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Strands #176
βSee you on the courtβ
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Huh, didn't think about switching. Might do that too. Not sure it's gonna matter much considering all the different variants of wordle. On the multi variants I usually don't even bother checking between the first three words.
Connections
Puzzle #441
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Wordle 1Β 163 2/6
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I would like to say it was all skill, so I will. π
Edit: Nah, I pretty much always start with the same word. It is one of the best to start with, according to the wordle bot. My preferred starter:
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Precisely. A forking truck.
You are all wrong of course. This is a truck.
TL;DR: Capitalism sucks.
So that was a bit of a depressive read. Can't say I'm really surprised as I grew up in the 70's and was around to see how Ruhr in Germany spew out enough sulfur to poison the lakes even in the Nordics.
The ruthless effectiveness of the suppression of any opposition is what gets me about all this and that is the major difference about how the debate was back then. I'm not saying that the perpetrators were any better back then, it's that they get away with methods and arguments that simply wouldn't fly in the 70's. The press would have had a field day taking down someone trying to lie or suppress to the extent they get away with today. More often anyway, not saying it was perfect in any way shape or form, but the press had more freedom and was actually feared because they could make a difference and was much freer to do so. The reliance on ad money instead of subscribers is a large part of what killed the free press. You don't bite the hand that feeds you. Media owners do and did obviously play a large part on what stories and spin they allow, but if the spin was too blatant, competing media would be oh so happy to point that out and shame them for it. This does not happen today because all media that counts is owned by a small click of people with the same interests and goals.
Any left leaning media have had a much tougher time switching to a mainly ad based revenue streams because the ones buying ads have an interest in keeping the status quo and why would they buy ads in media that works against their interests? There are basically no left leaning mainstream media outlets left, even in the paradise on earth that is the EU, and for a smaller outfit it is basically impossible to get a dissenting view heard.
*This comes from a European perspective, where the difference is more pronounced between then and now, but the difference is there for US media too, albeit to a lesser degree. There were still large outlets with a bit of a backbone willing to run a story that was embarrassing to or was contrary to the wishes of powerful people back then. Not so today but for slightly different reasons in the US.
*By left in this post I mean European left, not the hard right Democrats that the US define as left.
Sure they are. It's just that notifications are evil too.
So that's were the inspiration for Ford Prefect came from.
Correct. You'll start breathing after you black out. Also, you'll probably fail to even hold your breath that long. Takes training and a LOT if will power to be able to. You know that very uncomfortable panicky feeling that starts after a while when holding your breath? When that gets going for real, you are not even halfway to blacking out. Our body has strong feelings about breathing and is pretty good at letting you know how it feels about the lack of air. Or technically, the build up of CO~2~. You can somewhat bypass your body's CO~2~ detection by hyperventilation, but the end result is the same, you start breathing after you black out. Source: used to apnea dive, but as with everything I do, I quit before I got good.
Signed a while ago, turns out. If you haven't and you're a EU citizen, go do it now.