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Which PBS are you watching because the PBS I've watched were just as biased and agenda pushing as for-profit privately funded news companies. To be fair, I haven't watched PBS in close to a decade and the nyc metro area PBS might be an outlier, but I find it hard to believe things have gotten better since the start of the decade. The same goes for NPR - I used to be a tote carrying member.

You would have been attacked and called a conspiracy theorist, putin troll, chinese bot, among other things by journalists, think tank workers and depending on the time - by republican supporters and democrat supporters.

You are mistaken if you think humans have changed or "evolved" that much in that short period of time.

> Even in war very few people would be this brutal now, we have moved beyond what we were and I hope we can do it again.

Then you don't know war. Even the most "civilized" nation was mutilating their enemies.

ww2.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LIFE_May_1944_Jap_Skull.j...

vietnam war.

http://www.george.loper.org/trends/2002/Mar/65.html

You could even argue humans have gotten more superstitious and brutal. Would humans of the past dropped nukes on hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women and children of their enemies rather than sparing most while killing a few? Or maybe "man is the cruelest animal".

I'm reminded of the lyrics: You can check out anytime you like but you can never leave.

I suspect even if facebook, google, apple, etc let users "opt out" explicitly, they use other methods to implicitly track users. If all else fails, they can buy data to "fill in the blanks" later on.

"Every day you're breathing is a good day." isn't something that happy people or grateful people say. If you are happy or grateful, you wouldn't even think to say it. Being happy is a state of being that doesn't require rationalization or justification. Happy children or even happy dogs are in the state of happiness and don't require lies like "Every day you're breathing is a good day.".

It's been my experience that people who are unhappy or discontent try to "persevere" with trite mantra like "Every day you're breathing is a good day.".

My father used to say that a lot like your grandfather. And I suspect, like my father, your grandfather was dissatisfied and unhappy. He, like my father who fought in vietnam, probably also suffered through PTSD for his entire life from the horrible things he saw and did in war.

Honestly, if the only thing you can be grateful for is "breathing", then you might as well be a plant.

During the happiest times in my life, I've never even thought to say "Every day you're breathing is a good day.". It was only during the unhappy times in my life, that you have to resort to such quotes and mantra.