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A comment on A remote island's battle against seabird-killing ants (2015). Parent comment
> But what is that in the face of your feelings?
You know damn well that was a idiomatic way of saying "according to my not-necessarily-infalliable estimation of the relevant information".
> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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> But what is that in the face of your feelings?
You know damn well that was a idiomatic way of saying "according to my not-necessarily-infalliable estimation of the relevant information".
> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html