Fact-checking is one thing, but they didn’t even spell-check.

It’s because they know how to use rm -rf, and they don’t know how to use rmdir. Honestly, I can’t think of a single time I’ve ever successfully removed a directory with rmdir. I always wind up using something else.

Just give rm the entire path or a relative path like ./~

Whoopsie daisy-cutter.

Douglas Crockford has a whole chapter of these in his latest book. There’s also this classic video.

cues*

That’s like saying

“Nazism is a system and just that, it has no moral, therefore cannot be evil.”

or

“The Transatlantic slave trade is a system and just that, it has no moral, therefore cannot be evil.”

What are you talking about? Systems are created by people; they don’t just pop into existence.