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[โ€“] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 15 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

True. Assigning names like these to unknowns has entirely superseded the specific questions in the zeitgeist. They should really be named as something less ambiguous like "unknown accelerant" and "unknown attractor".

[โ€“] ngdev@lemmy.zip 3 points 16 hours ago