In an ideal world news agencies would be forced to very obviously print across the screen in big flashing letters and numbers the actual statistics of any-given developing situation, and the media agencies would be beholden to the full extent of the Law if they opted to try and worm and weasel their way into a perspective that solely benefited a one-sided view of the situation. The loss of nuance in political reporting (in large part due to politics becoming an american political circus globally) has been a disaster for mankind.
Purely-objective reporting, even in Science, is technically an impossibility but that equally doesnât mean that people should be allowed to offer up their purely subjective, âthatâs my opinion, manâ takes instead. To strive for objectivity should be the goal of every journalist, as it is the aspiration of every scientist.
We need some form of check-and-balance for the rampant disinformation of the modern, digital era, but unfortunately every Parliament is woefully behind and will continue to be until they understand the full and devastating effect the disinformation is having upon large %'s of the population. The best defence against misinformation is a highly-educated population, one that is taught from an early age to seek out the source of information and judge its merits, but no government will ever be willing to tell its population âwe really need you guys to get more educatedâ.
I am looking to upgrade heirloom weapons to fill in the gaps the stupid prepatch left but want to go about it with the least amount as possible (but to cover basically everything).
Ah, but what if itâs not news, itâs entertainment?
I canât speak for the UK specifically because I stopped paying attention post-lettuce but at least over here a lot of gov. agencies and the EUâs agencies tend to publish a lot of data and analysis with clear explanation of how they come to certain conclusions or thoughts and how they gathered data. For terrorism Europolâs Terrorism Situation and Trend Report 2023 is an excellent open source, for example (and surprisingly readable!) that addresses the available data and statistics as well as trends and things not caught by the numbers, for example.
If I wanted to know about sound issues from a specific railway in my country, I could get that dataset straight off of the website without having to even request it.
Thereâs so much information available, but nobody really seems to care to use it much, aside from students in need of data on the topic of their specific assignment that gets graded and then binned, unfortunately
My greatest concern with AI, frankly. Social mediaâs already made this get really bad (source: a tweet/tiktok/instagram post I saw) but the amount of AI-generated trash that gets thrown around and that is starting to stink up any and all online searches is going to make it so much worse
The problem here is largely due to media reporting becoming increasingly reliant on engagement metrics, benefiting from bombastic headlines and having no financial incentive to hire and maintain experts on a subject to provide the vital context so often omitted.
As information is just another commodity to sell us, it being factual is not even a tetriary consideration.
Okay, for anybody else interested in bare minimum heirloom weapons to upgrade to cover every spec, hereâs the short list;
2h strength
Agi Fist
Int Staff
Agi Staff
Bow
1h int mace+shield
1h strength sword+shield
Agi dagger
Make sure its the agi fist weapon because apparently DHs canât use maces and I think I learn this every time i accidentally upgrade the agi mace and then realise I canât equip it.
