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Relevant XKCD:

Title text: Sure, we could stop dictators and pandemics, but we could also make the signs on every damn diagram make sense.

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Well obviously the robots would be good instead of evil that way

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Right, like the guy with the negatronic brain isn’t going to be evil. Come on!

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test: e: you can link them directly

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Negatrons and Positrons would have been so much better names

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Unrelated, but what is the origin of this image? I feel like I’ve seen it often over the years and don’t know where it came from originally.

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It looks like a super genetic stock image, and I always assumed that’s what it is.

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Benjamin Franklin’s ultimate prank

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What, and live with negativity at the heart of every atom?

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You say that as if it makes less sense

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