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This New York Times Story About Jeopardy Is A Perfect Example Of How Even Smart People Are Stupid

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This New York Times Story About Jeopardy Is A Perfect Example Of How Even Smart People Are Stupid

Also, I have some thoughts about masks and...mars?

Ben Dreyfuss
May 17, 2021
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This New York Times Story About Jeopardy Is A Perfect Example Of How Even Smart People Are Stupid

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There is a wonderful scene in Inglorious Basterds where the undercover allied GIs accidentally reveal that they are not German by signaling the number three wrong with their hands. The character signals to a bartender for three drinks by meeting his pinky to his thumb. The Nazi character goes “aha! In Germany we only signal the number three by folding i…

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