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chrisga12 t1_iu7ount wrote

I work in telecommunications sales and one day our store got struck by lightning overnight, completely fried the master breaker and we had no power, no AC, no backup generator. just dim emergency lights that run off auxiliary power. They absolutely refused to let us close. Power company came by and pretty much said “yep, enjoy the day off guys.. you won’t be getting power anytime soon”. They still refused to close, we couldn’t help any customers or even clock in/out… at that point it was costing the company more money in labor to keep all of us there than it would have to just close the store for the day. Still doesn’t make any sense to me.

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VintageJane t1_iu7nogh wrote

It’s not just that. The footage you got in the 2000s was from the major media corporations filtered through major news outlets. So much of what we see now are from local amateur journalists, civilians and local businesses. We no longer see just the high-value 5 second shot of an explosion from the street chosen for it’s excitement value to keep viewers watching that channel. We now see intimate security footage inside a normal looking cafe that is relatable and goes viral for that reason.

Oh and there’s a ton more high-def cameras so the amount of footage is radically higher.

And surely dress and race and architecture all play a part in that distance but don’t downplay how different this footage is despite being of a “bombing”

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LenaiaLocke t1_iu7j63n wrote

I swear I’ve seen this like 14,000 times. No one cares anymore. Stop trying to get karma for posting the same fucking thing over and over again please. I liked it the first time. Now I downvote it every time. I mean…. Fuck.

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anteaterKnives t1_iu7dx9f wrote

Yup, nuthatch is like, "screw your line, imma take my sweet time here" and all the dapper chickadees are like Brits in a queue, aghast at the line jumper but not saying anything. I've been watching this play out at my feeder for weeks now.

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Mrsparkles7100 t1_iu7apn7 wrote

To help sway population opinion. Look at 2nd Iraq war, polling after the invasion still had swathes of the population believing Saddam was linked to 9/11. Government plus the media did that to help back the war.

Remember the incubator story from the first Gulf war. A key inflection point to move the American public and Congress toward supporting war in Iraq was the gruesome 1990 testimony of a Kuwaiti girl named Nayirah, who described how Iraqi troops killed 312 babies.

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