"the scientists in charge of The Doomsday Clock have set it closer to midnight than ever before" ok. they just do that for attention. whatever

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"the scientists in charge of The Doomsday Clock have set it closer to midnight than ever before" ok. they just do that for attention. whatever
well, yes, but the thing they're calling attention to is quite serious.
like yes, it would be entirely valid to say that the news item is that the people in charge of this rhetorical prop for generating news items have decided to generate a news item. we just do think it's honestly quite important to tell humanity to please stop doing things that are likely to cause doom, and although we don't personally think this strategy is likely to succeed at cutting through the noise and getting anyone with the power to do anything about it to change course, we are glad someone's trying.