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Call me a cynic but these days it just seems like “mistakes” like these and the many examples from commercials and games must be deliberate. I mean why try to aim for something flawless when intentional mistakes can help make your content go viral.

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It's a painful "mistake". Running a marathon is painful. Your legs run out of glycogen after about 30km and all you can think of is "I want to stop". I'm surprised her mind was sharp enough to pick up the mistake.

Time: 3h 46m, pace: 5:21. That's fast for what is more like a training run. She could probably do solid 5:00 pace in a real competition.

https://www.strava.com/activities/3326004383

I think parent meant that it may have been planned before the actual running. Also, forgetting one letter is less painful than having surplus letters.

By the way, if you look at that map, the path would require more spacing between the O and the G, because the vertical pillars of N would otherwise overlap with the vertical lines in O and G. Compare with the spacing between O and N in "BOSTON".

> 3h 46m, pace: 5:21

For the Americans like me who are briefly confused, that is per km pace. More like 8:37 per mile.

One can train the body to burn some fat when running even when glycogen stores are full. That allows to push the depletion phase past the marathon distance. But according to my buddy who runs marathons such training is in itself is rather painful.

I thought this about the Tesla truck with broken windows too. I'm unsure about the intention, but I definitely paid more attention to it and shared it more because of this.

Likewise with "leaks" about new products, games etc. On the one hand, genuine leaks do happen and are devastating for the teams that have to see their work exposed to the world half-baked and unpolished. On the other hand, a "leak" about the new iPhone that shows half a dozen professional glamour shots of the hardware plus some breathless adulation of the specs might just possibly have not have been entirely accidental.

And let's not forget sex tapes. "Attention is the new currency."

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