Right, so in your version of this world, who is the fascist? Germany?

Yeah you just can’t be in a server room anymore without some dude trying to sell you on Office365 and Cortana, sigh.

It’s less uneducated thinking and more “here’s a thing I read online that I can parrot to show that I am more rational than others”.

That statistic could be entirely unfounded and people would still be repeating it because it serves their purposes. Internet nerds love gotchas.

That aside, fully agreed regarding the level of control. It’s a little like saying “people have - and therefore you have - an x% chance of getting lung cancer” while completing ignoring that a huge portion of that is a direct result of only some people’s behaviour, namely smoking.

The people driving defensively, sober and attentively are not likely to be the ones folding themselves around a roadside tree.

Not really. But you know, gotta find ways to feel smarter than other people so here we go.

Yeah just like the “bank run” on FTX wasn’t what caused it to go bankrupt, it was actually the owner’s hubris.

In much the same way that the fire didn’t burn the house down, it was the tenant buying matches four days earlier.

If you’re willing to go that many levels down to get to the root cause of an event you might as well say the nazis being humans is what caused the collapse.