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Except that salt negates bitter flavors. So if you have a bitter pill to swallow, you take it with a grain of salt and it isn't as bad.
Thiel is involved in shit so bitter that it would take an ocean's worth of salt to swallow.
You definitely lost the metaphor here. Salt does not negate or in any way cover bitter flavors.
You obviously don't know how salt works.
https://www.nature.com/articles/42388
Besides, the actual origin of "take with a grain of salt" comes from Pliny the Elder, who believed salt to be part of a cure for poison.
His actual words were "addito salis grano" or add a grain of salt.
He believed this because salt suppresses bitter flavors and most poisonous things taste fairly bitter.
The phase "cum grano salis" or with a grain of salt, then entered latin, and eventually a few other languages.