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> basically

> probably

> bunch

> hopefully

> pretty sure

> almost




What are you trying to say?


They're all from the post I was replying to, once I realised how meaningless the post was because of all of these, I gave up taking it seriously


I'm not going to say that this is necessarily true, but why even post anything if you're going to waffle that much?


CF down means an unclear but sizeable amount of the internet down, so “basically half”. There’s no info on CF usage by government, but “probably a bunch” is a realistic guess. Voters opinions vary, but there are chances that they see that blocking is unreasonable, so “hopefully almost no one”.

It’s a post with all the proper quantifiers and hypotheticals, which demanding people will demand the other day due to overgeneralization.




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