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[โ€“] slazer2au 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

When someone of authority says so.

Could be a government, could be a professor. Just someone with the guns or litigation to make it so.

[โ€“] Streetlights 2 points 6 months ago

I both hate and love this probable truth.