FergyFrog
fergyfrog
After your last image, I... I have to post this:
And the attacks in Turkey got more attention than ones in Yemen. It boils down to where people expect attacks and how likely people in the U.S. are to have travelled to or know people from those areas.
This seems sort of callous but I don’t think bombings in countries where we associate turmoil drives clicks/traffic whatever in the US. Where something happening in France on Belgium, where American tourists are more likely to go, will.
Honestly it’s pretty simple. Bombings in places like Beirut and Istanbul are expected. That perception may be right or wrong but regardless of that, it’s the driving factor in coverage.
People care more about things that a) affect them and b) remind them of themselves. This isn’t shocking. America is a country that is also the size of a continent: someone in Maine being informed about what is going on in Nevada, someone in Alaska reading up on Hawaii, is geographically far more diverse than someone…
Is anyone else uncomfortable with the public health costs argument for banning this? Smoking has secondhand smoke, fine. For smokeless tobacco, the only way it harms anyone else (other than being a bad example for kids) is that in the aggregate, public health costs might go up if we have to treat people for whatever…
I ignore religion equally.
Why? It put the heat on EA faster than any phone call would have and it got the job done.
Why not? You have a account that’s verified to be the actual person and their social media people do have access to other departments to report stuff. It’s also quicker than writing a support ticket that will be sent through an automated system at least once before making its way to a person.
Jalopnik did a fantastic on-the-street story about what’s going on at Willets Point, where mechanics held a hunger strike to protest plans to evict them to expand the stadium.
Well, myself I prefer to stick to the policy my parents taught me, and their parents taught them as far as my “tune” about someone, in life or death...
I call bullshit that that red shirted individual is Miller. If it was Miller, the shirt would have been completely soaked through with sweat...
Nuance is a dirty word in today’s political climate. Shit, it’s been a dirty word for over a decade.
There’s nothing to gain by being outed as the “bad guy” who doesn’t want his workplace to be daycare. Especially when it’s pretty likely that LaRoche is the kind of bible thumper who would take to Twitter and say things like you’re anti-family and hate Jesus.
In the end A.J. really did ruin Deadspin, just in a much more roundabout manner.
Whelp, it was a good ride. It's been fun.