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Re:Rethinking Triplebyte by twphysicsphd99 on Thursday June 17, 2021 @02:57PM (#27543171)
i felt the same way, astroturf marketing
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Re:Rethinking Triplebyte by pc86 on Thursday June 17, 2021 @04:15PM (#27544068)
That's not what astroturf means.
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Re:Rethinking Triplebyte by twphysicsphd99 on Thursday June 17, 2021 @05:52PM (#27544852)
the word astroturf doesn't matter

this post is marketing with commenters associated with the company

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Re:Rethinking Triplebyte by pc86 on Friday June 18, 2021 @07:52AM (#27549413)
If you want people to take your point seriously you should probably learn how to communicate it.
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Re:Rethinking Triplebyte by twphysicsphd99 on Friday June 18, 2021 @01:40PM (#27552840)
what does astroturf mean?
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Re:Rethinking Triplebyte by CRConrad on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @07:00PM (#27682874)
It's a brand of artificial lawn for sports arenas, plastic "grass", which has given rise to the idiom "astroturf campaign" = "fake grassroots campaign".
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