Comment by defrost
2 years ago
The original URL for this was woeful, while it did link to your link above and via that to Geophysical Research Letters it still makes more sense to directly link to the actual primary source, either the ELI5 AGU press release or the actual paper in GRL.
HN has a technical audience that appreciates primary sources.
For what it is worth, starting out with "for fuck's sake" makes me think you are an asshole. It starts a combative relationship. Your comments work well without that. Better, I'd say.
I provided the original apparently shitty link (as measured by upvotes to your comment) to accomplish a secondary goal of introducing those who may enjoy it to the super minimal aggregator. I thought I was helping expose more fun stuff in the single submission.
You are absolutely right that the primary source is a much better link to provide. I'll do better in the future.
> For what it is worth, starting out with "for fuck's sake" makes me think you are an asshole.
Alternatively I'm an Australian talking conversationally as Australians do, and one with a geosciences background, some > 1 million SLOC of geophysical codebase and 40 years on forums going back to pre WWW Usenet.
I have no control over what you think, but I'm happy to share thoughts given you've opened the door.
What you saw as a super minimal aggregator that exposed fun stuff, I saw as a little known URL domain of unknown provinance making bald statements indistinguishable from others of that ilk "Earth tilts | Pole Shifts | Sea level rises | Lab leaks | Fake News".
The guts of the story is in the details, the context, the methodology, etc.
If I wanted snappy clickbait titles with minimal content I'd stick with Fox News .. but I'm from the country of origin of Murdoch and he left due to widescale community pushback on his plans to dominate media and dumb down information (although he retains a toehold here with Sky News and a few newspapers).
You seem like a communicative well intentioned contributor, I bear you no ill will and look forward to your future submissions, ideally ones with substance.
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Would you believe some low energy toe rag of a rock spider spun up an alt to chip in on this?
Dunno who's behind Tribesman3875 but they're clearly not the sharpest crayon in the sun.
Oh, well, check out their response in any case, it might give you a chuckle if you've not seen it already.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQO1qZD5lek