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Comment by apetresc | Hacker News Reader

Sure, but surely you agree there's a difference in implication, right?

Like, if a headline says "McDonald's Announces It Will Stop Serving McNuggets to Donald Trump", and the story was actually that McDonald's was discontinuing McNuggets altogether (and therefore also to Trump), would you call that misleading or just an honest application of the transitive property?

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If McDonalds sees a certain politician walking toward their register eyeing the picture of nuggets on the overhead screen, and they frantically rush to slap “sold out indefinitely” there… well, then I’ll think they had an agenda.

Chrome wants to get ad revenue on YouTube, but those ads are blocked. Now, it after many years finally decides Manifest v2 has to go? Suspicious.

How dare you tease us with that pornographic hypothetical?

Not the best analogy as we all know that the rationale behind the change is to cripple ad blockers.

If most people thinks that McDonald's actual motive is to starve Trump, then it would be fair to post a headline like that too.

> would you call that misleading or just an honest application of the transitive property?

The latter because McDonalds managers have been publicly discussing how and why they should stop serving nuggets to Trump in order to better protect their customers

That's not true in reality or in your weird twisting of the metaphor. When has Google ever mentioned uBlock specifically?

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