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0 pointspaol9y ago0 comments

Kerosene lamps were ubiquitous before electric lighting. Look at the pictures in the wikipedia page[0], you'll recognize them for sure.

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It seems that, in trying to make a second point, jgrahamc accidentally proved his first.

It wasn't an accident. I was showing that the ambiguity introduced by his language means that it's hard to understand what's really going on.

Well that was clever. :-)

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0 pointspaol9y ago0 comments

Kerosene lamps were ubiquitous before electric lighting. Look at the pictures in the wikipedia page[0], you'll recognize them for sure.

It seems that, in trying to make a second point, jgrahamc accidentally proved his first.

It wasn't an accident. I was showing that the ambiguity introduced by his language means that it's hard to understand what's really going on.

Well that was clever. :-)

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse