that’s what gets drilled into kids heads.

There is an anecdote about my oldest brother. He said to another kid “green is go, red is stop and yellow is go very fast”. Guess they learn from what we do, not what we tell them to do.

There is a difference between racism and face blindness

Where are you going?

Which is why collective action is key

Famous last words

c/bananaforscale

People underestimate how big countries can be

I haven’t

Tbf I’ve been to earth and can recommend it. Very diverse country. Never been to moon tho

Do they tho? I know a bunch of Christians who don’t

Ok, that makes a lot of sense. I don’t consume too much US media but where I live, there is a lot of false balance so the fairness doctrine sounded like that. So, to come back to my example, a climate scientist would be science news, just facts.

Diamonds form under pressure, so yes

Maybe it makes you comfortably numb? Donno

Was?

History doesn’t repeat but it rhymes

Works on my machine. Either way, the screenshot is from Wikipedia. Just search for the name

It’s called chocolate beans but neither peanuts nor chickpeas are called beans so it’s quite a scratch

So it was false balance but now it’s worse? Is that a way to put it?

I know the Fairness Doctrine was a good thing but it kind of sounds like false balance to me. Of cause it’s better to put a climate change expert next to a climate change denier instead of only listening to the latter but wouldn’t the Fairness Doctrine also make it more difficult to only interview the former? Or would that fall under News? Maybe I’m missing something here.

Or just a whale