> that's not my department, says Werner von Braun
You’re seriously comparing sailors and shipping insurers to a Nazi weapons specialist?
You’re seriously comparing sailors and shipping insurers to a Nazi weapons specialist?
And when a software build fails because of some very minor thing everything depends on, and someone quips "for want of a nail..." would you then say they "compared shitlib version 0.53 with a physical nail made out of iron for a horse shoe"? What's more, things that are the exact same are the only things that cannot be compared. You can compared an apple to an orange, or another apple, but not itself. It amazes me how often people in the internet draw this card.
No, it’s maintaining focus. Is every article that talks about the war in Gaza looking the other way on every other ongoing atrocity?
> You can compared an apple to an orange, or another apple, but not itself
You can compare anything to anything. That doesn’t make the comparison useful, nor does it keep it from speaking about its speaker as well.
If I’m sailing a ship, I want the information that lets me do my job. Not shoehorned political agendas. Given a choice between publications, I’ll choose the concise one.
And it was not in regards to the sailors but in regards of your attitude shown in your comment.