I like the way Mary Jo and Bridget explained on a rifftrax video for ‘Duties of a Secretary’ - “Secretaries were the internet in heels.”
This meme is older than Lemmy.
My ex thought that night time just meant that the moon went in front of the sun. I have no idea how she managed to live to 30 years old before she learned about night time.
Now you can go online and double down on your misinformation.
As if now people are knowledgeable…
My grandfather told me that grits were ground-up pig’s knuckles. I was in my late 20s before I learned otherwise. Pop just didn’t want to share his fucking grits, which is at least understandable.
“The eyeball is full of blackberry jam.”
~ My grandfather, unironically, not remotely joking, actually completely serious.
Now you ask uncle Grok and carry his misinformation for 20 minutes, because your long-term memory doesn’t exist anymore.
“Urine is sterile”
“You can only fold paper 7 times”
Etc.
The paper thing is is testable! It’s not wrong. «You» can’t do it
DIN A4? Maybe
DIN A1? I can do more than 7 times
there’s a mythbuster episode on it https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=l9w8GjMeWGo
So you say butter paper is the trick.
Also I would count the half folded ones too
assume your hypothetical sheet of paper has thickness 1u; on fold iteration 1: thickness of the paper is doubled, 21u = 2u on fold iteration 2: thickness gets doubled again l, 22u = 4u
this pattern continues for all subsequent iteration and by the seventh iteration the thickness of the paper is 27 * 1u = 128u
hence by the seventh iteration, assuming you have managed to reach this far, you will be trying to fold something that is 128 times thicker than your first fold.
also whether it be DIN A4 or DIN A1 it doesnt matter, the ability to fold is dependent on the thickness of the paper, which is the same.
Yes’nt.
You are correct on the thickness. However the folding makes it smaller. And the smaller it gets the less leverage you have.
Oh, no you can’t
Or, if you were lucky, you could look things up in your out of date encyclopedias.
When I was a kid in the 1980/90s, we had two encyclopedias at home: a 20 tome encyclopedia from 1905, and a three volume current one. At some point we got Microsoft Encarta, a CD-ROM encyclopedia.
It was far more common for people to say they don’t know something and refer to other’s expertise.
My dad told me thunder is when clouds collide
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My uncle told me it was God clappin’ cheeks.
I always heard “angels bowling.”
“that’s just god twerking…”
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!
Right about more things. Also confidently wrong about just as many things.
Very true, friend. As repeatedly proven by reliable studies, the Internet has completely fixed the issue of misinformation. Turns out it was about access to information, and nothing else!
Time to crack those dusty old encyclopedias out again!
My family bought an encyclopedia set. My older brother used it to teach me about tornados to help take my mind off my chicken pox when I was a kid.
You could go to your local library. I still do.
You could, but that info was still there. Schools and educational material taught us that blood was blue, Columbus discovered America, and animals were hot or cold blooded.
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.
To make kids look stupid in front of their peers by taking an authority figure at their word you just have to be willing to burn credibility.
He quietly admitted the truth to me, but refused to tell the class.
98% of humanity, right there. Fuck I hate them.
Yep, it was a lesson that cut deep. Which is why I won’t let such stuff pass with my own students. One of my coworkers wanted to discourage a kid from using permanent markers and told him he’d give himself ink poisoning. The kid took it to heart and started saying he was allergic to tattoo ink. It was kind of funny at first, but he kept repeating it until it got concerning. I think he was starting to be scared of markers.
I just told him the truth - he’s probably not going to get sick, but permanent markers are hard to clean off of things, including skin, and that some of his peers might use them on things they aren’t supposed to. He’s a smart kid who just wants to understand things and will think through stuff he doesn’t understand until they make sense to him, even if it means imagining an allergy to something he sees other people use just fine. It breaks my heart to think that’s not the last time some adult will tell him a myth, but hopefully his natural desire to make sense of things will continue to develop into a first-rate bullshit alarm someday.
