Sinopec built the world’s first commercial scale solar power to hydrogen plant last month. I thought we were decades away from this with a bunch of oil companies exploiting policies with “blue” hydrogen, but the legit green hydrogen economy is going to be a thing in my lifetime and that’s amazing.

A new era of the carbon steel skillet dawns.

Interesting, didn’t know about the Shay Rebellion.

The USA is not a true democracy in the academic sense of the word.

Good on you sounds like you know where you’re biased which is probably the best we can all hope for ourselves.

Lol you’re insufferable.

What you’re looking for doesn’t exist and will probably never exist in our lifetimes. If you want some (USA) sites that aggregate news and provide an interpretation on it; nakedCapitalism, ZeroHedge (you won’t like), The Register, Breaking Points, MintPress News, RealClearPolitics.

Sorry you feel/think that way.

So you want currated news, why are you here?

Oh wow hope you learned something!

Apologies if I said something to invite your passive aggressive response. You do seem quite passively calling out a few accounts but won’t mention them, I’m curious as to your politics now. Do you think it works like your neighborhood association where if you don’t say the word that people will get it and it will protect you from revealing your bias?

Yeah I’d do something like this as well after I spent the first few years fulfilling my hedonistic desires (travel, music festivals, language tutors, personal trainers and the fanciest IV supplements etc. etc.) I’d also bankroll a cooperative owned software platform that could compete with a major tech firm. So maybe like create a co-op owned Lemmy instance (or like social.coop) and promote the idea of online public good spaces.

As others have said, you have to think critically about every piece of news you read. Ask yourself what the opposite side on a story might think, or look for an alternative opinion. If you’re reading an article in The Economist, read an article in Le Monde Diplomatique on the same subject. If you’re reading something about Russia in the Washington Post, read an article in RT on the same topic. Think critically, and the truth is likely somewhere between the two opposing points.

International mass media is a form of soft power for countries to exert influence. It’s not a conspiracy it’s a tool available to governments which is why you have the BBC, CGTN, RT, PressTV, CBC, etc. That the mass media in the USA is mostly private doesn’t change that fact and make it more independent, because the USA is essentially an ogliopoly.

You listed a bunch of neoliberal ideology reinforcing news sources and then said you lean left. If those are your news sources you’re on the right my friend.

Reuters is known as the “reluctant imperialist” news source. They use neutral language as much as possible but still back British interests. Owned by a Canadian multinational.

Curious, why did you group agnostics together with atheists?

Wallstreetbets

Sorry I don’t want to turn this into a debate but I feel like you’re being disingenious; black people are getting killed all around your country because of their skin colour, and you have private prisons that systematically exploit prison labour. How are the social, political, and cultural challenges for your country different than theirs? I live in a country the USA has deemed an autocracy, I’m not apart of the ruling class, but I am living safe and not being targeted with hateful violence. Likewise, are you ignorant to the plight of ethnic minorities in your country and the hateful violence they experience? It just seems so chauvanist of you to say that your country is superior than anothers because you have the privilege of being “safe”.

Mastodon is a couple years older than Lemmy, it was already a fairly mature product. People are thinking Lemmy is badly coded but we’re all using a beta product with no user limits.

Have you found that their political leanings have affected you in any way? Just curious if you have some sort of bias that’s making you think people on the left can’t produce efficient software.