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Literal has been used as a non-literal exaggeration for centuries.

They are going by volume, so the overall successes matter and the reason for why the rest are unsuccessful doesn’t matter.

Phone numbers get reused all the time, so if they pull the number from the pool they miss a possible future opportunity. This is important when lack of success would massively shrink their pool of numbers at no real cost savings to them since they are going for volume anyway.

Basically you are asking from a logical and well intended point of view, but telemarketers are approaching it from a maliciously logical volume method that benefits from stumbling across enough gullible people to make the rest of the volume worth it.

If the bar cared they would say something to you.

Placed at the very end it would be evenly balanced at 50 lbs. It would be OK around 20ish lbs that didn’t move, but a little weight plus setting things down would make it wiggle and possibly tip since something moving down has more force than the object itself.

It becomes more and more apparent as time goes on.

Hamas tunnels existed under some infrastructure, better destroy all the infrastructure!

Hamas pretended to be journalists to spy, better kill all the journalists!

Hamas uses human shields, better kill all the human shields!

Hell, non-terrorist countries make their military buildings look like regular infrastructure frequently and embed intelligence gathering personnel with protected people like journalists to spy. The third one just sounds like propaganda against Hamas anyway since desperate people sacrificing themselves to defend their people would be seen as noble by anyone who agreed that they should be able to defend their people.

“Are we the baddies?”

Without the base being under the table it is just a lever. Sure, people run into this, but you basically need a large and solid frame off to the side to keep it from tipping.

Like, a really gnarly take!

The same reason that a salad with a bunch of different vegetables is better than blending them all into a consistent slurry. Or how some soups are far better chunky than blended into a smooth consistency.

When the flavors are mixed none of them stand out and you lose the associated textures. That can work in some cases, but not all.

One thing that I have learned is that concentrating on something means doing it, whether concentrating on doing it right or wrong. So trying to not do something generally means doing the wrong thing because that is what I’m thinking about.

Doesn’t help with clumsy stuff that just kinda happens, but at least I stopped focusing on avoiding mistakes and then making those mistakes and reduced the overall number.

Australian upvotes.

I found antiperspirant to stain clothes, but not deodorant.

The odds of all top level commenters being on your blocklist is low since there are multiple top level commenters, it has happened to me when all replies were to a single top level commenter on my block list.

Neat!

You get a government set rate for the house, not what it could sell for on the open market.

Your opinion is wrong.

Star Wars in either 81 or 82 when it had additional theatrical runs.

Still love it.

It is possible that you just merged together as some kind of Cronenburg monstrosity, like in The Fly.

My left arm is now part of the wall, so at least I didn’t die outright.

load the jew zone

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