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I'm not the one throwing baseless accusations around.

"He was mean to me once" isn't that interesting, especially without anything concrete to back it up.

First, that's whataboutism. Second, you are, actually. And what the other fellow said is not at all baseless, and he did back it up. GB is well known for being argumentative, highly opinionated, and rude. But people make allowances for those who put in the work, and GB certainly does.

First, no it isn't. What baseless accusation did I make?

I haven't seen the conversations he is referring to, he didn't link to or quote anything. It's just some general complaint about Bill, which may be true but who cares?

Nothing you say is true. I'm done with you.

Can we stop digression and keep the thread focused on undefined behaviors and practices that makes code less straight forward to read, please?

Me being "well known" in general is news to me. However, the people I am that way are usually people like yourself. I am argumentative with people like yourself, however I try not to be "rude" but I am not always "nice". I think this is probably a cultural distinction where I make a distinction between Niceness and Politeness. Rudeness is the not-being-polite, rather than not-being-nice.

As for my "highly opinionated" things, honestly, I don't think I am that opinionated about many things, but I guess the ones I am on, they are the "well known" aspects. If I am wrong about something, I will gladly change my opinion given a good argument or set of facts.

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