alt Hacker NewsI don't think this is right. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_grain_of_salt The "grain" isn't a single grain, it's an old English measure which is around 65mg, i.e. roughly how much there is in a pinch. I've also only ever heard people use larger amounts to mean more scepticism.
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PostOnce • yesterday at 9:55 PM
A person leans on the titanic intellect of a trillion dollar company's most fearsome LLM, only to be corrected by a random commenter with a link to Wikipedia.
We live in interesting times.
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It's not an old English measure, because Latin has "granum salis" (a grain of salt) in medical authors and Pliny. There's no indication that it was a measure; it was a cube or crystal of salt.