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[-] bstix@feddit.dk 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It's more of a journalist thing. They take the words out of your mouth to reach their own conclusion fast and deliver an answer that'll fit inside the allocated screen time.

"When you heard that people use things instead of measurements to explain the size of other things, exactly how shocking was it to you?"

They describe these random things to avoid people talking about giraffes for hours.

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