What?
Did something I said sound like "the problem is that it's rocket science"? I feel like your message was intended to respond to someone else or something. The problem is that it's Russian propaganda, not that you "can't follow sources" or whatever.
Also, a big part of their argument was that it was the only option, nothing else would do that had an API endpoint and had affordable terms of use. I offered to provide them an API endpoint to Wikipedia's sources list (which is precisely the same thing as MBFC, just... accurate and detailed) in exactly the same format, and they said no no that won't do. I wrote code to actually fetch and parse Wikipedia's list so they could make the bot follow actually-accurate source rankings with additional details and everything. Rooki silently received the message, then there was a long delay, then a little "Wikipedia" line started showing up way down below the awful MBFC rankings that were still front and center.
I think probably it is not 😕
TIL Mint Press News.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MintPress_News
MintPress News supported former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, and the governments of Russia and Iran.[3][4]
The editor had investors, who Muhawesh claimed were "retired businesspeople", but she would not name them
Soon afterward, Brian Lambert of MinnPost wrote an article following up on Burke's challenge to find out where MintPress's money came from. He reported that emails to them went unanswered, their phone was disconnected, and the original office address in Plymouth, Minnesota, "haven't been valid in well over a year". While MintPress listed 20 of its writers, Lambert wrote it did not indicate where the money was "coming from to pay any of these people".[16]
MintPress News has reposted content from Russian state media outlets RT and Sputnik,[25][26] and is listed as a "partner" of PeaceData, a Russian fake news site run by the Internet Research Agency.[27][28][29] A report from New Knowledge includes MintPress News as part of the "Russian web of disinformation,"[30][31] and the site has published fake authors attributed to the GRU, the Russian military intelligence agency.[32] MintPress News defended Russia's invasion of Crimea, claiming Ukraine's post-revolution government was "illegitimate".[33]
Sounds like YDI. MBFC is horrible of course, but it sounds like in this case they got it right (somehow focusing in one of the only things Mint Press gets right, being "anti-Israel", presumably as a performative cover so they'll fit in better among other general left wing news. Which of course triggered MBFC, which is part of the whole reason why it's clever for them to include a whole bunch of "Israel's the bad guys" in among the "Russia's the good guys.")
You had me in the first half lol
PTB
Oh, yeah, I wasn’t saying this guy was a hero or trying doing anything other than being a vindictive crook. I’m pointing out the wild disparity in punishment for things like “we crashed the whole economy and made off with billions” (no punishment and in fact gifts of tons more money) versus “I got mad at my employer and fucked up their computers for half a day” (ten years).
Pure gold lol
ESH
@Unruffled: MBFC is absolutely terrible. Plenty of people have given examples, but just to name a few:
Contrast with:
And so on. It's just, basically, one person's subjective opinion of what he thinks about various news sources.
If you want to do this task of categorizing news sources, just use the Wikipedia Perennial Sources list. That one's peer-reviewed by a huge team of people who care a lot, qualified feedback is taken seriously and used to improve the list, there's a ton more transparency, it is just better in every respect.
@Deceptichum: As with almost every time someone gathers mod action, it's not what you said, it's how you said it. You were abrasive and insulting for no reason at all. You're not wrong, but IMO you pretty much deserved the mod action because you were being a cock. I think if you'd responded to the pretty reasonable (if phrased a little bit hostile) question by just answering the reasonable question, you would have been fine. The mods here seem fairly reasonable in most cases, but most people will respond poorly to being cursed at and insulted out of nowhere.
Organize to steal the people's money through fraudulent charges, and give it to rich people: All is well
As one of the people, organize to fuck up the rich people's operation, even if you're not even stealing their money or anything: Panik
I don't know what happened that I can't easily find full text for the story, but:
https://archive.org/details/lccn_425022749
Skip to "Shall the Dust Praise Thee," page 369.
"This story was written some years ago, and all I remember about it is that my then agent returned it with loathing, and told me I might possibly sell it to the Atheist Journal in Moscow, but nowhere else." -Damon Knight
Or, just read the whole book. It's the real deal.
In fairness, ICE has wanted to deport you if you have tattoos for a long time, and they had a habit of telling judges that the tattoos were ironclad proof that you were the next El Chapo. The difference is that now they don't have to involve judges in the process at all, they can just fly you out and dump you in the jungle.