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by quantified 529 days ago
Holy crap is one drop of stupid consuming a lot of mental energy. This is after the drop of stupid that was Terence Howard's "1 x 1 = 2" physics rant fell on everyone's head. Individual drops quickening into rain would drown us all, apparently. Do serious people like Charles Petzold (here) and in other venues address this stupid out of fear that the stupid spreads, or because they just can't stand someone being wrong somewhere like a cognitive itch that must be scratched? If one troll flooded the zone with 30 of these over a month, mayhem would ensue. Absent knowing the true origin for this diagram, we don't even know if was stupid or malicious.