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howdy, in Where do you go on Lemmy for reliable news and politics?
@howdy@thesimplecorner.org avatar

This is what I got: Some are more active than others.

  • World News@beehaw.org
  • News@lemmy.world
  • United States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml
  • World News & Analysis@lemmy.world
  • World News@lemmy.ml
_cerpin_taxt_,

You are quite literally the only person that actually answered OPs question. Thanks for these!

Ohthereyouare,

Thanks for the list

Some of those are exactly the places I’m talking about. Politics@lemmy.ml is filled with accounts from troll farms. The #4 post there right now is by the worst of the group.

And, if it wasn’t bad enough that post fake and misleading stuff, they brigade the votes and manipulate the posts that way as well. It’s a disaster.

SlicingBot,

So far for me, the only place in the fediverse with news and politics communities that are okay but not great are the ones on beehaw.org.

Everywhere else I’ve checked so far has a very naked agenda. Beehaw still leans left, but not in a way that feels icky.

randombullet, in Breakfast suggestions?

Oat milk imo is the closest tasting to milk.

However, I’d use this opportunity to buy some frozen fruits and some protein powder to make smoothies.

Takes me 2 minutes to make the smoothies.

TheyHaveNoName, in Breakfast suggestions?

Try oat milk - I love serial with that stuff. Simple toast with peanut butter it’s amazing. Granola with soya yogurt is fantastic. But the king of them all is real porridge oats done the proper way with water. Add some maple syrup or honey and you are god to go

yarn, in Where do you go on Lemmy for reliable news and politics?
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I don’t get my news from any social media platform, including lemmy, no offense to lemmy. I used to do that with reddit, but it’s just too unhinged getting your news that way.

I stick with Associated Press, Reuters, and The New York Times, in that order. I also use Google News specifically for local news, but I don’t even peek at the main world news feed there.

More generally speaking, I stick to the old school human editorial board for my news. News that’s presented to me on AP, for example, has already been filtered by a board of humans who are smarter than me and whose opinions I trust on the state of the world. Opening up your selection of news to an easily gameable social media algorithm is just more trouble than it’s worth, in my opinion.

spaduf, (edited )
@spaduf@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Even the NYT has been pretty shady recently. Particularly in regards to their trans coverage. Here’s the story from GLAAD and on NPR.

yarn,
@yarn@sopuli.xyz avatar

Sorry, I have to admit that I’m not the best at keeping up with LGBTQ+ news, so I wasn’t aware of that controversy. I’ll keep an eye on that and see how it shakes out. If NYT continues to stir controversy, then I can switch. I’m not particularly attached to them. Washington Post would be a good replacement, and I saw that GLAAD article mention that WP’s LGBTQ+ coverage is better.

HurlingDurling, in What's the worst thing you've ever smelled?

The smell of human bodies in a formaldehyde soup at a 3rd world country medical universities anatomy lab.

Grey, in Where do you go on Lemmy for reliable news and politics?

As much as I hate YouTube advertisers, I like ground news a lot as an aggregator site.

ThaijsClan, in Breakfast suggestions?

You can find lactose free alternative milk. One brand is called Lactaid and it tastes exactly the same an normal milk.

PaulBGD,

For the record it is real milk with all the lactose, but with added lactase to process it in your stomach. It still has some of the downsides of having dairy while taking lactase, but it’s pretty solid.

One other option is also the next-gen silk or NotCo’s NotMilk, both a lot more milk like than oat or other nut based milks.

infamousbelgian, in Are you replacing Reddit with Lenny?

Ditched Reddit, never looked back. It’s waaaaay better here. Even running my own instance because why not? :)

monobot, in Where do you go on Lemmy for reliable news and politics?

For international politics I watch and read news sources from India, they are somewhat biased against Pakistan (thou, I believe, even there are truthful) and for everything else looks quite neutral.

I don’t think there is any reliable source for US politics, too much interests are in play and even if someone is truthful and reliable I don’t know how to assess that. But I do take a look at Democracy Now since they don’t sound sensationalistic.

small44, in Where do you go on Lemmy for reliable news and politics?

I don’t

ejsexton82,

I learned on Reddit not to trust any world news or political news posts. I was tricked a couple of times by fake posts. I still browse the posts, but I take everything I read with a grain of salt.

I use news apps for my news.

Wahots, in I'm being harassed by mosquitoes, how do i kill them all?
@Wahots@pawb.social avatar

Permethrin treated clothes will kill just about anything that bites you through your clothes, including horse flies. Then you could wear a very thin layer of clothes and be fine. Their death happens before they even get through the fibers.

You can buy pretreated or get the solution to make your own. I think its using the same chemical that chrysanthemums produce to fight bug eating them.

diggit,

I would be cautious about that if you have a cat, and/or children. It’s toxic to cats and some people are hypersensitive to it.

utopianfiat, in Where do you go on Lemmy for reliable news and politics?

Half or more of the accounts have a very clear agenda.

Everyone has an agenda; if this makes you uncomfortable, strengthen your critical thinking skills.

The desire for a neutral source is a desire to stop thinking critically about the information you consume.

RedCanasta,

Well said and yea if you find a “unbiased source” for news, you’ve only fallen for their bias.

Be critical even of what interests you, and read things you don’t like as well.

NightOwl, in Where do you go on Lemmy for reliable news and politics?

RSS to get a typical feed that people have become accustomed to. Set up RSS from sources you want to see then see. You get to see more instead of what individuals cherry picked for whatever reason.

pensivepangolin,

This is the best way, for sure. And there are a lot of really great selfhosted projects for doing so!

puppy, in Where do you go on Lemmy for reliable news and politics?

Good luck finding reliable news anywhere, this including the major TV and News organizations.

pedantichedgehog, in How often do you brush your teeth?
@pedantichedgehog@sh.itjust.works avatar

I floss and brush religiously every night, have for many years. I had a cavity when I was young and the whole experience was terrible.

I still ended up with multiple cavities as an adult.

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