OT: Sens Lounge CVI - The O & D Edition

[Alf Silfversson]

There are lots of forklift fail videos out there on youtube to make you take it seriously, at least.

Be careful.

Better a forklift than a pallet jack!!

 

[The Lewler]

Random drop here.
Have you guys seen this yet?
Pretty cool n creepy. Like woah man.

If this is your first time seeing stuff like this , man your mind is gonna be blown lol.

 

[Harbinger]

America is scary.

 

[Stylizer1]

America is scary.

The media is scarier.

 

[Pierre from Orleans]

The media is scarier.

The people who control the media is scariest

 

[Cosmix]

What is everyone's favourite animal to eat? I think mine is bison. I am addicted.

Bacon, ER pig.

 

[Cosmix]

Just read the Athletic prognostications for next season. Their collective view of the Senators states in part “the group as a whole still looks rather putrid and added a few negative value players to further contribute to that.”

 

[AchtzehnBaby]

The people who control the media is scariest

Those people? They don’t exist.

 

[Pierre from Orleans]

Those people? They don’t exist.

Of course they do

 

[coladin]

Forklift operating is sweet. I used to do that in my younger years and have since transitioned to white collar desk jockeying.



+1 on the Samsung TVs. I won't buy anything else. Now if they just came out with the F1 TV app for them I would be all set...cable would be cut same day.

What is pretty amazing is watching F1 through the Apple TV box. 4K and honestly breathtaking. Too bad they cars sound like shit.

 

[Senscore]

Those people? They don’t exist.

Shareholders

 

[saskriders]

I don't think the media is scary. I think it is scary that people are abandoning traditional media so they can visit some website that will just confirm their priors and be a partisan circle jerk rather than provide balanced or nuanced information.

 

[Fandlauer]

I don't think the media is scary. I think it is scary that people are abandoning traditional media so they can visit some website that will just confirm their priors and be a partisan circle jerk rather than provide balanced or nuanced information.

If traditional media was actually still providing balanced / nuanced information I'd agree with you. Mainstream media is such utter dog shit these days it's allowed people to float off into partisan, conspiratorial nonsense.

 

[Senscore]

Mainstream and independent media are all about selling ads. They just have different ways of attracting viewers.

Any information you are able to absorb from it is a secondary benefit.

 

[YouGotAStuGoing]

If traditional media was actually still providing balanced / nuanced information I'd agree with you. Mainstream media is such utter dog shit these days it's allowed people to float off into partisan, conspiratorial nonsense.

"Traditional media" isn't this one-size-fits-all monolith, you know. Different media sources report different angles. We can talk about the slant some media outlets take, and that's fair. But there's more than enough information out there to figure out where the truth lies. And still some very balanced outlets. Just because you don't seek them out doesn't mean they don't exist. Reuters, Canadian Press, Associated Press are all great examples of outlets that limit the spin. And for every leftist outlet, there's a rightist outlet to match.

 

[Stylizer1]

If traditional media was actually still providing balanced / nuanced information I'd agree with you. Mainstream media is such utter dog shit these days it's allowed people to float off into partisan, conspiratorial nonsense.

American media so unbelievably biased.

 

[Micklebot]

"Traditional media" isn't this one-size-fits-all monolith, you know. Different media sources report different angles. We can talk about the slant some media outlets take, and that's fair. But there's more than enough information out there to figure out where the truth lies. And still some very balanced outlets. Just because you don't seek them out doesn't mean they don't exist. Reuters, Canadian Press, Associated Press are all great examples of outlets that limit the spin. And for every leftist outlet, there's a rightist outlet to match.

Pretty much. I feel like sometimes the people who complain about media bias must be actively seeking it out rather than truely trying to find more balanced coverage.

Charts like this one seem helpful at first, but i can't help but think it just offers people a roadmap to find their echochamber of preference

 

[DrEasy]

I'm basically down to Reuters for my main source of news. It's pretty dry though. I'll occasionally venture out to BBC but even it's been infected with click-bait personal interest stories.

 

[AchtzehnBaby]

Pretty much. I feel like sometimes the people who complain about media bias must be actively seeking it out rather than truely trying to find more balanced coverage.

Charts like this one seem helpful at first, but i can't help but think it just offers people a roadmap to find their echochamber of preference

Effing PBS on the left....

no morals.

thank goodness for the Economist.

 

[saskriders]

I'm basically down to Reuters for my main source of news. It's pretty dry though. I'll occasionally venture out to BBC but even it's been infected with click-bait personal interest stories.

I like watching BBC World News at night. Usually there is a human interest story or two per night, but you get much more coverage in stuff all around the world than the national or local news gives.

 

[DrEasy]

I like watching BBC World News at night. Usually there is a human interest story or two per night, but you get much more coverage in stuff all around the world than the national or local news gives.

Yeah, for international news BBC is great. It's also too bad TV5 stopped their nightly World News (in French, obviously). It's always great to get non-North American perspectives.

 

[maclean]

I don't think the media is scary. I think it is scary that people are abandoning traditional media so they can visit some website that will just confirm their priors and be a partisan circle jerk rather than provide balanced or nuanced information.

If traditional media was actually still providing balanced / nuanced information I'd agree with you. Mainstream media is such utter dog shit these days it's allowed people to float off into partisan, conspiratorial nonsense.

Mainstream media has been in a bit of a race to the bottom for quite some time now, but at the same time I wouldn't idealise the media of the past, when covering up what was inconvenient to the powers-that-be was part of the game. Basically I think it's important to look at the issue, like any issue, as a complex one - it is not just mainstream media vs alternative media, pick a side. Alternative media emerged because mainstream media was not working in many respects, but of course it also allows people to throw their own spin on things to further any agenda, and as time goes on, various vested interests have found it very easy to put their money behind that as well. It's what a lot of people don't seem to get - what they think is alternative media is actually just a mouthpiece for some other special interest. The best you can do is not accept anything at face value and fact-check yourself on issues that you consider important. I don't think there's a simple solution, personally I just try to raise my kids to be savvy and take things with a grain of salt.

 

[AchtzehnBaby]

I have been watching DW a bit more. The have some good in depth looks into world events or political situations. Pretty good reporting.

[edit] DW = Deutsche Welle @Carlzner

 

[Dingle]

Anyone catch Pierre McGuire on TGOR this morning.

Beautiful nugget about the Carolina Hurricanes...The were never sold to Tom Dundon, they were leased...That lease expires soon!!!

 

[AchtzehnBaby]

Anyone catch Pierre McGuire on TGOR this morning.

Beautiful nugget about the Carolina Hurricanes...The were never sold to Tom Dundon, they were leased...That lease expires soon!!!

Like a car lease, there's a buyout price.... prolly.