• Aurix@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Badly worded article name. This is nothing new. Ukraine can’t use foreign airbases and immediately fly strikes already. In other news, water is wet.

    • acargitz@lemmy.ca
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      7 months ago

      [Putin] “warned that any Western air base hosting U.S.-made F-16 fighter jets that are slated for deployment in Ukraine would be a “legitimate target””

      The article title looks pretty accurate to me.

      • otp@sh.itjust.works
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        7 months ago

        Colloquially, it’s wet.

        Merriam-Webster’s first definition is…

        consisting of, containing, covered with, or soaked with liquid (such as water)

        Water is definitely consisting of liquid (such as water).

        I know “water isn’t wet” became a meme, but I think a lot of people who repeat it genuinely believe it to be true. And it may be true, by some definitions of the word. But colloquially, it’s false.

        • Yer Ma@lemm.ee
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          7 months ago

          I didn’t come here for facts, I came to be a sassy b

          • otp@sh.itjust.works
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            7 months ago

            I think the colloquial definition is something like “will my hand get wet if I put my hand in it? Then it’s wet”.

            If, instead, you’d get maimed or killed, then wet doesn’t seem to fit.