• malin@thelemmy.club
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    7 days ago

    There’s not really a way around this, and I think one of the explainer channels actually went into depth about it.

    They gave an example of how everyone learns that the earth is a sphere, but once you ‘dig deeper’ you find it’s not actually a sphere because it’s elongated at the equator (making it a spheroid.) You can then ‘dig even deeper’ and find that the earth isn’t really a spheroid, it has mountains and all kinds of other inconsistencies that don’t matter to most people but can make a difference to an expert.

    The real takeaway is that we should not consider ourselves experts, or even significantly more knowledgeable about a subject because we saw a video on one of these channels. They’re for entertainment first.

    • Red Army Dog Cooper@lemmy.ml
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      7 days ago

      no Wendover the first time I noticed he used the wrong care when talking about EVs, Volt instead of Bolt, and constantly could not get Kansas Town tames correctly. There are more but this is the only one that stuck in my head because it was my wakeup call.

      When he got called out for it he said "Its fine and it does not make any difrence to the video, except it was the wrong car