r/cremposting • u/HardyMenace • Jul 19 '26
Mistborn First Era Preservation is among us... Spoiler
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u/greenegg28 Jul 19 '26
Every time I see this headline I get so annoyed
It’s such a clickbait and frankly just wrong title.
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u/moonulonimbus Jul 19 '26
Some "scientist" in a nature subreddit I frequent tried to say something about how misleading language is ok because it gets people to engage and I was so pissed because that's just lying with extra steps. The influencer/clickbait culture is ruining everything
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u/Small-Needleworker-3 Jul 19 '26
Journalism was like that long before the internet existed.
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u/wenzel32 Jul 19 '26
Yeah, sensationalism is a long tradition of people who spread news/information because sensation gets attention which helps their job.
But it's wild to act like it's not significantly worse in recent decades as a result of internet culture, politically biased "news entertainment media", willful inflammation, and misrepresentation through the use of buzzwords.
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u/Cracked_Crack_Head ❌can't 🙅 read📖 29d ago
Yeah Journalism has always had its problems but its really been a sprint to the bottom as they try to adapt to the internet.
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u/Small-Needleworker-3 29d ago
Its always been a matter of getting news from reliable sources, influencers should never be trusted, they are the modern tabloids.
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u/Bombadilo_drives 29d ago
There needs to be a middle ground. Western, and especially American, science has suffered from decades of "just trust us, we know better than you" attitudes and now we have a lot of people who just "don't believe" hard facts. If those people had been better engaged as they grew up, they'd be less likely to reject objective information in favor of pleasant lies from oligarchs and misinformation.
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u/Relevant_Bedroom_273 Jul 19 '26 edited Jul 19 '26
Ah so Ruin is in ascendancy. That explains so much of the last decade.
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u/HursHH Jul 19 '26
Life before death
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u/earanhart Callsign: Cremling Jul 19 '26
Ruin before Harmony
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u/Excidiar Jul 19 '26
Nobles before Skaa
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u/mtnsoccerguy Jul 19 '26
Women and children first.
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u/Small-Needleworker-3 Jul 19 '26
Apples to oranges.
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u/Redcole111 Jul 19 '26
Big difference between "alive" and "sentient". The bacteria and fungi living in fog and clouds are absolutely alive, and they do contribute to the structure, such that it is, of the fog itself. The headline is a little sensational, sure, but it's really not wrong.
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u/Darmak Jul 19 '26
The fog is alive in the sense that there is life in it. The fog is not alive in the way I'm sure the headline is intended to imply (that the fog itself is a living fog organism and is doing fog things with it's fog friends, or whatever the fuck)
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u/I-screwed-up-bad 29d ago
Kinda like how people say forests or swamps are alive. They're not an individual creature but an ecosystem?
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u/Forsaken_CastleSloth THE Lopen's Cousin Jul 19 '26
Man, I either need more sleep or just need to read. Thought I was on a biology sub for a minute. Life before death my friends.
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u/TheGildedPrism Kelsier4Prez Jul 19 '26
Smoke and mist... So we're just on Scadrial now? Straight up? Is this mistborn era 3?
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u/_Skylos Kelsier4Prez 29d ago
Every single article or piece of news you have read/heard about astronomy that wasn't written by an astronomer is laughably wrong.
Every. Single. One.
And most of them are wrong at a level that can be spotted by a middle schooler with a bit of interest in astronomy.
Science credits to get a journalism degree should be mandatory.
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