tsig
a carbon based life-form
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Occam's razor is why I'm here.
Remember that strange fire I kept smelling day after day for many months?
Well, during those months, it was quite rainy and cold, and the fire fighters never stopped working to stop the fuming. I saw them. They were working constantly. And the strange fire refused to go out.
And the smell. The theory that qualifies under Occam's razor must account for this strange, awful, unique smell. Occam's razor doesn't say the simplest explanation is the likeliest one. It says that the simplest explanation THAT EXPLAINS ALL THE DATA is the likeliest one. If your theory doesn't account for my primary observations of the aftermath, it's the wrong theory, no matter how simple it is.
That was the burning flesh of the bodies of those who died.