• blusterydayve26
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    11 days ago

    People weren’t using them ambiguously, drive manufactures picked a non-standard unit to lie with on their boxes, and then tricked courts into going along with their shit because it was the old case of money vs truth.

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      11 days ago

      Maybe I used the wrong word. Interchangeably would be better?

      And vendors merely abused the situation. The “kilo” had many people already using it incorrectly.