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.
Its because "speed" can refer to two different things in this context. Group velocity is the speed that your light waves can send a message it. This cannot move faster than light. Phase velocity on the other hand is the speed of the peaks of the wave. This can move faster but its not possible to send a signal through this.
If you had a material with no light passing through it, then you shined a light through it, it would only move at the group velocity. The whole "faster than light" thing refers to the phase velocity, but you can't have a phase velocity if the light hasn't gotten there yet.
Saying that gamma rays (or any light in general) moves faster than light is technically true but very misleading and relies heavily on when you define "speed" as.
I must misunderstand, I wasn't thinking of the "group velocity" (or that "frequency" making light "faster than light"), but plain old slow speed of light!
Like in water, light moves (as for data transfer) slower than in vacuum, right? There are materials that slow down light to a crawl (I read some theory some time ago about slowing down light to almost zero).
So I thought that in some material, x-rays were faster than light, both being slower than c of course.
I dunno about xrays, but it is true that light slows down in media and that particles can move faster than light in that medium, that's where Cherenkov radiation comes from! (Though I'm not sure if that also just slows down the particles or what)
c is the speed of light in a vacuum. It is impossible to send information faster than c. x-rays are also just light so everything I said before also applies to x-rays.
I'm not very familiar with how light interacts with materials since it wasn't covered in the electromagnetism class that I took, so the next part might be wrong. The speed of light is calculated by looking at Maxwell's laws of electromagnetism and recognizing that it is the equation for a wave. The speed is then calculated as c = 1/sqrt(epsilon_0 * mu_0) where epsilon_0 and mu_0 are the vacuum permittivity and the vacuum permeability. Inside a material, I think the permittivity and permeability are different and thus the speed of light as determined by Maxwell's equations would be different. I know its not possible for the speed (group velocity) of light in a material to be faster than the speed of light in a vacuum because otherwise, you could send information faster than c, which is impossible.
That's correct, sort of. Individual photons travel always at c (they don't have mass, so they literally can't go slower), but when traveling through a transparent (for their frequency) medium they don't go through the atoms or around them—they would hit an atom (its electrons, really), get absorbed, and then re-emitted. The average speed of all the photons will be lower than c, and depends on the frequency, that's how we got rainbows. For most frequencies, including visible light, it goes slower the higher the frequency is, but gamma rays/x rays photons are so high energy that they don't interact with the electrons, but with the nuclei—that's why you want materials like lead or tungsten to block them—which are much smaller, resulting in fewer absorbing-emitting interactions and a higher average speed.
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.
We got a lot of such lies, for instance on Marijuana, and everyone found out it was bullshit if they didn't already know, and it destroys the credibility of the authorities. Which in truth might be the most important message school could teach our kids heading into the 21st century, the government is dishonest. Everything is based on lies, and if it isn't they are trying to end that part of government.
But they told us about cancer, it making you impotent and sterile, stupid and brain damage, all sorts of bullshit. Much based on studies where they spray pesticides on the plant then blame the plant for the pesticide effects. Thank the University of Missouri I think it is for a lot of that bullshit.
Ah, but I think the "blue" blood you see is in your veins, which carry "spent" blood with low oxygen content. Those kinds of little truths are what make myths believable, too.
I called bullshit from the start on that. If it was true, that blood turned red when it touched oxygen, then pulling blood from the vein in a needle would be blue. Teachers told me to shut up.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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
2^7^ * 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.
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.
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 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).
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.
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.
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.
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teyrnon@sh.itjust.works · 84 pts · 54d
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.
OfCourseNot@fedia.io · 53 pts · 54d
Gamma rays do travel faster than light through some media, but obviously not faster than c, the speed of light in a vacuum.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 54d
Well yeah, the media was that one kid's 7th grade science book
adarza@piefed.ca · 3 pts · 53d
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.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 53d
OK
Orygin@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 53d
Gamma rays are photons like light no? Is the speed in a medium related to its energy/frequency? Or am I misunderstanding something
cryoistalline@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 53d
Its because "speed" can refer to two different things in this context. Group velocity is the speed that your light waves can send a message it. This cannot move faster than light. Phase velocity on the other hand is the speed of the peaks of the wave. This can move faster but its not possible to send a signal through this.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 53d
True, but this doesn't explain if gamma rays move faster than light in certain materials, right?
cryoistalline@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 53d
If you had a material with no light passing through it, then you shined a light through it, it would only move at the group velocity. The whole "faster than light" thing refers to the phase velocity, but you can't have a phase velocity if the light hasn't gotten there yet.
Saying that gamma rays (or any light in general) moves faster than light is technically true but very misleading and relies heavily on when you define "speed" as.
3Blue1Brown has a good video on why the phase velocity is different from the group velocity if you're interested in why. The faster than light phase velocity happens when the "phase kicks" are so delayed that the phase appears to move forward.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 53d
I must misunderstand, I wasn't thinking of the "group velocity" (or that "frequency" making light "faster than light"), but plain old slow speed of light!
Like in water, light moves (as for data transfer) slower than in vacuum, right? There are materials that slow down light to a crawl (I read some theory some time ago about slowing down light to almost zero).
So I thought that in some material, x-rays were faster than light, both being slower than c of course.
kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 53d
I dunno about xrays, but it is true that light slows down in media and that particles can move faster than light in that medium, that's where Cherenkov radiation comes from! (Though I'm not sure if that also just slows down the particles or what)
cryoistalline@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 53d
c is the speed of light in a vacuum. It is impossible to send information faster than c. x-rays are also just light so everything I said before also applies to x-rays.
I'm not very familiar with how light interacts with materials since it wasn't covered in the electromagnetism class that I took, so the next part might be wrong. The speed of light is calculated by looking at Maxwell's laws of electromagnetism and recognizing that it is the equation for a wave. The speed is then calculated as c = 1/sqrt(epsilon_0 * mu_0) where epsilon_0 and mu_0 are the vacuum permittivity and the vacuum permeability. Inside a material, I think the permittivity and permeability are different and thus the speed of light as determined by Maxwell's equations would be different. I know its not possible for the speed (group velocity) of light in a material to be faster than the speed of light in a vacuum because otherwise, you could send information faster than c, which is impossible.
OfCourseNot@fedia.io · 2 pts · 53d
That's correct, sort of. Individual photons travel always at c (they don't have mass, so they literally can't go slower), but when traveling through a transparent (for their frequency) medium they don't go through the atoms or around them—they would hit an atom (its electrons, really), get absorbed, and then re-emitted. The average speed of all the photons will be lower than c, and depends on the frequency, that's how we got rainbows. For most frequencies, including visible light, it goes slower the higher the frequency is, but gamma rays/x rays photons are so high energy that they don't interact with the electrons, but with the nuclei—that's why you want materials like lead or tungsten to block them—which are much smaller, resulting in fewer absorbing-emitting interactions and a higher average speed.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 53d
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.
samus12345@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 53d
That's an odd one, since you'd think peeing or not peeing blood would be very easy to verify.
darvocet@infosec.pub · 9 pts · 53d
Wat
M137@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 53d
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.
teyrnon@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 53d
We got a lot of such lies, for instance on Marijuana, and everyone found out it was bullshit if they didn't already know, and it destroys the credibility of the authorities. Which in truth might be the most important message school could teach our kids heading into the 21st century, the government is dishonest. Everything is based on lies, and if it isn't they are trying to end that part of government.
But they told us about cancer, it making you impotent and sterile, stupid and brain damage, all sorts of bullshit. Much based on studies where they spray pesticides on the plant then blame the plant for the pesticide effects. Thank the University of Missouri I think it is for a lot of that bullshit.
kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 53d
PSA: Go to the doctor if you're pissing blood.
anugeshtu@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 53d
Ah, that's just omitting the details. She forgot about the circumstances of the situation, like, e.g., a super strong vacuum cleaner. /s
ProdigiousInsanity@lemmus.org · 15 pts · 54d
Came here to say the same thing, for years I was believing my blood was blue before it hit oxygen....
albbi@piefed.ca · 8 pts · 53d
I was going to add the "hitting oxygen" is an important part of the blue blood myth back then.
arrow74@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 53d
Which is really funny since your blood is already oxeygenated
kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 53d
Ah, but I think the "blue" blood you see is in your veins, which carry "spent" blood with low oxygen content. Those kinds of little truths are what make myths believable, too.
lyralycan@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 54d
Holy shit.
As someone who does not possess the knowledge, is blood white? The deoxygenated channels?
MoonMelon@lemmy.ml · 22 pts · 54d
Deoxygenated, venous blood is dark red. Oxygenated, arterial blood is bright red.
I was taught the "blood is blue" myth also. My mom was livid, since her job involved drawing lots of blood, starting IVs etc.
teyrnon@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 53d
I called bullshit from the start on that. If it was true, that blood turned red when it touched oxygen, then pulling blood from the vein in a needle would be blue. Teachers told me to shut up.
It's such a stupid theory, knowing what we knew.
village604@adultswim.fan · 17 pts · 54d
It's actually green
forbiddencherry@lemmy.today · 18 pts · 54d
🖖
Lydia_K@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 54d
That one guy in Carbon Creek is an outlier and should not be counted.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 53d
Plasma separated from red blood cells is sorta yellowish beige. At least in IV bags.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 53d
Blood separates into white, yeah. That's basically my understanding of (a type of) pus formation.
007ace@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 53d
We still have pictures like this in books! It makes it hard to break the cycle.
Murse@slrpnk.net · 37 pts · 53d
We're still there, aunt Marge is just called Grok now.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 53d
I don't want to think that badly about aunt Marge. How about Gemini? Marge wasn't gropey
Venator@lemmy.nz · 3 pts · 53d
she also goes by other names too, such as "AI Overview" and "Claude"
ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip · 30 pts · 54d
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.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 54d
I'd prefer it if they actually worked that way
Venator@lemmy.nz · 2 pts · 53d
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.
Ledivin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 53d
It... it does, though? At least at a basic level, and it's based on every post ever, not just your aunt's.
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 53d
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.
Dasus@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 53d
98% of humanity, right there. Fuck I hate them.
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 53d
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.
historicaldocuments@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 53d
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.
Alexstarfire@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 54d
Nothing has really changed since then.
BeUnique@lemmy.zip · 33 pts · 54d
Just where you get your misinformation.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org · 26 pts · 53d
That's right thanks to the internet misinformation is no more!
nullspace@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 53d
Right about more things. Also confidently wrong about just as many things.
LavaPlanet@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 53d
Time to crack those dusty old encyclopedias out again!
DupaCycki@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 53d
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!
DupaCycki@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 53d
Now you ask uncle Grok and carry his misinformation for 20 minutes, because your long-term memory doesn't exist anymore.
Aeri@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 51d
Sometimes I wonder if there's even anything I can do besides just read more I guess
treadful@lemmy.zip · 23 pts · 53d
Or, if you were lucky, you could look things up in your out of date encyclopedias.
Samskara@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 53d
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.
Malyca@lemmy.zip · 23 pts · 53d
My dad told me thunder is when clouds collide
Rusty@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 53d
Is that misinformation or a dad joke?
Malyca@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 53d
As far as I know it's misinformation
forkDestroyer@infosec.pub · 6 pts · 53d
Hoho man, I'm gonna use that one
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 53d
My uncle told me it was God clappin' cheeks.
heartSagan5@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 53d
I always heard “angels bowling.”
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 53d
"that's just god twerking...."
strop@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 53d
🥹🥹🥹
Fedizen@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 53d
"Urine is sterile"
"You can only fold paper 7 times"
Etc.
Evotech@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 53d
The paper thing is is testable! It’s not wrong. «You» can’t do it
Fedizen@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 52d
Did it yesterday
Johanno@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -1 pts · 53d
DIN A4? Maybe
DIN A1? I can do more than 7 times
Sedathems@mander.xyz · 6 pts · 53d
there's a mythbuster episode on it https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=l9w8GjMeWGo
Johanno@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 53d
So you say butter paper is the trick.
Also I would count the half folded ones too
FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 53d
Oh, no you can't
Artemis_Mystique@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 53d
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 2^7^ * 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.
Johanno@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 53d
Yes'nt.
You are correct on the thickness. However the folding makes it smaller. And the smaller it gets the less leverage you have.
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de · 16 pts · 54d
And with AI and anti-science grifters, we’re back to that world!
village604@adultswim.fan · 16 pts · 54d
We never really left
Bonus@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 53d
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.
Doomsider@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 53d
They will kill you, but you need to chew up a couple hundred.
Abyssian@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 53d
Thank God, a way out of this madness.
Bonus@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 53d
It's clearly not a great idea but yeah, the hyperbole made me feel betrayed when I realized it.
Doomsider@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 53d
Yeah, it is not really practical even if it is true. There are a lot easier ways to poison yourself.
strop@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 53d
Death is obviously still part of it, just that now it's externalized
CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social · 14 pts · 53d
Tbf, some blood is blue, it just tends to be a few types of invertebrates that have that blood.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 53d
next thing you'll be telling me that some animals can change their sex.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 53d
And those aliens on the historical documents
Prior_Industry@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 53d
Now someone’s aunt marge in another country does it.
tired_n_bored@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 53d
As if now people are knowledgeable...
osanna@lemmy.vg · 2 pts · 52d
Yep. The world’s knowledge at your fingertips and we’re all “skibidiing”
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 53d
You could go to your local library. I still do.
nek0d3r@midwest.social · 6 pts · 53d
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.
Mucki@feddit.org · 10 pts · 53d
"So nothing really changed, except you don't ask your aunt anything anymore. You still talking to her?"
rumba@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 53d
She Ded
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 53d
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).
strop@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 53d
Jesus comes, kills everyone, proceeds immediately to play Crash Bandicoot on PS1
thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 53d
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.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 53d
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.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org · 6 pts · 53d
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.
BigDiction@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 53d
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
KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 53d
clearly must've confused cattle and haggis
Dasus@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 53d
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.
MintyFresh@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 53d
When the Internet had a butler. A classier time.
Dasus@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 53d
Indubitably.
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one · 4 pts · 53d
Now you can go online and double down on your misinformation.
jack_of_sandwich@lemmy.sdf.org · 4 pts · 53d
Or you'd read an out of date Encyclopedia
trublu@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 53d
"The eyeball is full of blackberry jam."
~ My grandfather, unironically, not remotely joking, actually completely serious.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 52d
Did anyone actually help him out with that? Sounds like something that could lead to long term damage...
Sharkticon@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 52d
This meme is older than Lemmy.
grainOfSalt@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 52d
I like the way Mary Jo and Bridget explained on a rifftrax video for 'Duties of a Secretary' - "Secretaries were the internet in heels."