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bullshit, simply.


...or hyperbole, if you want to be more charitable.


One can use truths to bullshit; that's what media, marketing, corporate do. In this case, phrases such as 'further than ever', 'the most powerful ever made', 'the largest and most .. ever created' are hedged. One has to add many missing ceteris paribus clauses (which cetera is paria?) to make something out of these lines. Media, corporate people don't lie, but they use truths to bullshit.


Or "technically, the truth" since all of the statements are the truth colored by marketing speak :)




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