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Re:Google illegally underpaid thousands of workers by labster on Friday September 10, 2021 @08:14PM (#28488280)
This kind of pedantry about which words people use to make an argument is literally garbage.
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Re:Google illegally underpaid thousands of workers by tomrod on Friday September 10, 2021 @10:15PM (#28488911)
To continue the spirit of the many nested comments now going back and forth:

Metaphorically.

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Re:Google illegally underpaid thousands of workers by eyelidlessness on Saturday September 11, 2021 @12:16AM (#28489392)
People who have high regard for it are literally queer. Reference: myself.
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Re:Google illegally underpaid thousands of workers by Dylan16807 on Saturday September 11, 2021 @06:01AM (#28490719)
What's 'it' here, I can't tell if you have high regard for pedantry about words or if you have high regard for semantic drift.
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Re:Google illegally underpaid thousands of workers by tomrod on Saturday September 11, 2021 @06:46AM (#28490865)
It's beautiful and full of stars.
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Re:Google illegally underpaid thousands of workers by eyelidlessness on Saturday September 11, 2021 @11:15AM (#28492640)
The latter
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Re:Google illegally underpaid thousands of workers by tomrod on Friday September 10, 2021 @11:25PM (#28489192)
I appreciate the compliment.
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Re:Google illegally underpaid thousands of workers by bregma on Saturday September 11, 2021 @07:26AM (#28491041)
I think you mean figuratively garbage. Words can only be literally garbage if they're printed on a page which is then disposed of.

I mean, while we're being pedantic we may as well get it right.

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