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I'm fucking done with Chrome. Fuck this.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 10 months ago (3 children)

It's like trying to stop a fire by committing arson

I get the point you’re trying to make, but we regularly actually start fires to prevent fires.

[–] DumbAceDragon 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's true. Maybe I should've picked my analogy better lol.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Big reason why analogies are fallacies: they're never a 1:1 representation of the subject and hand and usually serve to derail the conversation by making people debate the merits of the analogy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

A forest fire can’t burn the leaves you already burned a few months ago.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

🤣🤣🤣 beat me to it, like almost literally verbatim what I was going to say.