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		giraffe_lady on Oct 21, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Experiments spell doom for physical-collapse expla... What is the point of this sort of joke? Just to confirm that we all think of ourselves as superior to anyone using tiktok? It's probably overall neither much more or less reliable than other social media like reddit, twitter, instagram and, sorry boys, HN.

yucky on Oct 21, 2022 [–]

It's not a joke. Social media is heavily curated for a specific agenda/angle (at best) and generally full of dis/misinformation. Why on earth would anybody consider what they see on social media to be representative of reality?

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