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		dang on April 8, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A man is looking for the friends who shipped him o... "Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents." We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26743596.

tpmx on April 8, 2021 [–]

I now agree it was a mistake. I genuinely thought it would be an interesting, eh, tangent. Sorry.

dang on April 8, 2021 | [–]

It's true that it's not always easy to predict.

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