If you agree that the American point of view as expressed by our mainstream/corporate media is just propaganda, too - but with a decentralized and privatized veneer - then yes. That was the point I was trying to make the whole time.

Didn’t think I had to clarify that just because I’m saying what we’re getting in our media is an American point of view and far from objective truth doesn’t mean I’m saying Russian news is to be trusted.

Everyone already knows about Russian propaganda. In fact, they’re so sensitive to it that they constantly label anything that deviates from their understanding of these issues as such. Yet most seem inexplicably credulous of the official narratives as told by our government and media here when they simply don’t have a track record of being honest, save for some occasional solid journalism.

Edit: Added a few words for clarity.

I never once even remotely suggested Russian news isn’t propaganda.

>your favorite country

Ah, yes. Anyone who’s critical of the narratives about Russia and the war in Ukraine must surely love Russia. Good call. Hey, remember all those “Ho Chi Minh lovers” protesting the Vietnam War? What about all those piece of shit terrorist sympathizers that objected to drone wars and CIA torture programs? What about all those scumbags who loved Iraq so much they doubted the presence of WMD and urged that we not invade Iraq? Fucking idiots getting duped by Iraqi propaganda.

These people are the worst of the worst, amirite? What kind of evildoer casts doubt on our media and government’s claims about our adversaries?

Traitors all. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

These people are absolutely oblivious. It’s incredible to watch. They seem to think that what information warfare means is that our government’s foreign adversaries lie about everything while our government and media just set the record straight with the objective truth and let the chips fall where they may. It’s a level of child-like naïveté that never ceases to amaze me.

You couldn’t even bother to read my comment, apparently. What a bad faith interpretation. Really slaying those straw men, though.

I keep forgetting Reddit is not a place for rational discussion on anything related to foreign policy and national security issues.

Russia’s situation is worse in general, but I don’t see any substantial deviation from the Washington consensus in the mainstream when it comes to whatever the crucial foreign policy topic of the day is. Anything that does deviate is labeled foreign propaganda, and anyone that challenges the narrative - no matter how well credentialed - become persona non grata (Stephen F. Cohen and John Mearsheimer come to mind, but this goes back at least all the way to people like Phil Donahue getting his show cancelled by NBC executives specifically because of his opposition to the Iraq War).

Labeling anything that deviates from the views expressed by the government as “foreign propaganda” is the oldest authoritarian trick in the book, and it’s the norm here.

Whether by pure coincidence or not, the “mainstream” media consensus is the mainstream Washington consensus. You’re not getting objective reporting from them anymore than you could expect to get it from the State Department of intelligence community. You’re getting the American perspective.

What an idiot. Doesn’t he know there could be sharks in there???

Isn’t that additional inaccuracy a thing of the past? I googled it because I was unfamiliar with the concept and came across this:

> Doesn't the government degrade civilian GPS accuracy?

>No. During the 1990s, GPS employed a feature called Selective Availability that intentionally degraded civilian accuracy on a global basis.

>In May 2000, at the direction of President Bill Clinton, the U.S. government ended its use of Selective Availability in order to make GPS more responsive to civil and commercial users worldwide.

>The United States has no intent to ever use Selective Availability again.

https://www.gps.gov/systems/gps/performance/accuracy/

No one had to parse anything.

They’re not clearly necessary at all when only one person seems confused about the meaning.

If you ever need a new job, you should just hand this out with your contact info and nothing else instead of a resume. I’d hire you.

ITT: 7 different “That’s why he wanted to be sedated” jokes. (4 are from the same person lol.)

“Please notice me.” -that guy, before he leaves his house every morning

Clinton was the worst thing to happen to the Democrats. It was during his Presidency that the party transformed into one that is Liberal in social policy only. Clinton even accomplished things Regan couldn’t when it came to free trade agreements and deregulation. Most modern Democratic voters don’t know about that backslide, though, because they compare the modern D Party to the modern R Party (which is obviously to the Right of Ds) rather than to what it was before neoliberalism nearly fully subsumed them.

And yes, there are some new policies that are more progressive/Left than old ones pre-90s, but many of these are being fought for in uphill battles.

I have to admit my ignorance here: what is tube rolling?

I wonder how much longer this is going to matter. For audio, sample rates and bit depths are so high that the only real constraints left are storage space and streaming capacity. I honestly wouldn’t even believe someone if they said they could tell the difference between an analog recording and it’s 192k / 32b transfer.

But I suppose analog will always have a place, though, because analog mediums - whether it’s 2-inch tape or vinyl - color the sound in a way that most people find pleasant, even if they aren’t consciously aware of it.