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"Major breakthrough in the World Cup final between Flabinisthan and Giberrishland.

The game has been going on for 88 minutes and Flabinisthan is leading 789e10 to 0. It would be historical for Giberrishland to overcome such a lead, and win their first ever tournament.

Thankfully, in a pre-print of an article brief submitted to an open-access server, an anonymous team of Giberrishians strategists claim they are now able to spell the name 'Flabinisthan' correctly, in less than 6 tries (range 5-78.)

They are now considering getting a map of Flabinisthan, and are actively seeking funds to teach someone how to read a map."



That's not as bad as CNN issuing a "Breaking News" report that the "Titanic sunk 102 years ago tonight" (at the time of the report).

https://www.businessinsider.com/cnn-breaking-news-titanic-si...


Wow, that's 1.5 billion goals. Per second!


"Sure, the situation seems dire. But as I said, once we have someone able to read a map, it's only going to be a matter of time until we win the game. All you have to do is fund our startup ! No need to make hard decisions, like "learning how to play". That's for ideologists !"

I'm just kidding, of course, I understand the enthousiasm.

Fusion is the kind of things we need yesterday. It's probably as clickbaity as writing "Breakthrough in finding a cure for pneumonia" back in the 1900s - people really needed that, at the time.

Then, someone discovered Penicilin, half by accident (at least, according to legend), and completely failed to gardner interest (at least, according to wikipedia [1].)

So, I really hope someone is _actually_ having a real breakthrough somewhere, right now, the kind that gets completely ignored until the world is changed forever.

And I wish the clickbaiter an early week-end - they do the less harm when they're _not_ working.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penicillin#Discovery




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