I knew there was more than meets the eye.

The really amazing thing is that is the same combination I have on my luggage.

I'm shocked. Shocked! To find Meta was misusing children's data.

You're not doing any of those things and no one here believes or envies you.

Just woke up with a slight hangover. Life is amazing. I will have some coffee and play with my beautiful child. Then I will go surfing. The good life is free from envy and pity. Full of admiration of those who have qualities that lead them to success. Jeff Bezos company was beautiful in the way it sent me gifts I needed for a relative’s graduation. I am grateful that he had the wisdom and courage to start it.

Admiration of others leads us to the good path. Envy and pity are tools of the darkness.

I can't tell whether you're trolling or the embodiment of out of touch.

In touch brother. I hope you can find it one day.

Not sure how heads are "surprisingly ball shaped." What part of a round head surprises you exactly?

If you look at someone from eye level it is rather hard to mistake their head for a football. You need a certain amount of elevation before it actually starts to look like a sphere.

Yes, this.

Even looking like half a sphere is enough, as the system attempts to detect partially occluded balls too.

To be fair, he did wrote "ball" not "sphere". I'm pretty sure my head and a ball share a lot of roundness but my head has way more parts that are sticking out. Also has way less of pentagon patches on it.

Sadly. Former reporter here, we did exactly this. Harried for time, little pay, just crank it out and move on to the next day.

This was 15 years ago, I imagine it's only gotten worse.

Former journalist here.

Spot. On.

Can you recommend primers, explainers, autobiographies, collection of war stories? Something accessible to laypersons like me?

After my own unsuccessful efforts, I started collecting books and articles about lawmaking (legislation). It'd be really great to have similar resources for investigative journalism.

Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky

Various works by many of these individuals: https://freedom.press/about/board/

Hmmm.

I guess what I'm hoping to find is a playbook for how to get stories published. Proven effective methods.

I accept everything I've read from Chomsky and others. But I am still no smarter on what to do about it.

For an analogy, Camp Wellstone teaches how to strategize policy work using tools like Power Maps.

My wife works for a state in a department using software being made by a company mentioned. The weekly meetings and calls are so astonishingly slow and deal with such meaningless minutiae that I am sadly not surprised at this article. Heartbroken a bit, nit not surprised.

This is such an insightful comment. I worked as a reporter for a little outside-of-Philly paper in the 2000s and it was the extreme taboo to report on something you couldn't independently verify. Even then pay was bad and younger folks were bailing ship. Now newsrooms are so gutted that there is no staff left to do this kind of reporting.