boss.king

If only there was some sort of time machine that could allow us to see these photos again… a machine that goes way back, if you will.

What do you expect them to do? It’s not like they can wave a magic wand and cut the power draw of their chips without killing performance. Apple designed some really fuckin’ good chips while Intel was sitting around doing nothing. It’s going to take them a long time to catch up but they can’t just stop releasing chips until then.

Lol. This is a comment section, not a poll booth, we’re not voting to try turn opinions into fact here. But by all means, just don’t reply to my comments if you don’t want to hear why you’re wrong. It’s really, really easy.

That’s the gist I’m getting. It seems like it still needs to be made official, but it’s at least a step in that direction.

Lol, don’t take it so personally, this is a comment section, the point is to discuss. I understand that a lot of you seem to have struggled with the sentence but it’s still very straightforward and basic English. Understanding it isn’t something to be proud of.

I don’t think that’s true. Maybe you’ve never seen it used but it’s not like this is an unheard of combination of words or that it’s incorrect, or that it’s even difficult to follow. Again, just read the words one after the other and they will tell you the meaning of the sentence, there’s no need for familiarity or guessing or consensus on how common it is, it’s a self-solving puzzle.

I’m discussing what I find to be a perfectly straightforward headline. I’m also one of the few people to have actually commented on the content of the article too, but apparently no one wanted to talk about that. No one seems to be able to point out what actually makes the headline confusing anyway, which is why I think they just can’t read.

It’s a comment section, writing comments and discussing is literally the point of it. I also feel strongly that we shouldn’t dumb down what is already basic language because people refuse to do the bare minimum of reading words in consecutive order before jumping to conclusions.

Maybe that’s a wild idea to you but it seems fairly reasonable in my eyes.

And no, I’m not Adi.

Except the words right after blow tell you that this is not what it’s saying. Why are you guys trying stop and guess the rest of the headline halfway through instead of just reading it?

Or it means a handful of people are bad at reading.

Lol. It makes sense though.

Or is this one of those Americanisms like how you guys say "could care less" when you mean "couldn’t care less" that I’m just not aware of?

It’s not like it’s a puzzle. Unless there’s some historical or contextual meaning that I’m missing, it’s poking fun at people who use needlessly elaborate sentences and weird sentence structures. What I am a little curious about is how you think it applies to the very straightforward sentence structure in the headline.

Whoops, this was meant to be a reply to indignantgoat’s suggestions.

Your first alt is way worse and the other two are no more or less clear than the original.

I was also wondering that

Nope, that’s the original.

Careful, most of the commenters here apparently won’t be able to read that quote.

Anything and everything can be better or more clear but that often comes at with its own tradeoff; length, something that is also a massive consideration for headlines. I don’t know what the max character count is for a Verge headline, so maybe that’s not a factor here.

Regardless, I don’t think 14 confused people (many of whom appear not to have even read the article) is really a marker of failure.

The headline is clear if you actually read it. If you skim it and then try to fill in the blanks, you might struggle, but even then reading the article itself would clear up your confusion.

A does thing in support of B. It’s really straightforward. What exactly is so confusing about it?

The inability to read headlines aside, this is awesome. It’s great to see the American govt do something that actually benefits people even if it’s at the cost of corporations because that’s their fucking job.

There’s a long way still to go but this looks a lot like progress.