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[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh, a journalist, then bitch on :D (no /s, after all, random bitching is a fair part of lemmy).

But I think people replied to your og message because of the (mis?)use of the word "contradictory", not because of the bitching as such.
(And Im mostly here bcs I like to understand myself, like what triggered you sceptically & how the same thing played in my mind)

[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

because of the ~~(mis?)~~use of the word “contradictory”,

I used that only in my second comment, after the first person got flustered :) Go up two more in the comment chain and you'll see my original comment. Although, I stand by the second comment as well - the article is contradicting itself.

If I say

The square root of -1 is i [...] The square root of -1 is not defined. [..]

Only to THEN go on to explain what imaginary numbers are, then I have still contradicted myself :)