Trash – a safer alternative to rm

There are several memes circulating the Linux space: not knowing how to exit vim, invoking sudo to get someone to make you a sandwich, how Linux is the stuff clouds are made of, &c &c.
Recently I fell victim to my own stupidity and re-created one such meme – I managed to rm -rf {$important_directory}.
Oh, sure, I used Git, but what does Git’s history help you, if you deleted the whole repository.
Luckily, after I made some tea and calmed down, I remembered I had working backups1, so all was fine, but lessons were learnt (for the umpfth time) …and today I will tell you how to avoid this issue in the first place. (But do set up backups still!)
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