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Re:What happens to used electric car batteries? by beloch on Saturday November 06, 2021 @03:31AM (#29128170)
It's long form (although somewhat short for that). Consider yourself lucky that this article even has a descriptive title and gets around to addressing it at some point in the body. A lot of long form journalism is just a click-bait title with rambling.

Personally, I think long-form writers need to start including abstracts. If I'm going to spend half an hour reading something, I'd like to know what it's about before I commit the time. If no abstract seems adequate to capture the breadth of a long form article's ramblings, then it lacks focus and should be revised.

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Re:What happens to used electric car batteries? by fho on Saturday November 06, 2021 @09:46AM (#29130150)
Haven't read the article ... But I am always taken aback by these "and now we look at the complete life of the guy that did whatever the article is actually about"-detours.

When I read an article about about ... fishing in Alaska ... I was btw born in the last millenia and had a pretty normal childhood. But if you dig out school colleagues of mine you will find somebody who will tell you I was a strange kid in school .

5 minutes later I have still not read anything about fishing in Alaska.

Feels like complete filler material to me, probably to increase "engagement".

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Re:What happens to used electric car batteries? by bradlys on Saturday November 06, 2021 @02:50PM (#29132788)
More page length - more ads.
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