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Before there was social media there was click bait headlines from supposedly reputable news agencies.

Social media gave people easy ways to engage and share. And it turns out what people engage with and share is click bait/rage bait.

So maybe not technically inherent but a natural consequence of creating networks for viral sharing of content.


I’m fairly certain it’s Percutaneous Transluminal Angioplasty


FYI, 418 is the HTTP status code that means the server is a teapot.


Technically a HTTCPCP status code I think?


HTCPCP. Btw, the RFC is buggy. I once used it as a comprehension test for first round interviews, and had to be careful to avoid the bugs.


Fun fact: Krusty now owned by Disney.


It answers the question posed. Unless you think only morons have opinions that differ from yours.


Moronic opinions are still moronic and should be called out as such. Making America more crypto friendly by pardoning fraudsters is an objectively stupid take.


The train of thought is 1. The economy is making me nervous. 2. You're right to be nervous. 3. Then what are your short positions, since you're so smart?

Non-sequitur.


I actually use the em dash. I learned it from Butterick’s practical typography years ago.

https://practicaltypography.com/hyphens-and-dashes.html


Maybe it wasn't the math, but the abuse.


Yeah… but if you had to rip heads off of demons in your day job you might not feel that way.


If you had to be factorio engineer in real life you also wouldn't like it, so I don't understand this comparison. Games are games, life is life.


There are a lot of Subways and many times they are in strip malls and gas stations. That could be an explanation. Can’t explain the bologna part.


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