"Fiction isn't real" is not a "devil's advocate" position.

That was the one prior to the last one.

For 40-somethings, Nine Inch Nails *is* nostalgia rock.

Well played.

Undoubtedly it's related to coverage. So, replace it with "coverage". It's still not a sentence, or a complete thought.

https://www.youtube.com/wat…

"shaped like or approximately like a sphere."

Now I'm hungry.

Those dozens of different cultures have been involved with NASA in a government conspiracy for thousands of years!

Derp.

I honestly have no idea if this is satire or sincere.

The government doesn't allow people to go to the "South Pole", which is actually the rim around the entire edge of the Earth. Yes, this is what many of them say. No, it doesn't make any sense.

Most sincere Flat-Earthers are creationists, and more to the point, the style of argument really isn't very different - literal interpretation of the Bible where you want it, insistence on a world-wide scientific conspiracy, flat-out denial of contrary evidence, etc.

Language has many, many rules, but word usage changes constantly. That stray "like" in your sentence would have looked like an inexplicable typo not all that long ago in history.

Such attention to detail.

On the internet, it's impossible to discern the highly motivated trolls from the profoundly stupid.

On YouTube, it's impossible to discern the highly motivated trolls from the profoundly stupid.

It's pretty brilliant that way. It doesn't *tell* you what's going on, it's just…there. It all reads a little funny, and you just sort of go with it. And you absorb it as it goes. Chiang really just trusts his readers to come along with him. The movie, probably necessarily, is a little more hamfisted by comparison,…

And yet, he chooses well-done steak with ketchup. Thus the mocking (not outrage).

We all are, now.