If information is valuable, you usually have to pay for it. Consumer reports, The Economist, Bloomberg terminal, many newsletters. That's not the same as saying that if you pay for it, you get valuable information.
There is still lots of free and reliable sources of data. Like national statistics, Pew research, apnews.com, even Wikipedia most days, ...
You get trapped to shit because you want to be entertained and feel emotions, not to be informed. That's most of us at some time, but if that's all you consume, you get trapped.
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The first comment to my argument is usually nihilism. Let's point out that one of the sources I mentioned, failed or skewered up badly, everything people do has bias, and thus nothing matters and everything is trash. -- typically from someone who posts links really shitty sources.
There is still lots of free and reliable sources of data. Like national statistics, Pew research, apnews.com, even Wikipedia most days, ...
You get trapped to shit because you want to be entertained and feel emotions, not to be informed. That's most of us at some time, but if that's all you consume, you get trapped.
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The first comment to my argument is usually nihilism. Let's point out that one of the sources I mentioned, failed or skewered up badly, everything people do has bias, and thus nothing matters and everything is trash. -- typically from someone who posts links really shitty sources.