There's a "verifiably incorrect hot take" contest going on in my mentions against my will so I might as well make it official.

The record to beat is this:

All are welcome to participate, but be warned that the jury will only consider entries that are:

- loud
- incorrect
- obnoxious

As an aside: if you want an outlet to spout incorrect things about your various passions, start a blog instead of squatting someone's mentions.

In awe at this (distressingly real) contender: https://twitter.com/thingskatedid/status/1253050809912188929?s=19

"But Amos, Ruby/Python/JS runtimes have a JIT" okay smartass, does Excel — the thing half the businesses on Earth run on — have a JIT? Does cloud infra stuff for YAML files? Does bash?

On the bright side, all these bad takes will immediately put me to sleep for many nights to come.

Panic buying but for bad takes, times are tough

"But X is not a programming language" not with that attitude that's for sure.

Buddy, *English* is a programming language: you write words and people get mad online. Every tweet is a monad.

This entry will not be considered as it is - much to my chagrin - factually correct https://twitter.com/darrienglasser/status/1253052598577442820?s=19

We got a late Quora entry (first pic - others are for context)