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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    Fact: %100 of serial killers have drank water.

    If we ban water for everyone, we can stop serial killers for once and all.

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

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

        Learn the difference for future reference

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

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

            320000 is 0.0039024390243902% of 8200000000.

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

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                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

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

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          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!

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      That’s taking it too far. To beat the bad guy with water we just need good guys with water.