I remember looking up “dirty” words in the dictionary as a real young one with a gaggle of friends
We only use 10% of our brains.
Even that is a common misconception. Our brains are working fully, all the time.
Not if you’re MAGA.
Our brains are working fully, all the time.
Hey, speak for yourself
Tbf, they might have been right about themselves at the time they thought that.
My theory is they were sitting at around 5% usage.
Yep. The rebuttal that stuck with me was “We only use 33% of traffic lights.”
We only use 10% of our brain at a time. Because using 100% of your brain is called a seizure.
Source: Once used 100% of my brain.
Or a really good orgasm.
Or a really bad shit.
Fun fact: You can still order a current print volume of World Book Encyclopedia for the low price of $1,349.00
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.
Just print all of Wikipedia
I’m willing to bet it’s cheaper than ever, (inflation adjusted)
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.
I’d buy it if I had it.
aunt Marge has been replaced by AI now
Aunt Marge now lives in the Whatsapp family chat.
My biology teacher taught me that peanut oil causes cancer. Can’t get that out of my brain 30+ years later.
Encyclopaedia sets were expensive but there were all sorts of things you could subscribe to for facts. My parents subscribed me to an animal fact thing where i got some sheets to collect in a folder every month. I’d read the hell out of it and eagerly wait for the next issue. It allowed me to memorise a lot of information about animals.
I also visited the library a lot more before the internet, and there was also Encarta which died as soon as the internet became mainstream.
Now its just some 14 year old from a reddit thread
We got misinformed at a much slower rate though. The newspapers could only tell us so many lies at a time.
Doesn’t misinformation involve intent? Aunt Marge probably thought she was right.
no, thats disinformation. disinformation is willful malicious intent to spread misinformation, knowing that its wrong info in order to achieve a certain result(such as propaganda by russia, or giving wrong intel to an enemy). misinfo is just saying potential info that may or may not be true, and no fact checking, and just ignorant to the info.
The reporters who propagated lies about WMDs in Iraq or beheaded babies in Israel probably think they’re telling the truth or something close.
And there was a friend’s older brother or cousin, who said some unbelievable horseshit, you thought was true for many years. And you didn’t even ask.
Joe Rogan
Actually fucking Joe Rogan is the perfect analogy, he just has random people on that say some stuff to him and he is like damn that’s crazy and doesn’t even fact check it, and then what he likes he carries forward with him and what he doesn’t like hearing just ignores
This is the reason a lot of people have got fat, and also died.
Now instead of your aunt coming at you with misinfo she learned from her aunt, it’s your aunt coming at you with misinformation she learned from a russian bot farm.
Did you spray for Russians under your bed before going to sleep? You really should, and check behind the sofa and in the dryer too. Russians can disguise themselves as Bounce dryer sheets, and the latest Russians can send themselves over Ethernet using the RoE protocol: Russian over Ethernet.
Russia! Quite an imaginary world you live in! Aunts and Russians and bots and misinformation and all these people targeting you! How exciting!
Can I send you my Moral Rearmament and John Birch Society fliers?
I’m oddly honored that I got a 3 paragraph troll with pictures in response to a comment that was barely even about russia.
“I don’t like what you say therefore you are a troll.” Classic shitlib behaviour.
Yep. The mark of a stupid Westerner is how much they blame Russia for their country’s problems (the exception being Ukraine obviously). Meanwhile the US literally has a billion+ dollar anti-China propaganda budget (taxpayer funded) and a decentralized, private network of pro-Israel propagandists backed by the richest people in the country, buying up entire media companies for that purpose.
GOOD point.
The well documented Russian troll networks simply do not exist.
But at least you can counter it with misinformation from an AI bot :D
I have the opposite problem. My mother doesn’t believe anything I tell her and thinks it is misinformation that I’ve been fed.
Have you ever tried to out crazy the crazy and force them to try to take the reasonable stance? It’s cathartic.
Yes and to make it even worse, your aunt back in the day would tell 10 people some BS and maybe 3 would believe her. Not some Russian bot factory spits out BS to 10 million people and a lot more believe it.
Develop extreme philosophy that resembles Stoicism, but is actually a really disfunctional version of it, apparently.
Dad: “I don’t want to be in a club that would have me as its member”, Karl Marx said that
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.
:)
Masturbating won’t make you go blind.
This one had me freaking the fuck out as a kid lol
Correct, it makes you grow hair on your palms.
Then when they look at their palms you laugh and make fun of them for masturbating. My grandad got me with that classic.
You won’t get cramps if you jump in the pool soon after eating.
Washing the literal chicken shit off of mushrooms does not make them absorb water.
Seriously, wash your fucking mushrooms.
Bats are not blind.
But they may as well be. So many midair collisions cause they’re absolutely bonkers flyers
It is not illegal to turn on the light in the car while driving.
Wtf is this idea xDD Are you supposed to stop the car at the side of the road to turn on the lights? 😂
I feel this may be an American thing. Many millennials have a shared experience of being told by our parents that we can’t have the dome light on in the car at night because it is illegal. In reality, it reduces visibility on a dark road for the driver so it is a little dangerous to do but certainly not illegal.
I just wanted to play my Gameboy Advance on the drive home!
Ah I missed the “in the car” part, I thought car lights in general. It makes a bit more sense this way, thanks for the explanation :)
