Absolutely devestating news . Hes had such a good run of form , all the best to him <| sep |> I tested this out with my longbed s 10 a few yesrs ago . That truck liked it most when the weight was just ahead of the axle , about 810 inches for the center of the load . All the way at the front helped a little but not as much , and all the way at the rear made understeer the trucks new main attraction . <| sep |> It brings both good and bad information , but it is still a net information value . Local myths reinforce themselves when everybody around you believes and repeats the same things . There ' s no reason to disbelieve it . With ubiquitous information comes a lot of good and bad information , but it ' s biggest value is that is isn ' t local . You can see that there are a variety of opinions and beliefs . There is a lot of noise to be sure , but there is also signal in there too . Merely recognizing the variance of the information causes one to become a more critical thinker . You can still go down wrong paths , but now instead of just believing what you are told , you must build explanations for why differing views are wrong . Even if it ' s bogus , conspiracy theory level reasons like China created climate change as a hoax , it still requires recognizing that another view exists and you need to make sense of why you should reject one and accept another . It ' s not as good as clear , scientific , objective process of critical thinking , but it ' s better than the trappings of localized beliefs .