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Re: Misinformation warning

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Originally Posted by Squirrelrock
Yeah, one year later, and the logic in that quote is blowing minds over here at 617 like bad circuit breakers on our third robot (btw, see our autopsy of the blown circuit breaker in the tech discussions forum under kit of parts: parts specs.)

I took six semesters of symbolic logic courses in undergraduate and grad school. If you want a real fun exercize, map out the logic constructs of the original paragraph. It actually does flow, and makes literal logical sense. Trust me - with a face like this, would I lie?

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