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From: Akib Azmain Turja <akib@disroot.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Morally equivalent
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2022 20:05:34 +0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wn8u8ua9.fsf@disroot.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8735bkd8wp.fsf@dataswamp.org> (Emanuel Berg's message of "Wed, 19 Oct 2022 01:11:34 +0200")

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Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>>> How did a simple phrase generate so much noise on
>>> this list?
>>
>> The noise level on this (and not only this) list is
>> inversely proportional to the simplicity of the issue.
>
> One can only dream of a world where that was reversed, so the
> the more complicated something was, the more brilliant and
> to-the-point comments it would get ...

There are many examples of discussions that result in nothing except the
waste of the time of many people.  This is also "morally" (if not
completely) equivalent to those discussions.

IMHO, even this message is a waste of time.

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  reply	other threads:[~2022-10-20 14:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-16  2:45 Morally equivalent John Haman
2022-10-16  2:55 ` Eduardo Ochs
2022-10-16  3:39 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-10-16 14:29   ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-10-16 14:34     ` Heime
2022-10-16 14:42     ` Dr Rainer Woitok
2022-10-16 15:02       ` Drew Adams
2022-10-16 16:20         ` tomas
2022-10-16 19:27 ` Bob Newell
2022-10-16 19:43   ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-10-16 20:24     ` Bob Newell
2022-10-16 19:58   ` Christopher Dimech
2022-10-16 23:10     ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-10-16 23:17       ` Christopher Dimech
2022-10-16 23:32         ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-10-16 23:47           ` Eduardo Ochs
2022-10-17  1:13             ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-10-18 10:44               ` Dr Rainer Woitok
2022-10-17  0:00           ` Christopher Dimech
2022-10-17  0:10             ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-10-17  0:32               ` Christopher Dimech
2022-10-17  0:53                 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-10-17  1:18                   ` Christopher Dimech
2022-10-17  4:52                 ` tomas
2022-10-17  5:27                   ` Christopher Dimech
2022-10-20 14:08                     ` Akib Azmain Turja
2022-10-20 16:24                       ` Christopher Dimech
2022-10-20 18:29                         ` tomas
2022-10-20 19:54                           ` Christopher Dimech
2022-10-17  4:49       ` Akib Azmain Turja
2022-10-17  6:44         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-17  7:48           ` tomas
2022-10-17  9:15             ` Thibaut Verron
2022-10-17 23:01               ` Rudolf Adamkovič
2022-10-18  1:01               ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-10-18  1:07                 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-10-18  2:39                 ` Po Lu
2022-10-18  3:50                   ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-10-18 14:11                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-18 16:50                     ` Christopher Dimech
2022-10-18 23:11                     ` Emanuel Berg
2022-10-20 14:05                       ` Akib Azmain Turja [this message]
2022-10-20 17:14                         ` Christopher Dimech
2022-10-17 15:42             ` Christopher Dimech
2022-10-17 11:47         ` Alessandro Bertulli
2022-10-23 10:16 ` Will Mengarini
2022-10-24 14:46   ` Marcin Borkowski
2022-10-24 21:06     ` Emanuel Berg
2022-10-24 21:05   ` Emanuel Berg

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