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- Comment on Why can't we have a static vintage web? 3 hours ago:
Okay boomer, why don’t you go to a museum or something like that?
- Comment on We don't use the word 'fascist' because we wish harm on anybody. We use it because words mean things. 3 hours ago:
You ever heard the story of The Boy Who Cried Wolf?
I kinda think that’s what’s happening here. Leftists and Liberals have been calling Republicans (and especially Trump) fascist since AT LEAST the 2016 election campaign, and they’ve been doing it consistently ever since. People just got tired of hearing it, I guess. Especially since he really didn’t do that much fascist stuff during his first term, and even ended up handing over the office (mostly) peacefully, which isn’t exactly something that actual fascists are known for.
I’m sorry to say this, but the term simply has been overused to the point of meaningless in the past decade. Perhaps it’s time to face reality and come up with a new plan, because this clearly isn’t working.
- Comment on In the long ago past, people needed to do THIS 6 days ago:
Probably keeping track of people’s genders and preferred pronouns.
- Comment on Cooking 😋 1 week ago:
You mean soffritto?
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 1 week ago:
Well, I let you be the judge. Here’s a list of outdated facts that were commonly taught before the year 2000 but have since been updated, courtesy of ChatGPT:
Science / Space
Pluto is a planet.
Back then, Pluto was still the 9th planet. In 2006, the International Astronomical Union reclassified it as a “dwarf planet.”
The universe’s expansion was slowing down.
Many textbooks still suggested the universe might eventually collapse in a “Big Crunch.” In 1998, evidence of accelerating expansion was found, but it hadn’t fully filtered into school curricula by 2000.
Dinosaurs were cold-blooded and scaly.
In 2000, the “feathered dinosaur” revolution was just starting. Today, we know many theropods (including raptors) had feathers and were likely warm-blooded.
The continents “drift” slowly but are mostly stable now.
Continental drift was taught, but the understanding of plate tectonics was less developed in school-level detail. We now know tectonic activity reshapes Earth far more dynamically than was often taught.
Biology / Medicine
The human genome was incomplete.
In 2000, the Human Genome Project had just released its first draft. Many textbooks underestimated how complex genetics really is — for example, they suggested humans had ~100,000 genes, but it’s actually about 20,000.
Ulcers are caused by stress and spicy food.
That was the classic teaching. By the 1990s, scientists had already shown that ulcers are often caused by H. pylori bacteria, but the update wasn’t in most classrooms yet.
“Junk DNA” does nothing.
The idea that noncoding DNA was useless filler was common. Now we know much of it plays regulatory or structural roles.
History / Social Studies
The internet is a fad.
You may have heard skepticism about the internet being overhyped. Few predicted how deeply it would transform society in just two decades.
Christopher Columbus “discovered America.”
By 2000, it was still widely taught that Columbus “discovered” the New World, though evidence of Norse settlements (like at L’Anse aux Meadows) was already known — just not widely emphasized. Now, school curricula are far more likely to teach about Indigenous civilizations and earlier arrivals.
The Great Wall of China is the only man-made object visible from space.
This “factoid” was common in classrooms, but it’s false. The wall is not easily visible from orbit without aid, while cities, roads, and airports often are.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 1 week ago:
Unironically, that sounds like a great task for AI.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 1 week ago:
Wrong. It’s a republic.
- Comment on Warning signs 1 week ago:
Now do purple-haired women.
- Comment on Amen 1 week ago:
- Comment on suspicion 1 week ago:
You must not have been here for long.
- Comment on Why is Lemmy much better with telling a user why they were banned? 3 weeks ago:
The mod log certainly helps, because it leaves a public trail of evidence for each ban, but it ultimately still depends on the server admin, because they are in charge of choosing their mods. But at least no one can ban you from the platform entirely, at worst you can get banned from an entire instance.
- Comment on Sir? 4 weeks ago:
You can always take your chances on a blood test…
- Comment on Apologies: You Have Reached the End of Your Free-Trial Period of America! Want rule of law? That’s premium. 4 weeks ago:
Whoah, what the hell? I thought I could just coast along forever contributing nothing to society while others do all the work for me… damn fascism!
- Comment on Who is your favourite Superman? 4 weeks ago:
I TEACH YOU THE SUPERMAN. Man is something that is to be surpassed. What have ye done to surpass man?
All beings hitherto have created something beyond themselves: and ye want to be the ebb of that great tide, and would rather go back to the beast than surpass man?
What is the ape to man? A laughing-stock, a thing of shame. And just the same shall man be to the Superman: a laughing-stock, a thing of shame.
Ye have made your way from the worm to man, and much within you is still worm. Once were ye apes, and even yet man is more of an ape than any of the apes. Even the wisest among you is only a disharmony and hybrid of plant and phantom. But do I bid you become phantoms or plants?
Lo, I teach you the Superman!
The Superman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: The Superman SHALL BE the meaning of the earth!
I conjure you, my brethren, REMAIN TRUE TO THE EARTH, and believe not those who speak unto you of superearthly hopes! Poisoners are they, whether they know it or not.
Despisers of life are they, decaying ones and poisoned ones themselves, of whom the earth is weary: so away with them! Once blasphemy against God was the greatest blasphemy; but God died, and therewith also those blasphemers. To blaspheme the earth is now the dreadfulest sin, and to rate the heart of the unknowable higher than the meaning of the earth!
Once the soul looked contemptuously on the body, and then that contempt was the supreme thing:—the soul wished the body meagre, ghastly, and famished. Thus it thought to escape from the body and the earth.
Oh, that soul was itself meagre, ghastly, and famished; and cruelty was the delight of that soul!
But ye, also, my brethren, tell me: What doth your body say about your soul? Is your soul not poverty and pollution and wretched self-complacency?
Verily, a polluted stream is man. One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.
Lo, I teach you the Superman: he is that sea; in him can your great contempt be submerged.
What is the greatest thing ye can experience? It is the hour of great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becometh loathsome unto you, and so also your reason and virtue.
The hour when ye say: “What good is my happiness! It is poverty and pollution and wretched self-complacency. But my happiness should justify existence itself!”
The hour when ye say: “What good is my reason! Doth it long for knowledge as the lion for his food? It is poverty and pollution and wretched self-complacency!”
The hour when ye say: “What good is my virtue! As yet it hath not made me passionate. How weary I am of my good and my bad! It is all poverty and pollution and wretched self-complacency!”
The hour when ye say: “What good is my justice! I do not see that I am fervour and fuel. The just, however, are fervour and fuel!”
The hour when ye say: “What good is my pity! Is not pity the cross on which he is nailed who loveth man? But my pity is not a crucifixion.”
Have ye ever spoken thus? Have ye ever cried thus? Ah! would that I had heard you crying thus!
It is not your sin—it is your self-satisfaction that crieth unto heaven; your very sparingness in sin crieth unto heaven!
Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue? Where is the frenzy with which ye should be inoculated?
Lo, I teach you the Superman: he is that lightning, he is that frenzy!
- Comment on HDMI 4 weeks ago:
It’s for streaming, duh
- Comment on Mine too! 4 weeks ago:
They forgot the garlic sauce?
- Comment on Hep mak fren 5 weeks ago:
Wholesome
- Comment on 🚨🚨🚨 5 weeks ago:
The Fifth Amendment provides that you may not be forced to incriminate yourself under any circumstances, so you can always just ask them to tell you what they stopped you for.
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- Comment on We all had one 5 weeks ago:
Speak for yourself.
- Comment on I just learned this existed 5 weeks ago:
Missed opportunity to call it Beanzza
- Comment on Just to clarify 5 weeks ago:
Tigers are not endemic to Africa. This being a national park, not a zoo, I’d say the chances of that possibility are extremely slim.
- Comment on A good tool? 5 weeks ago:
It’s 2025, old man. You can just do
winget install firefoxnow. - Comment on A good tool? 5 weeks ago:
It’s 2025, old man. You can just do
winget install firefoxnow. - Comment on I don't like it, actually 5 weeks ago:
Forced? Women literally fought for the right to do spreadsheets all day.
- Comment on [OC] Behold, my masterpiece 5 weeks ago:
Thanks. I’m stealing that.
- Comment on Is it? 5 weeks ago:
You mean no?
- Comment on Is it? 5 weeks ago:
Agricultural society and its consequences…
- Comment on Birds of peace 5 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Macaroni and cheese 5 weeks ago:
Would
