• 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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    1 month ago

    If you are willing to pay for something most reasonable people agree does not exist, you should not be able to sue for fraud. Like if you buy a product called “literally snake oil” and get upset that it is literally snake oil, that’s on you.

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      1 month ago

      I expected oil derived from snakes or oil for lubricating snakes, if its not literal snake oil, I’m gonna ask for a refund.

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        30 days ago

        Snake oil was oil from snakes. Ok well it was advertised as such, the stuff in the bottle had never been a part of any reptile. Patent medicine was just like that, not only was it never what they said it was, what they said it was didn’t do what they said it did.

        • Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca
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          30 days ago

          not only was it never what they said it was,

          Ok, so it wasn’t actually oil made from snakes that they are selling.

          what they said it was didn’t do what they said it did.

          So actual ‘snake oil’ (as in, oil made from snakes) doesn’t do what they said their product does. But what their selling isn’t actually oil made from snakes.

          So does whatever they’re actually selling, do what they’re saying it does?

    • Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca
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      30 days ago

      I’d just like to add I actually work with a product called ‘snake oil’.

      Its a lubricant and protective coating for drain snakes

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      1 month ago

      After looking at a bunch of esoteric stuff and philosophy, I think the soul is just your conciseness.

      It exists. No one knows how or why. It’s a scientific mystery. And we all have it.