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Hell is whatever produced a website that looks like this: https://i.imgur.com/oHkCeWK.png https://i.imgur.com/oHkCeWK.png In between the purple top-banner with
by jmillikin 4y ago
Hell is whatever produced a website that looks like this: https://i.imgur.com/oHkCeWK.png https://i.imgur.com/oHkCeWK.png
In between the purple top-banner with links to nonsense ("apocalypse soon"??), a huge bottom banner begging me to pay them, a line of social media buttons for the people who forget what a bookmark is, and margins that are probably 50% of horizontal width by themselves, this site manages to display 6 -- SIX!! -- lines of content.
I don't read the news for the purpose of having some failed novelist inflict their idea of "discursive English" on me.
I don't want to wade through paragraph after paragraph with the information content of a dial tone.
I have never, not once, wanted to "slip into [reading the news] like a warm bath". That's what books are for.
I don't regularly read Axios and don't even recognize the name, but I went to axios.com to see what the author's complaining about and honestly I like what I see. Two examples of front-page articles:
https://www.axios.com/2022/09/27/ian-major-hurricane-cuba-florida https://www.axios.com/2022/09/27/ian-major-hurricane-cuba-fl...
https://www.axios.com/2022/09/26/nasa-dart-dimorphos-asteroid-planet-defense-test https://www.axios.com/2022/09/26/nasa-dart-dimorphos-asteroi...
We need more news sites like Axios, and fewer (preferably none) like the OP link.
(edit: I scrolled down a bit further and received a full-page popup for my trouble: https://i.imgur.com/uKZTYZ0.png https://i.imgur.com/uKZTYZ0.png)
- stuaxo 4y agoIf never heard of either, the brevity is pretty refreshing just facts. Perhaps if I spent less time reading long form articles about not very much I would have head space left to read books again.