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A table, with piles of books, organised and labelled by volume, just like in a book shop, really how hard is this? I know this is Hacker News, I know we can be
by teh_klev 10y ago
A table, with piles of books, organised and labelled by volume, just like in a book shop, really how hard is this?
I know this is Hacker News, I know we can be pedants, but jings!....I'm waiting for someone challenge my assumption that there's a table(s) holding them up.
- mikeash 10y agoYou said if you printed out all twelve volumes it would look like that. That's simply not true, it looks like that if you print out many copies. Yes, we can figure out what you mean, but that doesn't make the statement correct or the image not-misleading given the description. I think we generally wouldn't care, except that the context is people who used these sort of silly tactics to deceive people into supporting a terrible war. Even though you're not doing it intentionally and it's not remotely of the same severity, it feels like the very distant sibling of finding some 1980s-era Sarin in a bunker and saying "see, they really did have WMDs!"