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Perhaps “dead Italians” isn’t the greatest example data to be using at this moment.


I'm Italian, living in Italy. I didn't feel anything bad going on with the example. Actually I was happy to see an example about Italy. It's a rarity.


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It refers to covid-19


I know. The blog post examples are about Italian writers, not about corona victims. It's a homage if anything. Stop being insulted on behalf of other people, there's no harm being done here.


> Stop being insulted on behalf of other people, there's no harm being done here.

Take you own advice and let the author respond, then, rather than being insulted on his behalf.


I'm not insulted on anyone's behalf. You're trying to make perfectly harmless writing taboo. My own perfectly harmless writing will be next.

The article example is about Umberto Eco. He's dead. Corona didn't kill him. Get over it.


OP is just politely asking the author to be considerate of the current situation in Italy. There’s no need to be overly sensitive.


Are you trolling me?


I’m saying that OP’s comment was reasonable and polite, yet you seem to be taking it personally for some reason.

The issue they brought up has to do with an entirely superficial part of the article. This is a vanishingly small hill to die on.


Then why are you dying on it?


I'm not; I'm dying on the hill of "someone made a respectful comment to the author so let's not act like they've done something horribly wrong".


What version of Node.js is currently running in Cloud Functions for Firebase? I assume it's LTS?


v6.9.1


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Love ddg.

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