You never know

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• kinsnik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  well, thanks to AI-generated answers, it might change every time you search

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  • BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Don’t forget to stabilize your kid’s sandwiches 🥪

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• Signtist@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  This is a very good thing. If you don’t know something, you can always look it up to figure it out, but there are so many times where people incorrectly think they already know about things, so they never look them up and realize they were wrong the whole time.

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• voicesarefree@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Mandela Effect is a thing. The impulse to verify your understanding is a good thing, in contrast with people so stubborn they’d rather double down than admit they could be wrong.

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• disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I’m older than the internet, so I have no choice but to question what I know. In the 80s and 90s many of us were obsessed with memorizing useless facts. They were a fun part of conversation prior to limitless access to information.

  It’s bananas how much of what I memorized is false. Some of it even came from my teachers. This is a fun and interesting read that I highly recommend for anyone who attended public school in the US.

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies_My_Teacher_Told_Me

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• Mighty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  You know what: that’s good. It might. Everything is changing and in flux

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• jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I used to know how to spell words, and what they meant. Then I spent too much time on the internet.

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  • tpyo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Had to once double check “the” because I’d been talking to friends about how words eventually lose meaning they’re overused. The example was to just say it repeatedly while thinking of the word in your head, and eventually the concept of the word the loses any tangible meaning

    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_satiation is the phenomenon

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• JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  This is basically the foundation of the scientific process

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• atmur@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I also do this with word definitions all the time.

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  • DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Those sometimes do randomly change.

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• gedaliyah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Fish still breathe with their gills, right? It just doesn’t seem like there is really enough dissolved oxygen in water.

  Don’t you want to just be sure? Go on, check. I won’t tell anyone.

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• Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Earth’s gravity has been rounded up to a nice even 10m/s/s

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