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snarpThe problem with being a Wikipedia-based life form -
- well, actually, there are several of them. One of them is that sometimes you're reading a book and you see a sudden change in POV or a strange equivocation, and you try to click on the History page to see what happened there. ("Sir Reed had a reputation for promiscuity. [citation needed] Some historians, however, say that it was unfounded. [citation needed] Those historians, however, are largely discredited. [citation needed] It has been argued that scholars who edit Wiki entries about Sir Reed have an innate bias against him, and possibly also against scholarship as a whole. [citation needed] It has also been argued that you are dumb. [citation needed]")
I mean, that problem's worrying, too.
But the one for which that I originally began that first sentence was the compulsion, when you figure out something difficult, to document the solution. Even when the solution in question is to something that is extremely personal in nature, and thus probably does not strictly require online documentation.
Unrelatedly, today I figured out what to do when I have low blood sugar and really bad menstrual cramps. It involves bed, one electric blanket, two regular blankets, three glasses of water, aspirin, and a lot of vegetables.
- well, actually, there are several of them. One of them is that sometimes you're reading a book and you see a sudden change in POV or a strange equivocation, and you try to click on the History page to see what happened there. ("Sir Reed had a reputation for promiscuity. [citation needed] Some historians, however, say that it was unfounded. [citation needed] Those historians, however, are largely discredited. [citation needed] It has been argued that scholars who edit Wiki entries about Sir Reed have an innate bias against him, and possibly also against scholarship as a whole. [citation needed] It has also been argued that you are dumb. [citation needed]")
I mean, that problem's worrying, too.
But the one for which that I originally began that first sentence was the compulsion, when you figure out something difficult, to document the solution. Even when the solution in question is to something that is extremely personal in nature, and thus probably does not strictly require online documentation.
Unrelatedly, today I figured out what to do when I have low blood sugar and really bad menstrual cramps. It involves bed, one electric blanket, two regular blankets, three glasses of water, aspirin, and a lot of vegetables.
