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Dilbert loses newspapers, publishers, distributor, and possibly its website
EEVblog:
--- Quote from: ebastler on May 12, 2023, 03:40:36 am ---Oh yeah, Twitter Subscriptions. Right up there with Tucker Carlson. Birds of a feather...
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Dumbest take ever. Go find and subscribe to someone you like then. Twitter is just a platform.
I've signed up for twitter subscriptions, will offer it once it's approved. Been three weeks now though...
EEVblog:
--- Quote from: wilfred on May 12, 2023, 04:58:13 am ---I don't know if the claim he is one of the most influential observers of politics in the US is his own opinion or someone elses.
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It's not inaccurate. He is very influential.
--- Quote ---I don't sit way over on the right with his politics but I did find it interesting to watch how he works. For a few episodes at least. Not that I'm claiming to be clever in working it out. He's not subtle. Although if you see me clucking like a chicken he may have hypnotised me. Maybe.
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The live shows can be hit and miss. Might take dozen or so until you find a real gem of a take that you like.
He also has "micro lessons" a few minutes long on the white board. Hundreds of them on Locals, but some are free on Youtube if you search. Again, hit and miss.
You mostly listen to the live shows for his takes on news stories of that day. Although he makes predictions, he is very much a fence sitter. But the explainations of things can be interesting.
Nominal Animal:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on May 12, 2023, 09:39:08 am ---But the explainations of things can be interesting.
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This.
I don't read what others write or listen to what others say because of their opinions, I do that to see what they see and base their opinions on.
I've found there are two kinds of people: the kind that demands others agree because they are the authority on a subject (or because their opinion by itself ought to have sufficient weight/value/importance), and the kind that explains their reasoning and basis. Surprisingly many of the popular newspeople/pundits/commentators/politicians are in the former group, when you start really listening.
ebastler:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on May 12, 2023, 09:32:40 am ---
--- Quote from: ebastler on May 12, 2023, 03:40:36 am ---Oh yeah, Twitter Subscriptions. Right up there with Tucker Carlson. Birds of a feather...
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Dumbest take ever. Go find and subscribe to someone you like then. Twitter is just a platform.
I've signed up for twitter subscriptions, will offer it once it's approved. Been three weeks now though...
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If that's where you want to be... guess you gotta make money.
Please, just make sure that you don't follow the Scott Adams trajectory in other respects: Once liked for a unique take on the office landscape, or electronics as the case may be. Then becoming increasingly convinced that he needs to (and has the calibre to) fix the world. I found that embarrassing and annoying to watch.
tggzzz:
--- Quote from: ebastler on May 12, 2023, 10:28:22 am ---
--- Quote from: EEVblog on May 12, 2023, 09:32:40 am ---
--- Quote from: ebastler on May 12, 2023, 03:40:36 am ---Oh yeah, Twitter Subscriptions. Right up there with Tucker Carlson. Birds of a feather...
--- End quote ---
Dumbest take ever. Go find and subscribe to someone you like then. Twitter is just a platform.
I've signed up for twitter subscriptions, will offer it once it's approved. Been three weeks now though...
--- End quote ---
If that's where you want to be... guess you gotta make money.
Please, just make sure that you don't follow the Scott Adams trajectory in other respects: Once liked for a unique take on the office landscape, or electronics as the case may be. Then becoming increasingly convinced that he needs to (and has the calibre to) fix the world. I found that embarrassing and annoying to watch.
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That's a depressingly common trajectory.
It isn't, of course, confined to far-right nuts, since far-left nuts are equally prone to it. And so are people who are intelligent in some respects but not in others, like Linus Pauling and Francis Crick.
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