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   Eaton (eaton@phire.place)'s status on Monday, 17-Jun-2024 22:15:24 JST Eaton

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   @FeralRobots One of the real downsides of internet guides popularizing logical fallacies is that a whole swath of people have learned to treat them as pokemon cards, rather than *things that can’t bear their own weight without additional supporting evidence*

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     FeralRobots (feralrobots@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Jun-2024 22:15:25 JST FeralRobots

     "Sunk cost fallacy" is almost as pernicious a minomer as "slippery-slope fallacy."

     Sometimes slopes really are slippery, & sometimes you're not gonna get the resources you'd need in order to use a different solution.