[a_shovel]

The word "seems" is kinda the crux of the issue here. Singal has the tone of a curious, thoughtful jouralist who enters into research with no pre-established biases, and Hobbes has the tone of a guy who gets into Twitter arguments. The problem is that tone is not important, what's true is important. You can't determinte the truth just through the tone of the person communicating with you. A tone of thoughtful neutrality doesn't make something true, and a tone of belligerence doesn't indicate a lie.

I discussed the example I was referencing in my response to ggreer. Here's a link to the twitter thread, for clarification: https://twitter.com/RottenInDenmark/status/15820924737360076...

I'd like to see an example of what you mean regarding Hobbes. I think that'd help me a lot to understand your position.

[mustache_kimono]

Theres a lot to mine here, but I'm really not going to be the one who gets in a tiff with you about this.

I think you need to step away from the keyboard, dude.

[a_shovel]

Okay, that's just rude.