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To be fair, maybe the OP was hoping they'd provide an explanation as to why. I have the same question too and I don't presume to be smarter than they are.


In that case, a question along the lines of I'm curious why... would have been perfectly appropriate. I don't see why just comes across as I know better. But perhaps English isn't their native language.


But perhaps English isn't their native language.

Or perhaps there are regional variants of English where this is a normal way to ask a question. There are probably lots of idioms that work in one area but would be offensive in another, and it's not always easy to predict.


I am pretty sure that phrasing comes off as aggressively rude in all regional variants.


For what it's worth, that kind of surety that one knows every region comes off as rude in quite a few places as well.

For example, it was quite amusing and annoying watching a coworker insist that the rural area I originally came from isn't rural because it doesn't meet his personal definition, though he had never even been to the state.

"I don't see why" is a valid way of expressing a lack of understanding combined with a spirit of collaboration where I am from.


I see where you're coming from. I'm used to hearing that kind of phrasing in-person so that's probably why I took it differently.


It’s probably a bandwidth problem and they probably have more important things to do transmit than videos. Although I think a little bit of Showbusiness is probably good for NASA.




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