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A lot of people, especially smart people, like going "everyone says X, I'm going to try to appear smart by arguing not-X".
And that's how you end up with people in the west going "Russia is the victim of the war in Ukraine! Nato encroachment!", or "they haven't tested the vaccines!"
works :-)
How does the server know what characters to send so that my specific command line interprets it in a nice way? Sorry if I'm not being very articulate.
EDIT: doesn't work when piping to less.
It's a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it pays off for 'em.
100% of deaths attributed to COVID are _also_ deaths with COVID.
What's your point?
This affected 1000 people in 35 countries.
Covid has killed 6 million people so far.
Asking gay men to stop having orgies isomorphic to asking people to put on masks.
This particular second-order effect affected 1000 people in 35 countries.
I haven't.
This issue affected 1000 thousand people in 35 countries. Did anyone die from this?
Covid on the other hand has killed 6 MILLION. Covid could've been solved in 1 month if everyone would just stay home for 1 month. Unfortunately, because of people like you spread noise, we're still stuck with this for the foreseeable future.
In addition, let me just comment how mathematically stupid it is to take the 1st order effects just because you're worried about the 2nd order effects.