These question-begging, click-bait something-is-something-other-than-you-think posts are something less entertaining than the poster thinks.

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dwedge 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

As soon as I saw that his article has an introduction and the first line of it mentions that he wrote a long essay (as though long == good) I closed it

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abnercoimbre 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yup. Soon as I read:

> I am going to focus on the putative political impacts of social media

I closed the tab.

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IshKebab 3 days ago | parent [-]

Yeah I closed it when I saw the size of the scroll bar. If you need 100k words to make your point write a book.

	▲	stevage 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Huh, I often have the reverse sentiment with a lot of books: this should have been a blog post. There's often a good intro which lays out the thesis, but each chapter is way too long, spelling out details that are obvious or superfluous.
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greyadept 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

The author could have made the same points without using words like “polemicizing”, “putative”, and “epistemic”.