From: nunojsilva@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 2025-12-23, John Ames wrote:   
      
   > On Tue, 23 Dec 2025 21:45:34 -0000 (UTC)   
   > Lawrence D’Oliveiro  wrote:   
   >   
   >> > *A.* that's not what a straw-man argument is ...   
   >> > ... Obviously, having trouble with a misbehaving website is a   
   >> > smaller thing than burning to death in a badly-renovated apartment   
   >> > building.   
   >>   
   >> You say no, and then you say yes.   
   >   
   > A straw-man argument is, to quote Wikipedia, "the informal fallacy of   
   > refuting an argument different from the one actually under discussion,   
   > while not recognizing or acknowledging the distinction." Shoddy work-   
      
   Now that's funny, because I think this describes almost perfectly   
   *Lawrence's* reactions in several threads here.   
      
   > manship (in apartment renovation) is a *smaller* thing than shoddy   
   > workmanship (in web design,) but not, fundamentally, a *different* one.   
      
   [...]   
      
   > (Of course, the "best viewed with XYZ" attitude itself is alive and   
   > well today, in the form of sites that redirect all user agents outside   
   > of the Approved Browser List to a FOAD-you-heathen page...)   
      
   And this is now available as a commercial service through Cloudflare.   
      
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   Nuno Silva   
      
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