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Re:Six Ideas for Poland by aguaviva on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @05:45PM (#41505931)
You're pulling numbers (and a whole lot of other dodgy assertions) out of the air, and no, it's not fine at all.

On top of that -- when politely confronted for having done so, rather than simply acknowledge what (up until then) might have been charitably dismissed as a mistake -- you doubled down on these purely invented numbers.

It's flame bait, and against site guidelines, which instruct us that comments be "more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive".

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re:Six Ideas for Poland by pphysch on Wednesday September 11, 2024 @12:19PM (#41512822)
There's no authoritative source on Ukrainian casualties so smearing an educated estimate (within an order of magnitude of Ukrainian war-propaganda figures) as "flamebait", while dodging the main points, is hilariously off-base and itself constitutes bad-faith engagement and flamebait. Classic misdirection.

I won't be engaging further with your new, single-purpose user account.