Readit Newsperditus commented on I Am Deleting the Blog slatestarcodex.com/2020/0... · Posted by u/perditus
This was in a piece specifically about the blog that was going to be positive, which makes this all the more inexplicable.
perditus commented on Joe Rogan got ripped off supercast.com/blog/joe-ro... · Posted by u/armonarani
He typically has no idea what they're talking about and thus lobs softball after softball at them, even when he pretends to disagree for devil's advocate sake. Most of his bigger named guests have carved out echo chambers for themselves, and Rogan lends them credibility.
I think that approach is valuable and "softballs" are only bad if you're assuming Rogan is a journalist, which he isn't. He's a comedian, an entertainer, and a conversationalist (and, of course, a martial artist). People tune in to hear him have interesting conversations with interesting (and often wacko) people.
That's his appeal--few people would be interested in hearing him grill his guests. We have CNN for that. Saying he "lobs softball after softball at them" is true but not really a bad thing given that he doesn't claim to do otherwise.
perditus commented on Joe Rogan got ripped off supercast.com/blog/joe-ro... · Posted by u/armonarani
Unrelated but I really struggle with this kind of double and triple negative wording.
It WOULD seem UNLIKELY that he WOULD NOT have the proper advice to make a deal like this AND NOT be ripped off.
“He probably has good advisors that made sure he wasn’t being ripped off.”
It honestly took me 5 minutes to figure out what you were saying. I feel like I uniquely struggle with this, like I have some kind of undiscovered form of dyslexia. Maybe it’s just late.
It's bad writing but I think it's unusual to have that much trouble parsing it.
perditus commented on 8ch court documents revealing that fedposting is a thing twitter.com/viperwave/sta... · Posted by u/DyslexicAtheist
A good comment on r/SlateStarCodex: https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/c1nnsn/fbi_...
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