• @[email protected]
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    181 month ago

    The “Everybody had one” caption in the thumbnail is patiently false. I think they’ve only found a few hundred of them, which means not everybody had one.

    • SheridanOP
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      51 month ago

      Are you interpreting it literally? It’s a figure of speech—a kind of hyperbole; it’s just a way of implying something was common, not that literally every person had one.

      Whether it actually was common though, I don’t know. Joe here might be taking some liberties for the sake of a catchy thumbnail.

      • @[email protected]
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        1 month ago

        “Everybody had one” is not a figure of speech or even hyperbole. It is a very simple literal claim, which also happens to be a flat out lie.

      • @[email protected]
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        71 month ago

        It’s a race to the bottom. Everything is blown the hell outta proportion until meaning is well meaningless.

    • FundMECFS
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      21 month ago

      Yeah that really bothered me. A lot of people are going to interpret that literally. I hate that sort of clickbait.