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Re: Vice files for Bankruptcy

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Agreed. My solution was to subscribe to one reasonable newspaper (Washington Post). Between that, free BBC content, and NPR, I think I get a reasonable overview of world and local news. But, that does mean I miss breaking investigative news from other sources. At least until it's picked up elsewhere or made available elsewhere. It's a bummer at time, but paying for a large subset of possible news sources would cost 1…

BBC, NPR and Washington Post are all left leaning organizations funded by governments and billionaires. I don't know if I would call this "getting a reasonable overview of world and local news".

BBC, NPR, and Washington Post are all neutral organizations.

WaPo is the home of neocons Hugh Hewitt and Jennifer Rubin. When I first started reading WaPo, they were considered (and they considered themselves to be) far right neocons. These days, Ms. Rubin would be classified as a moderate (and considers herself to be an independent) and Mr. Hewitt is frequently accused of being a RINO. They haven't changed their political stances (if anything, Hewitt is more conservative now than he was before); it is simply that the Republican Party has moved extremely far to the right in the past decade and what was once considered extreme is now moderate.

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You have to choose something that isn't imaginary for it to count, I think.

Here's one of the banned books (NSFW warning):

https://alphanews.org/hastings-kids-have-access-to-gender-qu...

Re: Vice files for Bankruptcy

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Whatever your mother did or didn't do to you, she gave birth to you. That is already something big. Would you rather her have not done this for you? Destroying is easy, creating is hard. (and raising a child in this world is as well) "if it were not for my mother, I would give women a bit more slack." And whatever happened, you are saying clearly, that because of one women, you see all women less. Maybe that's not fa…

That is part of the problem. That some people believe that getting laid and following through with the consequences is actually an acomplishment. It is not, it is how nature works. Once that is done, the work actually starts, and it starts to become relevant what sort of human you are. How much you know, frankly, how intelligent you are. Besides, since you seem to love to trigger me with just the "right" sentences: W…

Do you think, giving birth is easier, than just taking a pill?

For men it is easy to "make babies". For women it isn't. They usually sacrifice at least a year for it. You aren't really productive, if your brain is a hormon slurry and everything hurts. And most women do get lasting injuries from the birth, taking years to recover. (have you ever sacrifized a year for someone else?)

So it seems, she tried at least. And then maybe discovered that she does not have anything more for you. Or not much.

That is shitty and not fair. No doubt and sorry to hear that.

But that is also how nature works. There is no fairness baked in anywhere. In the end life is a gift.

You can take it, or don't.

But if you continiue to choose life, you maybe would be better off, if one day you can let go of your anger over your childhood trauma of abandonment.

Sometimes things can work out with the old family. Sometimes not, but the world is full of people looking for a real family.

But a family can only work, if the partners respect and trust each other. And sorry if I am crossing a line again (I was aware with my question before, what your answer likely would be), but I think you would have a major struggle with that, with the fear of being abandoned again, this time by your partner. Which can easily lead to jealousy, pressure, all the usual stuff, breaking up and a new generation of half or full abandoned children.

And you might have sworn to yourself, that you would never abandon your children - but when you are done, you are done. I never thought I could get there, but I was close to that point with my children. Kids and everything around it, is undescribable intense, unless everything was set up perfectly before. And I am not aware of many such cases.

Your mother was a human. Faulty, with limited energy, understanding and naivity. Likely experienced her childhood traumatas.

She tried and failed - partly. Because you are alive and can choose now, what you do in this imperfect world of ours.

And going back to the original point, maybe, only maybe, if your mother as a child would have heard more often "girls can do it", instead of "you are just a girl", she would have been able to do it the whole way through.

Re: Vice files for Bankruptcy

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Some years ago they had a large audience, me included, who got great value out of their investigative journalism. At some point they started pivoting into some weird form of advocacy journalism and clickbait garbage, alienating their existing audience, and apparently failing to find a new one. Good riddance.

The core problem is that people don't want to pay for news. You can see this right here on HN. Just submit a paywalled article and the top comment will be a link to the archive.org version.

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Re: Vice files for Bankruptcy

#145

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You have to choose something that isn't imaginary for it to count, I think.

Here's one of the banned books (NSFW warning): https://alphanews.org/hastings-kids-have-access-to-gender-qu...

Do you have any examples of this book actually being read to children? Otherwise it's still speculation that kids are being taught "how to give blowjobs". I have no doubt that sexually explicit books on lgbt issues exist, but the claim is that they are being targeted at children.

Re: Vice files for Bankruptcy

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post #145

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Here's one of the banned books (NSFW warning): https://alphanews.org/hastings-kids-have-access-to-gender-qu...

Do you have any examples of this book actually being read to children? Otherwise it's still speculation that kids are being taught "how to give blowjobs". I have no doubt that sexually explicit books on lgbt issues exist, but the claim is that they are being targeted at children.

Do you honestly think a book with a blowjob in it would have been banned if it weren't?

Regardless, exactly which "books" presenters with names such as "Eric Big Clit", "Flowjob" and "rainbow dildo butt monkey" choose to present to children - as young as four - strikes me as somewhat beside the point:

https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/05/10/parents-are-right-t...

Re: Vice files for Bankruptcy

#147
Their employees only unionized 8 years ago. The rapid decline and eventual bankruptcy of a company following unionization is a common pattern.

And unfortunately, the bankrupt company cannot get out of its collective bargaining agreements, making it difficult to find any buyers for its business units.

Re: Vice files for Bankruptcy

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I think part of the problem is the distributed nature of news sources. I don't want to have 20 separate subscriptions to different news sources to manage. I would pay for one site if I could get all my news there, but a single site a) can't cover everything and b) has its own biases.

Apple News+? I think you get access to NYT, WaPo, and a bunch of other paywalled stuff.

I'll check it out, thanks!

Re: Vice files for Bankruptcy

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What a weird plug for Naomi, who for the most part is represented by her partner Timaz. Don't forget they (Naomi and timaz) tried to metoo Ltt. The journalist you are referring to now works at the verge, fyi

It’s from the time when she was truly annoyed by this episode.

I dislike Sarah jeong but she covered it here https://twitter.com/sarahjeong/status/981558161566920704?s=1...

If you believe "naomi" then you have been duped by her American husband, timaz.

Re: Vice files for Bankruptcy

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BBC, NPR and Washington Post are all left leaning organizations funded by governments and billionaires. I don't know if I would call this "getting a reasonable overview of world and local news".

BBC, NPR, and Washington Post are all neutral organizations. WaPo is the home of neocons Hugh Hewitt and Jennifer Rubin. When I first started reading WaPo, they were considered (and they considered themselves to be) far right neocons. These days, Ms. Rubin would be classified as a moderate (and considers herself to be an independent) and Mr. Hewitt is frequently accused of being a RINO. They haven't changed their pol…

NPR is a "neutral organization"? I suspect that would wound the souls of many of the staff there.

See, for example: "New NPR Ethics Policy: It's OK For Journalists To Demonstrate (Sometimes)"

https://www.npr.org/sections/publiceditor/2021/07/29/1021802...

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