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TwilightZone

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1. Don't believe anything you read from a random source on social media.

Reply to Seasider (Original post)

Mon Nov 4, 2024, 10:05 PM

Nov 4

Especially it's a repost of a repost and nobody in the chain is a legitimate source.

Everything after "A friend told me..." or "A friend posted this..." is almost always false.

Assume everything is false until proven otherwise. Saves a lot of time.

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