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Have you looked for Kyiv on a map recently in relation to Russia and particular the Belarus border? Of course it's "on the cusp of encircling Kyiv" - it's less
by stefan_ 5y ago
Have you looked for Kyiv on a map recently in relation to Russia and particular the Belarus border?
Of course it's "on the cusp of encircling Kyiv" - it's less distance than the average US drive to WalMart.
- gruez 5y ago>Of course it's "on the cusp of encircling Kyiv" - it's less distance than the average US drive to WalMart. I doubt it. I checked the distance from the center of Kyiv to the closest Belarus border and it was around 55 miles. The actual distance is probably higher because I'm taking the distance over the lake/river that's north of Kyiv. Meanwhile... >For most people in the United States, a Wal-Mart is literally just down the road. The median distance to a Wal-Mart in the United States is 4.2 miles https://www.minneapolisfed.org/article/2006/thomas-j-holmes-on-walmarts-location-strategy https://www.minneapolisfed.org/article/2006/thomas-j-holmes-...
- traviswt 5y agoWhy did you just fact check hyperbole?
- skissane 5y agoA degree of pragmatic language impairment – inability to detect hyperbole/exaggeration/sarcasm/etc leads to responding in a literal manner to comments intended to be taken non-literally. Commonly associated with autism, but people who aren't remotely autistic can also display it when tired, drunk, stressed, emotional, using a foreign language in which they have imperfect fluency, etc. It is even more likely online, due to lacking other cues (such as tone of voice).
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- vanusa 5y agoBecause the statement it references is patently silly?
- jacquesm 5y agoI think that was meant as a figure of speech.