• NuXCOM_90Percent
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    4 months ago

    Betteridge’s law (what you are referencing without knowing the name of) is mostly just a symptom of the increasing “anti-intellectual”/“anti-journalism” push by the various totalitarian regimes of the world.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines

    In academia (which this is a lot closer to) it is wrong. And even among “pop journalism” it is really 50/50.

    But people, like you, cite it as an excuse to not actually engage with the topic at hand while feeling a sense of moral and intellectual superiority.

    • Mastengwe@lemm.ee
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      4 months ago

      lol… people like me…. So tell me- without sounding like a pompous ass, who are the “people like me” that you know so well to make such an assumption based on a few paragraphs of text?

      Edit: Yeah… I thought so.