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You only phrase your headline as a question if the answer is No, but you really want it to be Yes.
by DangerousPie 13y ago
You only phrase your headline as a question if the answer is No, but you really want it to be Yes.
- mikeash 13y agoIt fits. The answer is almost certainly No (an honest mistake is far more likely, and nefarious activity wouldn't look like this anyway), and you can tell from the way they write (e.g. vastly exaggerating the import of the tracking info) that they deeply want this to be true.
- aragot 13y agoDid they _actually_ write an article with a tweet as the _only_ evidence?
- mikeash 13y agoIf there's more evidence, they sure haven't mentioned it.
- krapp 13y agoClearly, absence of evidence is evidence of conspiracy, and evidence to the contrary is propaganda. It's the only way to know for sure.
- mikeash 13y agoI give it about 50/50 odds that a followup article shows up along the lines of, "they received the laptop and the tracking info for this package shows it coming straight from the warehouse nearby and this is clearly evidence that the NSA is screwing with USPS tracking data."
- krapp 13y agoThe site which posted this article wouldn't bother posting an article contradicting it.