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White-Knighting for 'fucking morons' is not a good look though. You'll end up in a world where packets of peanuts have a label on saying 'may contain nuts'.
by briansm 2y ago
White-Knighting for 'fucking morons' is not a good look though. You'll end up in a world where packets of peanuts have a label on saying 'may contain nuts'.
- rjh29 2y agoWhich would be doubly silly as peanuts aren't actually nuts.
- jhugo 2y ago… which is why the label makes sense. They may have been contaminated with nuts during production.
- bryanrasmussen 2y agoI think acting as if peanuts are actually nuts for purposes of communication is much more defensible than acting as if tomatoes are vegetables, in short you are dying on a hill that was paved over long ago.
- rjh29 2y agoI agree most people will conflate them, but someone who's allergic to peanuts but not tree nuts (or vice versa), i.e. the people the labels are intended for, are going to care about the difference.
- briansm 2y ago... or a world where grown adults pay millions of dollars to watch grown adults fighting like school children. In fact, what am I even doing in this thread? - close-tab.
- TRiG_Ireland 2y agoThat's the biggest confusion to me. Why on earth was this such a big deal? But perhaps Hacker News isn't the best place for that conversation.
- horns4lyfe 2y agoAnd you think white knighting for managers who call their directs all “fucking morons” is a good look?