Would this qualify as 'fake news'?

[Mechanicalsalvation]

All of those guys Uranusian Infiltrators who also want to steal my Vital Essences!

The best thing would be to join the vampires and start stealing the vital essences yourself. Think about it...

 

[caketastydelish]

One thing I'm curious about: Is this net growth of jobs (meaning also factoring in jobs being lost) or only every time someone gets a job?

 

[Timsup2nothin]

One thing I'm curious about: Is this net growth of jobs (meaning also factoring in jobs being lost) or only every time someone gets a job?

It's net growth. At a guess it is based on W-4 filings. That's how I would do it anyway.

 

[Naskra]

At a guess it is based on W-4 filings.

Bad guess.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Bad guess.

If you have a better one, share.

 

[Naskra]

Read post #25 again. Ask an adult for help this time.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

So, you don't have a guess and think that your vague speculation from four pages back is memorable?

 

[Naskra]

I've told you precisely how the BLS concocts its jobs number. It's just something you'd rather not know. As always, I respect your decision and applaud your consistency.

 

[Lexicus]

I've told you precisely how the BLS concocts its jobs number.

The number is derived by extrapolating from a sample, then massively adjusting by theory. it's merely data, not fact.

Have to admit I'm dazzled by the precision here.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I've told you precisely how the BLS concocts its jobs number. It's just something you'd rather not know. As always, I respect your decision and applaud your consistency.

The monthly jobs number is always fake news - more fake than news. The number is derived by extrapolating from a sample, then massively adjusting by theory. it's merely data, not fact.

Looks like two iterations of wild speculation to me.

 

[Broken_Erika]

Wild speculation is the best kind of speculation. Domestic or Tame speculation is just so.....boring.

 

[warpus]

Should there be anything done about this? If so, what?

It's Breitbart, they're a bunch of morons. What you do is you stop reading their nonsense and you forget that they even exist.

 

[Lexicus]

Wild speculation is the best kind of speculation. Domestic or Tame speculation is just so.....boring.

Personally I'm a big fan of grass-fed, free-range speculation.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

It's Breitbart, they're a bunch of morons. What you do is you stop reading their nonsense and you forget that they even exist.

Unfortunately, despite being a bunch of morons, Breitbart is a primary source for the Reader in Chief, who considers them to be more reliable than his daily intelligence briefing. Ignoring them seems unwise.

 

[Lexicus]

Unfortunately, despite being a bunch of morons, Breitbart is a primary source for the Reader in Chief, who considers them to be more reliable than his daily intelligence briefing. Ignoring them seems unwise.

It's the main information source for some large (tens of millions) segment of the US population.

 

[Ryika]

People who are so far away from you ideologically that you'll not be able to have a real discussion with them anyway, so why care?

 

[Naskra]

Have to admit I'm dazzled by the precision here.

Thankyou. My secret is to know what I'm talking about.

 

[warpus]

Unfortunately, despite being a bunch of morons, Breitbart is a primary source for the Reader in Chief, who considers them to be more reliable than his daily intelligence briefing. Ignoring them seems unwise.

Yeah but he probably also watches his turds in the toilet every morning and determines his best course of action based on their floating parameters.

I don't understand the benefit of making sure you watch the exact same thing on TV as a moron. It's not like it's going to affect him any.

 

[Broken_Erika]

Unfortunately, despite being a bunch of morons, Breitbart is a primary source for the Reader in Chief, who considers them to be more reliable than his daily intelligence briefing. Ignoring them seems unwise.

I thought this is what his daily brief looks like...

 

[Timsup2nothin]

People who are so far away from you ideologically that you'll not be able to have a real discussion with them anyway, so why care?

I think identifying the falsehoods early is important. By the time Mitt Romney was displaying a "debt clock" at the Republican convention there was absolutely no possible way to force the fact that US debt has consistently grown faster under Republican administrations than Democratic administrations into the mix. Regular media could not counter the lie, because the lie was so deeply engrained in the rank and file Republicans at that point that it was insurmountable. How that happened is important.

My gf doesn't read Breitbart. She is mostly disinterested in politics. Yet pretty much every time I bring up some ridiculous lie that is part of the 'Republican consciousness' she already "knows it to be true." The lies Breitbart tells today are the lies Fox News will be airing next week. That means her co-workers will know these 'truths' and be discussing them at work. To counter them at that point it is useful to have known they were coming.