Saturday, February 15, 2020

Out of my clutter: offered to your brain

"Talk to any electric utility company and they will explain."

There's a signal to run screaming from any opinion column or columnist.
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David Neiwert reflects on far right marches in Portland, OR and Washington, DC.

... we have also learned that far-right activists prefer to march without opposition—and that when the opposition is overwhelming in numbers, they may just choose to remain at home. That will be useful knowledge down the road.

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Why getting news from TV and videos is a recipe for missing nuance ... this apparently is why I almost never choose to watch video feeds.

One thing that normal consumers may not appreciate is that there is a wide gulf in the information density offered by print media and on television news. In the first 15 minutes of a Trump rally in New Hampshire earlier this week, he said about 1,700 words. The average American reads about 238 words per minute, meaning that you could read Trump’s remarks in about half the time it took him to say them. And he was speaking without commercial interruption or any back-and-forth with a network anchor. This article would have taken you twice as long to read out loud to this point as it has been for you to read it silently.

Philip Bump

I do sacrifice learning what people and scenes look like. Is my trade off worthwhile?
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If we are going to have cars in cities ...

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