Posts by David Hood
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Hard News: The fake news problem, in reply to Farmer Green,
It sounds likes you are thinking there are two sides in Syria- ISIS and the Syrian government. There are a lot more than that.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/16979186
There are groups that are both anti-Syrian government and anti-ISIS (and groups that are anti-Syrian government and anti-ISIS and anti-other-anti-Government-and-ISIS groups).
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Hard News: The fake news problem, in reply to Dennis Frank,
The archetype was known as Hermes
You could just as easily describe him as a seducer archetype as he was giving people what they wanted even if it was built on lies, and making rather a lot of money in the process (in interviews, Jestin Coler plays up the confusing the right-wing aspect, but in a "follow the money" kind of way he made rather a lot of income from doing so).
My compassion tends to be for the innocent people put at risk by the readership of these stories acting on what they believe to be true.
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Bruce, correct. It is essentially meaningless (expect for how individual states assign their electoral college votes and those numbers have been stripped of that context).
If one was talking counties, you could say Clinton lost the counties by a little over 100000 votes. As the right votes in the right counties would have flipped enough to change the electoral college result. But that would be equally meaningless.
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Hard News: The fake news problem, in reply to Farmer Green,
It is false, http://www.snopes.com/trump-won-3084-of-3141-counties-clinton-won-57/
It is true that Trump won the countryside and Clinton won the cities, but anywhere promulgating stories like that as fact is spreading known falsehoods and should not be trusted as a source.
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Certainly, I would get no pleasure from saying "I told you so" in a sixth mass extinction event.
Also given rationality is learned, and unlearned, I'm not sure it works in a survival of the fittest inherited traits kind of way.
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Seconding Andrew's comment.
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Since the discussion veered to phosphate a page or so back, this seems a topical globalisation related article http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/11/the-desert-rock-that-feeds-the-world/508853/
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Saw this reporting about the uber/juno struggle in New York:
http://www.recode.net/2016/11/28/13768756/uber-driver-deactivation-juno-advertising-new-york
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Something has changed- the U.S. election was seen as having unprecedented amounts of fake news, in many cases created by people deliberately to earn a living from successful Facebook shares of the "news" material- if you follow the money the economic incentive is new. So discussion of fake news has increased dramatically since October
https://www.google.co.nz/trends/explore?q=fake%20news,propaganda