Posts by David Hood
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I was putting together a playlist for New Years, and as I contemplated Tubthumping, I was struck by the social-media + media self-reinforcing hype around "did the cast of Hamilton address the Vice-President elect sufficiently respectfully" compared to the lead singer of Chumbawamba pouring a pitcher of water over the Deputy Prime Minister in the pre social media days.
It just feels to me as a really good example of the way social media amplifies everything.
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California's conditions to onerous for Uber.
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Apropos of From Zero, From West Virginia :
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When self diving cars misbehave, blame the people.
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Hard News: Public Address Word of the…, in reply to Hilary Stace,
GNS generally refers to the Kaikoura quakes.
That is my sense of it as well, though we could call it 2016p858000, which is its GNS catalog ID
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I nominate ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ because WTF 2016
for that matter, WTF
I see that both Shrug and Face Palm were approved as emoticons in unicode 9.0 in 2016
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When you wrote "Moderates” fighting to overthrow Syrian president Assad. Those moderates just signed a non-aggression pact with ISIS. ” did you get that from some rather questionable sites from 2014?
There are between 5 and 50 (maybe more) factions in Syria depending on how you want to count them. In 2014 some factions of the Free Syrian Army signed a non-aggression pact with ISIS, but this did not apply to all members of the Free Syrian Army. The US said that none of the members of the FSA that signed were supported by the US. Wether you believe that or not is up to you, but it is indicative that the non-aggression was not a global re-alignment (and was one that broke-down over time).
It is like the times that units of the Syrian Government forces co-operated with ISIS in fighting the FSA. In a big messy multi-force civil war all depends on shifting alliances and who is stronger at the time.
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Hard News: The fake news problem, in reply to Farmer Green,
There is a civil war going on, you can call the non-government parties terrorists if thats what you want to do. All I am commenting on is that in you earlier statement calling the ones that the US has been backing ISIS, the ones the US has been backing are not ISIS.
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If it helps the fighting in Aleppo is between the Government and non-ISIS groups, the fighting in Palmyra is between the Government and ISIS groups
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Hard News: The fake news problem, in reply to Farmer Green,
I would say it is absolutely true, as the US backed rebels have been fighting the Government and ISIS it is true to say they have been fighting the Government. To say they are ISIS is the questionable claim. ISIS are also fighting the US backed rebels and the government.
But in reality there are a lot more than 3 groups, so it is a lot more complicated.
