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I'm enjoying the comments from people who have read a couple of comments here on HN and looked at the pictures in the original article and come to hold forth on
by glangdale 6y ago
I'm enjoying the comments from people who have read a couple of comments here on HN and looked at the pictures in the original article and come to hold forth on how "it's probably just a coincidence".
They're apparently so excited that they can slag off an academic for having tattoos that are, in their minds, Not All That, that they are excusing themselves from the difficult work of reading TFA.
"Yes, I realize the imposter is mimicking other aspects of his personality"
... like, umm, copying vast tracts of his academic work?
- brandonmenc 6y agoI read the article. I agree that there is a creepy imposter after this guy. I was only commenting on his tattoos, which are unoriginal and a dime a dozen. The imposter getting those same tattoos is - in this day and age - equivalent to having an identical wardrobe. Yes, in addition to the actually bizarre and creepy copying of the academic work.
- glangdale 6y agoIt's interesting the extent to which people are so moved to pontificate about "how unoriginal someone's tattoos are' to the extent that they can no longer draw common sense inferences about the world. Yes, the "similarity' of the tattoos is just a completely unconnected coincidence to the weird academic stalking and no-one could possibly see any kind of link between the two.