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- neverscared0
From alternative conceptions of honesty to alternative facts in communications by US politicians
The spread of online misinformation on social media is increasingly perceived as a problem for societal cohesion and democracy. The role of political leaders in this process has attracted less research attention, even though politicians who ‘speak their mind’ are perceived by segments of the public as authentic and honest even if their statements are unsupported by evidence. By analysing communications by members of the US Congress on Twitter between 2011 and 2022, we show that politicians’ conception of honesty has undergone a distinct shift, with authentic belief speaking that may be decoupled from evidence becoming more prominent and more differentiated from explicitly evidence-based fact speaking. We show that for Republicans—but not Democrats—an increase in belief speaking of 10% is associated with a decrease of 12.8 points of quality (NewsGuard scoring system) in the sources shared in a tweet. In contrast, an increase in fact-speaking language is associated with an increase in quality of sources for both parties. Our study is observational and cannot support causal inferences. However, our results are consistent with the hypothesis that the current dissemination of misinformation in political discourse is linked to an alternative understanding of truth and honesty that emphasizes invocation of subjective belief at the expense of reliance on evidence.
- neverscared1
- This just confirms how gullible and stupid that his MAGA base is. They believe anything that he says.utopian
- Bluejam2
"In Fig. 2, we plot all the composite objects in the Universe: protons, atoms, life forms, asteroids, moons, planets, stars, galaxies, galaxy clusters, giant voids, and the Universe itself. Humans are represented by a mass of 70 kg and a radius of 50 cm (we assume sphericity), while whales are represented by a mass of 105 kg and a radius of 7 m."
- hans_glib7
- https://i.pinimg.com…imbecile
- as much as I am 100% digital, i will always find vinyl utterly fascinating for just how physical a medium it is. ^that gif is like nails down a blackboard to meNairn
- ^^ That is deeply satisfyingContinuity
- What really draws me to vinyl is the expense and the inconvenience.jagara
- "it just sounds different"doesnotexist
- To be fair, I believe it does ;)jagara
- it is different. at its essence, the sound wave is literally a different shape.imbecile
- I treated my vinyl properly in the 20th century.CyBrainX
- Krassy5
The letters CH stand for the Latin name for Switzerland – Confoederatio Helvetica. These words are therefore an abbreviation for Switzerland. The main reason for this is that using the Latin words avoids favoring any one of the four Swiss national languages.
- News to me: the name "Helvetica" means “Swiss” in LatinKrassy
- It stays.palimpsest
- sausages0
I'd never noticed before but Mr. Burns is the bass player for Spinal Tap.
- Morning_star2
Like Flamingos, Salmon is pink due to the tiny shrimp they eat. It does this so that it can pass on the pigment to it's eggs which it lays in shallow rivers. The pink pigment acts as a sun screen for the eggs as they are particularly prone to sun damage without it.
Flamigos on the other hand are just being theatrical with their pinkness.
- Some birds just like to look fabulous https://www.audubon.…scarabin
- imbecile2
re: https://qbn.com/reply/4103219/
Let's say we have a circle with a radius r centered at the origin. The equation of the circle is
from which we get
The area of the circle is
Thus, one third of the area is
To find the x-value where we place the first vertical line (starting from the center of the circle and moving outward), we want to find x such that the area from the y-axis to x is one third of the circle's area.Using the formula for the area of a segment:
We set this equal to
From this equation, we can solve for x to determine the point at which to place the first vertical line to trisect the circle by area. The second vertical line would be its reflection across the y-axis since the circle is symmetric.This is a transcendental equation. A closed-form solution in terms of elementary functions is not possible, so a numerical method like the Newton-Raphson method is typically used to approximate x.
- no-one cares.face_melter
- hey everyone, face_melter is still an assholeimbecile
- i care because you dodoesnotexist
- Lollll facefuturefood
- they definitely care https://qbn.com/repl…imbecile
- _niko1
from the war thread, Leading cause of death worldwide
https://ourworldindata.org/image…
https://ourworldindata.org/cause…
And yet we tend to focus an irrational amount on war and homicide.
- I think we got better in avoiding wars.sted
- and yet? I see “us” focusing on all of these areas not just war irrationallymonospaced
- This assumes that death is the metric that people care about the most, and not other things like injustice, greed or geopolitical power.slappy
- No.palimpsest
- Well, I mean, everyone has to die of something eventually.
I guess the 'focus' is people who die necessarily.webazoot - People who die necessarily?palimpsest
- I guess eveyone does really. But yes, that was a typo!webazoot
- Gardener11
- oldy but goodieYakuZoku
- I'll keep a "watch out" for your salary.utopian
- perfect zippo sizeGnash
- i think it used to be for pocket watch?
but i just use it for coins. which is pretty much my salary ಥ_ಥpango - People who wear jeans don't use pocket watchesdrgs
- Skeletool fits perfectlyBabySnakes
- who else wants the 5th pocket repeated to the left side for a 6th pocket? *raises handimbecile
- I keep another, smaller pair of pants in minescarabin
- drgs. its the old design carried over. like floppy disk save icon.pango
- Stash pocket.garbage
- it's for altoids right?Squiddy
- It's a watch pocket. Back in the 1800s, cowboys used to wear their watches on chains and kept them in their waistcosts. To keep them from getting broken, Levisneverscared
- evis introduced this small pocket where they could keep their watch.neverscared
- innovation never sleeps... except when its time for maintenanceneverscared
- https://www.youtube.…https://www.levistra…imbecile
- @scarabin Pantsception?Akagiyama
- https://imgflip.com/…Krassy
- https://nimbusimport…Krassy
- etherum?neverscared
- Since I quit smoking I use it for my EarPods nowGnash
- imbecile2
Kung Fu (or Gong Fu) is a term that, in the West, has often been used broadly to refer to Chinese martial arts. However, its original meaning in Chinese isn't limited to martial arts. "Kung Fu" can be translated as "skill achieved through hard work" or "mastery of a skill over time." This means that a master chef or a masterful painter can also have "kung fu" in their respective disciplines.
- Gnash1
had no idea that peat was a fuel source
- Thanks for this. Never actually seen the process. This is where smokiness in whisky comes from.skinny_puppy
- ^ interestingGnash
- During the malting process, barley is germinated. This converts the carbs in barley into sugar, which can later be used to make alcohol. But the sugar must notskinny_puppy
- be used up by the seedlings. So they are heated up to stop the germination. On the islands (like Islay) there's not a lot of wood, so peat is used to heat theskinny_puppy
- barley. Peat burning produces a lot of smoke. This smoke infuses with the barley and carries over into the whisky. That's why "Peat Monster", etc.skinny_puppy
- I always thought it came from the charred barrels or something, but apparently not.skinny_puppy
- Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.skinny_puppy
- lol. Good to know :)Gnash
