I am sadly* kind of pleased that I clicked the comments link to this post itself figuring on 80-90% failtasticness, and it seems to be limited to one long thread caused by the same two or three people with everyone else either kindly (and entirely in vain) trying to explain reality/logic, or telling them to just STFU.

*Thank you internet, for giving me the gift of lowered standards and boundless pessimism!