Comment on An entire state's population just had its data stolen in a ransomware attack
Walnut356@programming.dev 7 months agoTo 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”.
ShunkW@lemmy.world 7 months ago
They could have easily fit “the entire state of Maine”.
Walnut356@programming.dev 7 months ago
For sure, but as long as clickbait works they’ll keep doing it.