One of the worst things about Twitter is that it incentivizes posting declarative statements. No hedging, no "maybe", no "my thinking is". A lot of dumb statements tend to be taken as fact and spread further than the more even-handed takes.
-
Show this thread
-
Replying to @DanielZarick
this would be extraordinarily meta if you replaced "tend to be" with "are"
1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
Replying to @breakfastbybill
LOL i thought about it, but explicitly changed some of the language to hedge more
10:54 AM - 28 Apr 2020
0 replies
0 retweets
1 like
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.