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And then he grabbed his axe and ripped a maelstrom of crunchy guitar solos, while his bloodhound, Rufus, guffawed effulgent howls on the fourth beat of every measure.

It’s disturbing how many people say they oppose what’s happening in the U.S. despite everything they say agreeing with and legitimizing it, and can’t just be honest about where they actually stand.

I’m legally changing my name to Calamitous Ortbo. Try and stop me.

What’s it gonna take to get copious luxury meats around here?

i’m not saving daylight this year you guys are on your own

I wonder what happens to a society that thinks education isn’t important.

OH SO I ALSO LOSE AN HOUR THIS WEEKEND WHAT ELSE DO YOU PLAN TO TAKE FROM ME

so much ignorance, so little bliss

Seriously. An anecdotal lead is like starting a movie halfway through. You’re thrust far into a plot without the setup explanation of who these people are or why any of what’s happening matters.

Some movies are bad enough that this is a way to make them interesting.

But journalism isn’t movies.

I might have buried my point a bit there. So, I’ll add quote marks to bring it out more.

All this talk about “regime change.” Not enough talk about “supporters of our regime” change.

I see that you have said it more vividly than I could have.

My favorite part is your use of anecdotal lead to make your point against anecdotal leads. Nice work.

Cory Doctorow on dubbing the term "enshittification" to describe the degradation of tech platforms YouTube video by The Daily Show

All part of the business strategy Cory Doctorow calls "enshittification".
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Yep. It's worsened recipe sites, for sure. But I find it less frustrating because it's easier to find what I'm looking for there and I spend less time on those sites than news stories.

Yeah, I think search changed to downplay clickbait listicles. As so often happens, the worst of something made a good thing worse for the rest of us. Though, if it means fewer clickbait listicles, that's a less perceptible gain.

Could be. I'm not sure what motivates it. A lot of the time, it feels to me like the writer is taking an easy way out of having to come up with a better opening and think they're being clever, or avoiding the appearance of pushing a viewpoint. Mostly it feels like the former, to me.

The anecdotes are important. They illuminate. They help us to relate. But for me, when you start there, it just gets in the way. I end up fishing through the first few paragraphs looking for the point and the nut graph, which is frustrating to have to do.

Way too many news stories open this way.

If the news story is good, I'll likely go back to the anecdote. It's just that opening with them is disorienting for me. I feel thrown into a situation without thesis or context, which would help me get my bearings on why I'm reading this anecdote and what to take away from it.

Just so you know, when you start your news story with an anecdotal lead, I skip over it to the part where you get to the point.

Don't get me wrong. I love stories. But, I find anecdotal leads distracting when time is finite and I want to know as fast as possible whether I will get what I came for.

Seems like a good year to try to bring back asbestos insulation if that's your thing

But at least she isn’t Aryan, because then it would mean…

mom: what do want to do when you grow up?

willy wonka: open a candy factory-

mom: awe

willy wonka: to lure children-

mom: uhm

willy wonka: to their death

Sounds familiar. Anywhere else this seems to happen again and again?

“I found a delivery in my flaw.”

- Dan Quisenberry, former MLB pitcher made famous by his submarine style delivery

Like the bible says: live by the sword, no worries

practicing good portion control by having only one major mental breakdown every day

You get to write the national anthem of my latest country.

The rest is still unwritten.

Some people be sayin’ that they have a right to a country because that makes them legitimate don’t seem to be realizin’ that advancing that mindset is making them unsafer.

All this talk about regime change. Not enough talk about supporters of our regime change.

Your outie is a monster.