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[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Stainless steel also stains. "Stainless" does not mean "never stains," just that it stains less than other steels.

Endless Spotless Stainless Steel is a steel that stains, has fewer spots, and ends a bit later. The logic of English is all but senseless. Which therefore means it has everything except a bit less sense?

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 8 months ago

I found out way too late that "all but" means exactly the same thing as "almost". If "all but X" is taken literally, it should mean "you can describe this thing in lots of ways, but it's definitely not X".

(I am not a native English speaker but I use English more then my native tongue due to being online so much)

[–] DeweyOxberger@kbin.social 4 points 8 months ago

Look, we all know the only thing stainless steel is good for is the temporal flux dispersion. In all other ways it's a PITA.

[–] azerial@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 8 months ago

Just like the exterior of their new gigafactory in Austin.

[–] MSugarhill@feddit.de 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What the washing alcohol off fleck? Do they not know that alcohol evaporates without a trace?

[–] frezik@midwest.social 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Alcohol evaporates, but the stuff you were trying to clean off does not.

[–] MSugarhill@feddit.de 2 points 8 months ago

One would think that this is gone too after changing towel. But anyway, that us not what's written in the manual...

[–] Kben@kbin.social 1 points 8 months ago
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