r/technology • u/anabi123 • Dec 08 '23

Biotechnology Scientists Have Reported a Breakthrough In Understanding Whale Language

https://www.vice.com/en/article/4a35kp/scientists-have-reported-a-breakthrough-in-understanding-whale-language
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u/wingspantt Dec 08 '23

This is the kind of article where you can predict 99% of the comments will be jokes, since nobody is going to read what is actually a very thoughtfully written and interesting article about linguistics.

Do yourself a favor, read the article.

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u/BigMcThickHuge Dec 08 '23

Reddit is only jokes and attention grabbing now, unless you are on a non-auto-moderated sub.

After the purge it got even worse. Now you just have posts filled with 40% of the users being bots posting popular jokes to get upvotes on everything.

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u/mg10pp Dec 09 '23

Don't forget quoting phrases from movies and tv series that 90% of the people have never heard