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AlexWIWA , to mildlyinfuriating in I need new glasses. The only insurance-approved place I can shop online will cost $250 with my needs. I went to a "cheap" glasses website that doesn't accept insurance: $250. Yay, America.

eyebuydirect. You’ll need to measure your pupillary distance if your prescription from the doctor doesn’t list it.

Moonguide , to coffee in What less common coffee drinks do you make?

coffee milk.

You might like a bombón coffee. Take condensed milk and espresso, and mix them real well. You’re aiming for a 50/50 but that might be too sweet, so adjust accordingly.

I make it out of good quality instant coffee, condensed milk, caramel, ice, cinnamon, couple drops of vanilla (or real vanilla if you’re bougie), and whole milk. Put it in a big ass jar and store in the fridge. Great for 35C+ weather.

multicolorKnight OP ,

Seems like we always have cans of condensed milk left over from some holiday dessert, I want to try this one too. Sort of like the affogato except already melted.

multicolorKnight OP , (edited )

Just made one of these. I probably got the recipe wrong, but can confirm, it’s delicious.

Moonguide ,

Glad you liked it! It’s become a staple for me during the summer.

davel , (edited ) to memes in Actually relatable
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I have explained what garbage MBFC and Ad Fontes Media are so many times. I’ll copypasta myself:


lemmy.ml/post/12705767/8913172

But muh Media Bias/Fact Check says it checks out!

mediabiasfactcheck.com/contact/

Dave M. Van Zandt obtained a Communications Degree before pursuing a higher degree in the sciences. >Dave currently works full time in the health care industry. Dave has spent more than 20 years as an arm chair researcher on media bias and its role in political influence.

Van Zandt is some hobbyist who was in the right place at the right time: the “post-truth” moment of Clinton’s loss to Trump and the string of Russiagate conspiracy theories and Kellyanne Conway’s alternative facts and the Cambridge Analytica hysteria.

The whole concept of the “left” or ”right“ “bias” being inversely correlated with factualness is garbage. These kinds of graphs, which try to convince us that centrism equals factualness, are garbage:

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/7dfc5791-c9a1-4952-a90c-b6c91314d0f7.jpeg

The core bias of corporate media is the bias of the capitalist class, but people like Van Zandt don’t seem to understand this.

The inner workings of corporate media were explained about forty years ago in Inventing Reality and Manufacturing Consent.
A five minute introduction: Noam Chomsky - The 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine


lemmy.ml/post/13566156/9605612

I said “these kinds of graphs,” of which there are many duckduckgo.com/?q=media+bias+chart&iax=images&ia=…

But you’ve sparked an idea for an interesting project: use MBFC’s API to create one of these graphs from t>heir own data. Doing a little googling, it seems that scripts and data dumps aren’t hard to come by.

I think armchair media analyst Dave M. Van Zandt is going on vibes. I don’t think he understands corporate & think tank media. Does he know who Walter Lippman or Edward Bernays were, or what the Council on Foreign Relations (“least biased” 🤡) is or made note of its prominent media members? Does he know about the Powell memorandum or the Trilateral Commission’s report, The Crisis of Democracy?

No results found for site:mediabiasfactcheck.com “manufacturing consent”.

I’ve seen The Grayzone debunk the New York Times’ lies many times, and yet:

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/391062f7-6dba-45bd-bb1e-764fcddec2d8.png

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/dd8ce864-040d-4f23-9b3b-0333e7f26c5f.png

Also, in what universe is the neoliberal, anti-labor NYT center-left? And if the Grayzone in the ultraviolet territory, where does that leave the explicitly Communist Monthly Review, outside of MBFC’s Overton window? Surprise, it’s to the right of it:

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/1824bb56-c40b-4666-95c3-46b6c80859c8.png


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The first step is to understand the media, which Media Bias/Fact Check and the Ad Fontes Media are never going to teach you. The only people who are taught it are those who get degrees in marketing, public relations, political science, history, and journalism; and even then only some of them.

The new post-Trump/“post-truth” media literacy curricula won’t teach it to you either, because it was paid for and crafted by the US military-industrial complex: New Media Literacy Standards Aim to Combat ‘Truth Decay’.

This week, the RAND Corporation released a new set of media literacy standards designed to support schools in this task.

The standards are part of RAND’s ongoing project on “truth decay”: a phenomenon that RAND researchers describe as “the diminishing role that facts, data, and analysis play in our political and civic discourse.”

None of it is a secret, though, and it can be learned.

TokenBoomer ,

Well done. Don’t forget the renamed # U.S. Agency for Global Media which can now broadcast propaganda from Voice of America to it’s own citizens.

borf , to showerthoughts in diarrhea is so exhausting.

Stay hydrated, friend.

StaySquared , to asklemmy in What would happen if you spray a bucket with hydrophobic spray and put water in it?

The actual surface of the bucket won’t make contact with the water in it. There will be a thin film acting as a barrier between the water and the surface of the bucket.

NaoPb , to linuxmemes in future windows experience

I feel inspired to make a joke linux distro like this

apotheotic , to asklemmy in Is there a word for “word or phrase that is fun to say”?

If earworms are things that you hear that get stuck in your head, perhaps this could be “mouthworms”. Sounds delightful I hate it.

NoneYa , to asklemmy in Would you wear a body cam at work?

No, I’m still salty they decided we should be on camera for meetings all of a sudden at my job. It’s so pointless and stupid to force us into. Thankfully it hasn’t been strictly enforced but most of us try to comply some of the times. Some mornings I’m too damned tired and don’t want to be seen yawning a bunch or like how it really is, that I literally rolled out of bed a few minutes ago to start my shift.

When I first came to this job, I remember joining a meeting and turned on my camera for someone to tell me “we don’t do that here” and it felt great to not have that stupid corporate pressure for something so trivial at the time.

I can understand wanting to make sure your employees are who they say they are and ensuring they are doing the job they are being paid to do. On the second part, that should be evident by the fact their work is being done. A camera wouldn’t change it for the lazy employees. They would find ways to appear busy on camera and micro managers would find a new way to micro manage people again. On the former, this would be evident with individual meetings on an ongoing basis between employee and direct supervisor.

Neither are necessarily solved by the constant use of a camera, at least where I work.

I suppose there are some jobs where a camera would be beneficial. We all came here with the idea of police officers which makes sense as a precaution for both the cop and the public they work with. (It should) keep everyone accountable and ensure things are being done as they should. But we see even that isn’t necessarily happening. We still get the “oops my camera conveniently tuned itself off during the time they claimed I abused their rights :( ”

apotheotic , to asklemmy in Who the hell is MrBeast?

I don’t know but he appears in my head whenever Attack of the Killer Queen from Deltarune plays.

The joke

Zachariah , (edited ) to asklemmy in people who deliver or install things to people 's houses. what kind of odd things have you seen?
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Numbers. But only about halting half of them.

edit: damn you autocarrot

davel , to memes in US government moral alignment
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They’re gonna pick Juan Guaidó up from Miami and airdrop him in Caracas for a second round.

yogthos OP ,
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😂

HubertManne , to asklemmy in What is an event that altered you in some way?

So my dad had a friend that was so close we called him uncle. Im guessing in most cases and sure in my dads case it was basically his best friend. So he was single and my dad was married raising seven kids. He would stop by with beers out of the blue and he always also picked up some soda or something for the kids. The fact he made it a point to think of us I think impacted us a lot in terms of how important simple kindness can be. So that is the first part. He died while I was in a PhD program and honestly it was not the only reason I left the program but it helped give a good nudge (since my grades suffered for one thing) and actually it let me re-evaluate and realize I did not really want to put in the level of effort needed versus the rewards I would reap in research.

cashmaggot OP ,

I hope you found the road you want to actually be on. Sudden deaths (I am going to guess 50s?) freakin' suck. And I have a couple of people I love who have suffered through either older siblings or fathers going at that age either due to medical complications or heart attacks. And they're all kinds of ugly, because it's just like...I mean I know they always say "it's too soon" when they point at people in their 20s and younger. But really - even 50s and under are too soon. Because they're here one day, and then they aren't. And it just feels like there's this hole that your mind cannot wrangle, and a pain your heart cannot take. I feel so hard for people who lose people too soon. It's lovely that you share his bigness though, still. And it's beautiful, the way kindness is contagious. One time I was on a train with my ex, and a blind guy came bussing through. Scam or not, when a dollar entered the pot - more and more came. And it showed me how people are willing to give, but their hearts need to be guided. Your uncle (and he was most def your uncle ;P!) showed you that, and it's big! So many people discredit kids, I grew up with better seen not heard. But I mean, in general - you can see kids being discredited right now just look around. It's big he taught you to look after the whole lot. And he for sure loved you guys to death. Big healing, big love - tons of aloha.

HubertManne ,

unrelated but one place I worked were funnding ran out and a few positions were cut including me and the accoutant. He was at this wierd age of upper fifties and did just well enough that he could retire but it would be tight. He looked for another job at the institution and basically retired when he could not find one. I swear it was less than a year later but maybe it was a bit more. He was jogging and just dropped dead of a heart attack. It was so surreal and wierd. His office was right next to mine and we would each lunch together all the time along with some other folks.

cashmaggot OP ,

Heard a thing about how feeling unwanted by society kills.

bss03 , to asklemmy in Would you wear a body cam at work?

Depends on the pay differential and other options. I think it’s less useful for positions in my career, but it’s not an absolute no.

Churbleyimyam , to asklemmy in people who deliver or install things to people 's houses. what kind of odd things have you seen?

I don’t any more but I used to.

The one that comes to mind was an elderly lady who got into some kind of finch-type bird (canaries maybe) instead of cats. She had obviously been letting them breed because there was flock of about 40 of them in the house, all flying together from one piece of furniture to the next.

I found it pretty alarming to begin with but after half an hour or so I could appreciate the beauty of it.

Plenty of bird shit in places though.

Catoblepas ,

Did she have a procedure for dealing with people coming in and out of doors? I’d be terrified one would make a run for it!

Churbleyimyam ,

I don’t remember… They might have been institutionalised and afraid of the outside world anyway though! We had that with some chickens once after they spent a long time in an enclosure. All the baby ones came out flapping their wings and running around but the grownup ones were scared to come out.

Facky ,

Was it fairly clean other than the bird shit or…?

Churbleyimyam ,

Yeah, considering that she was pretty old and living alone with a load of birds it wasn’t too bad!

CanadaPlus ,

I found it pretty alarming to begin with but after half an hour or so I could appreciate the beauty of it.

Unexpected wholesome twist. I was expecting floors rotted through with shit or dead ones in corners.

demoman , to asklemmy in Is there a word for “word or phrase that is fun to say”?

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