The home invader defended himself against the owner with a baseball bat.
It was self-defense, the home invader claimed, “She tried to stop me from stealing her stuff!”
the victim complex is astounding
Every violent action they take is self defense somehow.
other-offense
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Images of text break much that text alternatives do not. Losses due to image of text lacking alternative such as link:
- usability
- we can’t quote the text without pointless bullshit like retyping it or OCR
- text search is unavailable
- the system can’t
- reflow text to varied screen sizes
- vary presentation (size, contrast)
- vary modality (audio, braille)
- accessibility
- lacks semantic structure (tags for titles, heading levels, sections, paragraphs, lists, emphasis, code, links, accessibility features, etc)
- some users can’t read the image due to lack of alt text (markdown image description)
- users can’t adapt the text for dyslexia or vision impairments
- systems can’t read the text to them or send it to braille devices
- web connectivity
- we have to do failure-prone bullshit to find the original source
- we can’t explore wider context of the original message
- authenticity: we don’t know the image hasn’t been tampered
- searchability: the “text” isn’t indexable by search engine in a meaningful way
- fault tolerance: no text fallback if
- image breaks
- image host is geoblocked due to insane regulations.
Contrary to age & humble appearance, text is an advanced technology that provides all these capabilities absent from images.
Media literacy: how do quotes & paraphrases work?
@JUNlPER
this is always one that gets me. so many people are unable to realize that you can present characters doing something bad without endorsing it. not sure when this kind of baby brained thing started but its so silly to see so often@ducktales2020
more than anything they conflate Presenting Something with Agreeing With Something, but don’t apply it to good guy/bad guy narratives. when everyone’s bad they short circuit- usability
Castle doctrine but it’s your castle
They didn’t call it anything though? It was a direct quote?
Also, if criminals are trying to kidnap you and you fight back, is that not self-defence?
As a non-American, what context an I missing, and what am I supposed to be outraged about based on that snippet of a quote?
Edit: of course I’m outraged by the whole invasion, but what did ABC do here other than publishing a quote?
The quoted part doesn’t start until “overwhelming force”. They added the self-defense part themselves.
Perhaps they should have also interviewed someone not from the Trump establishment about how a bunch of armed US kidnappers shooting at Venezuelan defence forces while abducting their President cannot be characterized as “self defense”.
This is indeed a quote, so ABC is just repeating what the source said. However, the source is an American Joint Chiefs Chairman, he is saying that the invading American forces were fired upon and responded in self-defence. Which is a weird take.
you got it the wrong way around, the article is saying that the kidnap special forces “defended” themselves when the guards of the president attacked the invading kidnappers. defended is a very positive word and aims to put this illegal infiltration, murder and kidnapping (war without a declaration) in a good light. as a clueless teen i used to not think about the substance and material conditions of things. if the overwhelming majority of news i see calls something “defended”, i would be swayed. a lot of adults are still clueless, only able to barely survive under the massive stress and pressure that these systems create. they do not care about this nuance out of necessity. they need to survive. this sneaky wordplay is aimed at them.
Yeah you’re right, my mistake. I did in my haste read it completely the wrong way round, thinking they they were met with overwhelming self-defence on the Venezuelan side.
This is some BS.
I also read it this way at first. I mean, that’s the only reading that makes sense after all
Also, if criminals are trying to kidnap you and you fight back, is that not self-defence?
But it was the criminal kidnappers that claimed self-defence …
Even if the quote was not just about the overwhelming part, publishing a straight quote does not get you off the hook when it’s straight up lies. You should point out the quote is false.
