• makeshift0546@lemmy.today
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    17 days ago

    I’d love for a law that made it illegal to use “X users” and require absolute numbers.

    Is all rage bait.

    • Eximius@lemmy.world
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      17 days ago

      How is this rage bait? It is simply properly used English language…??

      Edit: To the lurking downvoters: Since when people started interpreting “mac users” to mean (according to the context here) semi-all? A qualifier of “some” i guess is what you would like, but it’s not incorrect (It’s proper to just say “mac users”, or for example “fishermen use worms as bait”.

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      16 days ago

      They mentioned 2000 stars on the Github repo, which could be 1:1 or 1:1000 that have used it. What do you expect them to do, walk around and put a gun to the head of every mac user and ask them if they used it?

      • makeshift0546@lemmy.today
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        16 days ago

        Absolute numbers in the headline. How much more explicit do I need to be? .002% of Mac users, at best.