What was a fact taught to you in school that has been proven false during your lifetime?
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Some children are taught in school that God created the earth. Some of us were allowed to learn that humans cannot effect climate change, allowed to discuss it openly, and allowed to graduate with that idea without ever being corrected. Children are being taught today that slavery and colonialism were good things for some people.
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Racism used to be a problem until Lincoln and MLK fixed it.
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There's essentially no difference between reps and dems tbh
"Essentially no different" is overselling it. "A lot less difference than there should be" is better.
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Just the cancer causing it does. I'd read a study on it one time, I believe it's accurate.
Mouthwash cancer?
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Pretty much that but also ability to use tools and basic knowledge of air conditioning etc
how do I find a data center role in particular? normally i am searching "Linux" to get devops roles.
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I was taught that Pluto is a planet. How could they have been so wrong???
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Were you guys eating coffee grounds in your 5th grade science class? Your next teacher either hated it because you guys were bouncing off the walls or loved it because you were all wide awake and paying attention.
A tiny amount on like a q-tip. Not enough to effect anything except flavor
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Basically everything I can recall being told in D.A.R.E program classes (war on drugs era propaganda taught in public schools in the USA) was utter nonsense and fabricated bullshit. After actually having personal experience with most of the substances they vilified, none of the effects - good or ill - are what I was taught in that ridiculous program.
On the contrary, some of the fear tactics they used made me curious to investigate on my own. The breathlessly scared rural teacher describing the mind bending effects that "magic mushrooms" was supposed to have sounded fascinating to teenage me. In reality, they are very fun and therapeutic to use, but nothing like the wild Alice in Wonderland mind journey they made it sound like it would be.
The only hallucinogen that lives up to D.A.R.E hype is DMT. Things like mushrooms and LSD will give funny visuals and help you think in a different perspective, but you're still "you" and still on Earth.
DMT though? You can straight up leave this reality and lose yourself if you take enough. You can see things and creatures that couldn't possibly exist. You can meet God, and live entire lifetimes before crashing back into reality 15-20 minutes later.
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Hear about pluto? Pretty messed up huh?
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Hear about pluto? Pretty messed up huh?
You know that's right!
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Glass is a liquid. It's not. It's not a crystalline solid so it has an internal structure similar to a liquid, but the structure is very much solid at room temperature and the components are not capable of moving relative to each other like a liquid would.
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Glass is a liquid. It's not. It's not a crystalline solid so it has an internal structure similar to a liquid, but the structure is very much solid at room temperature and the components are not capable of moving relative to each other like a liquid would.
It's also not the reason church windows are thicker at the bottom, a common myth that my ex-colleague with a PhD in polymer chemistry(!) somehow bought into
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how do I find a data center role in particular? normally i am searching "Linux" to get devops roles.
I stumbled into it by word of mouth in my case. I started out doing IT for public schools which gave me some experience with racking stuff, security cams, basic electrical work, etc
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Were you guys eating coffee grounds in your 5th grade science class? Your next teacher either hated it because you guys were bouncing off the walls or loved it because you were all wide awake and paying attention.
We were each given like a quarter teaspoon of grounds and a toothpick.
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It's also not the reason church windows are thicker at the bottom, a common myth that my ex-colleague with a PhD in polymer chemistry(!) somehow bought into
Glass not being a polymer still does suggest they're talking out of turn
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Mouthwash cancer?
A lot of mouthwash uses alcohol, which does cause oral cancer
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Glass not being a polymer still does suggest they're talking out of turn
Not a polymer but an amorphous solid like many polymers; I believe she popped that nugget while explaining crystallinity and glass transitions. She was quite knowledgeable otherwise but that little false factoid must have slipped through.
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That's like saying black lung runs in families because your family all worked in the mines.
I dont follow, if you are talking about lifestyle choices there is really inst any similarity, neither in weight, eating habits or work or living conditions .My grandma and grandpa lived in a village until there 40s. Also heart disease is not the only genetic disease in the family. Both my mom and her mom had ovary cancer.Diabetes runs in the family both type 1 and type ,both sets of grandparents and both there siblings and parents,both sets of aunts and uncles, me and my sisters plus alot other relatives. My grandma(father's side) had bipolar, so does my uncle so does my sister and all of this is just counting genetic disease and not everything else like baldness(both me and my uncle started at 16), i have a single string of blonde hair growing in exactly the middle of my forehead and so does my aunt's daughter(our moms are twins) and we both have a baby tooth that steal didnt follow at our 20s with the adult one growing behind them
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I dont follow, if you are talking about lifestyle choices there is really inst any similarity, neither in weight, eating habits or work or living conditions .My grandma and grandpa lived in a village until there 40s. Also heart disease is not the only genetic disease in the family. Both my mom and her mom had ovary cancer.Diabetes runs in the family both type 1 and type ,both sets of grandparents and both there siblings and parents,both sets of aunts and uncles, me and my sisters plus alot other relatives. My grandma(father's side) had bipolar, so does my uncle so does my sister and all of this is just counting genetic disease and not everything else like baldness(both me and my uncle started at 16), i have a single string of blonde hair growing in exactly the middle of my forehead and so does my aunt's daughter(our moms are twins) and we both have a baby tooth that steal didnt follow at our 20s with the adult one growing behind them
The question wasn't wether there are inheritable health issues, diabetes, some cancer, etc are demonstrated to have a heredity component. I'm not even arguing that heart disease 'isn't' hereditary, I'm just saying that in the context the argument, you saying that several of your family members had it doesn't prove that specific thing is inherited. Everyone does of something and the fact that you can find 3 to 5 people in your lineage that died of that does point to it being inherited.
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The question wasn't wether there are inheritable health issues, diabetes, some cancer, etc are demonstrated to have a heredity component. I'm not even arguing that heart disease 'isn't' hereditary, I'm just saying that in the context the argument, you saying that several of your family members had it doesn't prove that specific thing is inherited. Everyone does of something and the fact that you can find 3 to 5 people in your lineage that died of that does point to it being inherited.
he fact that you can find 3 to 5 people in your lineage that died of that does point to it being inherited
It does though? like it doesn't have to be 100% beyond a shadow of a doubt genetic like say type 1 diabetes, and with everything else it most likely is
are demonstrated to have a heredity component
I am of the believe that most health issues are genetic, be it mutation or hereditary. I haven't looked into it much but from experience ppl tend to believe most diabetes are caused by being overweight(or general life style) and that's no the case in my experience. I feel believing its life style choices hurts ppl more in the long run than it helps(the number of arguments i got with non-diabetes ppl about my own diabetes for example)
But also like what does this have to do with anything?
Heart disease runs in families. Nope.
the OG commenter said it doesn't runs in families and we both agree it can, why does it matter whether it runs specifically in my family or not. People with health issues know about their own medical history, when someone tells you heart disease run in the family, take them at their word(plus they probably talked to doctors and what not)
