Is something off about Donald Trump supporters?
Particularly the ones who get on Fox or CNN. It's like they're robots, they can't have an intelligible debate. When they're asked a specific question they either say something completely irrelevant or resort to straw man tactics. I feel like I'm in the twilight zone just listening and watching them.
Why use a streak plate to grow a bacterium rather than an agar medium slant or a broth medium?
You do a streak plate in order to get isolated colonies. If you inoculate into a slant, you have less surface area to work and less chance of getting isolated colonies. In broth, you'll definitely get growth but you won't know WHAT is growing. You go back into each quadrant (a little) with your loop in order to "dilute" the bacteria and get colonies. Quadrant 1 is pretty think (like a smear on the plate) but by the time you get to Quadrants 3 and 4, you should see more defined colonies and not just a film of bacteria.
KIng of the monsters?
...well, per the very first film's title, Godzilla had been deemed 'King of the Monsters"; however, as far as being the most dynamic, eye-popping, and one who has been Godzilla's most formidable foe, and toughest to beat, that would easily be King Ghidorah...
If Republicans are "honesty-challenged" in that they no longer believe in fact-checked media or in national leaders who try to tell the truth or are held accountable, is this a logical result of their rejection of science?
Americans who identify as “Republicans” have been eager to embrace a comfortable myth of of a great post-WWII America. Trump is a product of the era but with a contempt for the “science” and fact-based analysis (and statistics) that brought about the advances, not only in science and technology, but, especially, the broadening of social awareness that ushered in a real middle-class/working-class, and opportunities for upward mobility in the general population.What a disaster for the GOP cabal, if today’s Republican voters were to realize, for instance, that “clean coal” is a euphemistic oxymoron?Somewhere during the last few decades a suspicion of education and enlightened social attitudes has been encouraged by Republican leaders and their media organs. Post 9/11 paranoia has been played for all it’s worth. Thanks to Republicans, xenophobia has made a huge comeback.Republicans cherish the promise of a return to good old values [MAGA] and huddle together against a homogeneous “menace” whose shadowy identity is sometimes revealed to them in the form of “Crooked Hilary”, or “Cheatin’ Obama”, Father of Lies.We’ve had nearly three years to see trump dish out the same old garbage to his followers and they still eat it up, to this day he can still rake out his old “Hilary emails” chestnut confident he will be met with cheers.Today’s Republicans aren’t interested in “the truth” because it interferes with their blissful trip into the happy Past. In their fantasy, fact-checking, and national leaders who “tell the truth or areheld accountable”, are irrelevant. For them, Logic is has become an impediment to “truth” through belief. -They want an America safe from furriners. They want a return to “traditional family values”. They want their security blanket, the 2nd Amendment, protected. They thump The Bible as viewed in Technicolor and CinemaScope and starring Charlton Heston.
Does the media unite or divide America as a nation?
Today's media industry has decided to be a niche service industry of identity brands instead of profession of impartial journalists in the classic sense. Walter Cronkite was probably the last of his kind, sad to say. It was impossible to tell his own political viewpoints.The old consumer product marketing addage: “segment, analyze and service“ has become the standard for media.Consequently, each news media outlet becomes an ideology brand that fine tuned to appeal to a certain market segment, like radio did years ago.For example, if you want country music, you go to one station in town, if you want high brow classical you go to another, jazz another, classic rock another. There is no crossover. Each music genre is a product of the radio station’s brand. Therefore, each market segment becomes a silo, isolated from the station a few clicks away.This is unlike radio in earlier days when the same station played music of all formats at different times of the day, thereby being a broad market service provider.Today's news media is not true to its roots. It is stratified and branded, of you like Trump, you tune to certain stations. If you hate him, tune to others. There is virtually no crossover.The media finds this model less costly to produce, and more efficient because viewers tune in because they hate or like Trump, and they like the station personalities, not because of the actual quality and impartiality of the information broadcasted.In fact, partiality has become the product because it makes presentation of viewer demographics to advertisers easy and accurate. This generate huge advertising revenue.If CNN, for example, began broadcasting positive or non-negative stories about Trump, their audience would abandon them for MSNBC and vice versa.This business model is a logical end product of cheap and easy media access through cables’ unlimited channel capability.It is in the media's best interest to self-segment, and to have controversy and vitreol to roil the audience and keep them tuned in. Therefore conflict and sensationalism are the implicit attributes of all news broadcasts. Segmentation will only become worse, and tian inherently drives America apart rather than uniting it. So in essence the media serve themselves rather than their country, and see nothing wrong with this cynical model.