Nope. Propaganda requires deliberate intent to mislead and misrepresent the public to benefit a biased political view. The shit floating around on the internet masquerading as legitimate fact for the last 10-15 years qualifies.

Nope it was always propaganda. The daily show and weekend update are fake news programs, the Onion is a fake news paper. Propaganda requires deliberate intent to mislead and misrepresent the public to benefit a biased political view. The shit floating around on the internet masquerading as legitimate fact for the last…

The Onion, Exile, Tiabi’s old Buffalo Beast paper, etc... Are “fake news” a.k.a. satire, all this political shit is propaganda. S

According to what? Census and Labor Statistics disagree.

Timeline? I said that in post 1. Since the 70's when productivity gains stopped raising incomes for the middle and below. Purchasing power for the bottom 80% has been stagnant for 50 years.

And that’s pure nonsense that you’ve not supported with anything. You actually have it backward anyway. Raw salaries have been increasing for all groups but inflation adjusted purchasing power has been comparatively flat for everyone below the top 20%.

My net worth is a negative number (student debt)... So fuck it.

That was true until the 1970's. Productivity and worker income used to track together, as they should, but that is a fantasy now. The 1% are the only beneficiaries of globalization as indicated by the enormous wage gaps and wealth inequality between average people and our owners.

Word. I often come back to the notion that public corporations ruined capitalism. Being not an economist though I admittedly have no idea what the beast would look like if all companies had to have an owner. Though it would be hard to imagine it worse than the quarterly earnings short sighted shit show we’ve got now.

Wasn’t expecting them to make the new one even less useful than the old one. Way to double down on façade.

They merica’d the shit out of the opening for sure... But tbh I didn’t find it special in any way. Not sure how much of the underwhelm came from hype about the big budget spectacle before the show aired.

This... Honestly the only thing I didn’t like was the dumb NASCAR driver bit.

Not necessarily on your last point... Merging early makes a two lane road into a one lane road for longer than it needs to be.

Autonomous cars (unlike self interested humans) know how a zipper works though... So wouldnt they be the ones cutting in at the last meter? And of course letting each other in via V2V communication like good civilized robots.

Here here. 6MT, bought new in 2011.

a lot of the world is upside down.... but damn it is good to see that Aston can still make a fucking gorgeous car.

hah... over the weekend I started thinking about doing “coffee shop therapy” ... sip coffee next to a sign that says “I’m open to talking about that thing that happened last week, no cameras or judgment.”

Question I have for them though is... who looked like the alpha male in these meetings?

yes, the not-word that shall not be spoken of in tweed company

+1 for using irrespective rather than that fake alternative.