Our News Team @ 11 with host Snot Flickerman

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  • Young people aren’t watching CNN and MSNBC.

    Hell, even millennials aren’t watching them.

    Harris threw in her lot with a dying media format while not hitting the YouTube/podcast circuit hard.

    I’m not saying she needed to go on Rogan, fuck Rogan. I’m saying the numbers bear out that not that many people are watching traditional media outlets in traditional ways.

    https://www.nbcuniversal.com/article/msnbc-tops-cnn-presidential-election-night-first-time-network-history

    Here’s an article crowing about 6 million viewers on election night. How do you think MSNBC fares on a non-election night? It’s a joke.

    The same article admits that the MSNBC live YouTube channel of their election coverage had about 30 million viewers, which is, let’s just say quite a few more, and yet those numbers still pale in comparison to massive YouTube channels like MrBeast (slight retch) which clocks in at 330 million subscriptions.

    The reality is that the YouTube and podcast sphere of influence absolutely fucking dwarfs traditional cable television networks and over-the-air networks.

    And despite that, even if she had hit the YouTube and podcast circuit, I’m not sure how much it would have moved the needle because I think the real issue is that Republicans succeeded with No Child Left Behind actually gutting our education system. I don’t think talking policy works with people who read and speak at less than a sixth grade reading level, which at this point is a significant portion of the country. Trump spoke in word salad, but he never used big words that made them feel dumb. In fact, I’d wager the arguments that came from the right that Kamala spoke in a word salad are entirely related to the fact that they didn’t understand half the words she said, so to them, that’s a “word salad” of words they don’t understand.




  • People in the media need to stop feigning fucking shock over this shit.

    If you’re still shocked you’re complicit because these assholes have been telling you very clearly who they are and what they plan to do for over ten years now.

    How do you expect us to take you seriously as arbiters of the truth when you’re fucking constantly shocked stupid by the reality that’s been staring you in the face for a decade. At a certain point, it beggars belief that you’re somehow still shocked that shitty people who promised to be shitty people are indeed shitty people doing the shitty things they promised to do.

    If you’re truly, genuinely shocked at this point, you’re an idiot.



  • Things like smoking will make dying a living hell. There’s a difference between “dying faster” and dying horrifically in painfully horrific ways that basically end with you pumped with fentanyl until you’re dead, and that’s if you’re one of the lucky ones.

    It’s way more likely that you’ll grow up and realize you’ve been a lot more unhealthy than you thought, even without drinking or smoking. Like, “oh shit, I’m that majority of Americans who is overweight and it actually has been terrible for my body and I should probably change that if I also don’t want to die horrifically.”




  • But, as indivuals, do they owe us the effort of helping our voices be heard? Because that’s what this is actually about: that traditionally, black women have been some of the strongest organizers within the Democratic party. The work they do helps others get their voices heard through their votes. This year they basically got told that nobody cared, including from black men. When this is about black women helping others get their voice heard, it’s pretty clear that right now nobody cares about the work they’ve put in to do that.

    I don’t blame anyone for putting in decades of hard work and feeling like it’s no longer their responsibility to get others organized and get their voices heard, when the majority has made perfectly clear that they don’t give one hot damn about all that hard work. Why should that job be left to some of the most vulnerable amongst us culturally, anyway?




  • So what other posters may be missing here is that, depending on the device and how it’s powered, “slow charging” may not actually be fast enough of a charge to keep it charged while powered on.

    So while its true, slowly charging your battery is better for it, in this case, you may be receiving the warning because the device may eventually power down while in use.

    If that is indeed the case, in the meantime if you charge it while it is off and use it until the battery gets down to about 30% and then turn it off to charge again and you should be fine. Honestly pretty safe just mildly frustrating, if you ask me.

    Source: a friend’s girlfriend’s old laptop which we discovered needed its fancy charging cable to both charge and stay on and a regular usb cable actually failed to give it the proper power delivery. She was having all kinds of issues with it and it took me digging through the whole manual for the device to figure it out.