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by rdtsc 4405 days ago
> "why are you spreading lies".

But I also didn't say you are spreading lies maliciously. You can spread them unknowingly via mis-communication.

I could post something like "Large parts of the Linux kernel are written in C++". And it would be spreading lies. But it could be just be me being confused as well or thinking that a C++ compiler will compile C and that C is a largely a subset of C++.

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> I also didn't say you are spreading lies maliciously

My objection wasn't that you imputed malice; it was that you went straight to "spreading lies" instead of expressing uncertainty about what I meant. And you were wrong about what I meant.

> You can spread them unknowingly via mis-communication.

Which, since you were wrong about what I meant, is what you did when you said I was "spreading lies".