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      6 hours ago

      Maybe you’ve have enough Internet for today but before you go, allow me to explain:

      When someone says something like that, they don’t literally mean it.

      “I love tacos” does not actually mean that I have genuine feelings of love for them (even if they are delicious).

      It’s just a phrase.

      • 0xDREADBEEF@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        4 hours ago

        Ah, so I guess I shouldn’t take it as “Valve is a good actor” at all? That’s just the wrong interpretation or something? Valve is not an actor. It cannot be a good one. For profit corporations are, by definition, not aiming for net positivity.

        Tacos are not actors. No one says “I love tacos” because they witnessed tacos acting in a behavior they deemed ‘good’. They say “I love tacos” because it gives them satisfaction when they eat them. No one says “I love Meta” in the same way people say “I love Tacos” because they think Facebook is a good actor for doing some open source stuff. No one says “I love Meta” because “I love Meta” is “just a phrase” as you put it. That makes no sense.