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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

forensic genetic genealogy

I'm happy they got the guy, but this is why people submitting their DNA to any lab should understand that it also reveals the DNA of all your blood relatives to some extent, not just yours and yours alone.

Not everyone would be pleased to find out they inadvertently got their child arrested for whatever crime even if it is 'just'.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm a twin. I do not have exclusive license over my DNA, and also I fear I'm gonna get picked-up for some crime he committed 20 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Sounds like you have a permanent excuse for beyond reasonable doubt

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

stop promoting the idea that DNA is evidence.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

CBS News - News Source Context (Click to view Full Report)Information for CBS News:

MBFC: Left-Center - Credibility: High - Factual Reporting: High - United States of America
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Search topics on Ground.Newshttps://www.cbsnews.com/news/dorothy-silzel-1980-murder-solved-dna-kenneth-kundert-arrested/
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

CBS is left-center? The AP is left-center? ABC is left-center?

Does anyone know what number I can dial to reach MBFC's "fuck all the way off you bunch of frauds" department?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Neither CBS, AP, or ABC organizations appears to support the removal of a woman's right to choose her reproductive habits, nor do they make any claims that the 2020 election was stolen, never even seen them make claims that climate change is fake.

However, I also haven't seen them advocate for single payer healthcare, or expansion of pathways of citizenship for the undocumented, or extreme restriction of gun ownership.

So left-center seems pretty sound to me. So what part of "left-center" offends you in that bot's analysis?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Sorry, no, even in the right-wing Overton window hellhole that is the US, not giving credence to the completely, obviously baseless and brazenly fascist lie that the 2020 election was stolen isn't bias toward the "center-left".

The offense I take is that MBFC consistently conflates reporting actual, undeniably factual statements with left-wing bias, which is emblematic of the ridiculous place it chooses to plant its center (US politics is their stated location). But more importantly, even from that ridiculously skewed starting point, it's patently ridiculous to call these organizations "center-left".

MBFC is a trash organization that poisons the well for sources by calling them left-biased on the basis that they report true things. They themselves show consistent bias toward the right-wing (for example, they consider both The Guardian and Breitbart "MIXED" in their factual accuracy based on wild double standards) but then try to equate basic factual reporting as political bias.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

even from that ridiculously skewed starting point, it’s patently ridiculous to call these organizations “center-left”.

I think Stephen Colbert said it best: "Reality has a well known liberal bias"

What labels are the alternatives here?

  • center-right? Reporting containing new fossil fuel exploration and development while simultaneously including potential climate change impacts would invalidate this label.
  • far-right? The clear acceptance that other colors of skin besides white are acceptable and/or that women's agency deserves recognition would disqualify this label.
  • far-left? Regular reporting of rising costs of rent without calls abolishing landlords ability to own and rent property, repeated reports of industrial capacity status and layoff notices without of calls to encourage labor workers to seize manufacturing assets would disqualify this label.

So what label would you be happy with?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago

You can use the same terms as political scientists. Left leaning, right leaning, far left, far right, centrist, non-aligned, specific ideology, specific demographic, objective, non aligned.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago

You think banning abortion and election conspiracies are center right? Fucking hell, normalisation has done a number.

Anyways the correct thing for a news organization that is objective is either the word objective, or non-aligned.