Or, if you were lucky, you could look things up in your out of date encyclopedias.
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My dad told me thunder is when clouds collide
Is that misinformation or a dad joke?
As far as I know it's misinformation
Hoho man, I'm gonna use that one
That's right thanks to the internet misinformation is no more!
Time to crack those dusty old encyclopedias out again!
Right about more things. Also confidently wrong about just as many things.
Cousin asked my uncle how cows stood straight on the hills. He said one set of legs were shorter than the other s and sincerely believed that until going off to college lol
I used the library. Because I didn't trust people or they didn't even attempt to answer. "I don't know, who cares."
Even if I wanted to use the internet, when it started becoming popular, it used to be in the library. You'd have to reserve 30min to an hour timeslots beforehand. And then physically go back to the library at that specified time and use their computer to browse. Going to AltaVista.
I used to Ask Jeeves.
"So nothing really changed, except you don't ask your aunt anything anymore. You still talking to her?"
She Ded
I had an argument with a teacher in middle school who shared the crap of, “If you swallow gum, it stays in your stomach for 7 years.” The kids told me I must be wrong, because the teacher said it so he must be right.
I was so pissed that I came in the next day with three different sources saying that it was a myth. He quietly admitted the truth to me, but refused to tell the class.
I get being frustrated with kids chewing gum in class, but if you have to lie to get them to follow rules, that’s a failure as a teacher. He was a science teacher, no less. If anybody should be open to a student pulling up sources for a claim, or to admitting they learned something new and they were wrong before, it should be a science teacher.
Thanks, Mr H. Way to prove to me that even “cool” teachers care more about controlling kids than being truthful.
He quietly admitted the truth to me, but refused to tell the class.
98% of humanity, right there. Fuck I hate them.
We were led to believe we'd die if we ate a single apple seed until about 1995, when I observed my FIL eat an entire apple, core, seeds, and all, which obviously blew my mind.
They will kill you, but you need to chew up a couple hundred.
It's clearly not a great idea but yeah, the hyperbole made me feel betrayed when I realized it.
Yeah, it is not really practical even if it is true. There are a lot easier ways to poison yourself.
Thank God, a way out of this madness.
Now someone’s aunt marge in another country does it.
I was taught that the white race was superior and that there was going to be a huge race war (one side of the family) and then Jesus was going to come back and murder everybody (other side).
We're still there, aunt Marge is just called Grok now.
she also goes by other names too, such as "AI Overview" and "Claude"
I don't want to think that badly about aunt Marge. How about Gemini? Marge wasn't gropey
Now an LLM has parsed Aunt Marge's Facebook posts into it's knowledge bank and regurgitates it to everyone searching online for an answer.
I'd prefer it if they actually worked that way
It kinda does, but it's everyone's Facebook posts, and it's stored in a lossy way as a weighted graph rather than in a database, and it will sometimes traverse the graph down a different path depending on if venus is crowning a supercrescent moon.
We were taught blood was blue in school, not just once, in at least two grades. Not in the book mind you, but from the teachers' mouths.
The 7th grade science book did teach us gamma rays move faster than the speed of light, which is bullshit.
The worst misinformation we got was that after erections (which functionally are made via blood flow) boys pee out the blood. Like Jesus fuck lady, what is wrong with your husband.
That's definitely not about her husband, it's about scare tactics. The reason behind using scare tactics can be many, like religion, suppressed sexuality, what she was taught or even just not wanting to deal with her students doing stuff. It's absolutely not ok to say that no matter the reason though.
That's an odd one, since you'd think peeing or not peeing blood would be very easy to verify.
Wat
Gamma rays do travel faster than light through some media, but obviously not faster than c, the speed of light in a vacuum.
Gamma rays are photons like light no? Is the speed in a medium related to its energy/frequency? Or am I misunderstanding something
Well yeah, the media was that one kid's 7th grade science book
by my grade 7, i had already learned all about dalkon shield and iuds, silicone breast implants and their risks, rely tampons and toxic shock syndrome, roe v wade, aids and homosexuality......
that was just the sex ed units from the regular nightly news.
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Came here to say the same thing, for years I was believing my blood was blue before it hit oxygen....
I was going to add the "hitting oxygen" is an important part of the blue blood myth back then.
Which is really funny since your blood is already oxeygenated
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Tbf, some blood is blue, it just tends to be a few types of invertebrates that have that blood.
next thing you'll be telling me that some animals can change their sex.
And those aliens on the historical documents
Nothing has really changed since then.
Just where you get your misinformation.
And with AI and anti-science grifters, we’re back to that world!
We never really left
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