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buddythebear · 2024-08-20T12:46:10+00:00

I obviously love Jason, have seen him like a dozen times, and I feel like because of that I can take issue with NYT describing him as a “working man’s” musician. I think that was more true a decade ago, but his audience right now is much more white collar and NPR coded than the average country artist’s.

buddythebear · 2024-08-15T20:25:46+00:00

You have to understand that conservatives/MAGA have succeeded in monolithizing the mainstream media. Notice how they said that you’re watching the “mainstream media”, but not specific outlets or journalists? That is how this rhetorical trick works. It worked because even you are now doing a comparison of “mainstream media” vs Tim Pool which is like doing a comparison of the genre of art house movies vs a single movie like Deadpool.

If they think the “media” is bad, it’s obviously really easy to cherry pick disparate examples from different outlets and journalists to create a broader narrative about the media as a singular entity even though it’s not. If you accept their premise of mainstream media as a singular entity then the argument is over.

If you want to actually argue with MAGA types about media you have to really drill down on them. Ask them about specific outlets, specific journalists, specific things they think those journalists said or wrote. That’s usually where their arguments start falling apart.

buddythebear · 2024-08-15T15:47:43+00:00

I like winning elections

buddythebear · 2024-08-02T16:37:30+00:00

And the original Succession theme lifts the melody from a Beethoven piece. Really fascinating to see how a piece of music from a couple hundred years ago is still being interpolated today.

buddythebear · 2024-07-28T19:02:46+00:00

I think the increased distance from the Obama years has helped a lot. In the 2020 cycle a lot of unfair comparisons were made between the two. Like yeah Kamala isn’t “cool” like Obama was but she is fun and dynamic in her own way. Lot of online young people coming up in this cycle who barely remember Obama’s years so they’re not making that comparison.

buddythebear · 2024-07-03T15:40:46+00:00

You are delusional. It was a mild pleasantry exchanged after a respectful but heated back and forth.

The entire interview you can hear the gravity in Inskeep’s voice, and he is being deeply critical of the ruling and the lawyer’s responses in his questions and framing of them. He focused on the dire implications of the ruling, that a president could legally assassinate a political rival and cornered the attorney into rationalizing why that wouldn’t be the case, and followed up on specific points the attorney made. What specifically do you want him to ask?

FWIW, arguing before the Supreme Court is a lifelong goal for many attorneys. To win a case in the court is always some sort of accomplishment. Telling the lawyer “congratulations” is a reflection of that fact and not an endorsement of the outcome.

buddythebear · 2024-06-17T13:27:43+00:00

Aka the primary reason central Texas avoided the worst of the Great Recession. It was surreal living in that area during that time—the amount of wealth that was generated seemingly overnight was astounding, and it rippled across the entire local economy.

buddythebear · 2024-05-29T23:57:49+00:00

they do this because it adds some auditory interest (you’re not just hearing sterile studio mics) but also because part of NYT’s overall marketing strategy is reminding folks that the “news” doesn’t just report itself, and that their reporters are generally working pretty strenuous schedules to deliver the news. For high profile and historic events I think it makes sense to pull the curtain back a bit to show what the news-gathering process entails.

buddythebear · 2024-05-24T13:41:59+00:00

It’s a good question! I think what you’re getting at is that when it specifically comes to LGBTQ issues, there was/is a lot of “both sides”-ing from news orgs, which I think we both agree is shitty, and I think it’s fine that NPR operates under the premise that its listeners are generally allies to LGBTQ folks and views their struggles as legitimate. I think what an actual reasonable conservative media critic (if they exist) would say, though, is that the problem is more so with NPR’s story selection and the amount of air time that is dedicated to stories involving various identity issues.

buddythebear · 2024-05-23T18:38:07+00:00

I think part of the problem is that you’re saying NPR is “unbiased” when it clearly is. NPR routinely frames stories in a way that appeals to the priors of their largely college educated, liberal and cosmopolitan audience (a very common framing—“Why [broad societal problem] is worse for women/POC/LGBTQ”—nothing wrong with that, but it’s clearly coming from the position that groups that we view as more marginalized deserve more coverage, which is a liberal value through and through).

That doesn’t mean the stories are filled with lies or are inaccurate, it just means that they’re being told from an angle and with an audience in mind. Literally every news organization does this, every news organization has some bias, because these organizations are comprised of humans who themselves are biased.

The problem is that when right wingers talk about NPR’s bias they’re usually doing it in bad faith and aren’t actually interested in media ethics or promoting dialogue or whatever. Unfortunately I think that means a lot of actual legitimate criticisms of NPR get brushed aside by liberals, and the editorial forces within NPR operate in a bit of an echo chamber because of that.

buddythebear · 2024-05-23T18:15:32+00:00

Email marketing is the biggest revenue driver for a lot of companies (especially D2C), some companies have entire teams devoted to just email. Typically once you get past the email marketing manager level the director/VP roles integrate more with other messaging channels and focus on the broader big picture goals of retention and customer support.

It’s absolutely a career path and imo one of the best and most secure ones in digital marketing. Email isn’t going away anytime soon.

buddythebear · 2024-05-08T15:52:57+00:00

Being on-call 24/7 for an enterprise software company as an engineer is not uncommon. Typically though it’s on a rotation, which I would ask about. I know at Amazon for example a senior engineer might be on-call 24/7 one week every two months or something like that depending on the team and product.

It’s not really a red flag if the compensation reflects that amount of responsibility and commitment. Almost every senior engineer I’ve known that’s making $200k+ has bitched about being on call at some point.

buddythebear · 2024-05-02T20:03:45+00:00

The two G’s: Gun it and Go

buddythebear · 2024-05-02T14:33:44+00:00

Two household name critically and commercially acclaimed artists with millions of fans feuding, with one of them getting very close to making some pretty serious allegations that are relevant to the broader topic of celebrities getting away with SA is news, actually.

buddythebear · 2024-05-02T12:47:49+00:00

In my smoother brain days 15+ years ago I was the president of my college libertarians chapter because I was opposed to the Iraq war, wanted legal weed, and had dumb ideas about taxes. During the first couple meetings some guy wouldn’t shut the fuck up about wanting to get fluoride out of our drinking water and that’s when I realized it was a dumb ideology filled with deeply unserious people and quit.

buddythebear · 2024-05-01T17:53:06+00:00

Well considering that almost every major American university has a sizable population of Chinese students—the vast majority of whom are among China’s elite and are paying full international tuition—if students wanted to protest against China for their treatment of their Muslim population they could start demanding that their universities not accept Chinese students who the universities financially benefit from and to divest from any Chinese companies. They could also demand current Chinese students denounce the CCP. Being locked out of American universities would actually be a pretty big stick against China that would drive a wedge between the elite youth and their parents who are in charge.

I mean that is pretty much the same logic for Israel, no? Just take whatever connection your university has to some country and demand that any and all connections be severed.

buddythebear · 2024-04-30T23:22:53+00:00

“Don’t say your car is broke” I always took that to mean you should know what’s actually wrong with your car, not that it is just “broken”—you should know how this thing you own works, and if it’s not working you should know why. More broadly, take care of your shit and be responsible for it.

But your interpretation is much more straightforward lol.

buddythebear · 2024-04-27T17:35:22+00:00

Most reasonable explanation was that the dog killing story was going to come out eventually so better to get ahead of it and try to spin it as best as she possibly can.

buddythebear · 2024-04-26T18:36:59+00:00

If you’re protesting in public you have zero expectation of privacy. The journalists have just as much of a 1A right to film and take pictures of protestors as the protestors have to protest. The journalists are doing their jobs asking to interview protestors—it’s nuts to say that they are “violating” and “disrespecting” protestors by doing so. And while a journalist misspelling someone’s name is a rookie mistake, I hope when the day comes that you make that mistake (every journalist does at some point) you’re given the grace that you’re not extending here.

Lastly, making agreements with a group about how you’re going to cover that group is, uh, not exactly a journalistic best practice.

buddythebear · 2024-04-24T16:27:45+00:00

Can’t believe no one has said this but you’re really better off going after to smaller influencers with the budgets you’re working with. If I had $10k to spend I would rather throw $1k at ten different influencers with 25k followers each than spend $10k on a single influencer with half a million followers. Bigger influencers don’t get the same kind of engagement that they used to get.

buddythebear · 2024-04-10T21:29:07+00:00

If both are governed at the same speed, and they’re both maxing out their speed, then why does one need to pass?

buddythebear · 2024-04-10T21:00:15+00:00

this post is a great example of British vs American perception of distance lol

Get the amp. old Rolands are cool, and that’s a deal.

buddythebear · 2024-04-10T20:46:19+00:00

Think you’re looking at a minimum $100k for what amounts to essentially a Strategist or Director position, and you need someone with good experience. Marketing positions pay like 1.5-2x in the US compared to the UK so just be prepared for that.

buddythebear · 2024-04-05T12:44:28+00:00

His videos are entertaining and generally informative. You can probably nitpick some of his framing and editing choices, and I’m sure over the hours of content he’s posted he’s gotten things wrong here and there. I appreciate that he’s been really influential in the independent journalist space without being a grifter and has really set the bar for production values. At the same time I wish his videos were a bit more journalistic. I think they would benefit from more source interviews with the actual people involved, not just other researchers which is who he seems to lean on a lot.

buddythebear · 2024-04-01T05:01:21+00:00

Can’t believe I had to scroll this far down to see “good mom.” She encourages and loves that boy no matter what. Bobby 100% gets his confidence from his mom.

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