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Re:Water is bursting from another abandoned West Texas oil w... by lupusreal on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @04:36PM (#40662801)
Google ngrams reveals his claim to be flagrant horse shit. The term wasn't popular until several decades after standard oil ceased to exist.
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Re:Water is bursting from another abandoned West Texas oil w... by selimthegrim on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @09:27PM (#40664995)
That may be true, but Google ngrams is hardly holy writ in the matter.
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Re:Water is bursting from another abandoned West Texas oil w... by dredmorbius on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @09:50PM (#40665138)
That may be true, but EricE is parroting long-since-debunked fake Facebook memes:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40664837>

Enough bullshit flinging already, eh?

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