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  • “to make a long story short” - especially when used multiple times in one story and/or as a mindless audiospace filler to hold control of the conversation while assembling more thoughts/words… without knowing both the long and short version it literally adds nothing to the communication, it literally makes the story longer every time you use it (wasting my time), it’s probably the longest socially acceptable way to say that (one could just say: “in short”), and it’s got just enough word-scramble verbal complexity to occupy the higher order English parsing logic.















  • xia@lemmy.sdf.orgOPtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldApple Envy
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    8 months ago

    I would agree insomuch as Google’s privacy issues are better known.

    Nonetheless, we are comparing two jail cells. One has a finger-puzzle that opens the cell-doors (and an obvious surveillance camera), and the other one is securely locked with a less-obvious/hidden camera (iphone backups)… and the issue at hand is akin to removing the finger-puzzle because the captives keep opening it to let baddies join them.