RunawayFixer

The Washington post used to do this, but has apparently given up somewhere in 2021. And they haven't restarted it for Trump's 2nd term, probably because Bezos had tightened the leash on WP as an obeisance towards Trump + the republican party. That tighter leash also lead to a bunch of WP editors/journalists with integrity jumping ship.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claims-database/

"In four years, President Trump made 30,573 false or misleading claims"

I also can't see debunking Trump's endless lies ever making good tv, it's just too much. A gish gallop like another poster said. And I also don't really see the point, because Trump makes it easy: if Trump makes a claim, then it's nearly always a lie. And in the rare case that it isn't, it's going to be some kind of misleading misrepresentation. I don't need a fact check to know that.

Unrelated to Trump's lying: what's this 50501 chat mirror that this post comes from?

Augustus became emperor in 27 bc, the crisis of the 3rd century started in 235 ac. That's a 262 year run before shit really hit the fan. The empire reunited again towards the of the 3rd century, but more authoritarian, corrupt, unstable, ... than before. The reforms that would lead to medieval serfdom were introduced then as well.

A non exhaustive list of what makes them awful: https://expertbeacon.com/why-is-paypal-so-bad/

Afaik, the issue that was making the most victims, was that they were facilitating scammers that targeted sellers:
5. Good Luck Recouping Losses as a Seller in Disputes.
89% of sellers experienced dispute resolution problems with PayPal in 2021 surveys. Despite providing evidence the item shipped or service rendered, they lost cases and sums averaging $622.
This is driven by PayPal‘s buyer-favored review round taking 1-2 weeks. This favors scamming buyers at the expense of legitimate businesses.

Iirc, there was a time when Paypal always sided with the buyer, irregardless of evidence or past track record, the review process was useless. Once scammers picked up on this and began scamming sellers en masse, Paypal still kept their policy unchanged for years and sellers started to raise their prices on platforms that forced them to accept Paypal (ebay used to do this). Ebay has since tossed Paypal off their platform. I don't know if Paypal ever improved.

When reading some old (19th century for example) story about a woman becoming "hysterical", I had the impression that the context often involved her husband making stupid decisions and her being powerless to stop it because she had no rights.

Made up example story:
A fraudster comes to town and starts door to door selling his scam investment. A woman opens the door, listens to the spiel and tells him to go away. The fraudster asks loudly for "the man of the house", the woman tells him to go away again. The husband appears, the fraudster talks up his fragile masculinity and the dumb husband agrees that money is no business for a woman. At that point the woman knows that her gullible husband is going to do something very stupid that might bankrupt their family, but she is powerless to stop it, so at the same time she's angry, afraid, frustrated, desperate and pleading. And thus the fraudster tells the husband: "See, women are always hysterical for no reason and they should have no say in big decisions. Lets leave here and go over the contract in the bar."

And because you personally never saw a stoning, you believe that they never happened?

That film was based on a book. The book was based on events that actually happened. Just a quick cursory search finds many other cases, here's an old incomplete list: https://mehr.org/stoning_list.htm

The setup of this movie reminds me of Locke with Tom Hardy. That's also basically a movie where you watch 1 person in a static situation (in a car in Locke) conducting remote project management. I'd have never expected a full movie to work with that setup, but Locke pulls it off imo.

And the dystopia has become a little more dystopian.

The story reminds me of dystopian/scifi stories where someone is imprisoned and presented with problems that they have to solve to earn their freedom/food/... . The first problem is understanding the instructions, because they're presented in a way that the prisoner doesn't understand + there's no outside help to help the prisoner understand.

Gunboat diplomacy in the 21st century. Since Xi Jinping came to power, it's been an endless stream of criminal behaviour by the Chinese state. I miss the time of Hu Jintao.

I sometimes go into the sea with a cotton t-shirt as protection against the sun, and I have no such annoyances afterwards. It's definitely full of sand and not recommended to bring inside anywhere, but apart from that I have no complaints.

It probably has to be pedophilic instead of pedophile to be correct.

BBC1 and BBC2 will each have several times more viewers than BBC News. The statistic in the op + the channels that GB News is comparing themselves too, are cherry picked by GB News.

If they are in the business of spreading misinformation and misrepresentation, then it shouldn't come as a surprise that they also do that when they are patting themselves on the back.

USA republicans have foreseen this and are targeting birth control in their project 2025 plan. In 2025 it's not going to be a complete ban (yet), but more subtle dissuasion.