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Luigi Mangione Played 'Among Us,' Breathes Air (www.404media.co)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/technology

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It's a weird headline, but the discussion is around how journalists and the public look through internet history in cases like this. Some of it is helpful, some of it is not.

In particular, it's a response to this article:

'Extremely ironic': Suspect in UnitedHealthcare CEO slaying played video game killer, friend recalls (NBCNews)

The game in this case being AmongUs...

Monday night, NBC News published an article with the headline “’Extremely Ironic’: Suspect in UnitedHealthcare CEO Slaying Played Video Game Killer, Friend Recalls.” This article is currently all over every single one of my social media feeds, because it is emblematic of the type of research I described above. It is a very bad article whose main reason for existing is the fact that it contains a morsel of “new” “information,” except the “information” in this case is that Luigi Mangione played the video game Among Us at some point in college.

cross-posted from: https://rss.ponder.cat/post/72744

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[–] kaitco 25 points 1 week ago (4 children)

What about just banning dihydrogen monoxide? That stuff kills 100% of those who consume it and is, like, everywhere!

[–] Jarix 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It doesnt kill 100% of people who consume it, 100% of people who consume it die

Learn the difference for future reference

[–] Klear 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It still kills more than 320,000 people every year, and that's just from ingesting it.

[–] Jarix 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

What were you hoping to achieve? 320,000 is not 8,200,000,000 which would be 100%

320000 is 0.0039024390243902% of 8200000000.

[–] Klear -1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Drowning. Over 300 thousand people drown every year according to my 20 seconds of research. Those are killed by DHMO directly.

[–] Jarix 2 points 5 days ago

What are you trying to achieve. What is your goal here. What is it you are attempting to accomplish?

I literally did the math for you. Three hundred twenty thousand people is less than zero point zero zero four percent of eight billion two hundred million people also known as one hundred percent of people who drank dihydrogen monoxide

I never claimed water cant kill people, i pointed out a flawed claim and then gave the correct information they should have used

[–] TrueStoryBob 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's used in everything from pesticides to baby formula... when are people going to wake up to the dangers it poses?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Seriously, do you have any idea how bad it would be for the economy if we did that? You guys wants us becoming as poor as europeans?? Look you have to let the free market decide which chemicals do and don't go into your body. If I were a grandmother I would gladly drown in dihydrogen monoxide just so my children could work more hours in the excel factory. It's what Adam Smith would have wanted!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

I heard that it is in all things we drink! Beer, juice, milk, and even water!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

I've heard that almost all meth addicts have tried sugar first