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nope1000 ◴[] No.40715713[source]
"Fun" Fact: it's currently the European championships in football (soccer) in Europe (probably the biggest event of the year), so it's the perfect opportunity to sneak this through without too many people noticing.
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Hbruz0 ◴[] No.40716236[source]
How does this allow for it to be sneakily applied, as you suggest ?
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1. worldsayshi ◴[] No.40716256[source]
The public, as a group, can only keep a small number of subjects in focus at a time. This feels like a phenomenon that I take for granted to be true but I haven't heard any name for it or read any studies.

It really feels like a symptomatic phenomenon of our time.

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2. dsign ◴[] No.40716733[source]
>> The public, as a group

I don't know, my local journalists paid with public money seem to be able to follow a lot of domestic trivia. They are much less capable of following matters of national interest, like how the country's economy is doing, what laws are coming up, and how's that Orwellian State business coming along.

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3. account42 ◴[] No.40726985[source]
Quite a convenient arrangement, the public broadcasting business.