadequate planning, and not some intentional strategy.
Presidential endorsements are obvious sermonising and make no difference anyway.I would also like to be clear that no quid pro quo of any kind is at work here. Neither campaign nor candidate was consulted or informed at any level or in any way about this decision. It was made entirely internally. Dave Limp, the chief executive of one of my companies, Blue Origin, met with former president Donald Trump on the day of our announcement. I sighed when I found out, because I knew it would provide ammunition to those who would like to frame this as anything other than a principled decision. But the fact is, I didnβt know about the meeting beforehand. Even Limp didnβt know about it in advance; the meeting was scheduled quickly that morning. There is no connection between it and our decision on presidential endorsements, and any suggestion otherwise is false.
I don't care what the two candidates and their handlers think, I am above having to care about their sort.When it comes to the appearance of conflict, I am not an ideal owner of The Post. Every day, somewhere, some Amazon executive or Blue Origin executive or someone from the other philanthropies and companies I own or invest in is meeting with government officials. I once wrote that The Post is a βcomplexifierβ for me. It is, but it turns out Iβm also a complexifier for The Post.
You can see my wealth and business interests as a bulwark against intimidation, or you can see them as a web of conflicting interests. Only my own principles can tip the balance from one to the other. I assure you that my views here are, in fact, principled, and I believe my track record as owner of The Post since 2013 backs this up. You are of course free to make your own determination, but I challenge you to find one instance in those 11 years where I have prevailed upon anyone at The Post in favor of my own interests. It hasnβt happened.
People have noticed that I am rich and powerful, and there's nothing I can do about it. It's inconvenient. Lack of credibility isnβt unique to The Post. Our brethren newspapers have the same issue. And itβs a problem not only for media, but also for the nation. Many people are turning to off-the-cuff podcasts, inaccurate social media posts and other unverified news sources, which can quickly spread misinformation and deepen divisions. The Washington Post and the New York Times win prizes, but increasingly we talk only to a certain elite. More and more, we talk to ourselves. (It wasnβt always this way β in the 1990s we achieved 80 percent household penetration in the D.C. metro area.)
People are tired of being sermonised to by journalists, and the alternatives they are turning to go off-script.The last paragraph is the densest, and seems largely directed to the Washington Post staff.While I do not and will not push my personal interest,
This is about the whole system. I will also not allow this paper to stay on autopilot and fade into irrelevance β
I also won't allow you to ruin my investment.overtaken by unresearched podcasts and social media barbs β not without a fight.
You are losing out to random internet nobodies.Itβs too important. The stakes are too high. Now more than ever the world needs a credible, trusted, independent voice, and where better for that voice to originate than the capital city of the most important country in the world?
The control of the narrative globally is at stake.To win this fight, we will have to exercise new muscles.
Get off your arse.Some changes will be a return to the past, and some will be new inventions.
We need basic journalistic standards as well as for you to engage with zoomer-tech better. Criticism will be part and parcel of anything new, of course. This is the way of the world. None of this will be easy, but it will be worth it.
Cope with harsh feedback. You can't just lecture people from the pulpit anymore.I am so grateful to be part of this endeavor. Many of the finest journalists youβll find anywhere work at The Washington Post, and they work painstakingly every day to get to the truth. They deserve to be believed.
You are lucky to have me. You are replaceable. We have standards.
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Originally posted by ner vegas
it's just ed sheeran
also no, screencap the cert
Looks like it's my ISP:
no VPN:
VPN:
I usually have VPN turned on, but forgot this morning.
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I tried making chicken soup before, but was always disgusted by how it looked after cooking the chicken bones, and gave the stock to the cat.
Today I went through all the way, and put a potato, carrot and some onions (and pearl barley, bay leaves and msg) in to the instant pot after cooking the chicken, taking out the chicken, removing the chicken meat, then boiling just the bones for 30 minutes. Then I removed the bones and boiled it back up for 30 another minutes. Then I took out about half the mushy vegetables, blended the remainder of the mushy veg in the water, and put the mushy veg back in. This trick really helps to make a nice thick base, while keeping some solid pieces in the soup.
It's delicious. Really tastes creamy, although no dairy was used. I guess it's the chicken fat, although due to it all being blended no fat is apparent, like there are no blobs of fat floating to the surface the way there is if you just cook a chicken in plain water. It's disgusting to think about how it is made, but it's definitely something I'll cook again.
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We're currently 3,273 posts away from the 2 millionth post. We have about 500 posts per day, which means we will hit it in a week.
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A 14-year-old Florida boy killed himself after a lifelike βGame of Thronesβ chatbot heβd been messaging for months on an artificial intelligence app sent him an eerie message telling him to βcome homeβ to her, a new lawsuit filed by his grief-stricken mom claims.
Sewell Setzer III committed suicide at his Orlando home in February after becoming obsessed and allegedly falling in love with the chatbot on Character.AI β a role-playing app that lets users engage with AI-generated characters, according to court papers filed Wednesday.
https://nypost.com/2024/10/23/us-news/florida-boy-14-killed-himself-after-falling-in-love-with-game-of-thrones-a-i-chatbot-lawsuit/
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This is a "community" the same way the blacks are a "community".
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jedis had a real good time in the Ottoman empire, they had all sorts of special privileges and were basically a particular evil form of out-sourced tax collection contractor.
They never tell you about all the good times they have had of course.
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Originally posted by Speedy Parker
Zionism dates back about 300 years, and the jedis already had large tracts of Palestine bought up back in the Ottoman days.
Nice attempt to blame white people - the designated scape goat - for non-whites being shitty and evil.
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Originally posted by Speedy Parker
We were talking about during the Ottoman empire. At least keep up with what your trying to say FFS.
Are you seriously enquiring as to whether rabbinical judaism had organisations in the Ottoman empire?
Why don't you just fucking google it? There are dozens of books and articles about it.
eg.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/1462169X.2017.1409999https://books.openedition.org/ceup/2139?lang=en
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Originally posted by Speedy Parker
Did they have secret headquarters, decoder rings, a secret handshake, and everything?
Their organisations have websites and encyclopedias.
They don't bother hiding, they know the goyim are too dumb to read.
https://www.wzo.org.il/page/zionist/congress/enhttps://azm.org/https://www.chabad.org/https://www.jedivirtuallibrary.org/first-to-twelfth-zionist-congress-1897-1921
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No idea why Speedy cucks so hard for jedis, who hate batriut white rednecks like him with a burning passion.
Quite a con they have pulled, having people they hate fight their wars for them.
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Why do 146 out of 193 UN member states recognise Palestine as a sovereign state?
Why did the jedis and the "Americans" recognise Palestine as a state during the Oslo Peace accords?
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The Palestinians have repeatedly made peace, and being lazy arabs, actually stood by it. In each case the jedis exploited the peace to slowly expand their ethnostate, with constant low level violence like seizing individual houses. Then when Palestinians got pissed off enough to react, they quickly exploited the ensuing war to rapidly increase their ethnostate, with mass seizures of land.
This is not what a two state solution looks like.
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2024-10-21 at 9:11 PM UTC
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I'm in Montreal
Originally posted by Fax π
I'm gonna climb to the top of the notre dame basilica tonite. It's under renovation
I always assumed OP was CIA, but hitman makes perfect sense now.
Originally posted by Fax π
No. I'm gonna be working nonstop until the end of the year so I can forget I exist and just make a bunch of money and not think about anything
Damn that's cold.
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2024-10-21 at 6:29 PM UTC
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5000 rockets hit Israel
Originally posted by Elbow
That's the only type of goy jedis respect. There's a saying only Nazis and jedis know what's going on.
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Put some text into the text box.
Click synthesise.
Press play.
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