Oh for sure. Carpentry, plumbing, electricians etc are always in high demand and more so now. Blacksmithing is still done, but more as a hobby. The forges and tools can not handle the steelwork our society demands.
It's almost like Trump doesn't know what he's doing.
With regards to Trump - because there usually is so much going on in a day that if something happens, it's something else an hour later.
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If you missed a day's news, would you really lack necessary information?
In the age of Trump, how can I know?
Suppose you personally missed a day of Trump's tweets. What effect would that have on your ability to judge if Trump is dangerous to our democracy?
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None with regards to how dangerous he is. But I might miss an immigration policy change that affects me.
I think it depends. Generally, I believe that too many don't care about the news anymore anyway (look at how few had so much as an idea of what was in the Mueller report) but would those who read Twitter take the time to read a newspaper? Twitter is short and free (without a monthly article limit) and it seems designed to cater to our current society - little time, headlines only. (Of course, how valuable the informationis that one gets via Twitter depends on how it is used but I guess, that also applies to print news).
I started thinking about this... when you follow something hour by hour, you often consume inaccurate information -- facts that later are overturned with more research -- so I'm not sure it's true that this is a way to be well-informed. I think it's just something we do when a particular subject touches us in some way and we can't look away.
You say the masterpiece bakery was discriminating against gay people. That is false! People who oppose same sex marriage shouldn’t be forced to spend hours and hours planning a cake, baking a cake and serving a cake at a same sex wedding! It’s actually crazy.The Department of Labor just proposed a rule that aims to let government contractors fire workers who are LGBTQ, or who are pregnant and unmarried, based on the employers’ religious views.
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“BREAKING: The Department of Labor just proposed a rule that aims to let government contractors fire workers who are LGBTQ, or who are pregnant and unmarried, based on the employers’ religious views. This is taxpayer-funded discrimination in the name of religion. Period.”
I want to see all those posters who defended the Masterpiece Bakery when they wanted to discriminate against LGBTQ persons based on religious liberty to defend this as well.
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I had to give Twitter up because one has only so much time, but when I did use it, I found it a very useful place for work-related information. Most if not all of the professional organizations I am associated with or follow would tweet out article links. Everything was all in one place.
Not only that, but if you are reading one article right after another for hours on end, it usually means that you are consuming information rather than digesting it. The mind can handle only so much data at a time. There comes a point where you are just reading in a really nondiscriminating way, which means that your critical reading skills are essentially nonexistent. Even the best readers cannot sift through information all the time.
This is what drives me absolutely crazy about the mainstream media's use of Twitter as some sort of everyman resource--it's a small, self-selected population. Why not just run to the nearest Stabucks and ask some random person in line what he thinks?
Can we please not argue this again in this thread? Resurrect the Masterpiece Bakery thread--but only if you have something new to add that wasn't said there before.
I was just reading this article on a Pew study of Twitter: "It also notes that the activity on Twitter is dominated by a small percentage — most users rarely tweet, while the most prolific 10 percent are responsible for 80 percent of tweets from U.S. adults."
Which brings up my rhetorical question: Why is anybody surprised government doesn't work when we elect people to government who say government doesn't work?
It’s crazy how that mask makes willfully ignorant people not see what is in front of them even as it is clear as day.
Twitter isn't just for politics. There are plenty of people on Twitter who don't know squat about politics. They are on there to follow certain people or certain communities, such as figure skating.
Oh yeah, I should know that from FSU.
It's infuriating. Even if the Trump administration had never done any of the other heinous & horrible things that they have, they deserve to be voted out of office based on the climate change issue alone, IMO. They are doing everything in their power to stop progress on mitigating climate change, when we should be doing the exact opposite!!
Isn't that uncomfortable to sleep on?I don’t even give a shit what people think of my simple-minded penchant for socking away money in my mattress.
Counting nickels and dimes is better than counting sheep.Isn't that uncomfortable to sleep on?
