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Re:Can you read this cursive handwriting? The National Archi... by AdieuToLogic on Friday January 17, 2025 @10:33PM (#42745577)
> There are conceivable reasons why they may be telling a half truth here. Just engaging the public is a worthy goal here.

Asserting an ulterior motive without supporting proof is to engage in conspiracy theories.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.[0]

0 - https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/08/12/just-a-cigar/

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Re:Can you read this cursive handwriting? The National Archi... by Dylan16807 on Friday January 17, 2025 @11:46PM (#42745914)
It doesn't look like a cigar (very tricky documents) though. Hehe the skepticism.
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Re:Can you read this cursive handwriting? The National Archi... by jncfhnb on Saturday January 18, 2025 @03:02AM (#42746685)
The alternative is me saying that appealing to their “expertise” is an appeal to authority fallacy that flies in the face of general evidence that modern OCR is far better than humans at character recognition. Especially random non specialized humans.
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Re:Can you read this cursive handwriting? The National Archi... by AdieuToLogic on Sunday January 19, 2025 @06:23PM (#42763203)
Fair point.
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