Choose your fighter: 1. Pure stupidity, 2. Ignorant stupidity, 3. Fish-out-of-water stupidity, 4. Rule-based stupidity, 5. Overthinking-stupidity, 6. Emergent stupidity, 7. Ego-driven stupidity.

From Weekly Filet #400, in July 2022.

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