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Garbage
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Garbage
Computers A popular term for ‘nonsense’ produced by a printer—e.g., incorrect ASCII characters versus text, often due to loose cables to the printer or due to use of an incorrect printer driver
Drug slang Regional street term for inferior quality drugs
Vox populi American for solid (municipal) waste; rubbish


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Considering the first category, we may be reasonably assured that they believe in GIGO (garbage in/garbage out) and would consider only the actual stuff.
Computers may appear to be intelligent, but they are really inert, and subject to the laws of GIGO (Garbage In, Garbage Out) and WYSYWYG, pronounced wizziwig, which is, What You See Is What You Get.
But, under the principle of GIGO (Garbage In, Garbage Out,) faulty inputs lead to mistakes, including irrational demands on ourselves and others: with inaccurate data, we instead just "should" all over ourselves and each other.
 
 
 
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