Sorry guys but I (1) very much DO want solid information about a range of interests and (2) have a STEM field background that places great emphasis on solid evidence.
We don't have to dig into quantum mechanics: Instead there are some common high school standards for term papers that call for claims supported with data with references from credible, hopefully original, sources.
Instead I see various attempts at getting reader attention via emotional appeals.
Uh, "Breaking news, this just in, experts shocked": Now we have the Internet where before we had news writers with typewriters, typesetters, big rolls of paper, printing plants, distribution trucks, paperboys, etc., twice a day, morning and evening. With the Internet there are lots of sources, cheap means of distribution, ....
E.g., recently saw some news, scary drama, about suddenly too high prices for corn. Okay, HOW high are they? How do they compare historically? Can we have some good graphs of credible NUMERICAL data????
Well a little use of Google gave
https://www.nass.usda.gov/Charts_and_Maps /Agricultural_Prices/pricecn.php
Point: Commonly the old media pushes drama and is stuck in the past, and now the Internet offers ways to set aside the old media and get solid information. "Media, fun knowing you."
My righteousness somewhat dulled by this conundrum, I usually slump in my chair and wonder again how to protect the elderly and simple in a global connected world.
Maybe solving a coordination problem here between banks? A SAR-like mechanism but a “friendly” one for fraud victims that require all banks to coordinate on and slow this customer down from playing into the scam? Some kind of 3rd party prepared to reach out not unlike a fraud report and gently try to get the victim to see the scam that’s wound around them?
Of course that’s now just one more way we’re owned, needing permission to debank or move? Ugh. I worry because every elderly family member I have, I think, has talked to me about suspicious calls and scams, some progressing quite far before a friendly observer intervened.
pinewurst•6mo ago