To balance my impossible question, I'll offer a trivial one that remains my favorite tortured phrase.

Who's "Glove Romney"? 🤣

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Extra impossible bonus question: figure out why some papers torture "by" into, and I swear I am not making this up, "eventually Tom's perusing".

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Il y a aussi un scientifique appelé Hitler Louis, moyennement connu dans le monde de l'intégrité scientifique de par son nom et le nombre d'articles qu'il a dû retirer 😬
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that's what "HTTP 100 Continue" stands for

Looks like Kirby inhaling a biscuit

hmm, bluesky doesn't play with transparent backgrounds very well, it looked okay in the preview... anyway, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20...

It's kind of nuts how quickly Switzerland went from being pretty backwards socially to being reasonable... here's the gay marriage vote from a few years ago, Appenzell Innerrhoden went from opposing women's suffrage by 20 to 1 to accepting gay marriage in 30 years!

On se demande bien pourquoi ils aiment pas PubPeer d'ailleurs

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That's fair. Maybe it's all a generalized form of Betteridge's law of headlines, people wouldn't need to qualify their statements if they were true.

"I'm not racist, but..."

They can take a class on how to do it along with the ACM, who recently "retracted" articles by adding "Retracted on...:" in the title but not in the Crossref metadata 🙃

Un peu dommage qu'ils perdent du temps sur des initiatives mort-nées genre celle "pour l'avenir" alors que ça fait il me semble des années que celle pour les primes en fonction du revenu vient "bientôt"...

Maybe the others are thinking that too

Send screenshots to his wife?

Even by French standards this is such a cursed lineup

Currently trying to figure it out... if they answer.
Many publishers have convoluted internal processes whose end result isn't very different from malice. ACM creates its own rules then claims it can't do much because of them.

#2 onwards in this thread is a good example pubpeer.com/publications...

Also works in organizations. "If I come up with the perfect process that handles all cases, everyone will follow that process and be maximally productive always"

(For bonus points, call it some form of "agile")