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[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 59 points 12 hours ago

Or to quote from a book I own:

This page is accidentally left blank

[-] renegadespork@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 7 hours ago

I always thought that is funny, but I think they do that to ensure blank pages aren’t skipped by the printer.

[-] Midnitte@beehaw.org 1 points 3 hours ago

Probably helps protect the pages before being bound too (at least historically)

[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Just once I want one of those to say what it really means.

Please don't return this book, it hurts our numbers. We just had an extra page ¯\(ツ)

[-] OpenStars@piefed.social 3 points 12 hours ago

Maybe to avoid all the page numbering after that being shifted?

[-] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 8 points 12 hours ago

Maybe a play on "This page intentionally left blank" from the IBM manuals

[-] lud@lemm.ee 7 points 10 hours ago

This is in no way unique to IBM manuals.

The phrase is present in loads of books and in some cases has been for quite a few years.

https://meh.com/forum/topics/nothing-is-lacking-the-long-history-of-intentionally-blank-pages

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22this+page+intentionally+left+blank&udm=36

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 4 points 12 hours ago

That would make sense. It's a playful book with many jokes in it

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 1 points 12 hours ago

It's the very first page and the second one is page 2

[-] OpenStars@piefed.social 1 points 12 hours ago

So then it would affect literally all the pages in the book, if it were removed!?!:-P

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 2 points 12 hours ago

Well, it's not uncommon to leave the first page blank or with some generic stuff. Someone else already pointed out that it might be an inside joke

[-] elvith@feddit.org 9 points 11 hours ago

And that's why it's called "production environment" I guess

[-] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 12 points 14 hours ago
[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 13 hours ago

Hmmm. I was having issues with images on my lemmy host taking forever to propagate so I used postimages for this one. The gremlin is following me.

I'll attempt to fix.

[-] VerPoilu@sopuli.xyz 5 points 13 hours ago
[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 2 points 12 hours ago

Took me until I saw OP's answer to realize it wasn't a joke

[-] akkajdh999@programming.dev 3 points 11 hours ago

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[-] propter_hog@hexbear.net 8 points 13 hours ago

So this is why everyone's getting e. coli.

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