Are you familiar with the term ‘tongue in cheek’? Or ‘hyperbole’? Cuz - I’m just sayin- I really doubt that even the yellow-est of rags would expect people to believe that we’re only a “bite my shiny metal ass” away from triggering a T2 style ‘Judgement Day’… I’d say it’s simply far more likely they were simply being facetious.
Now if it was NewsMax, on the other hand…
TheBat@lemmy.world 2 days ago
That’s The Register for you. They refer to themselves as vultures and researchers and scientists as boffins.