• WoodScientist@lemmy.world
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      And are we talking a reasonable work truck, or one of those American abominations referred to as ‘pickup trucks.’

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      I don’t mind the “size of common everyday thing” for a news article. It gives an easy to understand measure of the scale.

      It’s the “half” part that is infuriating. Like, you couldn’t just pick another common object of the right size? Like, I’m pretty sure you could just say “a sedan” and be pretty close to the size. Is this just AI writing titles?

      Just another method of getting clicks. Writing stupid titles like “half a pickup truck sized” so people click it to understand what the fuck they mean.

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      Two of them is roughly the size of a pickup truck…

      Like, it’s volume, they could say X gallons, but it would be hard for people to visualize. So people use an example most readers would be familiar with.

      Have you honestly never wondered why journalists use random things? Or has no one taken the time to answer before?

      It’s been common literally for centuries before either of us were born, but most likely all of human existence. Just with animals like buffalo instead of pickup trucks.

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        You know what is roughly half the size of an American pickup truck and very common? A sedan. Like a regular sized car.

        The annoying thing isn’t using a common object to show scale. It’s that they are cutting it in half. Like, you have other whole objects to choose from. It kind of ruins the point.

        That’s what frustrates me about the title at least.

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        The problem is he’s Unfortunately, short, so he has a hard time on visualizing things like the size of pick up, which are quite large