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Re:Sam Altman’s Worldcoin promised them free crypto for an e... by micromacrofoot on Thursday April 07, 2022 @07:59PM (#30951791)
it is a little “word softening” though, we might be better off calling a fig a fig
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Re:Sam Altman’s Worldcoin promised them free crypto for an e... by munificent on Friday April 08, 2022 @11:20AM (#30958258)
It's literally not, though. The whole point of "theatre" is to emphasize that it's not real.

If you call something "counterfeit currency", the word "counterfeit" isn't "softening", it's negating.

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