Well I will argue that they were precisely more media literate because their media literacy applied to a broader spectrum of what was in use and relevant then.

It’s a sweeping generalization of course, but many people alive today had some form of media competency taught to them at school. To my mind what is taught at public school forms the base level for society – the lowest common denominator – because almost everyone receives it and other forms of education build on top of that. That’s how we ensure that everyone knows how to read and has basic numeracy after all.

But media literacy has been geared towards classical print media for the longest time. Because technological progress is so rapid today what you learn in your early years is no longer sufficient to guide you through your entire life in this regard.

Take for example texts, or images generated by artificial intelligence. This wasn’t even on educators’ minds 30-40 years ago, the lag of implementing new and relevant curricula notwithstanding. For many alive today social networks (today’s prime avenue for spreading misinformation) didn’t exist when they went to school. Heck, many went through primary socialisation before consumer grade computers were even a thing.

TLDR: media literacy has regressed in the sense that what most people know is geared towards traditional media while digital communications have grown to be very different on continue to evolve still.

You’re correct. I updated the image.

Nice. I’m wondering how often this cycle has played out so far …?

That was a wild ride. Well done 👏

Never knew about transparent web proxies. Neat. Do they play a part in commercial DDOS protection? I’m thinking of those please wait while we’re evaluating your request messages that you get on some sites. But also about any methods used to prove that you are human.

Ah yes, this book used to be somewhat of a staple in German households with children. I dare say whole generations were traumatized 🫨. Up until today the character names are used (pejoratively) for misbehaving children: twitching Philip for ADHD, shockheaded Peter for unkemptness, soup Kaspar for those who play with their food, etc

This has some real draw the rest of the fucking owl vibes, well done.

Listened to the entire interview. At no point does she pledge that. She simply doesn’t rule it out and is willing to consider.

That header is clickbait bullshit .

It’s well known that the judiciary at the time was very lenient towards right wing extremists. His time in jail was rather cozy and gave him time to develop and write down more of his ideological underpinnings. And come up with a more comprehensive plan for taking over.

That’s why I find it very worrisome when people like Donald Trump get what amounts to a slap on the wrist for staging an insurrection. Not just that but they actually put him on the ballot again 😱. And this time the people propping him up in the background came up with an elaborate plan for claiming the election and then completely restructuring the executive authoritarian style (aka Project 2025).

Went to a local rock concert once. Had to go into the middle of the crowd to fetch a friend and alert him of something that had happened. The music was unbearably loud for me. Noticed that virtually everyone was wearing ear plugs.

Found it absurd. Why not lower the volume instead and have people forego the plugs? Less noise pollution in the local area too. After the concert was over I asked some participants about it. Everyone claimed they liked the loudness or that it was necessary somehow. My impression: they liked to keep up with the appearances of being hardcore, it being for tough folks. But they didn’t want the actual hearing damage.

The gentleman seated in aisle 3, left sends a stewardess to inform you that you could actually live thru the whole ordeal if you just promise him this one tiny little thing. But he wants it in writing to be sure.

Can we appreciate #7?

This is true for serial killers in general though. Murders tend to be premeditated. If you are planning a murder you’ll look for ways to maximize your success and minimize the chance of getting caught. In modern times you don’t have to rely on pure strength; there’s a plethora of workarounds from drugs to guns. The actual desire to end a human life (usual enabled by some form of psychopathy) is the limiting factor. A serial killer personality type doesn’t throw the towel just because they are physically weak.

Guess what I’m saying is: there isn’t a large contingent of women out there that would suddenly turn serial killers if they were to physically become stronger.

It’s true but the title doesn’t seem onion-y to me.

While mosquito bites are unpleasant in themselves due to the itching and swelling I don’t think it’s common for cultures to have worked out the causal relationship between mosquitos and diseases like malaria. But I’d be happily educated otherwise.

For gluten free products: the whole production chain needs to use different tools or be sealed off from the rest. You can generally use the same mill, kneader, oven, tray for barley, wheat, rye, etc without meticulous cleaning in between. But if you want it to be gluten free you now need to either do that expensive cleaning or more realistically have an entirely separate set of machinery and ensure it never gets in contact with your main line.

Here in Germany it has been revealed that the church set up a whole network shuffling around offenders (or sending them away to south america) and muddling traces. It’s even been shown that the former pope knew about such cases. It’s systemic.

Basically it’s a combination of supposed moral authority, intransparency, and mutual cover ups. People are willing to look the other way a lot when they perceive of someone as having a higher mission or great social standing. That includes law enforcement. Think of Donald Trump who’s a fraudster-racist-rapist-insurrectionist and yet the MAGA crowd loves him. Maybe celibacy plays into it as well, sexual urges don’t stop just because you don a robe.

Younger people are less and less religious with each generation. So at least from that angle the problem might eventually go away.

My guess is that his team set it up this way as aid to focus on economic issues instead of personal attacks and self aggrandization. But Trump’s gonna Trump and he said as much in the Interview 🫠.

Saudi Arabi is hostile to Iran (as is Israel) too.

The wheel (for transportation) is really a concomitant of stable roads existing. Really wheels only work on flat, paved surfaces. The “invention” of the wheel isn’t the stroke of genius that pop culture likes to portray it as. It’s just something that follows from having the right environment. The Romans for instance built and maintained widespread road networks throughout Europe to quickly move troops to the front lines. It turns out that those roads also were a tremendous boon for traders and travellers using carts.

Comic’s still funny though.