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Comment on The reason we don’t see exploding battery attacks more often is not because it’s technically hard, it’s because the erosion of public trust in everyday things isn’t worth it.

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cypherpunks@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

Right, so why are you editorializing the title to say something that the article in fact does not say?

The title is a copy+paste of the first sentence of the third paragraph, and it is not misleading unless you infer “exploding batteries” to mean “exploding unmodified batteries”. But, the way the English language works, when you put explosives inside an XYZ, or do something else which causes an XYZ to explode, it becomes an “exploding XYZ”. For example:

The fact that bombs are explosive is not revolutionary or all that interesting.

That fact also is not what the article is about.

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echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
It doesn’t matter that it’s written in the article you took it out of context and then made it the title thus changing the meaning of the sentence.

I have had this conversation with so many people who seem to be under the mistaken delusion that any and all batteries can be made explosive, and you editorializing the title like that is massively unhelpful.

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