Put here because of the only comment posted in the 29 minutes it’s been up on Facebook.
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What if the United Healthcare CEO assassin’s last name turns out to be Winter? 
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Huh, I posted that quote in this thread a while ago, but it wasn’t attributed to Neil deGrasse Tyson. I’m wondering if he actually said it.
No author cited. 
Kristen Welker is terrible.
She interviewed Trump for this week’s Meet the Press. At one point Trump claimed that Congress wanted to fix the border, but the Biden administration wanted to keep it a mess. She said absolutely nothing.
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Polarization is the Merriam-Webster word of the year.
Polarization means division, but it’s a very specific kind of division,” said Peter Sokolowski, Merriam-Webster’s editor at large, in an exclusive interview with The Associated Press ahead of Monday’s announcement. “Polarization means that we are tending toward the extremes rather than toward the center.”
Was she being terrible…or did MTP want to have access to interviewees in the Trump 2.0 administration?
Appropriate, but I still prefer the Aussie word of the year.
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Perhaps both, although being terrible seems like a regular theme with her at MTP. Her version of holding any of her guests accountable is to give up and say something like “I will point out to the viewers ___ happened and now we will move on.”
It has become unwatchable.
Isn’t that the normal meaning of polarization?
Yes, it’s just a qoute from the article.
Interesting word if only some of these platforms can get to stage four soon.
He adds a fourth stage to the tech platforms’ scatological journey from being good to users, to abusing them in favour of their customers, to abusing their customers to serve themselves.
“Then they die,” he wrote.
I’m just puzzled by the use of “a very special kind of division”. Reading it a few more times, I think I see what the guy was trying to do.
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Mansplain?
He was trying to explain that polarization doesn’t just mean division where you’re dividing something in the middle. It’s dividing in the middle and most of the people are positioned far away from the middle rather than being close to the middle.