The Crowhill Journal

Is THIS Why The Media Are Out To Get Joe Rogan?

His summary: Mainstream media is annoyed by the success of someone who won’t toe the line.

Americans write dates in this format: MM, DD, YYYY.

Brits write them this way: DD, MM, YYYY.

Sometimes you see dates in this format: YYYY, MM, DD.

From a programming / sorting perspective, the American format is the worst of the three, and I’ve seen people criticize it as being illogical. The British format goes from the smallest increment to the biggest, and the last format goes from the biggest to the smallest, but the American format goes middle, smallest, biggest.

The criticism is clearly just from that point of view, but these things don’t usually happen by accident. For some reason, MM, DD, YYYY caught on. Why?

Perhaps human brains don’t sort information the way a computer does. For example, perhaps our minds would rather know a general estimate, then a specific, then a “big picture.”

Someone might say “but don’t the Brits have brains too?” Of course they do, but I think their current date format is a new thing. If you do an image search for old British newspapers, you see the MM, DD, YYYY format.

The larger point is that accommodating computers might change the way we think in ways we don’t expect. That’s not necessarily a bad or scary thing, but it is something to keep in mind.

I don’t often post on sports, but this weekend I watched all four NFL playoff games. Every one of them was great. Three of the four were decided by a field goal in the last few seconds. The fourth was tied up by a field goal in the last few seconds and went into overtime.

After an epic back and forth battle between the Bills and the Chiefs — where each team was scoring on most of their drives, and a record 25 points were scored in the last two minutes! — the overtime rules didn’t seem fair.

Here’s how it works. The team that gets the ball first in overtime is decided by a coin toss, and if that team scores a touchdown on their first posession, that’s it. They win.

It didn’t seem right for this super-charged, offense-dominated game.

When I was a kid I’m pretty sure overtime was an additional 15 minutes of play, and whoever scored the most in those 15 minutes won. That would have seemed more reasonable.

NPR reported there was a dispute in the Supreme Court over masks — that Roberts asked Gorsuch to wear one for Sotomayor’s sake, Gorsuch refused, so Sotomayor attended oral arguments from her chambers.

Roberts, Sotomayor and Gorsuch have denied the story, but NPR refuses to correct it.

I’m not interested in whether they had a disagreement over masks, but I am interested in how people react to this. Who is more trustworthy, and why?

What’s up with those other three?

“Two-thirds of people globally said that they believe that journalists and reporters purposely try to mislead people by saying things they know are false or grossly exaggerated.” Source.

Some people say you should only read the sports page and the opinion pieces. Just about everything on the sports page is true, and the opinion pieces aren’t pretending to be anything but opinions.