tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37798047.post3634991100983022104..comments2024-01-16T05:48:33.523-05:00Comments on Errata Security: So that tweet was misunderstoodDavid Maynorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09921229607193067441noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37798047.post-16724148626585528202020-01-05T11:49:53.362-05:002020-01-05T11:49:53.362-05:00Nowadays, even a single tweet can ruin your reputa...Nowadays, even a single tweet can ruin your reputation; Recently i have published a post on <a href="https://www.reviewsed.com/" rel="nofollow">Reviewsed.com</a> about journalists' security and shared on twitter it goest viral and believe me I never think that post can also be viral on twitter.Zubair Hussain Khanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09162359100071921277noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37798047.post-63959544421894116102020-01-05T11:48:08.375-05:002020-01-05T11:48:08.375-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Zubair Hussain Khanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09162359100071921277noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37798047.post-31236528410138051572020-01-05T11:23:23.520-05:002020-01-05T11:23:23.520-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Zubair Hussain Khanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09162359100071921277noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37798047.post-67622410861923901042019-12-30T09:15:00.653-05:002019-12-30T09:15:00.653-05:00As the person who, I guess, first took you on that...As the person who, I guess, first took you on that path towards your tweet, I’d say I still have a number of issues with what you’re saying. Actually, you’ve added to them a little, because I have to take issue with something new you’ve introduced. <br /><br />You say: “Mankind's carbon emissions are indeed causing sea level to rise, but we should be talking about how this affects average cities, not dramatizing the issue with the worst cases.”<br /><br />I think that misunderstands how interlinked the world is. The average city, logically, is going to be some distance above sea level. But what happens when those which are right on the sea are flooded? Do you think the people who lived and worked there will just get scuba gear and carry on? Do you think property prices and business will just continue? No: there will be huge displacement, and that might be gradual or it might be sudden, but it will be far-reaching because people want to go *somewhere*. Look at the displacement caused by the New Orleans flooding, which was only temporary. Now multiply that around the world, but permanent. Bangladesh is already planning to relocate its capital because the city is too liable to flooding by rising sea levels. So “how this affects average cities” is a meaningless phrase; there’s no “average city” when you have populations on the move.<br /><br />Similarly, you say “I'm simply pointing out that whenever I investigate politicians’ statements, I find inaccuracies, exaggerations, and deliberate deceptions“. My original challenge to you was to give examples of deliberate deceptions from Democratic politicians to rival those made by Trump in particular, and the GOP in general (since you were dismissive of Jay Rosen’s commentary about Chuck Todd, who declared himself “naive” to have allowed GOPers to spout untruths on his TV show). <br /><br />You’ve pointed to *simplifications* in what Warren and Sanders are saying. If you really think anyone would listen to a politician make a stump speech about how it’s all the fault of PBMs, I have some bad news for you. The public needs simple messages; political messaging needs clear identification of problems, and of solutions, even if once in power the problems and solutions are far trickier to enact and involve big compromises. The word among politicians is that if you have a slogan, the point at which you are so sick of saying it that you think you’d rather kill yourself than utter it again is the point at which the public begins to remember it. Simple wins. The US healthcare industry is hugely complicated, so rather than putting the audience to sleep by explaining just how complicated, you tell them it’s a Gordian knot, and you flash your sword.<br /><br />But again, there’s a significant difference between saying that price gouging in the health industry needs to be stopped, and saying that the 2016 inauguration crowd was the biggest ever, or that Mueller’s report exonerated Trump, or that Trump didn’t try to exact a self-interested quid pro quo from Ukraine’s president. One is a slogan for politicking, and the other three are disprovable lies. <br /><br />The toxicity of social media, meanwhile, is in some ways related to this problem. Simple messages travel, but they also polarise. I think your tweet on the insulin topic strayed too far into simplicity. And clearly, there are a lot of diabetics out there who, like you, desire to emulate Switzerland or Singapore. Difference is that their life depends on it.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01889058585755189801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37798047.post-70463135127312938682019-12-29T22:51:49.830-05:002019-12-29T22:51:49.830-05:00This quote might be apropos of your situation: A w...This quote might be apropos of your situation: A weird little rabbit hole leads me to this: there seem to be a lot of people who imagine they can treat what other people say as a sort of modeling clay out of which they can fashion anything they like, and then attribute their own newly-form idea back to the original author. - Joseph MooreChuck Pergielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14473338620167201696noreply@blogger.com