They might even throw out mixed race marriage the way things are going…

Thomas - “Thank god, I’ve been trying to get rid of her for YEARS!”

Newsweek is in a really weird space right now, they aren’t WHOLLY unreliable like a New York Post or Daily Mail, but they definitely seem to be sliding that way.

They were always 2nd tier compared to a Time Magazine or U.S. News and World Report, but not unreliable.

That seems to have changed in 2018 when Dev Pragad and Johnathan Davis took over.

Here’s the worrying bit:

https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/04/inside-newsweek-ai-experiment/

“Newsweek believes that AI tools can help journalists work faster, smarter and more creatively,” reads the updated standards page. “We firmly believe that soon all journalists will be working with AI in some form and we want our newsroom to embrace these technologies as quickly as is possible in an ethical way.”

My prediction is, within 2 years, Newsweek will officially become AI slop and can be safely disregarded as a valid source.

Lemmy.World is the instance.

!world@lemmy.world is the US free community.

My daughter in law is from there, so I’m still learning about it. She’s from Sittwe in Rakhine State.

As outrageous as this is, it made me curious… for me, the Department of Education is just one of those things I’ve kind of always known about, but did you know that the current office and secretary was created in 1979? Under Jimmy Carter?

🤯

It’s amazing how… recent… a lot of these cabinet positions actually are:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_of_the_United_States

Homeland Security - 2003 (that tracks)
Veterans Affairs - 1989
Education - 1979
(Previously “Health, Education, and Welfare”) - 1953
Energy - 1977
Transportation - 1967
Housing and Urban Development - 1966
Health and Human Services - 1980
(Previously “Health, Education, and Welfare”) - 1953
Labor - 1913
(Previously “Commerce and Labor”) - 1903
Commerce - 1913
(Previously “Commerce and Labor”) - 1903
Agriculture - 1862
Interior - 1849
Attorney General - 1789
Defense - 1947
(Previously “Secretary of War”) - 1789
(Previously “Secretary of the Navy”) - 1798
(Previously “Secretary AT War”) - 1783
Treasury - 1789
(Previously “Superintendent of Finance”) - 1771
State - 1789
(Previously “Secretary of foreign affairs”) - 1781
Vice President - 1789

Work sent me an iPhone 14 for testing because I already had an Android phone, can’t think of any other reason to own one other than 1) somebody else paid for it and 2) you need one for work.

I removed the other one, it had no engagement.

As outrageous as this is, it made me curious… for me, the Department of Education is just one of those things I’ve kind of always known about, but did you know that the current office and secretary was created in 1979? Under Jimmy Carter?

🤯

It’s amazing how… recent… a lot of these cabinet positions actually are:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_of_the_United_States

Homeland Security - 2003 (that tracks)
Veterans Affairs - 1989
Education - 1979
(Previously “Health, Education, and Welfare”) - 1953
Energy - 1977
Transportation - 1967
Housing and Urban Development - 1966
Health and Human Services - 1980
(Previously “Health, Education, and Welfare”) - 1953
Labor - 1913
(Previously “Commerce and Labor”) - 1903
Commerce - 1913
(Previously “Commerce and Labor”) - 1903
Agriculture - 1862
Interior - 1849
Attorney General - 1789
Defense - 1947
(Previously “Secretary of War”) - 1789
(Previously “Secretary of the Navy”) - 1798
(Previously “Secretary AT War”) - 1783
Treasury - 1789
(Previously “Superintendent of Finance”) - 1771
State - 1789
(Previously “Secretary of foreign affairs”) - 1781
Vice President - 1789

No. She wasn’t a good candidate ANY time she ran.

Bullied, way easier to shut down a bully.

Don’t get me started on Xfinity “10G”.

https://www.highspeedinternet.com/resources/xfinity-10g-internet

Which doesn’t help when the staff and money gets pulled. I swear, it’s like you do not have the first idea how politics works.

Biden was President, you go with what he says or you get cut loose with no time to rebuild on your own.

Her entire campaign was Biden people and Biden money, she towed the line or lost that with no time to build her own support.

Remember: 30 days to the convention. 108 days to the election. Piss off Biden, lose all his people and all his money. Good luck with the election!

If she wanted the candidacy, she had to stick with Biden. Read the article.

There’s a lot of blame to go around, but nobody is going to tell a sitting President they can’t run again. It was Biden’s call and he ultimately made that call too late for any other candidate to have a successful run.

Once Harris was tapped, there’s now evidence Biden hampered her campaign as well:

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5191087-harris-trump-biden-harris/

It’s not “the dems” fault, it’s Biden’s fault. First, for not stepping down early enough for a proper primary, 2nd, for having a comatose debate performance, 3rd, for failing to recognize the economic pain the US public was going through, 4th, for claiming credit for policies that had no effect on the public at large, and 5th for insisting Harris not separate herself from his failed policies.

Someone should have sat him down and told him the economy sucks, people are hurting, and the policies you got passed haven’t done anything yet. But he still stood up repeatedly and basically said “What’s the matter, Jack? Economy is great!” while the public was “3% inflation on top of 3% inflation on top of 6% inflation in top of 9% inflation…”

That failure of recognition tanked his campaign and not allowing Harris to differentiate herself tanked hers.

She should have told him “No, your ideas are why you aren’t in the race anymore, I’m doing something different.” Instead she said, on live television, she couldn’t think of anything she’d do differently. That’s the point when she lost, nail in the coffin right there.

Because it was created as a place for US politics. !world@lemmy.world was created as the US free zone.

Combining the two creates a US dominated space where world events get buried under US news and politics.

No, there wasn’t. A primary in 50 states takes roughly 6 months to run. They had ONE.

Biden bowed out July 21st.

The convention was scheduled to start August 19th.

30 days. You can’t run a 50 state primary in 30 days. 1.66 primaries per day.

Moving the convention wasn’t an option due to state deadlines for candidates.

By the time Biden dropped out, it was one month to the DNC which would select a candidate. There was no time to run a primary, and they were actively attempting to prevent what happened at the last brokered convention which resulted in utter chaos:

https://youtu.be/sDwKyoSmhow

Wow, the Gazan civilians must have done something really serious to merit being attacked like this, ending the cease fire…

Right? Um… right? /s

The reason he picked Vance is because he knew there was no resistance there, he learned from Pence.