> https://nypost.com/2020/11/01/autistic-teen-who-went-missing-in-queens-is-found-nypd-says/amp/
@KumquatLord Such great news. People who go missing in Far Rockaway, usually are found dead. It's one of the many areas of NYC that really go ignored.

@Plague Doctor Lawrence the news declared it.....that's all.

https://www.dailynews.com/2020/12/03/walter-e-williams-1936-2020-thomas-sowell/
Rest in peace one of the greats.

Whole video of the nurse fainting.

Its the service status. It maps availability of the services in each region.

@Red Jasper I hear what you say about marriage in 2020. I think what the study shows is people devaluing the nuclear family when it comes to raising children in general.

In my own community, black people, you see what hell that has paved for decades. Now it's the complete opposite. Having a child is considered minor but getting married is a huge deal.

the emancipation statue...was paid for by former slaves. What in sam's hell is wrong with these people.

I agree to the separation. Also family court is joke.

Nah, it should be left the way it is. It was a statue paid for by former slaves.

The epoch times writes really great articles. I appreciate their work. They due excellent coverage, so I don't care about where they are from. I think people have issues with CNN or MSNBC because they tell you how to feel.

And Falun Gong really picked up traffic when the ccp was offing members. In the 1000s.

No, because I can disagree with the goal.

Its like CNN saying they are "unbiased". But Fox will tell you they are conservative up front.

I think there is a difference.

So guilt out of association and not the end product? If we are doing guilt by association, I'll just agree to disagree.

I don't trust cnn due to the product, not for who they are owned by.

ok, then guilt by association. I disagree with the assessment, but appreciate you shared your view.

China Uncensored has been reporting on Chinese forces aggression for quite some time. But I don't know if they have done anything recent. Kind of stepped away from the news due to holidays.

So what exactly is the crux of the issue with epoch times? Do you fault them for association, the articles, is it both? If so, then post a conflicting source that meets the standards of both.

I think that would resolve the confusion on everyone's part.

So the problem I have is, by your rubric, would posting CNN be considered a good source? Like if we applied the scrutiny of association and not the quality of the article, does your post count?

I asked to find a source that fits the rubric you want for the epoch times.

Cause if we are using associations and not the work as a rubric, then what exactly are we left with. I don't mind CNN when they get it right. Same should go for all publications.

@ToxicTransgender if you had to look up a source for the events of Tiannamen Square, what would you use? I always find new sources articles about past events to be interesting litmus test for how diligent their work is.

https://www.history.com/topics/china/tiananmen-square
This is a rundown of the massacre at Tiannamen Square.

History.com is a website that just reports on historical events. If you had to get a rundown of events from a news company, who would you use as a source.

I don't hate people, too much wasted energy. So you would use CBC to get information about the Tiannamen Square Massacre? Does the CBC meet your association requirements that you place on the Epoch Times?

Wait, so its a different rubric for the CBC?

So you judge by the articles and not who invest/runs it?

State run media rarely gets praise here. But I guess there is a first for everything.

So @ToxicTransgender the CBC board of directors are highly involved in media as board members or direct owners (ex: Edward W. Boyd and Michael Goldblume). Essentially there isn't competing media companies, since they all run the direction of state media. I think this would fall into that issue you were talking about.

I'm not saying they're arent, you have a situation where multi-billion dollar company is the arm of state media.

If we going to discard Epoch times on a "poisonous" association, this seems like it would apply as well.

Here is the CBC coverage of Tiannamen Square:
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2461675714

Tell me what you think.

how does it not have involvement? The media is directly involved with the government. Since it is government funded.

Its the definition of a conflict of interest.

How does the government not have a say, but have control over funding?

Like, would you trust North Korean news network if they said "the government has no decision power over what we publish"?

So maybe this is a cultural misunderstanding. People in America have issues with PBS because it is government programming. You don't trust it because if it came time to report things about your government, you're considered distrustful. The only thing you can base your trust of them on is the articles/product they publish.

So my point with the double standard when it comes to Epoch Times vs CBC.

But in general news, why would you not judge the work and not the association? That is the double standard.

But earlier, you said this: https://discord.com/channels/707691030748594288/783093969071898724/796098681907445772.
I think from this, people would interpret this as guilt by association and not just careful assessment of news.

Careful assessment of the type of news*

Like if the initial thing was, "I don't trust Epoch times reporting on CCP news because they are funded by people trying to take them down." I'd get it. But that's not what was initially said.

What's wrong with calling it the ccp virus? They have gone out there way to hide its origins. Like having a jarring title isn't wrong.

Especially when it comes to the WHO going out it's way to call it covid-19 and removing origin from the criteria

or its release.

Or it's release.

Yeah but it was spread from China

Because they didn't take measures and even hid the initial count.

So they botched an outbreak, its on them. That's how it works.

No because America didn't release the virus.

This is the same standard applied to the hong kong virus, ebola, west nile.

The point I'm making is the blame lies on the country of origin. Same goes with MERS.

If you look at Dr. Fauci's paper on the Spanish Flu. It causes increases in pneumonia.

https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/full/10.7326/M20-6817
Mask don't work. Excellent study on the subject.

People blame the ccp because of their treatment of taiwan and the controlled measures they took with WHO to not investigate China's handling.

Yeah, but they did that on the back of not warning any other country and stopping the WHO.

They admitted to 5 million moving and flying before locking down.

The killing of journalist reporting on the situation also warrants people saying "CCP virus"

Yes, but it happened in China first.

CCP legit forced the WHO to suppress info about human to human transmission because it came from Taiwan. How is this not the CCP's fault?

you hide the nature of disease spread....then you are at fault.

You aren't at fault if you suppress critical information about a disease? Since when?

World

It isn't covid, it's lockdowns.

Yes, meaning if covid was this remover, the deaths would be higher.

You are killing livelihoods and making people depressed.

Yeah agreed.

I disagree because Covid being identified as a cause of death is clearly inflated.

have you seen the criterria for marking a covid death?

It's laughable at best.

So if it isn't reported, then how could it contribute.

Its like feminist and rape states. And the "unreported". If it's unreported, how do you report it?

My issue with the covid numbers and counter is a few things

the rubric can be anything, pcr testing is faulty as hell

So we don't know.

Nope.

I will just recover from it. Since I have a 99.999% chance of surviving.

Also getting a vaccine for a coronavirus is like trying to identify who gave you a handy in a glory hole. It is foolish and hand is ever changing.

Asymptomatic spread was listed as unlikely. Further reason why lockdowns were pointless.

Apple disable directions to DC. Lol

Like Trump supporters don't have tom toms or actual maps.

Ooof, showed my age. Before phones, they were king.

Rofl, you made me feel so old just now.

I just tried on duckduckgo. If you put in "Washington, DC" it didn't give directions.

Duckduckgo uses apple maps. Let me try putting in "Washington Monument"

Washington monument worked.

Idk if this belongs here. But if anyone played Metal Gear Solid:
https://youtu.be/DwCEAdeFXEM

its a fork of mozilla.

That's basically it.

Also the chromium project is separate from chrome.

yeah Microcenter is pretty amazing.