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  • Some context for Ukrainians and Europeans in general, Florida is indeed batshit crazy. Florida is not the same as the rest of the US, it has to be considered as a seperate entity that belongs to the US but cannot be summarized easily alongside it.

    Within that vortex of chaos is an injustice that I must point out, Florida allows reporting more liberally around using the name of people suspected in a crime or convicted of it. This results in newspapers and tabloids being able to more easily make sensationalist headlines like classic “florida man lights school on fire with napalm alligator” type headlines sell papers because they include specific names and more specific details.

    Other states in the US tend to consider how this type of unhinged news coverage could hurt people and as such there are more penalties for jumping on the bandwagon as a sensationalist news entity…

    The crazy shit still happens in Florida, it isn’t a lie, but also there is a distorting lens being applied to it is what I am saying.













  • supersquirreltofurry_memes@pawb.social"MoDErN GaMInG SuCKs"™
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    19 hours ago

    also people will say stuff like this

    “I have concluded multiplayer gaming isn’t for adults anymore because I got my ass kicked by some kids who clearly have the time to master the exhausting metas that are constantly being wrenched around to get everyone to spend money on skins for new OP guns added this season that will be nerfed next season.”

    … and then refuse to try an indie multiplayer game like Easy Red 2, Angels Fall First or Operation Harsh Doorstop where people play competitively… but also are genuinely happy you joined the server to try the game as a noob and the idea of the game changing too fast for you to keep up with the meta must mean one of your favorite indie devs just had their dreams just come through and got a ton of funding out of nowhere.





  • supersquirrelto196@lemmy.worldControlled opposition rule
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    If the timing for a show about infrastructure feels political, it is. Democrats are trying to pass a trillion-dollar public works package, the debates around which have often devolved into arguments about the definition of the term infrastructure. It’s clear which camp How America Works falls into. Rowe recently told Maria Bartiromo that the show’s goal was to remind Americans of “what infrastructure really is.” Six episodes in, that includes lumber, oil, waste, electricity, fish, and, somewhat oddly, entertainment. While no one would argue with the inclusion of landfills and the Hoover Dam as critical infrastructure, many of the episodes, like one on the Circus Circus Hotel and Casino (owned by Trump Hotels business partner Phil Ruffin), read as pro-business propaganda. Add in the episode’s repeated references to “mandates,” but never the coronavirus itself, and you get messaging that’s perfectly in step with the network that airs it.

    https://newrepublic.com/article/164230/mike-rowe-dirty-jobs-how-america-works

    I mean, yes… has he been accused of crimes? Not as far as I know but yes absolutely Mike Rowe is a bad person.