On: Rethinking Triplebyte

[twphysicsphd99]

i felt the same way, astroturf marketing

[pc86 → twphysicsphd99]

That's not what astroturf means.

[twphysicsphd99 → pc86]

the word astroturf doesn't matter

this post is marketing with commenters associated with the company

[pc86 → twphysicsphd99]

If you want people to take your point seriously you should probably learn how to communicate it.

[twphysicsphd99 → pc86]

what does astroturf mean?

[CRConrad → twphysicsphd99]

It's a brand of artificial lawn for sports arenas, plastic "grass", which has given rise to the idiom "astroturf campaign" = "fake grassroots campaign".