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		PavlovsCat on May 18, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Welcome to Google Island If you went to a video rental store (back when those existed) and the guy recommended 3 videos to you and 1 was a clunker, you wouldn't be annoyed. Can you speak for yourself? You're kinda proving the point here. Know yourself, but don't pretend to know or speak for others... that goes for everybody, orders of magnitude more so for corporations.

tomkarlo on May 21, 2013 [–]

Using "you" in that context doesn't mean I'm "speaking for you". It's a didactic device used to convey a hypothetical situation.

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