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by heikkilevanto 23 days ago
And you need to stop telling everyone what we need! "You might be interested in this <thing> if you have this and that" sounds so much more reasonable.
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In this case it would be “you might be interested in this <thing> if you have an unexamined and irrational hankering for pointless mid-1990s web tech.”
Agreed. There should be a subset of Betteridge's law: if a headline states that you need to do something, you don't.