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Re: Delete abortion joke


On Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 11:02 AM, Ondřej Bílka <neleai@seznam.cz> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 01:58:19PM -0400, Zack Weinberg wrote:
>> On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 1:07 PM,  <rain1@airmail.cc> wrote:
>> >
>> > I propose the following patch, which deletes the abortion joke from the
>> > glibc manual. The joke does not provide any useful information about the
>> > abort() function so removing it will not hinder use of glibc.
>>
>> Ugh, is that still there?   It wasn't funny twenty years ago and it's
>> only gotten less funny since.  I'm in favor of removing it.  Any
>> objections?
>>
> Objection, it became funny again with Trump's administration.

Oddly enough, I think Trump's election made it even less funny.  But
also, whether or not you think it's a good joke - and I want to
reiterate that I don't think it was _ever_ a good joke - joking about
this particular topic is deeply inappropriate for The Gnu C Library
Manual, in my opinion.

zw


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