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> It's not a proof of anything. If I build a dam to block your local river and you stop getting water, is it a proof there were fish in the river?

I mean, we can use a little common sense and assume that there were fish in the river, right? We'd be foolish not to.

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Is it common sense though?

Do you think that if tomorrow a Google data center goes down the NSA spyware, botnets and other online campaigns go down? I very much doubt it

Is it common sense that a river has fish? Yes. Is it common sense that Yandex has russian bots? Yes.

I don't think any of this is controversial. Bloviate all you want about Google and rivers or whatever the fuck, I think we're getting into the weeds and really losing the plot here.

Show the proofs then? Which platform infected by russian bots saw a traffic dip when 3 yandex data centers went down? It should be very easy to prove

That's not how proof works.

What I said:

> We can use a little common sense

What you read:

> This assumption is irrefutable proof!

Thanks bud.

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