For some god-awfully dumb sycophantic reason both Danish and Dutch news today report on the "extremely high gas prizes in the USA".
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For some god-awfully dumb sycophantic reason both Danish and Dutch news today report on the "extremely high gas prizes in the USA".
Just for context. Petrol in the USA is currently just a bit over one euro per liter.
Our glaciers are melting.
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For some god-awfully dumb sycophantic reason both Danish and Dutch news today report on the "extremely high gas prizes in the USA".
Just for context. Petrol in the USA is currently just a bit over one euro per liter.
Our glaciers are melting.
I contacted both outlets btw. Just got a reply from the Dutch one. This might infuriate you:
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here it comes.
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here:
"Our journalist did not realise a gallon is not equivalent to a liter. Instead of editing the article we have fully removed it and will work the relevant content in another article."
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For some god-awfully dumb sycophantic reason both Danish and Dutch news today report on the "extremely high gas prizes in the USA".
Just for context. Petrol in the USA is currently just a bit over one euro per liter.
Our glaciers are melting.
@Pepijn
Well, their cars run about three times less efficient, so per kilometer they pay about as much as we; so fair. /S -
@Pepijn
Well, their cars run about three times less efficient, so per kilometer they pay about as much as we; so fair. /S@Pepijn
Addendum, our social media officer didn't realize a mile is not the same as a kilometer, so their calculations may have been off. /S -
I contacted both outlets btw. Just got a reply from the Dutch one. This might infuriate you:
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here it comes.
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here:
"Our journalist did not realise a gallon is not equivalent to a liter. Instead of editing the article we have fully removed it and will work the relevant content in another article."
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For some god-awfully dumb sycophantic reason both Danish and Dutch news today report on the "extremely high gas prizes in the USA".
Just for context. Petrol in the USA is currently just a bit over one euro per liter.
Our glaciers are melting.
@Pepijn The news media are owned by the #kleptocrat class, the kleptocrats profit from our glaciers melting.
Absolutely nothing surprising here.
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I contacted both outlets btw. Just got a reply from the Dutch one. This might infuriate you:
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here it comes.
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here:
"Our journalist did not realise a gallon is not equivalent to a liter. Instead of editing the article we have fully removed it and will work the relevant content in another article."
@juliette points out this suggest they don't actually have editors doing even basic fact checking. Nor have a "vague awareness of the world".
Context:
-the Proclaimers promised to walk over 805 kilometers and then the same distance again. Did they ever do so? Da-da dum diddy dum diddy dum diddy da da da
-downing a gallon of milk will make you puke, downing a liter of milk might make you puke. Stomach size thingy.
Journalism 101 really.
Also our glaciers are melting.
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I contacted both outlets btw. Just got a reply from the Dutch one. This might infuriate you:
...
...
here it comes.
...
here:
"Our journalist did not realise a gallon is not equivalent to a liter. Instead of editing the article we have fully removed it and will work the relevant content in another article."
@Pepijn um, what?!
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