Most people in my life still don't fact check. I'm constantly chasing the truth while the convo runs away full of misinfo
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I honestly have no idea how people can live like that. Yet I see it so often that I'm convinced it's the norm.
People like to live within their comfort zones. I remember a study being referenced that claimed to show introducing facts contrary to a person’s existing viewpoint don’t get them to change, it just made them double-down and be more defensive.
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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.
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.
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We only use 10% of our brains.
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.
Tbf, they might have been right about themselves at the time they thought that.
My theory is they were sitting at around 5% usage.
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Dad: "I don't want to be in a club that would have me as its member", Karl Marx said that
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.
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I remember looking up "dirty" words in the dictionary as a real young one with a gaggle of friends
And now instead of Marge, it’s ChatGPT.
I have a gen-z friend who unjokingly does that. He's like "I asked grok if it was true and it confirmed it."
I wish at least he followed up with the logic or sources behind it... but no he was like "grok said so. I asked it." he was dead serious. and I wanted to hit my head into a fucking wall
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This is why encyclopedia salesmen was even a thing.
If you didn't have that, go to a library.
Eventually there was encyclopedia britannica which was basically one of the coolest things you could have for free on your computer in that era.
Funnily even the usage was pretty similar to doom-browsing Wikipedia:
- pick a volume
- open random page
- read about medieval remedies for mental illnesses
- open another random page
- read about some rare tropical bird
- repeat and rinse
- maybe brag about your tidbit knowledge to your friends later (if you had any)
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.
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