At least they didn’t divide it up into a slideshow, with two lines of the article per slide. I’ve been seeing a ton of those lately.
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Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 7 months ago
“Maine” is a lot shorter than “an entire state.”
I hate this “obscure the most relevant information for clicks” shit.
TurboDiesel@lemmy.world 7 months ago
goldisgood4u@lemmings.world 7 months ago
THIS. I FUCKING HATE THIS. WHOEVER CAME WITH THAT CAN GET FUCKED.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Maine hardly counts as “an entire state” by population anyway! 1.3 million? Oooooh, that’s like… San Diego!
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 7 months ago
And yet it’s still more than 2 Wyomings
coffeebiscuit@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The amount of people doesn’t define what a state is.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Sadly true, that’s why the Senate is so fucking misrepresentative. And the Electoral College.
Still, I’ll put up with my lack of equal federal voting power for the benefits of living in California.
I was just cocking a snook at the clickbaity headline.
And Maine.
Walnut356@programming.dev 7 months ago
To be fair, “an entire x” does have markedly different meaning than “x”. The emphasis is that it’s, well, the entirety of x. It’s the difference between “i ate the cereal” and “i ate all the cereal”.
ShunkW@lemmy.world 7 months ago
They could have easily fit “the entire state of Maine”.
Walnut356@programming.dev 7 months ago
For sure, but as long as clickbait works they’ll keep doing it.
Dagrothus@reddthat.com 7 months ago
They probably assumed people would know which state they’re talking about. Classic Maine character syndrome.
Flibbertigibbet@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Badum-tsss!
ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 7 months ago
Steven King knows.