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« Reply #3906 on: March 24, 2021, 10:02:07 AM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on March 23, 2021, 04:03:13 PM
I know liberals who believe most of the media is a right wing operation, CNN, CBS, MSNBC, the lot.  Obviously more conservatives think that way in reverse.  The reality is, if you think MOST people out there are hard right wingers, it means YOU are a left winger, and vice versa, it's inherent.

I think the media is largely a crock.  It's similar to listening to Game Day and worrying about their predictions.

Media:  outrage --> viewership/clicks --> eyeballs --> ad revenue
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The only fix for the media is making it's finances moot.  No commercials, no ads, no commentary.  Separate channels can do all of that for your company (not that it needs it).  Hopefully these bloated "not news just commentary" garbage human beings making all the dollars will move on and suck a different teat.  
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Separate news & money like we do church & state.  FFS.
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« Reply #3907 on: March 24, 2021, 10:02:36 AM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on March 24, 2021, 10:00:04 AM
Atlanta's largest hotel in ages set to launch construction next month | Urbanize Atlanta
Atlanta's largest hotel in ages set to launch construction next month | Urbanize Atlanta

Another sign planners think COVID is "over".  Some projects here got delayed and are started to restart and some new ones are proposed and likely to start soon.

I'm curious why large hotel chains have SO many variant names.  I could see 5 or 6, maybe 8.

A lot of the variants seem scarcely different from the other in concept.
My post wrapped to a new page, here's the last post on the previous one.
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« Reply #3908 on: March 24, 2021, 10:13:07 AM »
NPR has no commercials, and unlike many, I find them to be a "decent" source, not perfect, not always straight up, but decent enough that I read their web page, or scan for items of interest.

I know they are an anathema to conservatives, most of whom don't read their stuff of course. 

I also get a daily "summary" from the NYT in my in box.  Often, it's a nice summary of the key events of the day, and then it tries to get me to pay for the story in the NYT.

At times, I detect some pretty obvious bias, but it's obvious.  Obvious bias to me is better than the bias of burying a story or jumping to a conclusion based on unnamed sources.  These unnamed sources are fairly often playing the media to get something in press.
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« Reply #3909 on: March 24, 2021, 10:15:22 AM »
This is the first part of that NYT summary for today for example:


Is bad news the only kind?

Bruce Sacerdote, an economics professor at Dartmouth College, noticed something last year about the Covid-19 television coverage that he was watching on CNN and PBS. It almost always seemed negative, regardless of what was he seeing in the data or hearing from scientists he knew.
When Covid cases were rising in the U.S., the news coverage emphasized the increase. When cases were falling, the coverage instead focused on those places where cases were rising. And when vaccine research began showing positive results, the coverage downplayed it, as far as Sacerdote could tell.
But he was not sure whether his perception was correct. To check, he began working with two other researchers, building a database of Covid coverage from every major network, CNN, Fox News, Politico, The New York Times and hundreds of other sources, in the U.S. and overseas. The researchers then analyzed it with a social-science technique that classifies language as positive, neutral or negative.
The results showed that Sacerdote’s instinct had been right — and not just because the pandemic has been mostly a grim story.
The U.S. media is an outlier
The coverage by U.S. publications with a national audience has been much more negative than coverage by any other source that the researchers analyzed, including scientific journals, major international publications and regional U.S. media. “The most well-read U.S. media are outliers in terms of their negativity,” Molly Cook, a co-author of the study, told me.
About 87 percent of Covid coverage in national U.S. media last year was negative. The share was 51 percent in international media, 53 percent in U.S. regional media and 64 percent in scientific journals.
Notably, the coverage was negative in both U.S. media outlets with liberal audiences (like MSNBC) and those with conservative audiences (like Fox News).


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« Reply #3910 on: March 24, 2021, 10:16:09 AM »

The U.S. media is giving the audience what it wants.

When the researchers examined which stories were the most read or the most shared on Facebook, they tended to be the most negative stories. To put it another way, the stories that people choose to read skew even more negative than the stories that media organizations choose to publish. “Human beings, particularly consumers of major media, like negativity in their stories,” Sacerdote said. “We think the major media are responding to consumer demand.”
That idea is consistent with the patterns in the data, Sacerdote added: It makes sense that national publications have better instincts about reaching a large audience than, say, science journals. And overseas, some of the most influential English-language media organizations — like the BBC — have long received government funding, potentially making them less focused on consumer demand.


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« Reply #3911 on: March 24, 2021, 10:38:59 AM »
anybody ever search recently sold homes just for shits and giggles?

Search these: 

Jupiter
North Palm Beach
Palm Beach
Delray Beach
Boca Raton
Ft. Lauderdale
Aventura
Surfside, FL 
Fisher Island
Miami Beach
Miami 
Coral Gables


Insanity.
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« Reply #3912 on: March 24, 2021, 10:41:47 AM »
Outrage Culture is in full effect.  The internet and social media have amplified it, and cultivated it, but it's been around for a while.
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« Reply #3913 on: March 24, 2021, 11:14:42 AM »


guy holding the banner on the left's birthday

guy on the far left is my buddy Robert
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« Reply #3914 on: March 24, 2021, 11:27:03 AM »
Quote from: utee94 on March 24, 2021, 10:41:47 AM
Outrage Culture is in full effect.  The internet and social media have amplified it, and cultivated it, but it's been around for a while.
Nothing from the past can hold a candle to the pervasive algorithms infiltrating the VAST majority of our devices/accounts online.  It's akin to the best, most shrewd advertiser being Kasparov....the computers are much further ahead.  We have a dumber populace BEING the product and not even realizing it AND/OR caring about it.
Gotta get that newest phone.
Gotta get likes and subscribers on the next, cool platform.
Gotta play the mindless games in case I accidently have 4 minutes of downtime.  Wouldn't want to reflect or wonder or work something out in my head.  I need to be distracted, every moment, forever.
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« Reply #3915 on: March 24, 2021, 11:30:41 AM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on March 24, 2021, 11:27:03 AM
Nothing from the past can hold a candle to the pervasive algorithms infiltrating the VAST majority of our devices/accounts online.  It's akin to the best, most shrewd advertiser being Kasparov....the computers are much further ahead.  We have a dumber populace BEING the product and not even realizing it AND/OR caring about it.
Gotta get that newest phone.
Gotta get likes and subscribers on the next, cool platform.
Gotta play the mindless games in case I accidently have 4 minutes of downtime.  Wouldn't want to reflect or wonder or work something out in my head.  I need to be distracted, every moment, forever.
This.  
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Re: In other news ...
« Reply #3916 on: March 24, 2021, 11:32:20 AM »
Quote from: Mdot21 on March 24, 2021, 10:38:59 AM
anybody ever search recently sold homes just for shits and giggles?

Search these:

Jupiter
North Palm Beach
Palm Beach
Delray Beach
Boca Raton
Ft. Lauderdale
Aventura
Surfside, FL
Fisher Island
Miami Beach
Miami
Coral Gables


Insanity.
Dude - I am the Exec in charge of Mortgage for a Florida Bank.  Those are all in markets we compete in.  So yes- every day lol.
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« Reply #3917 on: March 24, 2021, 11:33:44 AM »
Some recipes are just not helpful.

The wife and I are making Thai shrimp lettuce wraps for dinner. I buy my shrimp frozen from Costco and this recipe calls for cooked chilled shrimp, so I need to defrost, cook, and chill the shrimp during the day before she gets home. So I asked her "hey, just simple salt and pepper to season the shrimp ok?", and she said the recipe was printed in our cookbook.

So I looked it up. It calls for 16-20 pre-cooked jumbo shrimp. It doesn't reference what "jumbo" means, nor an overall weight of what those "jumbo" shrimp are supposed to be. Nor, because it only says this, does it have ANY reference to any sort of seasoning or cooking method for the shrimp--obviously I think most pre-cooked shrimp is steamed, but I know very little about the seasoning.

There is no universal definition of jumbo shrimp. Online it says that it can often refer to 16-20 count and it can also often refer to 21-25 count shrimp. Assuming the midpoints (18 and 23), 16 shrimp could be as much as 0.88 lbs or as little as 0.7 lbs. 20 shrimp could be as much as 1.25 lbs or as little as 0.87 lbs.

I buy the 13-15 count shrimp. None of that puny 16-20 or 21-25 stuff!

Screw it. I'm going to use 1# of shrimp, hit it with a little salt and pepper, and cook it in the wok. 
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« Reply #3918 on: March 24, 2021, 11:41:31 AM »
Quote from: betarhoalphadelta on March 24, 2021, 11:33:44 AM
Some recipes are just not helpful.

The wife and I are making Thai shrimp lettuce wraps for dinner. I buy my shrimp frozen from Costco and this recipe calls for cooked chilled shrimp, so I need to defrost, cook, and chill the shrimp during the day before she gets home. So I asked her "hey, just simple salt and pepper to season the shrimp ok?", and she said the recipe was printed in our cookbook.

So I looked it up. It calls for 16-20 pre-cooked jumbo shrimp. It doesn't reference what "jumbo" means, nor an overall weight of what those "jumbo" shrimp are supposed to be. Nor, because it only says this, does it have ANY reference to any sort of seasoning or cooking method for the shrimp--obviously I think most pre-cooked shrimp is steamed, but I know very little about the seasoning.

There is no universal definition of jumbo shrimp. Online it says that it can often refer to 16-20 count and it can also often refer to 21-25 count shrimp. Assuming the midpoints (18 and 23), 16 shrimp could be as much as 0.88 lbs or as little as 0.7 lbs. 20 shrimp could be as much as 1.25 lbs or as little as 0.87 lbs.

I buy the 13-15 count shrimp. None of that puny 16-20 or 21-25 stuff!

Screw it. I'm going to use 1# of shrimp, hit it with a little salt and pepper, and cook it in the wok.
That's what I'd do.  No need to overthink it.
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Re: In other news ...
« Reply #3919 on: March 24, 2021, 11:45:06 AM »
Quote from: betarhoalphadelta on March 24, 2021, 11:33:44 AM
Some recipes are just not helpful.

The wife and I are making Thai shrimp lettuce wraps for dinner. I buy my shrimp frozen from Costco and this recipe calls for cooked chilled shrimp, so I need to defrost, cook, and chill the shrimp during the day before she gets home. So I asked her "hey, just simple salt and pepper to season the shrimp ok?", and she said the recipe was printed in our cookbook.

So I looked it up. It calls for 16-20 pre-cooked jumbo shrimp. It doesn't reference what "jumbo" means, nor an overall weight of what those "jumbo" shrimp are supposed to be. Nor, because it only says this, does it have ANY reference to any sort of seasoning or cooking method for the shrimp--obviously I think most pre-cooked shrimp is steamed, but I know very little about the seasoning.

There is no universal definition of jumbo shrimp. Online it says that it can often refer to 16-20 count and it can also often refer to 21-25 count shrimp. Assuming the midpoints (18 and 23), 16 shrimp could be as much as 0.88 lbs or as little as 0.7 lbs. 20 shrimp could be as much as 1.25 lbs or as little as 0.87 lbs.

I buy the 13-15 count shrimp. None of that puny 16-20 or 21-25 stuff!

Screw it. I'm going to use 1# of shrimp, hit it with a little salt and pepper, and cook it in the wok.
the last thing you use is salt

get some "crab boil" at the grocery store thats much better
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