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IAmBroomyesterday at 5:48 PM2 repliesview on HN

The word "officially" is the massive wiggle-word here.

Only one person on Earth has officially seen the color of my coffee mug. Send me Venmo for $10, and I'll officiate your viewing of the attached JPG....


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soupspacesyesterday at 10:02 PM

I'd heard of weasel words but now that you mention it they do tend to be rather wiggly

SamBamyesterday at 5:55 PM

Except that this requires extremely specialized equipment to individually trigger specific cone cells in your eyes, so I expect they have a pretty damn good idea of who has seen this and who hasn't.

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