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 Why even have a reply feature on a social media feed if anyone that dares to reply in a contradictory manner to the original post is branded as a "reply guy". Heaven forbid someone try and break in with a different perspective in social media. We're trying to propagate and grow an echo chamber here! 
 Biggest black-pill of them all:

The Normal probability distribution is a bullshit psyop amd most... 
 Statistics can be, and is often, abused. But there's no doubt that the normal distribution is a frequently occurring pattern in nature. Just an aside, but you may enjoy "The Lady Tasting Tea." Excellent book. Another book I enjoyed on the topic of the use of statistics in financial modelling is "Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk" 
 Apparently my very mild reply to your post about the normal probability distribution being a "bullshit psyop" where I recommended a couple of books that I enjoyed on the development of statistics and use in finance has me branded as a "reply guy". Dialogue not encouraged on Nostr, message received. 
 Yeah, my mistake. Both of my replies were caught by a "Reply Guy" bot. I thought I was added to a list for being a "reply guy", similar to a twitter list. Did some searching on here and seems there's a bot running amok.  
 Immediately after replying to you I get one of these in my notifications:
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 Testing NostrRS Relay 
 This whining from political partisans about the mail-in ballots being slanted towards the democrats, for many explainable reasons, is really exhausting. 
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