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Re:Ford CEO says EVs will be sold 100% online with nonnegoti... by jayceekay on Thursday June 02, 2022 @10:46PM (#31603659)
> "Diplomacy is the art of saying “good dog” until you make it to the rock."

this was new to me and the 'to the rock' part didn't make sense to me, so i looked it up.

http://marvin.cs.uidaho.edu/About/quotes.html this page says it's actually this: "Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggy' until you can find a rock."

find a rock as in kill them? :O

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Re:Ford CEO says EVs will be sold 100% online with nonnegoti... by toomuchtodo on Thursday June 02, 2022 @10:55PM (#31603718)
No canines we’re harmed in using the turn of phrase in my above comment.
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Re:Ford CEO says EVs will be sold 100% online with nonnegoti... by thomasjudge on Thursday June 02, 2022 @11:34PM (#31603975)
It doesn't have to be killing them, if a stray hostile dog is harassing you throwing a rock at it might make it go away
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Re:Ford CEO says EVs will be sold 100% online with nonnegoti... by ask_b123 on Friday June 03, 2022 @09:59AM (#31608371)
"the" was especially confusing to me and also had to look it up.
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