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Red herring
- ChrisMarshallNY 5y agoSort of like a macguffin: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/MacGuffin https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/MacGuffin
- cainxinth 5y agoA macguffin is something the audience and characters are fixated on that may or may not hold the importance to the story it portends to. A red herring herring is a macguffin that never turns out to be what they expected.
- jacknews 5y agoReminds me of this: http://www.mcgov.co.uk/riddles/level1.html http://www.mcgov.co.uk/riddles/level1.html Apologies for consuming your day.
- mdp2021 5y agoAlready the jump from 1 to 2 is arbitrary, not logical :) The correct answer revealed to be a possibility discarded upon vetting it for solidity, and tried just to exhaust them from "possibly best" to "random".
- hprotagonist 5y agoOne of the finest Monkey Island puzzles.
- wk_end 5y agoThe most interesting thing to me here is the fact that this is a link using Wikiless, which I hadn't heard of before: https://wikiless.org/about https://wikiless.org/about
- jopsen 5y agoIt doesn't even bother to state why we need something more privacy focused.. Afaik, wikipedia is about as non-evil as you can get on the web. Yet, someone still thinks this is necessary. On topic: linking to wikipedia through wikiless kind of is like offering a red herring :)
- jacknews 5y agoIndeed I wasn't aware wikipedia collected your search data for sale. Perhaps wikiless does ...
- breakingcups 5y agoIt's currently just a regular wikipedia link for me.
- blowski 5y agoSlightly off-topic, but what's the point of Wikiless? If I've understood correctly, it's a proxy to the real Wikipedia, but doesn't store your IP address. I would have thought that the kind of people bothered about a site recording their IP address would already have a broader solution in place.