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Or am I?
Also, it's not my fault that people got all flustered about me simply pointing out that poor phrasing with "do they even proofread?"
Edit: goat -> got
Oh, a journalist, then bitch on :D (no /s, after all, random bitching is a fair part of lemmy).
But I think people replied to your og message because of the (mis?)use of the word "contradictory", not because of the bitching as such.
(And Im mostly here bcs I like to understand myself, like what triggered you sceptically & how the same thing played in my mind)
I used that only in my second comment, after the first person got flustered :) Go up two more in the comment chain and you'll see my original comment. Although, I stand by the second comment as well - the article is contradicting itself.
If I say
The square root of -1 is i [...] The square root of -1 is not defined. [..]
Only to THEN go on to explain what imaginary numbers are, then I have still contradicted myself :)