Comment on An entire state's population just had its data stolen in a ransomware attack

Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Dagrothus@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They probably assumed people would know which state they’re talking about. Classic Maine character syndrome.

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  • Flibbertigibbet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Badum-tsss!

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  • ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Steven King knows.

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• TurboDiesel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  At least they didn’t divide it up into a slideshow, with two lines of the article per slide. I’ve been seeing a ton of those lately.

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  • goldisgood4u@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    THIS. I FUCKING HATE THIS. WHOEVER CAME WITH THAT CAN GET FUCKED.

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• Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Maine hardly counts as “an entire state” by population anyway! 1.3 million? Oooooh, that’s like… San Diego!

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  • NOT_RICK@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And yet it’s still more than 2 Wyomings

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  • coffeebiscuit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The amount of people doesn’t define what a state is.

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    • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Sadly true, that’s why the Senate is so fucking misrepresentative. And the Electoral College.

      Still, I’ll put up with my lack of equal federal voting power for the benefits of living in California.

      I was just cocking a snook at the clickbaity headline.

      And Maine.

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• Walnut356@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  To be fair, “an entire x” does have markedly different meaning than “x”. The emphasis is that it’s, well, the entirety of x. It’s the difference between “i ate the cereal” and “i ate all the cereal”.

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  • ShunkW@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They could have easily fit “the entire state of Maine”.

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    • Walnut356@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      For sure, but as long as clickbait works they’ll keep doing it.

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