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		tdehnel on April 4, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A man who spent $100K to remove a lie from Google You can use wood to generate heat but no one would plant a tree and call it a campfire.

fwdpropaganda on April 4, 2018 [–]

I knew there was a one-liner in here somewhere but you worded that just perfect :-)

jakeogh on April 12, 2018 | [–]

Why? It's a nonsense analogy. Speech is to conversation as wood is to fire?

Does two people talking somehow make it conceptually different than speech?

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