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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: THE WATSONYOUTH who wrote (1054449)	2/15/2018 3:12:50 PM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576822

You don't have to take me seriously. Not many people do. I confess I have not see Bret Baier, though I might check him out one day. Mostly what I do is scour the web for a lot of different news sites, some of them of foreign origin. I get a lot from National Geographic, Scientific American, Discover, Wired, MIT Tech Review, Der Spiegel, BBC, El Pais, as well as from Reuters, Bloomberg, USA Today, Financial Times, RealClearNews, The Fed's website, and Yahoo News. A lot of times I search for news topics on Google. There's a lot of miscellaneous news I get from many different web sources as well. Anyway, I'm just not a big watcher of TV. Used to be, but I have too much to do in retirement to watch much TV. When I did, I watched both Fox and CNN, but that was years ago, because they both became so polarized. Nowadays, I might turn them on for kicks, but I end up upset at being fed propaganda instead of unadulterated facts, so I turn them off again. As to my pattern recognition, everyone does it, but I've learned that the more you ingest the more obvious the patterns become. It's just like machine learning and AI. The more data you feed it over time, the better it gets at detecting patterns and their margins of error get smaller. The human brain is one of the best pattern recognition machines ever devised. God still has us beaten when it comes to having created the best organic machine. Here's the trick to using your brain the best way...you have to overcome any conscious or unconscious bias you may have by being a bit random in your quest for news and ingesting a ton of it in that random way. When you do that, you increase the probability that the patterns you see are really the truth. Hard to undo the filters you've created from a lifetime of experiences, but you can overcome it mostly. At least you can try. That's what I do. I refuse to be someone's tool, either from the right or from the left. I'll make up my own mind as long as I am able.