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by mingus88 351 days ago
the word cool is pretty much the opposite of bright so that tracks
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What specifically do you mean by this?
I think he's riffing on the essential meaning of the word, e.g. a candle or a bright incandescent bulb cannot be cool- they're literally emitting heat.
That's exactly what I meant to say ;)