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Re:GitHub, fuck your name change by XorNot on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @05:37AM (#26488638)
Yeah and just think, then we could also tell those people about how a wrongly accused man in not their country was released after charitable efforts to clear his name, in the process overturning a negligent evidence handling process which will make things much better going forwards!

And...it still wouldn't matter to those people at all because it wouldn't change their specific situation!

This is a pretty insipid argument.

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Re:GitHub, fuck your name change by Brian_K_White on Friday March 19, 2021 @07:09AM (#26511984)
There was no argument. It was an image.

But the parent argument is valid, you just somehow missed it despite it being descibed and illustrated.

github's action isn't absurd because it doesn't change any random person's situation. It's absurd because of the specific people whose specific situations are not improved.

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