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by factcheckdec 1495 days ago
Did their clarification truly merit such a snarky response?
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gjvc 1495 days ago
it wasn't clarification; it was repetition
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hombre_fatal 1495 days ago
No, the comment did make it sound like it was PG’s resilience that saved the data. In fact that seems to be the whole point of the comment.

So the snark does seem out of place and the clarification useful.

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gjvc 1495 days ago
nice bit of white-knighting there
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lelanthran 1495 days ago
> nice bit of white-knighting there

Is it really constructive to throw insults[1]? I explained myself above, after all.

[1] I had to look it up to see what it means: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_knight. Since we aren't in a business context, I can only assume that you think I am female :-)

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