“Urine is sterile”
“You can only fold paper 7 times”
Etc.
Now you ask uncle Grok and carry his misinformation for 20 minutes, because your long-term memory doesn’t exist anymore.
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.
Or you’d read an out of date Encyclopedia
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.
Or, if you were lucky, you could look things up in your out of date encyclopedias.
My dad told me thunder is when clouds collide
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!
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!
Right about more things. Also confidently wrong about just as many things.
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
clearly must’ve confused cattle and haggis
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.
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.
“So nothing really changed, except you don’t ask your aunt anything anymore. You still talking to her?”
She Ded
We’re still there, aunt Marge is just called Grok now.
she also goes by other names too, such as “AI Overview” and “Claude”
I don’t want to think that badly about aunt Marge. How about Gemini? Marge wasn’t gropey
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.
They will kill you, but you need to chew up a couple hundred.
Thank God, a way out of this madness.
It’s clearly not a great idea but yeah, the hyperbole made me feel betrayed when I realized it.
Yeah, it is not really practical even if it is true. There are a lot easier ways to poison yourself.
Now someone’s aunt marge in another country does it.
