ThunderCougarFalconBird said:
I don't think people quite realize where the middle of the intelligence bell curve actually is. This site is a bubble in the sense that almost everyone here has - at a minimum - a bachelors degree from a well respected university.
But the conspiracy theories on this one are at Charlie Kelly connecting pictures with yarn level when basic logic suggests that delayed power system maintenance and human error = no power and down goes bridge.
My wife is starting to understand why I "get my news" from Texags instead of her preferred mainstream sources. The evening news might have 30-45 seconds on a story. Twitter is a raging mess of Lara Logan conspiracy garbage.
Here I've had the benefit of insurance expert re: Lloyd's and reinsurance, ship's captains/crew, etc. It's an in-depth analysis of a complex story in relatively real time.
Of course, the optics of me telling people I get much of my news from Texags is...."huh, that's not CNN or Fox"