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From: Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>
To: Akib Azmain Turja <akib@disroot.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Morally equivalent
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2022 19:14:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <trinity-c1514d32-69dd-4dd3-828f-21533867cfce-1666286040737@3c-app-mailcom-bs08> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wn8u8ua9.fsf@disroot.org>

> Sent: Friday, October 21, 2022 at 2:05 AM
> From: "Akib Azmain Turja" <akib@disroot.org>
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Morally equivalent
>
> 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.

The waste of time was arguing for "Morally Equivalent", when an OP wants
a clarification.

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> Akib Azmain Turja
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  reply	other threads:[~2022-10-20 17:14 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
2022-10-20 17:14                         ` Christopher Dimech [this message]
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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