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[–] InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 68 points 1 day ago (16 children)

Stainless steel. Because the common understanding of stainless is not what the stainless in stainless steel means.

Organic foods. Obviously this varies by location, but there are no universally standardized and enforced definitions of what it means to be organic that it comes close to being meaningless. You'd be surprised at what "organic" growers can get away with.

Genuine leather. It's so misleading it's pretty easy to argue that it's essentially a lie.

20% off. When it's the same cost as it was last month, you just upped the price, then put it on sale, so that in the end it evens out.

[–] mech@feddit.org 53 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Genuine leather is not a lie.
It's leather that's so low quality, the only positive thing you can say about it is that it's actually leather.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago

We live in an age where something actually being what it is is a surprise.

  • Chocolate (often brown sugar paste)
  • Ice cream (often frozen oil)
  • Social media (often antisocial or parasocial)
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