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    7 months ago

    real potatoes

    I imagine that this tactic implies that there is something else that they might be made from that’s undesirable.

    I remember a modem ad once from the 1990s for a modem – probably 33.6kbps or so — that proudly stated, with an exclamation mark, that it also supported <list of slower speeds>. Of course, so did all the competing modems…