Hobbes_Dent

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[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 72 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

When a plane loses power this lowers into the airstream to make brrrrrrrrrr sounds to keep the illusion of engines.

Edit: I feel I should expand on this. Like a hockey card in your bmx spokes.

[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 61 points 1 week ago

Just like you’re entitled to a speedy trial. Using, abusing, and manipulating your entitlements has ramifications regardless of having them.

[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

I was going to make a joke involving

but I don’t want to spark a conspiracy narrative on the fringes of the bell curve.

[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 86 points 1 week ago

But please, continue to try and join the world stage full of master manipulators.

[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Staff at least seem to have legitimate journalism experience. Nothing more implied or researched.

https://www.floridabulldog.org/about/staff/

Dan Christensen, Editor Dan founded Florida Bulldog in 2009 using the name Broward Bulldog. He is an award-winning former investigative reporter for The Miami Herald and Daily Business Review, and one of South Florida’s most experienced reporters. He holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in political science from the University of Miami. ...

Mel Frishman, Assistant Editor Mel Frishman retired in 2007 as Broward news editor of The Miami Herald after a 48-year newspaper career. He began working for The Miami News as a senior at Miami High, and served in several key positions there before the paper’s demise in December 1988. ...

Francisco Alvarado, Reporter Francisco is a South Florida-raised journalist. During an 11-year run as a staff writer for the alternative weekly newspaper Miami New Times won multiple state journalism awards. ...

[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 47 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Lock them emails up came the cry from the C suite and the editor asked what he should run instead.

I worked in small and medium sized print media for a few decades. Very loosely around 1998 you’d still see the newest, greenest, most eager-to-please editor be able to tell the owner or C’s to fuck right off if there was an attempt to break the wall between the money and the news. It was just assumed and known really - because while few examples happened, for the most part management or money would never even think of doing it.

By the early 2000s, while print was still king and only just preparing to completely fuck up internet advertising and kill the industry, the wall cracked a bit. “It’s the beginning of the end” many would say while others said they were just ads on the front above the fold. The former was correct.

And now we have a media landscape run by the money, for the money.

[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Are you advocating a Trump vote or am I misinterpreting?

[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I don’t think they deserve the title. American media is as dead as Russian or Indian because they allowed greed or fear to supersede their responsibilities.

[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago

I hope the judge so much as delivered a newspaper at the age of nine let alone worked a day in any business that bought advertising in any media because then we may see the smack down.

This whole thing is so absurd as someone who was on the media end. The advertiser-media relationship is (was?) wholly one of supplication to the client. It’s absolutely bonkers to see a media entity demand client business and sue. It’s like Opposite Day in Capitalism Land.

Kinda anti-capitalist actually there Elon.

[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

It needs one more.

You get the bible stuff both as bonus statement by the poor tree and indictment of search results in this age of enlightened tech.

[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

At the current rate governments would spend the world's remaining time making a cozy place for them to spend eternity alone.

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