The clear reason to pay for news is that you can buy higher quality news than what your social media shows you. But I did definitely carve out politically sensitive areas in my discussion for a reason.
> They even changed font to random sizes to have it appear unhinged
This caught my eye, but appears to be false: https://web.archive.org/web/20170805210606/https://gizmodo.com/exclusive-heres-the-full-10-page-anti-diversity-screed-1797564320 Has some weird formatting, presumably from copying it in from a Google doc, and presumably also why it lost the figures and URLs. The formatting doesn’t look unhinged at all, just a bit awkward, though their summarizing the changes as removing “several” hyperlinks is terrible (it looks more like a couple dozen links in the original to me). Though, I would not have ever thought of Gizmodo as a being high tier journalism in the first place.
I used the oldest version available in the Wayback machine so presumably it was how it was published, but it does include an “update” note as if it’s undergone at least one revision. It’s not impossible that the wayback machine is missing the earliest version. I still think that “copy and paste into a janky content management system interface” is probably the cause of whatever bad formatting it had rather than outright malice, but it may have been worse then than we see now (they state that formatting was changed though it’s not clear when).
The clear reason to pay for news is that you can buy higher quality news than what your social media shows you. But I did definitely carve out politically sensitive areas in my discussion for a reason.
> They even changed font to random sizes to have it appear unhinged
This caught my eye, but appears to be false: https://web.archive.org/web/20170805210606/https://gizmodo.com/exclusive-heres-the-full-10-page-anti-diversity-screed-1797564320 Has some weird formatting, presumably from copying it in from a Google doc, and presumably also why it lost the figures and URLs. The formatting doesn’t look unhinged at all, just a bit awkward, though their summarizing the changes as removing “several” hyperlinks is terrible (it looks more like a couple dozen links in the original to me). Though, I would not have ever thought of Gizmodo as a being high tier journalism in the first place.
Weird. I think I remember seeing a different version. Not sure how that happened...
...maybe some of my ad-blocking programs interacted with the website’s CSS in a bad way?
Uhm, if that’s the case, I apologize for spreading misinformation.
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Off topic, but Jesus, in the comment section: people [...] go to better schools [...] to increase their IQs [...] Not like anyone is born with a 170
I used the oldest version available in the Wayback machine so presumably it was how it was published, but it does include an “update” note as if it’s undergone at least one revision. It’s not impossible that the wayback machine is missing the earliest version. I still think that “copy and paste into a janky content management system interface” is probably the cause of whatever bad formatting it had rather than outright malice, but it may have been worse then than we see now (they state that formatting was changed though it’s not clear when).