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[–] miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We all know it's Vaas who said it first.

Jokes aside though, misattributed quotes are quite the phenomenon. Is it deliberate? Is it some sort of mandela effect? It's really weird sometimes, but like Gandhi said, don't believe anything that comes without a verifiable source.

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 5 points 1 year ago

I thought it was Lincoln who said you can't trust everything on the Internet? Sounds like Gandhi kinda stoled it, but changed it a little.

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

> but like Gandhi said, don’t believe anything that comes without a verifiable source.

He totally said that! It's written down in the Internet so it is true!

[–] MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Back in Gandhi's time, you had to do the CSS formatting by hand as well.

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But then Gandhi invented the first autolinter.

[–] MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Man, I totally forgot that part. Dude was way before his time.