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Playing devil's advocate here: Language has a use beyond matter-of-fact descriptions. Sometimes, creative writing techniques are employed in journalism, though rarely in hard news.…

Unless you've been hiding under a rock, you know how the current administration has been running things. You are free to have a positive of negative opinions of their actions, but …

It's pretty easy to follow the news. You don't need others to google things for you.

You're right. This is a kettle-pot issue. So how come so many arguments here get reduced to "I side with kettle!" Yelp is bad. Google is bad. Or more precisely, both are amoral, an…

Divining rods are trusted by many, and have been in use for centuries. If they weren't a good way of locating water, why would so many people use them?

What is that system? Dismissing other methodologies without proposing a workable alternative? Reveling in vulgarities?

Back then, Americans didn't see it that way. There was a widespread suspicion that Catholicism was incompatible with democracy.

It doesn't say anywhere on the page that Hilton commissioned that typeface. Could just be named Hilton. Can't find a source anywhere else, either. Can you provide a source that Hil…

> Why do you presume to say what AirBnB "should not" do? You get to run your business according to your priorities, as does AirBnB's CEO. If we followed your reasoning, most CEOs w…

Agreeed on Helvetica. I was just using it as an example of a typeface that's popular in branding despite it's ubiquity. But I'd never set body copy in helvetica. The letters are ha…

> If you use different fonts on each platform, the design will be slightly different Oh no, the fonts will look different on different devices! Better commission a custom font. Bac…

I liken this to a hotel that decides to make their own lightbulbs. Or a department store that produces it's own bespoke cash registers. You can't argue that typography is so vital …