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Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> writes:

> […] as Ben Finney pointed out. (BTW I agree with literally every
> single thing he said in this thread, it's really amazing.)

Hmm, writing that doesn't annoy somebody is not worth writing [0].

It shouldn't annoy *everyone* though, so I'm glad to know you can agree
with me this time :-)


[0] often attributed to Kingley Amis, as “If you can't annoy somebody,
there's little point in writing.” though I can't find the source for
that aphorism.

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