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Comment by dylan604

4 days ago

Just because you don't need to interact with all of them today does not mean that interaction isn't required when needed.

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robotresearcher  4 days ago

Right, but “two or three out of potentially hundreds” doesn’t mean the same as “hundreds”.

That’s the hyperbole the parent was pointing out.

  • reaperducer  3 days ago

    I don't think it's hyperbole as much as it is just regular ordinary everyday slang.

    "I have a hundred things to do today" doesn't mean that a person has 100 things on their list for that day.

    Outside of tech bubbles, people talk like that.

    It's like how the Bible uses the number 40 as a shortcut for any very large number. 40 years in the desert, 40 days of rain, etc… It's not a calendar, it's an illustrative euphemism.