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Comment on yeah everything is probably made of like, idk, earth water, fire and air or something idrk

I am most certainly not a science whiz but it’s so goddamn funny to see this whole comment section full of people just… explaning and correcting each other poorly with varying degrees of correctness. Just like 50 half-true and misremembered tidbits from everyone’s intro to high school physics class, blindly seeking targets in space. I promise you guys, there’s a very straight answer to this like two or three clicks away, written more clearly and succinctly than anyone here is managing to do.

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fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Don’t tell them that. You’re contaminating my petri dish.

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SorryQuick@lemmy.ca ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Lemmy (or most social media) in a nutshell.

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markovs_gun@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I have noticed there is a bit of a more “anti intellectual” bent on Lemmy compared to Reddit. Like there is a lot of stupidity on reddit but usually someone comes in with actual knowledge. On Lemmy I just see people arguing in circles with each other with nobody ever actually looking anything up.

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- swelter_spark@reddthat.com ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  IMO, it’s okay to have casual conversations without being an expert or researching every post. Redditors’ habit of fact-checking everything is honestly tiring. Conversation has other purposes besides education. I think many people are looking more for human interaction than for correct facts.
  
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  - markovs_gun@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Right but conversations about science where all parties are wrong and nobody is willing to actually look shit up are completely pointless. It’s the exact same problem that caused the situation in the OP in the first place.
    
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- kadup@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  Like there is a lot of stupidity on reddit but usually someone comes in with actual knowledge
  
  Be careful with that, actually. Reddit mastered repeating an explanation or analogy they read on another thread or saw on YouTube, but being quite eloquent at explaining it. Problem is, if they misunderstood it to begin with, they’ll just as confidently repeat a broken version.
  
  I didn’t notice it at first… then I started seeing explanations for things on my field and cringed at how wrong they were, and then I started noticing the pattern and the very repeated analogies on other areas too.
  
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- farngis_mcgiles@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  actually your wrong
  
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  - burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    You’re*
    
    ~~wrong~~ right
    
    FTFY
    
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