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Re:Silicon Valley, the New Lobbying Monster by TeaBrain on Monday October 07, 2024 @01:23PM (#41768437)
They aren't defending smoking. They're referring to the industry and its ethos when it originally grew. While smoking was established as being bad for health in the mid-20th century, this wasn't as clear in the late 19th and early 20th, when the tobacco industry boomed and brought many jobs to the southern US economy.
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Re:Silicon Valley, the New Lobbying Monster by AlbertCory on Monday October 07, 2024 @03:03PM (#41769696)
Who's "they"?
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Re:Silicon Valley, the New Lobbying Monster by TeaBrain on Monday October 07, 2024 @04:22PM (#41770602)
I take it you're being purposefully obtuse, but I was referring to the person you responded to.
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Re:Silicon Valley, the New Lobbying Monster by AlbertCory on Monday October 07, 2024 @05:02PM (#41771013)
> I take it you're being purposefully obtuse

No, but you're being purposefully hyper-sensitive.

If you're replying to someone higher, you should hit Reply on that comment. Not on someone lower down.

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Re:Silicon Valley, the New Lobbying Monster by TeaBrain on Monday October 07, 2024 @05:39PM (#41771351)
No, that was honestly how I interpreted your comment. That may have been the wrong interpretation, but your two word reply didn't leave me with much. I possibly misinterpreted your first comment also, but I wasn't really sure how you were leaning there, whether it be just an absurdity or a question honestly pondered.
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Re:Silicon Valley, the New Lobbying Monster by AlbertCory on Monday October 07, 2024 @05:50PM (#41771431)
OK. All you see when you hit Threads is what YOU said. Not what the person above you said.
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