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Long and short of it: Ted Turner is the guy who created CNN, a very influential news source in the US. Many people consider CNN to be a "left-wing" news source, and in the clip King talks to Bill Clinton, a democratic politician, about Ted Turner "serving" Clinton after he was elected president.

The use of the word "serving" is the issue, as it sounds like a quid pro quo.


It could just as easily mean "serve" as in your administration-- in a cabinet position for example.


>> Many people consider CNN to be a "left-wing" news source

Are their people that do see the clear bias of the network?

This is like saying "Many people consider Fox news to be a "right wing" network"

There is no doubt of the political leanings of either network. CNN is/was not called Clinton News Network for nothing.....


You have to see this through 90's lens: back then the media wasn't nearly as polarized, and the public had much greater trust in news networks, especially in CNN. "Fake news" was mostly relegated to the domain of conspiracy theories, and blatant promotions of political agendas as neutral news wouldn't fly back then (although, of course, the networks did have an agenda and did promote it, but they were... much more subtle and civil about the whole thing).


I was alive, and consuming news in the 90's

In the 90's the bias was shown in the stories they choose to cover and what they choose to ignore not in the coverage itself

this is still true today but now in addition to this bias there is almost zero "strait" reporting, everything has political commentary mixed in, some more subtle than others but it is still there. Even in places like APnews where it is more subtle


CNN is not really “left-wing” in a broad ideological sense. It’s the unofficial mouthpiece of the Democratic Party and the “liberal” side of the US culture war. Note for example how poorly they treated Sanders who was further left than any of the other mainstream candidates.


I'm tired of fact-based and reason-based news being painted as 'left-wing". CNN is just the news. I miss when we all watched the same news and it tried to be objective and half the country wasn't watching provably false news and wanting to split off into madness and domestic terror cells and make the human race go backwards.


If you believe CNN is "just the news" then you are suffering from reinforcing confirmation bias as well as echo chamber.

You agree with the positions CNN takes there for it is "news" and outlets that have differing positions to those you agree with are "fake news" and "want to make the human race go backwards"


There is a difference between “this news source strikes me as not being too politically extreme in either direction compared to my own views” and “this news source is completely neutral and objective with respect to all political views.”

How can you be sure you’re not seeing the former and calling it the latter?


It is 100% NOT the liberal side of the cultural war. There really is no liberal side

The right side is theological authoritarian, the Left side is illiberal Identitarianism which is ironic because identitarianism started out as a "far right" ideology but in a real world example of the horseshoe theory of politics has become far-left authoritarian


> I'm a fountain pen nut, AMA if you want.

As am I! Been collecting since childhood. I've spent more money than I care to admit on pens and ink...


You likely need to delete your service workers for Twitter and let it re-create them.


That's pretty unacceptable considering the size of the userbase, most of them probably never heard of service workers


I’ve been in software development for almost 10 years and I had no idea about service workers.


I believe this fix only applies if you have an old version of their service workers. I remember reading some esoteric nonsense about why it's the case. I agree with the user you replied to, it's absolutely absurd that doing this is the "fix."


Linear works great on chrome for me, but trying to use it on Firefox, it's hopelessly broken. Clicking 80% of things does nothing.


The correct answer here: use the same editor in the entire suite, everywhere. Give the user a setting to decide if they want that editor to be WYSIWYG, or markdown.

In my personal opinion, Atlassian's rich text editor (or, seemingly, the 4-6 different one's you guys have built) is unforgivably terrible, so true markdown is the way to go if having both isn't an option.


#82 is a Pinegrove lyric, great song.


Seeing this made me wonder if the author pulled it from the song _or_ if the song/author pulled it from somewhere else. A quick search seems to indicate it's a Pinegrove original, which makes me happy. One of my favorite bands!


The number is in fact a link to the PineGrove video.

Many of the numbers are green ... try clicking them!


Love that song! Noted it in the list but thought it was off by a word or two... guess not!


I am a Pinegrove fan myself, but that song sounds like Smashmouth sadly. "So what's wrong with taking the backstreets"


If I lose all the keys to my car or they are destroyed, I can pay a dealership to create new ones for me, I don't just have to forfeit the car.


At any non-shady dealership, you should presumably have to give some sort of evidence that you own the car in question (registration documents etc. and ID matching the name on the registration). For many online accounts, you probably don't need (or want) to give ID when creating account, so that's out as a way to prove ownership when attempting to recover. So how else do you prove ownership?


I did this recently actually, bought a car where the owner only had a valet key. Had to email them a copy of my registration, my driver's license and the VIN, and they ordered me a new key.

For important accounts I wonder if we should have the ability to tie them to a physical address or something else possible to verify.


A distribution platform that reaches millions of users.


They already charge an absurd amount for the privilege. $100/year just to have access to the store. Google only charges $25 once. So Apple is already infinitely more expensive with their reoccurring cost.


I graduated from TU/e and in my experience their applied physics department, specifically nanomaterials like this are very well funded and attract a lot of international talent.

Eindhoven likes light! And....making bridges out of beer crates: https://www.ed.nl/default/tu-e-studenten-vestigen-nieuw-reco...


Crude futures are liquid enough that you can almost always sell them before fulfillment date if you do not want to be on the hook for the obligation. They can't be early exercised like options can.


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