• kazerniel@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 小时前

    shit I still remember a primary school classmate explaining to me:

    one sneeze is from dust
    two sneezes in quick succession are from cold
    three sneezes in quick succession are from allergies

    It’s been 30+ years, someone pls remove this nonsense from my brain 😩

  • U7826391786239@lemmy.zip
    2·
    50 分钟前

    “breakfast is the most important meal of the day!”

    https://marketingmadeclear.com/kelloggs-marketing-lie/

    tl;dr: it’s fucking not.

    related: you’re not going to 100% die (or even get sick. yes really) if you skip a meal (or even 2), fatass.

    edit: i have to add another thing

    diamond engagement rings are absolute 100% bullshit, which, as a genXer, i only learned later in life. i wouldn’t be adding this if there weren’t still way too many people who are completely bamboozled by this fake “tradition” invented solely to make obscenely wealthy people even more obscenely wealthy.

  • tetris11@feddit.ukEnglish
    1·
    43 分钟前

    Dad: “I don’t want to be in a club that would have me as its member”, Karl Marx said that

  • Ordinary_Person@lemmy.ca
    1·
    51 分钟前

    I had people arguing with me about blue blood long after the internet was available to everyone. I wouldn’t ever tell them they were stupid, but I would say, “I don’t think that’s right” and they would usually say they learned it in biology or a science class in high school and I would say, “that still doesn’t sound right. We should look that up later when get home to our computers” and then They would look at me like I was the idiot for suggesting they were misinformed in school… because you know… school teachers NEVER misinform their students… like ever 🙄

    Speaking of misinforming your students; shout out to Miss O’Leary for saying Russia could Invade Canada with Tanks because we were landlocked during the colder months via the arctic.

    • tetris11@feddit.ukEnglish
      1·
      36 分钟前

      Speaking of misinforming your students; shout out to Miss O’Leary for saying Russia could Invade Canada with Tanks because we were landlocked during the colder months via the arctic.

      For anyone wondering, no it doesn’t freeze over in winter but there are chunks of ice you can hop across that might eventually get you to the firmer ice along the respective shores:

      https://angusadventures.com/adventurer-handbook/beringstrait/

  • RedFrank24@lemmy.world
    8·
    3 小时前

    It’s better than what we have now though, which is going “I think elephants are actually seals that got lost on the way to the south pole” and then going on the internet and searching until you find exactly what you already believe, and then forming a social group around that, then voting in politicians who think that until that stupid belief becomes mainstream and there are politicians debating in congress whether to invade Kenya to transport all the elephants to Antarctica.

  • Jyek@sh.itjust.works
    6·
    3 小时前

    Your face will not get stuck like that.

    It is not illegal to turn on the light in the car while driving.

    Bears do not sleep all winter long.

    Bats are not blind.

    Cinco de Mayo is not Mexican Independence Day.

    Searing a steak does not seal in moisture.

    Waking a sleepwalker is not dangerous to their health.

    :)

  • Part4@infosec.pubEnglish
    452·
    7 小时前

    Now you are permanently overwhelmed by a tsunami of misinformation spewing out of your addictive phone instead. Progress.

      • Ordinary_Person@lemmy.ca
        1·
        44 分钟前

        All the people replying to you arguing that you can’t trust the internet because of AI and Algorithims… this too is a skill issue. Stop going to Google or MSN or Yahoo There are search engines that don’t use algorithms or AI, and others that don’t use algorithms and you can turn off the AI.

        It also helps to understand WHERE you are getting your information from and use watchdog sites that can tell you if a site is a reputable source or not. Heading over to I’Mright.com isn’t going to help you unless you’re looking for confirmation bias.

      • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
        2·
        3 小时前

        Who defines the “right information”? The algorithms? The information conforms to what your peer group is saying is the “right information”? It’s consistent with what government agencies are saying?

        We really aren’t any better off than just believing what aunt Marge said since you can find the exact same thing she said and things the exact opposite and which one you believe is just down to what feels right. It’s just believing what aunt Marge said with more steps.

        • U7826391786239@lemmy.zip
          1·
          17 分钟前

          ultimately, every individual is responsible for what they choose to take as truth. this is why there has been such an aggressive assault on critical thinking in favor of “parental authority”-- just believe what you’re told and stop asking questions.

          it’s not that hard to separate the plausible from the questionable, from the obvious bullshit.

          as an example, dr. fauci is a doctor. he’s been a doctor for decades, has risen to high positions in the field, has been producing research, also for decades, which has been cited by other experts in the field frequently. and, prior to bullshit claims by trump and the entire GOP, was never the subject of any controversy.

          so the discerning mind has no trouble concluding that it’s reasonable to assume that fauci, who knows what he’s talking about and has no apparent reason to mislead the entire world, is a credible source of information, while trump, a notorious conman who told 30,000 verifiable lies in his first term alone is absolutely NOT. so the GOP preaches “vaccines are bad,” and the “patriotic” american says “vaccines are bad”

          yes it’s fucking mind-bogglingly stupid, but the problem isn’t a lack of availability of information, the problem is information literacy–the skill (yes skill) to separate truth (even if only “likely” truth) from fiction (even if comically obviously fiction). which the GOP is actively, deliberately, visciously undermining, while no one says a thing, because we’re preoccupied by nazi gestapo trump cultists rounding up innocent citizens because they’re brown

      • kadaverin0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        3·
        3 小时前

        I would have agreed with you about 15 years ago when everything on the Internet wasn’t AI slop, calculated misinformation spread by foreign governments, and white supremacists using memes to spread their ideology.

      • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
        272·
        6 小时前

        Sadly, I gotta disagree. Searching used to be easier, back when search engines prioritized finding useful information. Now they are vehicles for delivering ads and collecting user data.

        Google of the early-2000s era was an entirely different site. I used to be able to find almost anything I needed to search for. As far as I’ve seen, there is nothing comparable to that early-Google out there today. (Though I’d be ecstatic to be proven wrong on that!)

        • thermal_shock@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 小时前

          Yeah I would agree with the other person 20 years ago. If you couldn’t find it online it probably didn’t exist

        • titanicx@lemmy.zip
          37·
          5 小时前

          Unfortunately Google is still the king of search engines. Try searching for most technical facts or most common issues or anything else on most search engines and you really can’t find it. You might find some things but you won’t find the amount of information you can find on Google. The problem with the internet nowadays is not that searching has gotten worse, it’s that there is such a plethora of information out there that you have to have the right skill set to be able to go through it. The reason you were able to find everything in the olden days was that there was so few websites out there that it was very very simple to search all of them. And the counterpoint to saying that there is a plethora of misinformation now when you’re looking at your phone simply means that you’re visiting websites and looking at sources that have a plethora of misinformation. It is very very simple to cross reference and find the correct information pretty much anywhere.

        • Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it
          23·
          5 小时前

          Searx is my way to go when i need to do research, it’s a search engine, that takes results from others

  • answersplease77@lemmy.world
    41·
    4 小时前

    Lol no that’s not true! If you did that, the teacher or the school nerd about this subject would challenge you. He will come to your house, ring your doorbell, and you’ll go together to your city library. Unlike the internet, you could not just source some shit some-nobody made up and spread online. You had to prove it with hard-text published sourced papers.

    We used to pay higher cost in money, time and effort in order to learn any topic. As a result, once you learn it, you hold it for life, and spread it and proudly challenge others about its truth everywhere you go, which pushes you to seek further.

    Each room of our house still has a large bookshelf library. I never left any of the books which I personally bought untouched including those large expensive hard-cover multi-series encylopedias about physics, chemistry, mathetics, history, philosophy, language, geology, politics and everything. I had to read them at least once to learn their topics otherwise I would’ve lost that money.

    Btw I’m not talking about school textbooks; no those we used to burn in celebration at the end of each year’s graudation outside the parking lots!
    Lol we really grew up in different times

    • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works
      11·
      6 小时前

      My parents got me this set of the Childcraft children’s encyclopaedias when I was like 6? I inhaled those things for knowledge back in the pre-internet days!

      Am considering getting one for my own kiddo when they get old enough, but like most things from my childhood - they look to have been discontinued.

    • ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world
      4·
      6 小时前

      Honestly surprisingly inexpensive given that about what a set of encyclopedias would cost you 35+ years ago. Not sure about World Book specifically but I know Britannicas were over $1k in 1990 because I remember a door-to-door salesmen trying to sell them to me. Can’t imagine anyone other than a library buying these now, and even there they’re probably all collecting dust.

  • wieson@feddit.org
    30·
    9 小时前

    Most people in my life still don’t fact check. I’m constantly chasing the truth while the convo runs away full of misinfo

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      10·
      7 小时前

      I honestly have no idea how people can live like that. Yet I see it so often that I’m convinced it’s the norm.

      • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works
        6·
        6 小时前

        People like to live within their comfort zones. I remember a study being referenced that claimed to show introducing facts contrary to a person’s existing viewpoint don’t get them to change, it just made them double-down and be more defensive.

        • faythofdragons@slrpnk.netEnglish
          2·
          55 分钟前

          Oh look, misinformation, lol. The study was about how science communication is based on outdated ideas and that simply presenting facts is not as effective as whole-person education. The media seems to have just read the title and maybe abstract, and ran with “you can’t change minds, stop trying”, when that’s not what it concluded.

          To quote from the conclusion of the study itself:

          Facts will not always change minds, but there is promise that other things will, including creating spaces for group dialogue and debate, targeting emotions and embodied knowledge, embracing multiple perspectives, altering environments to create new behaviors, and being strategic about whom we seek to target with our message. We need to provide training for our students in cognitive and behavioral science, as human attitudes and actions are both the primary cause of and the solution to the current conservation crisis (Nielsen et al., 2021).

  • Flickerby@lemmy.zip
    17·
    10 小时前

    I remember looking up “dirty” words in the dictionary as a real young one with a gaggle of friends