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Yeah i don't get the unnecessary vagueness. They are the smallest atoms. It's like they are afraid of accidentally educating the reader.
by yummypaint 2y ago
Yeah i don't get the unnecessary vagueness. They are the smallest atoms. It's like they are afraid of accidentally educating the reader.
- kragen 2y agothis terror of accidentally including a fact is one of the worst of many plagues afflicting journalism today
- fckgw 2y agoIt's a company blog, not a newspaper
- kragen 2y agothat makes it even worse, doesn't it?
- neuralRiot 2y agoBy treating people like idiots they turn them into idiots. It’s like “The lenght of 5 football fields” or “The weight of 10 elephants” are they writing for 3rd graders?
- kragen 2y agotechnically football fields do have a well-defined length at least. often this sort of thing is lampooned as 'americans will do anything to avoid using the metric system' but i've seen it in overseas journalism as well. i don't see anything of this in the article in question, though, except for 'atom-sized holes', which seems entirely appropriate