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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We all know it's Vaas who said it first.

Jokes aside though, misattributed quotes are quite the phenomenon. Is it deliberate? Is it some sort of mandela effect? It's really weird sometimes, but like Gandhi said, don't believe anything that comes without a verifiable source.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

> but like Gandhi said, don’t believe anything that comes without a verifiable source.

He totally said that! It's written down in the Internet so it is true!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Back in Gandhi's time, you had to do the CSS formatting by hand as well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But then Gandhi invented the first autolinter.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Man, I totally forgot that part. Dude was way before his time.