SecondJon @SecondJon@qoto.org

“I’ll be home for Christmas” will always have a special meaning for Sussie Bea Patrick. And no doubt chocolate bars will always be her favorite candy.

https://www.lifenews.com/2018/12/07/miracle-baby-born-at-22-weeks-and-weighing-just-one-pound-goes-home-for-christmas/

So glad @NPR is highlighting the relationships between state and media. Since there's no media bias, looking forward to them highlighting non-fox connections to political and bureaucratic people too.

I'll wait.

#uspol #mediabias

The source on emissions going up is about emissions in China. What about emissions in the US?

It talks about new regulations that must be bad (because Trump is bad) but doesn't specify what they are, and getting rid of old rules that must have been good (because Obama is good).

Instead we should talk about relevant info such as
- what is happening with US emissions
- what ARE the new regulations?
- why did Obama pass through executive agencies that the next president could simply cancel, rather than through legislation?
- was the Obama regulation to promote clean air, or only to stop new plants from opening while letting existing plants not comply?
- is alternative energy cheap enough to be competitive without government oppressing coal?
- what do advocates mean by clean coal? How unclean is coal?
- How does coal power compare to the pollution caused by manufacturing clean power products and hardware and supplies?

But instead we just get :
"smart man think Obama good, Trump bad. Smart man need reminder so smart man keep thinking that. Here is headline that Obama good, Trump bad. You no need good data. Only need headline that Obama good. Trump bad. Here go."

It seems condescending to have this headline bias with only partially relevant data sources linked.

I was surprised. I would have a hard time going to work every day (and I'd get a new job asap) if I didn't see my job as helping people. I add lots of value to a lot of people's lives, so I'm paid value in return. If you're not adding value, you're just... extracting value, which is harming others, rather than helping.

Sad to see someone with this viewpoint, that her daily work helps no one. Helps explain the constant bad attitude and regular tension surrounding the person, I suppose. Maybe that's what you get when you're at a job believing your and everyone's work is worthless to people.

Whoever defines the categories defines who is a bigot, who is a victim, who is an oppressor, with measures like this.

From the article : "By several measures, there really is no STEM gender gap in higher education. There are now more women than men earning STEM bachelor's degrees and there are more women than men enrolled in STEM graduate programs for master's and doctoral degrees.

... according to several measures, women are actually slightly over-represented in STEM graduate programs and earn a majority of STEM college degrees. A lot depends on how we define “Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM)” and that definition is fairly fluid and subject to various interpretations. "

https://www.aei.org/publication/gender-gap-in-stem-women-are-majority-of-stem-grad-students-and-they-earn-a-majority-of-stem-bachelors-degreesm/