The lionization of "clear thinkers", contrarianism, etc has put us in this pickle where people feel the need to express simple thoughts in a way as if they're special. And then audience eats it up. So the incentives encourage it.
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Feel the same way. I wondered previously what twitter might look like if all tweets had a question mark appended to them at the end

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LOL i think i've said before that I wish all tweets started with "It is my opinion..."
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this would be extraordinarily meta if you replaced "tend to be" with "are"
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LOL i thought about it, but explicitly changed some of the language to hedge more
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Anyone who posts about incentives is a dyed-in-the-wool capitalist.
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Which dye manufacturer do you prefer?
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