"This is for the record. History is written by the victor. History is filled with liars. If he lives, and we die, his truth becomes written - and ours is lost. Shepherd will be a hero, 'cause all you need to change the world is one good lie and a river of blood. He's about to complete the greatest trick a liar ever played on history. His truth will be the truth. But only if he lives, and we die."
— Captain Price's speech in the intro to Endgame.
Those videos were out there in plain view when he signed with Spotify. millions of people had seen them. so it's pretty hard for me to belive that just now this became an issue.
Are we really going to pretend the N word debacle isn't a result of character assassination directly from those pissed off about the controversial COVID stuff? Hardly anybody gave a fuck about these 70 episodes until it became fashionable to beat on Rogan for his questionable and controversial COVID shows. It's pretty clear people were just searching for some way to hurt Rogan, usually the best way to do so is to blame someone for sexual misconduct or racism which magically only appears once they're on the chopping block for engaging in some other controversial but less damning behavior.
Pressuring Rogan to remove episodes is just a convenient way to say "gotcha." It's a tic-for-tat from the ultimatum of the others threatening to remove their own stuff if Rogan didn't.
We don't know Spotify's internal reasoning. What we do know is what episodes got removed and what public statements have been made by Spotify and Joe Rogan.
No I'm talking about how you have nothing to anchor your words to bring more weight than what anyone else might speculate about Spotify. If you think Spotify actually just cares about the COVID episodes, then it should be pretty easy to point that out from the episodes being removed.
If Spotify is worried about the COVID narrative then leaving the COVID episodes up does not reduce their exposure.
You mean other than the fact many of these episodes have been aired and publicly available for 4+ years, and only after an acute event of COVID controversy were they removed ? [0] That 113 episodes were removed in the direct aftermath of the call to remove "disinformation" by Rogan and subsequent ultimatums issued by several other artists, but that was just a coincidence? Are we really going to play dumb that after 4 years of some of these episodes being public, that the acute controversy isn't at play here? It's hilarious on face. Obviously racism is one of the easiest character assassination cards to play, so that was played. It has the double bonus of not having to directly address the content of the COVID episodes.
I can't even fathom how you think that this removal wouldn't be a result of the acute controversy.
>If Spotify is worried about the COVID narrative then leaving the COVId episodes up does not reduce their exposure.
It makes it look like something is being done, and at least some tic-for-tat is happening with Rogan. Spotify is clearly being pressured here, they're just trying to maximize profit. If they can use racism as an excuse while simultaneously placating enough of their viewers who are acutely pissed off while not putting themselves in the bad position of having to take a stance on COVID (which could fracture their viewership), then they're going to pick the easy racist angle instead to make it look like they're doing something.
Note the racist angle was really instigated by people trying to hurt Rogan for his COVID stuff, Spotify is just working with the outrage they've been dealt. Spotify doesn't want to get crucified as 'racist' along with Rogan. This way they get to placate the mob while simultaneously not having to take a COVID stance on paper.
Eh, "questionable and controversial" is a really light-weight way of putting his COVID shows--and his shows focusing, increasingly, on other pseudo-science bullshit. The guy has gone completely mental.
The COVID interviews are with highly credentialed professionals, and are quite reasonable, honest and nuanced, far more so than the insane corporate media 24/7 propaganda machine that relies on repetition and histrionics to get everyone's opinions aligned.
I suggest everyone with an open mind to listen to them, they're on Rumble and elsewhere.
Nobody cares if people use the F word or any other "bad language" for that matter unless that language is around race or potentially a couple other things like disabilities (eg something like the word "retard"). Can you cite a single instance of someone getting canceled by either side just for cursing?
He's also admitted to doing basically every drug on the planet on his own podcast with absolutely no push back.
You and the commenter to whom you’re responding are referencing different “F” words. Two words which seem to have switched places in terms of power and acceptability over the last generation-and-a-half.
I’m confused, are you bringing up that he’s vaccinated to discredit him as being hypocritical or otherwise dishonest?
If so that’s a very weird position. It can be entirely rational for someone to believe the vaccine is the best choice for them personally, while also being skeptical of the pharmaceutical industry, public health institutions, and the media.
Thats not what is happening here. Rogan is clearly pandering to an audience who already know what they want to hear. The people working hard to try to save lives by playing whack-a-mole with some millionaire with a megaphone will always use all the tools at their disposal to stop that flood of misinformation.
Rogan is yelling fire in a crowded theatre and cosplaying as a concern troll. He deserves the public scrutiny on his other work.
His defenders really need to stop the crocodile tears over Rogan. They also need to stop conflating free speech with dangerous misinformation that has already been debunked but is only kept alive by trolls like him.
> Rogan is clearly pandering to an audience who already know what they want to hear.
I don’t think that’s the case for the majority of his listeners. I like him because he’s a good interviewer and has lots of interesting guests from across the political (and apolitical) spectrum. And I’m tripled vaccinated, since I guess that’s needed for credibility now.
Serious question: is there a point-by-point debunking of the alleged “dangerous misinformation” appearing on his show?
I think funding something like that would have been a better use of Neil Young’s Spotify royalties than just giving them up.
Debunking doesn't seem to work with anti vaxxers or racists. No matter how many facts are placed in front of them, they don't care, don't trust the sources and never absorb anything new unless it fits whatever conspiracy they believe in.
This is what makes Rogan so dangerous. He seems reasonable, unlike Alex Jones, but Jones started his slide by flirting with growing his audience through nutters and Rogan will end up the same if he continues.
People have always been that way. Before Rogan showed up, before the internet was even invented, there were "nutters" that had deeply misinformed perspectives which they followed, sometimes, to death. I'm sure someone will argue scale is the differentiator, but I'd argue that the proportions of people who ignore facts vs consider facts, is probably unchanged. (Although admittedly, I have no statistics)
Also I think a big part of the problem is the aggressive labeling of content as "misinformation" or "fake news." To me, misinformation implies propaganda issued and promoted by an enemy entity. But today, it is a term that is used to mean anything that has a fact (whether verifiably correct or incorrect) that implies a conclusion that is generally unacceptable.
For example, if the generally acceptable premise is: "everyone who is able should get a vaccination," then publicly talking to someone harmed by a vaccination (even if it's true) would be considered misinformation, because it potentially concludes something opposing the acceptable premise.
If we can't openly share ideas, good, bad, informed, misinformed, then the 99% (fake number) of us who aren't "nutters" that follow bad advice to extreme conclusions, will be denied the volume of data, perspectives, and opinions we need to make a truly informed decision.
But most of his listeners are not anti vaxxers or racists, otherwise you wouldn’t believe he was a “dangerous” influence.
If the best his critics can manage are character attacks against him and his guests (which is mostly what I’ve seen), his listeners will not only continue to listen to his “misinformation”, but believe he’s trying to be silenced.
That said, I do believe he bears some responsibility to balance out the more controversial viewpoints, and he has stated he will. I would love to see him host two guests with opposing views more frequently.
I am saying if he decides that growing his audience via the standard laundry list of RWNJ topics and conspiracies, he will slide into being just another Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh or Alex Jones. At the moment he isn't that, but he is definitely on that path.
I get that it's lucrative since that particular audience seem to be cashed up rubes who will throw money at anybody who panders to them, but it inevitably leads to getting involved in the lies they want to hear.
>Still, Malone, who calls himself the “inventor of mRNA vaccines”, thinks his work hasn’t been given enough credit. “I’ve been written out of history,” he told Nature.
Yeah, it's even worse than what I've written above. He's also pretty much sour that he hasn't been given enough credit.
He is claiming to be what he is not. He is intellectually dishonest about his experience. This are things I can judge without being a medical professional.
I've never said that possessing a degree or title is needed to discuss a topic. And it wouldn't be in the case of Dr. Malone, if he wasn't claiming to be what he is not.
After I got vaccinated and my wife and I experienced the myocarditis (although we're both over 45), I turned against the mRNA vaccines and the method of giving them without aspiration. I was never fond of the adenovirus ones as there's enough science against that vector.
At this point calling someone anti-vaxxer is the new ad-hominem fallacy as an intellectually lazy way to attempt to discredit someone without actually examining the merits of their arguments. Anti-vaxxer is also an incredibly vague term, to some people might just mean they're against mandates or forcing someone to take test or vaccine under pain of quarantine to engage in interstate travel (see Hawaii).
Begin against one vaccine does not make one anti-vaxxer. For example, I have all vaccines, my kids are fully-vaccinated, but we never get the flu shots for the same reason a COVID-19 vaccine could be hypothesized to be doing an evolutionary pressure on virus. Also, when we vaccinated our kids, we gave their shots at the upper age boundary, not the lower one for the vaccine, and we spaced them out by at least 6 months. We never gave more than one shot at a time (unfortunately, there are some combox vaccines with no alternatives). In general, I think a vaccine against an RNA virus is a flawed strategy and we should focus on prevention (totally ignored by all governments and replace with ridiculous mandates and measures) and antivirals. For example, the 6-foot distance after we know for 2 years that this virus is airborne makes me angry. The same with sanitization theaters, with the mandatory vaccinations, etc. All these, actually, created the highest number of anti-vaxxers in the human history!
Indeed. When hundreds of scientists send a letter raising concerns around “the” “science” published on a platform, it would be great if those platforms took that to heart.
Most hosting platforms offer to install Wordpress via 1-click.
Once installed, it's really easy to use and edit even for a novice.
Otherwise, downloading Wordpress.org and uploading the files via FTP is really easy.
The most technical can edit via CLI if needed, but it's not mandatory to know how to use a shell.
What about Netlify? I've seen and heard about generating static websites, but honestly I have no idea where to start, what technologies are needed, how easy or how hard it is to explain the customer how to edit their own websites once ready..
What I love the most about being in a consultance-esque role:
-Networking. I talk to more people daily than my CS colleagues do in a week.
-I still have time to program in the evening. A lot of work I do is kind of "shallow", talking about tech instead of making it. At 6PM my brain is still capable of a few hours of programming. When I get maybe get a good 4, 5 hours of coding out of my brain per day. I used to use these ours at my job, now I use these hours building my own thing with a few friends
Scumbag politicians here in the Netherlands are actually using Signal to avoid courts obtain their communications through the Dutch equivalent of the FOIA.
Politics here is starting to look more like mob politics... Our prime minister is actually known to do as little on paper as possible - so when the shit hits the fan, he'll always say "oh I didn't know" or "I didn't remember"...
There are many large panning/sweeping shots in this series, such as when the ents attack Isengard, orcs besiege Helms Deep, when the fellowship runs through Moria...
Sure there are some quick cuts happening in some swordfighting scenes. And I agree it could have been better if these scenes were shot in a different format.
I noticed the same thing... Googled the term yesterday, was notitified by google that "these search results are changing quickly". Then went on Bing and DuckDuckGo and found actual relevant results.
Surprisingly the first video result in Google is a youtube video with little views.
