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i've seen that exact image posted semi-regularly on various reddit and facebook groups. (it's one of 500 things i hate about those sites. but for some communities that's where the information lives, that's where marketplace lives, etc., so i'm stuck with it)

these kind of things are intentionally wrong "puzzles" that are designed to get hundreds of people mad and post rebuttals to "drive engagement" or whatever. the pictures of a wheel with sledgehammers and chains and jacks with lugnuts plainly still in place and a post "how can i get this off it's stuck and i've tried everything". sigh... it's just another form of trolling.

sure enough, notice the sibling comments here. how many nice people took the time to patiently explain the fallacy(ies) for the 1000th time. then the pedants who correct the grammar/math/etc. in the 98% correct explanations. then the "true believers"/trolls who don't get it and argue back. and so on.

https://xkcd.com/386/



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