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I give less shits every day about the "freedom" of allowing harm to others.
And Zuck's business RUNS on engagement. If fact check leads to less engagement as the article says, they are disincentivized of any reason to go forward with it. The danger of abusing "fact check" is very real. We pass a fact check law, and suddenly the US gives a billion to an Elon Musk startup "Fax Chex XxX" or whatever and it just labels stuff as woke and deletes anyone who says Trump is on the Epstein list.
Fewer
Are shits countable? Does it depend on if they're metaphorical or physical? 🤔
He meant fewer engagement
Fewer engagement is grammatically incorrect. Fewer shits is colloquially incorrect. If they want to be a pedant, they should at least know what the fuck they are talking about. If I were to try to improve it, I would change "less shits" to "less of a shit" but it's all slang anyway. Anyone suggesting such a correction is a wanker.
Looked at their profile, the funnier thing is that basically every post they make is grammatically incorrect
I know, I was joking.
Not in my area. Fewer shits is correct.
If you want to use less, say "less of a shit".
Yes I think "less of a shit" is the right way (as I mentioned in the comment above).
Where do you live? UK?
I live on the Isle of Quibble.
Ah that tracks
Used in a sentence:
Language is living and breathing, not frozen in amber
counter point: Stannis "the one true king" Baratheon