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xkcd #3210: Eliminating the Impossible

Title text:

'If you've eliminated a few possibilities and you can't think of any others, your weird theory is proven right' isn't quite as rhetorically compelling.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3210/

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[–] muzzle@lemmy.zip 34 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Sherlock is always right only because he's the protagonist. That's what always annoyed me.

[–] Lauchmelder@feddit.org 22 points 4 days ago

they just write down the cases he actually solves

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Also, Arthur Conan Doyle was a greedy cunt that believed that copyright should be permanent

[–] BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

And that selfish son of a bitch even died before I could pirate his work.