Not on a screenshot, no

the majority of it was skewed and manipulated to conform to and confirm a very specific set of values, politics and beliefs

That’s the nature of human observation and analysis. Everyone brings their own baggage.

The raw data continues to prove useful reference material for anyone looking to independently analyze policy.

They have an About page

Incredibly bleak, given how much they’ve historically invested in demographic, scientific, and economic data analysis.

This just begs the question of who “Newsguard” is and why anyone should trust them.

There’s dozens of conservative sites that do these ratings for right wing crap and give them high scores, too.

Israeli tier foreign policy

the number of deaths that will be directly attributed to the cutting of USAid internationally and the loss of healthcare, jobs and environmental regulations in the US

Hey now, we didn’t cut USAID. We just sent $40B to our good friends in Argentina. And now Milei’s party has won the midterms, which means he can continue his War On Leftism inside the state and along the borders.

We’re also helping to arm and secure Guyana, in a Kuwait-like project to drill into neighboring Venezuelan oil fields. That’s not happening for free. Lots of Latin Americans and US government contractors are absolutely getting their palms greased. It’s been a bonanza for NATO aligned mercenaries since the Bush Era, thanks to all the money we’re spending on freelance military.

We’re saving lives, man. All that money is putting food on the tables of any number of cocaine snorting, whore house frequenting, tacti-cool sunglass wearing Afghanistan washouts and their Guasano peers.

Are you just going to ignore that?

If they claim they know that these boats have drugs on them, they could just apprehend them when they made port

That would require due process, instead of a spectacle of Shock and Awe.

Also, let’s say, hypothetically that these aren’t drug boats. Let’s say they are boats moving medical supplies or fuel or building materials between Venezuela and Cuba. Let’s say they’re actually military units working on behalf of the Venezuelan Coast Guard or just fisherman who got caught in an international crossfire.

It’s just easier to say “Drug Gang. Killed them.” knowing no major American media source is going to publish a rebuttal. Nobody in the US has access to the details of the attack. Nobody is going to interview the families or investigate the wreckage. Nobody is going to contradict this regime when it comes to butchering citizens of the Global South.

So why not call them a drug gang? Call them human traffickers. Call them roving nautical pedophiles. Call them Islamic Jihad.

American audiences won’t hear anything different.

Overrun? They were there first.

You’re data centers are the ones overrunning it

Buying back your stock with your payment package in an ouroburos of financial fuckery

Just about all we’ve got. Like, three store cops for every one clerk.

We’ve definitely got cause for hope after this last election cycle.

But given the stubbornness of the Cuomo-crats, we continue to have some cause for alarm.

Which means you’re going to have security guards checking receipts, not unlike at Krogers or Costco.

And I’m sure they’re very aggressive with anyone who looks criminally young or tan.

I mean, I do have to wonder how many people with physical or mental disabilities are effectively just going to be trapped in here.

Also get the sense that they’ll have more and more and more and more and more security in and around the building as younger people start passing around exploits in the security setup.

While I watched some customers struggle with the new technology, my receipt scanned immediately. The glass doors slid open, and I was free. But if, like this person on the San Francisco subreddit recounted, I hadn’t bought anything, my only means of exit would have been to beg the security guard to let me out.

The security guard

“We’re a startup”

“What’s your plan?”

“Giant mirrors in space to control the sunlight that hits the earth’s surface.”

“Wow, sounds incredibly expensive and of dubious technical merit. What are you asking to make this happen?”

“We need whatever money you have in your wallet right now.”

“And the return on investment?”

“Infinity zillion dollars.”

“I guess I’d be a fool not to hand you all my money.”

“Absolutely. Now… that’s a really nice watch. And shoes. We could get you an amazing return if you gave us those, too.”

What are they supposed to do?

My grandparents spent a lot of time playing tennis and bridge, knitting, and fishing.

Really raises the question of how profitable these scam ads have become.

Also speaks to the addictive quality of social media (or perhaps the grim state of offline society). People keep coming back to these obviously booby-trapped websites to claw at a thin veneer of simulated friendship because they’ve got nothing better to do with their lives.

He’s an edge case. And - don’t get me wrong - if this is a self-reproducing model for future campaigns, awesome!

But Mamdani himself is exceptionally charismatic with good politics to back him up. I wouldn’t even say guys like him don’t exist, they just tend to prefer climbing the escalator of retail politics to the greased pole of democratic socialism.

They’re just gonna lay them off.

And hire other people with the excess budget. Hell, depending on how badly these systems are implemented, you can end up with more staff supporting the testing system than you had doing the testing.