A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.
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This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.
I think the biggest one that was drilled into us constantly, especially about WW2 and Nazis was
“ Those Who Cannot Remember the Past Are Condemned To Repeat It”
This was a load of shit as evidenced by what is going on in the USA right now and other parts of the world. The real lesson should have been to push back the second a nazi takes an inch as they will take more if you play the nice and tolerate. Not everyone is well intentioned.
I had this really awesome kind of angry and nihilistic history teacher in H.S. who offered an elective course that studied the repeated patterns through history leading up to genocide. It covered Armenia, Rwanda, and the Holocaust.
I don't know if it was just the fact that we looked at the repeated overlaps between human behavior vs just memorizing historical events, but if more people took a course like Crimes against Humanity maybe they would learn to spot those clear patterns of human behavior that somehow happen over and over again without anyone noticing.
push back the second a nazi takes an inch as they will take more if you play the nice and tolerate. Not everyone is well intentioned.
Yep, the Holocaust didn't happen overnight. It always starts as a slow slide into genocide, but once it picks up steam it turns into an avalanche. It drives me nuts that people keep pretending we should be entertaining any of this as just normal politics. The reaching across the aisle bullshit was insane a year ago (and really 10 years ago), but at this point it is literally enabling this shit to happen. You're a collaborator.
That quote is being proven true right now though?
People don't really remember what happened with the nazis. Most of the people who actually lived that past are dead now.
And the vast mojority of people lack enough empathy/understanding to be able to 'walk a mile in their shoes' as it were and extrapolate the horrors from the most readily available histories.
1987 Edison was a genius and invented everything, Turns out he was actually the Elon Musk of his time.
Edison being a giant dick of a patent troll is one of the main reasons Hollywood exists. I'm not sure Musk has anything that impactful on his resume.
''You won't have a calculator in your pocket all the time!''
Class of 2003.
Food wheel was taught in elementary school. As were the taste bud "zones" and the American Dream.
We had the Food Pyramid here in Canada, which is very similarly a lie pushed by the dairy and grain industries and not linked to any real health benefits.
I don't care if it's wrong, Marilyn Manson had his ribs removed so he could blow himself
They taught you that in school?
I learned that in middle school. It was from a kid on the bus but it was still middle school.
You do your most important learning outside of the classroom
He responded to this rumor in his autobiography saying "If I really got my ribs removed, I would have been busy sucking my own dick on The Wonder Years instead of chasing Winnie Cooper. Plus, who really has time to be killing puppies when you can be sucking your own dick? I think I'm gonna call the surgeon in the morning"
When I was in school, we were taught that vaccines work. /s
The United States is a constitutional Republic/democracy with 3 co-equal branches of government...
I mean it technically still is. de jure at least
It's like this:
We need the "under an fascist hybrid regime with a judicial junta (aka: "supreme court") and a mostly rubber-stamp legislature filled with cultists" to the label in the USA page.
Edit: Worth reading the discussion page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:United_States
I guess the big one for me is the whole Mozart for babies thing. It wasn't Mozart's music making babies and young children smarter, it was a combination of more affluent parents or at least parents with college plus educations having time and income to spend on enrichment activities.
Work hard and you will be rewarded and taken care of. LOLLLLLLLLLL.
That whole "got milk" campaign was a load of bullshit.
It turns out only about 30% of the global human population is able to even digest milk.
That, and most traditional dairy consuming European cultures never actually drank milk. They made cheese and butter, then poured the remainder in the pig trough to turn those calories into pork.
The book Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen goes a long way to accomplish this. At least it did for me.
Oh I've got a good one. Learned in the American south. Supposedly the American Civil War was not fought over slavery, but differing railroad track widths. Slavery was a minor detail that was a scape goat for the north to force the south to use its standard railroad width.
It's not just about slavery. There was also state's rights (to slavery), and the economic disparity (turns out free men work harder than slaves?!), and a clash of religious ideals (people that interpret the Bible as pro-slavery vs people that believe benevolence requires abolition). There were even one or two spots where water usage rights and federal funding were in controversy.
Alpha wolf is a lie.
School experiences are too varied for such a site to exist. Examples:
Climate change was universally agreed upon to exist and be caused by people 30 years ago. For some reason it no longer appears to be.
Leif Erikson was taught to us back then but you’ll find people today that celebrate Columbus.
Sure, some are still taught. Like you can catch a cold from being in the cold.
When I graduated highschool, the idea that some dinosaurs had feathers and evolved into birds was still "fringe science".
In my moc-GCSE year(s), my science teacher was so confident that blood was blue in the veins, I called her out on it but she was so adamant about it.
I went through the two websites posted here for graduation year 2008. The only incorrect thing I was taught that I still believed was:
"Learning styles (visual, auditory, kinesthetic) determine how you best learn"
False. Huh.
The fact that we thought Pluto was a planet seemed absolutely insane at the time but none of the kids could question the adult in the room when the stupid rock is literally not even staying in its own lane
"What you were taught
"Flu shots give you the flu"
What we know now
A common misconception...
Updated understanding emerged around 2020"
Updated for whom? Anti-vaccine idiots?
Rome didn't have special rooms for people to vomit in, then resume feasting.
Soviet blocking brigades weren't machine gun nests set up to mow down retreating soviet soldiers.
Vietnam had a regular army, it wasn't entirely a guerrilla force.
Most of what I learned about genetics is incorrect as when I graduated we thought DNA ran the show.
We were also wrong about why the USSR fell (not a huge surprise)
"Yeah, but they ain't disproved my beleif in the flat earth" (sarcasm because crappy day in work)
Unironically, that sounds like a great task for AI.
Fruit and vegetables being separate categories: Fruits are actually a type of vegetable. Additionally cucumbers are melons.
Cyan being a light blue: It is actually 50% green.
Simple machines are fundamental: They completely ignore compliant mechanisms and aren't atomic. Actually atomic mechanisms would be defined by the type of force, the shape, and the compliance.
The only form of Socialism is Marxism and Communism and Capitalism means markets: Look up Mutualism or Syndicalism.
Basically everything with pop psychology.
I am sure there are more, but these were just top of my head.