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  1. 27 minutes ago, Lord Ratner said:

    While I appreciate the bold idea that OAN and Newsmax are somehow equivalent to WaPo and CNN, I know you don't believe that. 

     

    What's next, you going to tell us Hollywood is politically balanced because Kelsey Grammar and Melissa Joan Hart are Republicans?

     

    There's definitely a change coming, and the conservative outlets are making progress, but to imply "media" is balanced in 2021 is silly. Ironically, the outlets you cite are doing well specifically because of the wild imbalance in political leaning in the news media.

    "What's next, you going to tell us Hollywood is politically balanced because Kelsey Grammar and Melissa Joan Hart are Republicans?"

    - Absolutely not.  Moreover, people who make political decisions based on the blatantly very liberal/"woke" Hollywood/entertainment industry are probably beyond help (see Ricky Gervais monologue).  That said, it gets weird at the margins.  E.g is Tucker Carlson news opinion or entertainment?  He presents like the former but claims the latter when legal issues are raised.  Even more true with Jon Stewart; he wanted to be a political pundit for all intents and purposes yet hid behind the "I'm just a comedian" shield when strongly challenged. Maybe such blurry lines always existed, but seems more prominent now.  

    It's much more than OAN and Newsmax type TV channels, so I shouldn't have led with those examples.  As probably everyone knows, media formats are changing rapidly and traditional TV viewership is becoming less relevant. Podcasts and blogs are growing significantly. Talk radio is still a thing although the pandemic's effect on commuting resulted in a decline.  In summary, many liberal and many conservative news outlets of all types exist.  https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-chart  Each has the opportunity to market itself and thus is responsible for their own success.  On my TV, all the news channels, liberal and conservative, are listed from 600 to 6XX.  They're all available online as well.  I go on Apple and Spotify and see Steven Crowder, Ben Shapiro, Rogan, Sam Harris, The Daily, NPR, etc. Youtube has clips of all the above.  Of course, it is problematic that social media algorithms will push similar content to you causing the echo chamber effect, but that's a separate topic. 

    Are conservative and liberal news perfectly balanced? No.  But both are well represented. 74 million people were convinced Trump was the better candidate.  The media undoubtedly influenced that outcome and it wasn't a fringe, upstart media. 

     

  2. 50 minutes ago, nsplayr said:

    Good advice! Sand in the ######, depending on the volume of sand and the depth of the intrusion, can be a serious medical condition.

    If this happens to you or someone you love, please seek medical care from a primary care provider or an urgent care facility as soon as possible.

    This is why the beach scene in Airplane! was unrealistic. 

  3. You certainly have a way with words.  Please check your blood pressure. No one wants you to go into cardiac arrest. Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, this is the most shocking example of “triggered” I have ever witnessed! 

    To address what appears to be the underlying theme of your latest posts, I am not attempting to defend or support any particular media story. I’m simply pointing out the outdated perception of the liberal-only mainstream media. Said perception is used, mainly (but certainly not solely) by the right these days to perpetuate a David vs Goliath narrative that provides a misplaced sense of virtuous struggle against the “forces of darkness” on the other side of the political divide.  Doing so does not facilitate a better understanding or more informed perspective about what’s going on.  
     
    With that, sir, I bid you adieu for today. I look forward to further spirited, but calmer, debate. 

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  4. 6 hours ago, VMFA187 said:

    If you think the treatment of President Trump and President Obama by the press were similar you are completely delusional. 

    MSNBC, CNN etc. ripped Trump.  Fox, Rush etc ripped Obama.  What were you were saying, again?

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  5. On 4/6/2021 at 9:29 AM, ClearedHot said:

    Complete and utter malarkey.

    ONE mainstream network went after Obama, Foxnews, some of it unwarranted Political tripe, some of it valid.  Meanwhile ALL of the remaining mainstream networks supported Obama.

    The mainstream anti-Trump anti-GOP theme continues.   Look no further than the Ga Voter law controversy.  The WASHPO gives Biden four Pinocchios but the rest of the press pushes on as if it is absolute fact, furthering the cancel culture march.  To be clear, the law ADDED early voting days, still allows food and water in lines, just without party branding, and is less restrictive than current laws in New York State.  Even with those facts CNN and MSNBC run speeches with Chuck Schumer screaming about racism and telling corporations to boycott Georgia.  Meanwhile google and Delta airlines sign partnership deals with that great human rights advocate...CHINA, and the mainstream press says NOTHING.

    Another wonderful example...the 60 minutes hit piece on DeSantis Sunday night.  60 minutes used to be a bastion of investigative reporting...finding real corruption, now they purposely edit to invent a pay for play controversy.  The FACTS are 180 out from what 60 minutes says.  It was a democrat that made the decision to use Publix.  While the closest Publix to some of the areas was indeed 30 minutes away...there were two state vaccination sites ONE mile away.  Shame on 60 minutes and shame on you for a complete lack of intellectual honesty.

    If both it happens to both sides why hasn't New York based 60 Minutes dedicated even one second of air time to the Cuomo controversy?  Falsified nursing home deaths, Toxic/sexist work environment with eight accusers, sending state representatives to his mother's house and his brothers house to test them, using state workers to edit and work on his personal book....nothing to see here right?  Not a ing word by 60 minutes.

    And why haven't the gun hating networks like MSNBC and CNN said a word about Hunter and his gun.  They support a federal background check if I want to give my 13 year old son a .22 that has been in the family for 100 years but Hunter can lie on his background check (a FELONY), acquire the gun, then toss it in the trash and the Secret Service cleans it up, no charges...all without the press saying a word.

    The mainstream press is absolutely complicit with the DNC.  Look at the softball interview with Hunter now that he is releasing a book.  "Well the laptop may be mine, I don't know."  How about you do some real journalism and read the emails to him and get him to deny on camera.  All the while the mainstream network and the tech oligarchs crushed the story during the election...and now we know it was TRUE!

    The mainstream media is dead in this country and  I am happy to acknowledge that FoxNews is in lock step with the GOP but EVERY other mainstream network is a political arm of the DNC.

     

     

    If by malarkey you mean your post, then we’re in agreement.  Right wing talk radio, OAN, Newsmax, Blaze, Wash Times, Daily Standard, podcasts galore, and the younger-demographic fast-growing online media such as Quilette, etc. plenty of conservative outlets exist.  Whether they’re successful and gain viewership is up to them.  In fact , most have been successful, particularly in developing well-regarded pundits (Hannity, yes, but also Shapiro, Glenn Beck to name two) I don’t think you’re stupid, but clearly you are firmly stuck in a echo chamber with regard to rhetoric. The rub, of course, is the presumption that “your side” is always truthful and unbiased while the “other side”is not. You can debate point-by-point ad infinitum. However, a mature perspective is that currently both sides are highly biased.  Stop with the poor little conservative press shtick; it’s no longer valid.  The very-right-wing conservative pundits need to stop acting like oppressed little bitches. They have a platform, they’re using it, and have a strong voice to the public at large (some of which I wholeheartedly agree with). The “coastal elites” (whatever that now means) no longer solely control the narrative.  It’s not 1994 with Rush vs Everyone Else.  
    In concept, I’m glad that the media has multiple voices.  The problem is that the moderates have been drowned out. Probably because that narrative is boring and doesn’t get folks fired up (exhibit A: this thread).  It’s either: the other side is communist, atheist transgenders OR the other side is uneducated, bible-thumping racists.  Really, that’s the best we can do?  You have to go 3000+ mi East to get a what may be the only relatively balanced perspective (BBC).  That’s pathetic. 

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  6. On 4/2/2021 at 1:31 PM, Vito said:

    “Any old guys here who went through UPT back in the 38 only days”

     I went through CBM 87-04.  We washed out half the class. Of the 21 studs in my class who walked across the hallway from Tweets to -38’s we lost about 4. All in the Contact phase. There were some who struggled in formation, but I can’t recall any of them washing out. We also had a student who passed his last checkride hours AFTER we graduated. They let him walk across the stage with the class because his family was there, then he left to take his 88 checkride. If he had busted he would have washed out. Our Wing CC had a 3 checkride failure policy. No exceptions. He ended up a 2Star General! Col Chuck Edwards CBM 1987 was the CC. 

    Laughlin 94-01, which was towards the end of the single track era.  I was a Guard 130 guy but glad I flew the T-38.  The relative time compression helped instill good airmanship skills.  Everyone made it through 38's, although we did have a guy who busted his Form and Nav checks (don't recall how) and went to an 88.     

    CRM is very important but my impression based on the product was that the T-1 didn't address any assumed / perceived shortcomings.  In any case, CRM isn't refined to an operationally-suitable skill until in the MWS.  Each has (had?) a distinct culture in that regard.  

     

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  7. On 4/4/2021 at 1:44 PM, Lawman said:


    For the entire 4 years of the Trump presidency has critics and talk head representatives on any number of press sources have attributed statements directly to the president that didn’t happen or were taken completely out of context to construct false statements. Nobody in their camps complained or called them on it.

    Guess what, the bar was permanent lowered. You can blame the lack of editorial integrity by the press when permitting false statements selectively to align with their greater political narrative. They had no problem bold face stoping or interrupting the office of the Executive often rudely to “correct the record.” So it’s obviously got nothing to do with attempting to maintain an honest record as the 4th estate.


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    You could substitute "8" for "4" as well as "Obama" for "Trump" and the statement would be equally accurate.  Both the right mainstream media and left mainstream media do it and we're all worse off as a result.  

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  8. On 3/8/2021 at 4:26 PM, ClearedHot said:

    He definitely had some but he is actually brilliant.  I spent some time around him in an official capacity and was blown away, he must have a camera on switch that brings about the gaffes.  I have a good friend that worked directly for his for several years and said the same thing.  Especially when it came to discussions on strategy and national policy.

    I assume you’re referring to GWB.  Never met/worked with him but he struck me as a good person overall and certainly not as dumb as some pundits claimed. More of a practical common sense guy.  On the other hand, I have spoken with Biden within the past 18 months. He was sharp, made good points, and had good insights at a new tech event. However, at this point he’s a 10 hour a day guy rather than 18 hours.  Similar to Reagan in his last term. 

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  9. On 3/8/2021 at 6:23 PM, ClearedHot said:

    So the Lufwaffe made a big deal about a supposed Elephant Walk of Typhoon Eurofighters...

    Notice anything odd about the pictures?

     All the jets are chocked and have no pilots...Basically they towed 18 jets out on the the runway, took a picture, and blasted social media...cool story Bruder.

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    Jesus, they didn’t even try. I guess mediocrity is their stretch goal.  Unsat. 

  10. On 3/6/2021 at 1:13 PM, Homestar said:

    I dunno. Most Americans still probably don’t know that Biden has a stutter and just think he’s stoopid. 

    True.  Reports about Biden's stutter aren't new so it's not like it was whipped up as an excuse for this election.

    https://www.c-span.org/video/?56567-1/life-career-joseph-biden

    Above in 1994.  Discusses stutter at 14:07.

    https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93914952

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/joe-biden-writes-essay-about-his-speech-impediment/

    He's always been a verbal gaffe guy, similar to GWB.  

     

     

  11. On 3/5/2021 at 3:00 AM, arg said:

    He's trying to set another record. But thankfully the truth and transparency is back.

     

     

    Wait a sec, Huckabee has a negative opinion piece on our new democrat President?  Surprised.  Can't wait for Rachel Maddow's upcoming book about the successes and triumphs of the Trump admin.  

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  12. 8 hours ago, kaputt said:

    Not only has he been a clown his entire career, he now likely has legitimate cognitive decline on top of that. 
     

    To be honest I do feel kind of bad for him at times. I certainly am not a fan of Biden politically, but no one deserves to be propped up like this man is being, when he should be enjoying the latter stages of his life in peace and quiet with his family. 

    Biden has a circa 1982 hard drive of canned political statements.  However, said drive is a bit corrupted through overuse.   

  13. 1 hour ago, Waingro said:

    Good, Dr. Seuss is a classic. 

    Unless you meant the people paying exorbitant sums for the out-of-print ones, that nobody was buying before anyway. I wonder if those people will store those unread gems with their mountain of uneaten Goya beans, unused MyPillows©, or unwatched Rosanne DVDs. Or if they'll eventually make it to the trashcan with the items Tucker Carlson told them to dump, like Taylor Swift albums, NFL gear, Yeti Coolers, Keurig Makers, Starbucks mugs, Netflix gift cards, Budweiser anything, Oreo cookies, Gilette products, Nike products... It's dizzying trying to keep up with remembering all the shit that conservatives have tried to boycott for perceived injustices lately, I'm sure I missed a bunch. 

    Don't forget unnecessarily large bag of Duck Commander calls.   

    I prefer Buck Gardner anyway. 

     

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  14. 15 hours ago, Lord Ratner said:

    It was free (actually you get paid) and you could be a *very* unpopular cadet with leadership and still get a pilot slot. And for people like me with problems self-motivating for academics, you don't have the freedom to skip class or slack off. That's about it.

     

    Otherwise,

    USAFA --> Active Duty : ROTC --> Guard/Reserve.

     

    In my DLF UPT class long ago, it was me and a couple of guard guys; the rest were USAFA. We were a pretty tight class.  Some of the Academy studs were tasting relative freedom and did the binge blackout drinking I got out of my system as a freshman fraternity pledge.  I was sort of the big brother when we headed to SA or Austin.  Great times. 

  15. 3 hours ago, ClearedHot said:

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    I'm hard pressed to think of anything more kid-friendly, creative, and wholesome than Dr Seuss.  This latest cancelling is ridiculous.  And to think in the mid-80's he caught crap for one of his books being critical of US cold war nuclear policy.  Folks always need something to complain about.  

    Not a fan of Cardi B; her "music" isn't exactly introspective and intelligent.  Although the Ben Shapiro mashup where he sings the song is pretty funny. 

     

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  16. 11 hours ago, HeloDude said:

    Can’t disagree there.  But it only further supports the opinion that mainstream media is far left as they largely only carry and support only one of these two messages.

    I've repeated this here and I'm probably wasting keystrokes, but the era of solely-liberal "mainstream media" is past.  There are many established and new conservative-leaning outlets beyond Fox (much of talk radio, OAN, Newsmax, Blaze, NY Post, WSJ editorials, certain podcasts, etc, etc)  Granted, they may not have the same collective viewership (yet) as the liberal outlets but they have the ability to deliver whatever narrative they want.  That said, the two sides are so far apart there aren't any moderate news sources in the US.   An important point because the media/political cabals are trying to get each of us to choose a side and stay in it.   You're not "allowed" to be, for instance, pro-environment AND pro-2A.  Or capitalist AND pro-Obamacare.  It's kind of Orwellian how we are trained to be reflexively loyal to one political party or the other.  End of conspiracy theory rant.  

    BBC might be the least biased major outlet.   Of course, bias is in the mind of the consumer.  I'm sure there are folks on the extremes that consider Infowars or Mother Jones moderate. 

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  17. 22 hours ago, FourFans130 said:

    Where is Robert Heinlein when we need him?! 

    Heinlein, indeed.  In Starship Troopers you had to serve in order to vote, which is a very interesting idea.  I personally like the idea of compulsory service.  However, the flip side is where do you draw the line between useful and not-useful draftee?  There will be a small, but not insignificant, number of young people with minimal ability to learn.  They'll need to be given make-work projects with questionable return on investment.  Of course, that might be better than 2-3 yrs of welfare.  

  18. On 2/26/2021 at 7:02 AM, ClearedHot said:

    NY AG Letitia James mulling request for probe of Gov. Cuomo over sex harass claim

    And of course the mess of a mayor that is Deblasio wants the spotlight off him and is willing to throw Cuomo under the bus bus in the process.

    NYC Mayor Calls for ‘Full and Independent Investigation' Into Allegations Against Cuomo

    Cuomo should do like most middle-aged Italian-American men of means and get a young hot goomar who keeps her mouth shut unless he asks. 

  19. On 2/28/2021 at 10:35 AM, HeloDude said:

    Really dude?  The left has made the argument that if you voted for Trump then you’re lockstep with what Trump believes, etc.  Hell, the left is still trying to make that argument!  Let me know if you need examples...

    By the way, how are those “cages” (or detention holding facilities?) that Biden is forcing children into?

    Fair enough, but the right has done the same, indicating that anyone who votes for Biden is a socialist.  The "leaders" of both sides love their hyperbole.  Nice chunks of red meat their respective bases can chomp on, while staying obedient to their "R" or "D" masters. 

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  20. 42 minutes ago, ThreeHoler said:

     


    Superchargers can put 200 miles in “the tank” in 15 minutes. The navigation app also knows where superchargers are and you can plan the stops...along major highways...in advance.

    You’re full of shit.

     

    The recharging issue was legitimate but is now figured out. There are lithium chemistries that withstand fast charging although cycle life takes a hit.  The infrastructure just needs to be filled out, which is underway.  Of course all those electrons flowing at 4000A+ have to come from somewhere without dragging down the local grids. Solar canopies aren’t a complete solution.  But, hey, isn’t there a company starting with a “T” that makes huge battery farms?  Seems like a nice complimentary business oppty. THAT is the bottleneck. 

  21. There are a couple of aspects to subscriptions, which are definitely getting attention in the industry.  One is to address the decline in car ownership among Milennials. They all want to live in Brooklyn, be hipsters or techies (half-joking) and make sure they’ve got the latest indie music as well as smartphone. Mfgs are launching plans like Freedom Boat Club where you pay $X per month to get access to Y range of vehicles. Not sure if it will work as the target audience has to value cars as desirable accessories. 

    Software subscriptions for features and performance are a natural evolution and a great source of steady incremental revenue. Both to unlock existing capability (advanced driver assistance) that you didn’t pay for when you bought the car and new features through code updates. Some of you might know that BMW announced this last summer although they’ve had the Connected Drive Store for a few years. Good article in TechCrunch. 

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