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by AnimalMuppet 1711 days ago
Waaaaay back in the day, the Electro Motive Division (EMD) of General Motors make railroad locomotive. They had the GP-20 with 2000 horsepower, and the SD-24 with 2400 HP. Then General Electric entered the business with the U-25, having 2500 HP. EMD's next model was the GP-30, with (ahem) 2250 HP. This was in 1961.

So, yeah. This is nothing new. Marketers gonna market.
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User23 1711 days ago
What’s really disappointing is that we as a society chose to accept commercial prevarication. The fine print exception is sheer bullshit. Dishonest marketing should be treated the same as dishonest weights and measures.
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N00bN00b 1710 days ago
Kind of makes sense. People probably didn't all of a sudden become more dishonest. Thanks.
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