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It's 2023/2024 and Roseanne Barr is now more attractive than Madonna. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

It's 2023/2024 and Steve Buscemi is now more attractive than Mickey Rourke

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I have a crush on my coworker (sh.itjust.works)
 

And he's always happy to see me, so I think we are hitting it off

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Mysterious Circumstances (www.newyorker.com)
 

Was the death of Richard Lancelyn Green, the world’s foremost Sherlock Holmes expert, an elaborate suicide or a murder?

Ask a North Korean: What did state propaganda teach you about love? | NK News in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yes I understand that, but the article was being downvoted when I wrote that, and when I first glanced at it, I thought it was propaganda as too.

NK-news also took a moment to research, because their approach seem to be a non-aggressive one (with North Korea) and the only articles that aren't completely negative about NK, are usually propaganda in some form. What you can read from the link about them is, that they are in fact mostly neutral.

So, I might not have been too clear in my comment, and I admit I only skimmed the article on my way to work, but I was actually trying to defend the article being there and giving it some background.

Ask a North Korean: What did state propaganda teach you about love? | NK News in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

As a Moderator, I was considering deleting this post as I don't encourage the spread of propaganda and especially not North Korean propaganda. North Korea is a terrible totalitarian dictatorship, that treats its own citizens as prisoners and has no respect for human life and autonomy.

The reason I haven't deleted it is because I find it interesting how North Korea frames propaganda and tries to affect people outside NK, and in doing so, so helplessly misses the mark so often. Also because the aim of NKnews seems to be to report from NK in a neutral way.

Resources:

Media check for NKnews: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/nk-news/

Interesting article from insider on modern NK propaganda: https://www.insider.com/north-korea-youtubers-propaganda-sogwang-kim-jong-un-2023-2?amp

/ILOS

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The Strange & Curious Tale of the Last True Hermit (www.gq.com)
 

For nearly thirty years, a phantom haunted the woods of Central Maine. Unseen and unknown, he lived in secret, creeping into homes in the dead of night and surviving on what he could steal. To the spooked locals, he became a legend—or maybe a myth. They wondered how he could possibly be real. Until one day last year, the hermit came out of the forest.

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Social media is doomed to die (www.theverge.com)
 

After seven years at Snapchat, I finally learned the truth about why our most important apps seem destined to disappoint us

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I Was A Cable Guy. I Saw The Worst Of America. (www.huffingtonpost.com)
 

A glimpse of the suburban grotesque, featuring Russian mobsters, Fox News rage addicts, a caged man in a sex dungeon, and Dick Cheney

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Help keep LongReads alive! (sh.itjust.works)
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Hi folks,

In a world where quick content and fast information is king, a community like LongReads is a place that lets you learn about and discover new sides of life and society in a more indepth way.

But we need content and activity to survive!

I believe that this could be a really nice corner of Lemmy. That's why I need your help!

Have you read any interesting articles or stories lately? Ones that you think others would like to know about? Then post it to LongReads, join the discussion and let's keep the community alive!

Thanks to everyone that has already posted!

All the best ILOS

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Body on the Moor (www.bbc.co.uk)
 

Why did this man travel 200 miles to die here?

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Do we need a new theory of evolution? (www.theguardian.com)
 

A new wave of scientists argues that mainstream evolutionary theory needs an urgent overhaul. Their opponents have dismissed them as misguided careerists – and the conflict may determine the future of biology

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My family's slave (www.theatlantic.com)
 

"She lived with us for 56 years. She raised me and my siblings without pay. I was 11, a typical American kid, before I realized who she was"

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The Watcher (www.thecut.com)
 

The true story behind the Netflix tv show: A family bought their dream house. But according to the creepy letters they started to get, they weren’t the only ones interested in it.

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The Body in Room 348 (www.vanityfair.com)
 

The corpse at the Eleganté Hotel stymied the Beaumont, Texas, police. They could find no motive for the killing of popular oil-and-gas man Greg Fleniken—and no explanation for how he had received his strange internal injuries.

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10 days in a madhouse (1877) (digital.library.upenn.edu)
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Investigative reporter Nellie Bly, reports from inside the walls of a madhouse in New York City in the 1800s

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