Comment by defrost
2 years ago
> 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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