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		onecommentman on Aug 1, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: FBI probe: nitrate amount in Beirut blast was a fr... Never (definitively) ascribe to (high-level) malice what can credibly be ascribed to (low-level) incompetence. Words risk analysts live by every day.

ashtonkem on Aug 1, 2021 [–]

Yup. Malicious conspiracies do happen, but nowhere near at the same rate that sloth and incompetence does.

perl4ever on Aug 1, 2021 | [–]

There was a person who fixed dishwashers, who said "don't buy brand X, every one of them I see is broken!"

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