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What happened in Sweden
One alternative is two options. So when a trainee sends me a press release that says: "The user has two alternatives: either he receives the picking instructions on the screen or via a light display", I wonder why he doesn't mention the other two options. Or did the boy simply not do his math homework? Did he confuse alternatives with possibilities? Or simply miscounted?
Our transport minister is making it very easy for himself: for him, there seems to be no alternative to the car toll, so there is only one option. And that is true: The other possibility would be that it works.
His boss's American colleague is a completely different kind of sly. The Trump Donald lies until the steel girders of the Freedom Tower bend. If someone holds the facts up to him and he happens to look, it's someone from the lying press. And if the facts are then
are so obviously irrefutable that any other politician would brush the gel out of their hair and go into hiding at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in the USA, the Donald talks about 'alternative facts' in a rat-cool way. What alternatives do we have? Well, when it comes to the press release, there is only one: either throw it away or make an annoyed correction. With the toll, the facts have created themselves. And with Trump? Either continue laughing as before and hope that it will all stop by itself soon. There is no or in this case.
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