@Sheril "When it comes to policy issues like climate change and public health, they frequently held the perception that scientists lack a broader understanding of how their recommendations might impact the economy, national security, or simply, the next election."
I mean, yeah OK but also people are dying and entire agriculture communities are at risk from global climate changes that politicians ignored and that are impacting the economy and national security.
Any young people here? If so I realize the economy looks bad, but the economy is in a sort of golden age. High housing costs? Blame the capitalists. High health care? Blame the decades of Republicans. I hate #Biden for allowing 14,000 Gazans to be slaughtered, but he is the most anti-capitalist president in DECADES. Those tictok assholes who say nobody's talking about this, it's because journalists aren't as stupid as these people are. Fixing things takes time. Don't blame Biden
For those unfamiliar with it, Lemmy is basically a federated version of Reddit, distributed across multiple servers like Mastodon. (For anyone who wants to delve further, lemmy.ml, beehaw.org, and aussie.zone are three popular Lemmy instances.)
From Mastodon, you can follow any Lemmy group by following its handle, exactly the same way that you would follow a Mastodon account. Any new posts to that group will then begin appearing in your Mastodon feed.
Even better, if you start a thread on Mastodon, you can also post it to a relevant Lemmy group just by including its handle in your post. (Please note this only seems to work with the first post of a thread.)
@ajsadauskas the Lemmy/Mastodon integration is weird though. Like I don't like how the Lemmy community accounts retoot every comment to their top level article posts.
Also I think you can't delete/edit toots that you reply to the Lemmy toot -- they'll be gone on this side but iirc on the Lemmy site they're still there. Did that one by accident.
Seeing Hillary Clinton all over television telling lies to justify genocide in Gaza is further evidence that those of us who refused to vote for either Trump or Clinton in 2016 were absolutely right. #politics
Raw Story:
Recognizing fake news now a required subject in California schools
Pushing back against the surge of misinformation online, California will now require all K-12 students to learn media literacy skills — such as recognizing fake news and thinking critically about what they encounter on the internet.
Today's image of the day shows Joe Sullivan (seated) and Tom Burke (standing) using PLATO terminals to record Hennepin County election returns at the Minneapolis Business & Technical Center, as local CBS TV affiliate WCCO films the action, 1982.
So, the Speaker of the House of the United States of America has an app installed on is phone to "scan for porn use". An app that is granted access to scan EVERYTHING he does on his phone.
While Trump was being questioned about a 2021 financial statement, Trump claimed to have been too busy focusing on “China, Russia and keeping our country safe.
The state’s attorney reminded him that he was not president in 2021.
Majority of sitting MLAs in 5 poll-bound states are crorepatis, many face criminal cases, shows data
In all the five states analysed, those aged 50 and above comprise the majority of the MLAs. No state has done too well when it comes to female representation.
@sreedevkkumar@mastodonindians reminds me of that article that said a certain ai tool for detecting criminals by analyzing facial data detected a big percent of us politicians as criminals :)
For everyone thinking of rejecting Biden for his policy on Gaza and the Middle East, might I remind you that Trump tried to pass a whole-ass MUSLIM BAN.
“In the theory of Surveillance Capitalism, the algorithm was invented to make advertisers richer, and then went on to pervert the news (by incentivizing “clickbait”) and finally destroyed our politics when its persuasive powers were hijacked by Steve Bannon, Cambridge Analytica, and QAnon grifters to turn millions of vulnerable people into swivel-eyed loons, racists and conspiratorialists.”