Comment on Ray is basic.
echodot@feddit.uk 4 days ago
I knew someone who utterly refused to believe that dinosaurs weren’t the first organisms in existence. He literally thought it was dinosaurs, then there was an asteroid impact and then basically humans arrived about 10 minutes later.
People have absolutely no understanding of the immense amount of time that has existed before we came along.
Mind he also gave me that whole if earth was 1 cm closer to the sun, we would all burn up malarkey, so maybe he’s just an idiot.
RamenJunkie@midwest.social 3 days ago
A LOT of the “misunderstandings” about the world stem from people having nonreal concept of numbers. Especially anything that is rural vs urban and population. People who know everyone in their 900 person town have no concept of the million large city nearby. Also money, which creates the whole “I can work hard and become a millionaire” idiocy. Like ok, if you work your entire life and spend nothing but absolute basics you might have a million or two in savings, when you die.