timbuckto, 7 months ago

@RickiTarr Yeah, I was reading this puzzled. Like, how does TIME not know that Chernobyl is in the Ukraine? Yeesh, reporting is getting sketchier and sketchier.

RickiTarr, 7 months ago

@timbuckto I assume they have fact checkers...

timbuckto, 7 months ago

@RickiTarr 🕵️ 😋

wendinoakland, 7 months ago

@RickiTarr @timbuckto Don’t expect anything.

YetAnotherGeekGuy, 7 months ago

@timbuckto @RickiTarr
Yes, TIME has fact-checkers. Now they need to find competent ones.

Sector9, 7 months ago

@RickiTarr @timbuckto
I don't think they have Time to fact check before publishing.

not2b, 7 months ago

@timbuckto @RickiTarr TIME is no longer much of a news outlet; the current owners bought the name and run pieces by various writers, but it isn't what it was.

StanWonn, 7 months ago

@RickiTarr Where did I store away that Captain Picard facepalm GIF? Because that just seems *so *applicable right now.

cswalker21, 7 months ago

@RickiTarr “It’s like the Cadillac of automobiles” —Kramer

kinyutaka, 7 months ago

@RickiTarr

How about "this generation's Chernobyl"?

Jeanpaul, 7 months ago

@RickiTarr Venice is the Venice of the Italy

RickiTarr, 7 months ago

@Jeanpaul LOL

the5thColumnist, 7 months ago

@RickiTarr
So are you saying Chernobyl is Ukraine's Chernobyl ?

RickiTarr, 7 months ago

@the5thColumnist Yes, very wise

vaughnsc, 7 months ago

@RickiTarr @the5thColumnist If they could, they’d probably ask Napoleon if he ever had a ‘Waterloo’ moment in his life.

old_baby, 7 months ago

@RickiTarr dumbing down an entire population doesn't happen all by itself

zekefeu, 7 months ago

@RickiTarr white men discover geography

4d3fect, 7 months ago

@RickiTarr That's on the level of Earth Girls Are Easy: "No, this is the Valley. Finland is the capital of Norway!"

hedders, 7 months ago

@RickiTarr I'm actually impressed. Chernobyl is probably the most (in)famous place in Ukraine, even more so than Kyiv. Like, how does one not know that?

RickiTarr, 7 months ago

@hedders Young people?

hedders, 7 months ago

@RickiTarr Perhaps, although call me a grumpy old man but I'm not sure that's a good excuse really. The Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings happened a long time before I was born, but I still know they're cities in Japan.

RickiTarr, 7 months ago

@hedders Not excusing not fact checking news articles, that's just my guess lol

hedders, 7 months ago

@RickiTarr ah! Fair.

RickiTarr, 7 months ago

@hedders Oh sorry, You're a Grumpy Old Man lol, I'm very obedient.

asha, 7 months ago

@RickiTarr @hedders

WE are the REAL young ones, aren't we?

That TIME post, ehmm, cringy.

veirling, 7 months ago

@RickiTarr Editing, who needs it?

RickiTarr, 7 months ago

@veirling Me, but I'm not the news

bluecaller, 7 months ago

@RickiTarr can't find it on Time anymore, but it looks like the article was archived here. The last quote is a person basically saying "Yeah Chernobyl happened here and now this. Both." And then the person slapped this title on it lol

Time Article

inkican, 7 months ago

@RickiTarr "Eh, it's the Americans ... what do they know ..."

RickiTarr, 7 months ago

@inkican I mean, not geography lol

inkican, 7 months ago

@RickiTarr Like, duh - who can't figure out the Law of Sines??

JJKrawczyk, 7 months ago

@RickiTarr
“Don’t know much about about history” 🎶

MaryAliciaZiff, 7 months ago

@RickiTarr
"Siri, where is Chernobyl?"
Ohhhh. Oops.

Vorsos, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

@RickiTarr Chernobyl is in HBO Max

nemorosa, 7 months ago

@RickiTarr Oooh that's embarrasing af.

Jackthelad, 7 months ago

@RickiTarr I watched the TV series, I thought it was in the North of England!

AirlockDoc, 7 months ago

@RickiTarr Walter Cronkite and Lloyd Robertson (Canadian) would NEVER have read that on the evening news.

RickiTarr, 7 months ago

Hurricane Ida could be New Orleans' Katrina!

maya_b, 7 months ago

@RickiTarr the saltwater pushing up the river towards New Orleans and threatening its water supply will be NO's Katrina++

Benjaminblackoak, 7 months ago

@RickiTarr Trump could be Germany's next Hitler!

totallyharrison, 7 months ago

@RickiTarr @clive not legit. This article and thumbnail do not appear to be from time magazine but from https://icmglt.org/how-ukraines-dam-collapse-could-become-the-countrys-chernobyl/

Still a dumb headline though

clive, 7 months ago

@totallyharrison @RickiTarr

Aha, thank you for catching that!!

totallyharrison, 7 months ago

@clive your comment is still correct though, imagine being a news outlet that doesn’t know where Chernobyl is lmao

RickiTarr, 7 months ago

@clive @totallyharrison I think it's one of those copy & paste articles

dodoandthebrawn, 7 months ago

@RickiTarr Wow.

xs4me2, 7 months ago

@RickiTarr

Dorks…

MagentaRocks, 7 months ago

@RickiTarr

Has to be an AI written headline? Otherwise, if written by a human, there is no excuse.

Edelruth, 7 months ago

@RickiTarr

Is that really Time, or an internet knock-off?

No excuse, it's not like Russia's occupation of the plant has not flashed up intermittent alarming headlines over the past few years.