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That evil dihydrogen monoxide is at it again.
I WANT TO PUT THIS PERFECTLY CLEAR ONCE AND FOR ALL, this goes for all of you:
People are NOT DUMB because someone comes up to them and screams "watch out, dihydrogen monoxide can kill you!" because they may not be familiar with chemical nomenclature, yet may be acutely in tune with people taking to the streets protesting some substance that may affect them and their families.
If I run up to you and scream: "WATCH OUT FOR THE QUEXALCOATL!", you won't go like, "hold on, let me ask ChatGPT about Quexalcoatls first so I know that this isn't just some elaborate scam to teach me a moral lesson I didn't need but had to accept because I was actively fooled", you know what you do? YOU DUCK.
You DUCK!
I always hated that one.
That one and that dumb quote, "don't attribute to malice what can equally be attributed to incompetence"- yeah cute, but uh, no, that is not how anything fucking works, it's a funny quote in context, it's not a rule of fucking thumb, you'd be a dumb sucka to live by that creed, but anyway, while we were clearing the air.
We need to get rid of that wicked substance.
and the annoying gaseous dioxygen.