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Hi, my name's Alex Goldman. This is hyperfixed. On this show, listeners write in with their

problems big and small, and I solve them. Or at least I try. And if I don't, I at least give a

good reason why I can't. This week, Jack and the Missouri Color Cabal.

And let me just get my microphone.

My microphone stand is extremely broken.

So give me a second here.

It straight up looks like you're in a shed right now.

This man impugning the shed-like nature of my basement studio is Jack.

He lives in Missouri in a home that looks nothing like a shed.

And he works as a software engineer, building websites using their most basic building blocks, code.

And it's because of this, because he spends all day looking at code,

that Jack started noticing this thing, this thing that's happening all over Missouri.

And very few other people seem to be noticing it.

Okay, let's try and start from the very beginning.

You sent a message on the hyperfix discord, and I am wondering if you could tell me the story of first noticing

this particular problem.

Yeah.

So I was driving to get coffee with my wife, and we were behind this car that had this plate,

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