This appears to be stupid, and it is, but it’s mostly evil. Teaching children to accept absurdities and distrust evidence to make them easier to control.
US education
Submitted 2 days ago by Zerush@lemmy.ml to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Kwakigra@beehaw.org 1 day ago
t_berium@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That’s, what religion is about. Religion teaches people to be content with not understanding the world.
Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
I have seen electric, it’s blue and I have even felt it, it hurts. Also I know where it comes from, it comes from the walls, there’s an electric sockets for it.
crandlecan@mander.xyz 17 hours ago
Boom! Science, bitch! drops mic
dalekcaan@feddit.nl 1 day ago
This genuinely feels like a bit from Look Around You
Tweet@feddit.uk 17 hours ago
Came here to say exactly the same. Experiment Two.
Whelks_chance@lemmy.world 1 day ago
What are birds? We just don’t know.
BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Zerush@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
You know, back in time before the dark ages, Christianity was very scientific. Science was a tool that god gave to humans to understand the world they live in.
And now it’s scawwy
crandlecan@mander.xyz 17 hours ago
omg it’s real? 🤣
psycho_driver@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Well, from someone who studied electrical theory in a ‘normal’ university, the author isn’t completely off base in that we know what electricity is but not why electricity is.
shneancy@lemmy.world 2 days ago
to be fair, we don’t know why anything is, but that’s something for philosophy so ponder, not science where you seek answers
pyre@lemmy.world 2 days ago
science doesn’t determine why, it determines how to the best of our abilities. why implies purpose and/or intent, which isn’t something science measures.
dustyData@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Oh we do measure why’s, that’s the point of social sciences. You just have to accept that purpose and intent don’t exist in a vacuum and are the result of human perception and expression then study it as such. As a human phenomenon. From philosophy to psychology, there’s a vast body of analysis on the why of many things. Cultural artifacts for example are the equivalent of batteries, where meaning is concentrated, captured and can be measured, studied and analysed.
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 2 days ago
With Griffith it stops being a mystery… It goes back to one with Jackson.
MehBlah@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Tide comes in and tide goes out. You can’t explain that.
hperrin@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
This just in, no one has ever seen lightning, and if you say you have, we’ll have to burn you at the stake to protect the children.
BlushedPotatoPlayers@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
This is for real? How is it even legal?
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 day ago
Murica
Taldan@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Apparently it is real. Wild
jaded_genie@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Are they dense?? Electricity comes from the power outlet. Everyone knows that
lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Of course. That’s why god created power outlets. So mommy can plug in the electric mixer, to make you chocolate chip cookies
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Replace ‘electricity’ with ‘wind’ and/or ‘moving air’ and/or ‘breath’, and now you understand what Proto-Judaic Canaanites circa 800 BCE thought ‘spirit’ was.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 day ago
I’m curious what they think a lightning strike is.
SeptugenarianSenate@leminal.space 1 day ago
god playing craps with the lizard king, who is always below the earths crust right at the moment when lightning is striking the ground.
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 1 day ago
Fuck listening to science about how “Lightning is a natural phenomenon consisting of electrostatic discharges occurring through the atmosphere between two electrically charged regions. One or both regions are within the atmosphere, with the second region sometimes occurring on the ground. Following the lightning, the regions become partially or wholly electrically neutralized.”
This sounds so much better. What reminds when either one of them roll snake eyes?
krolden@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
lemjukes@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Found a site with some more fun excerpts:
Zink@programming.dev 1 day ago
Fun excerpts and a fun article about them too!
These fuckers saw a child win at tag by saying they had a force field and based an entire field of study around it.
Geodad@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Lightning comes from Zeus and Thor. Obviously. /s
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 day ago
Obviously /s because Perun is the god of lightning and thunder
leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Thor’s the god of thunder, not lightning.
Geodad@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That’s a bit more pedantic than the old Norse were.
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 1 day ago
My Catholic school is more grounded to reality than this.
Klear@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Grounded? That sounds like electricity talk, or should I say WITCHCRAFT?!
Hadriscus@jlai.lu 1 day ago
If it’s grounded then there should be no safety risk
smeg@feddit.uk 2 days ago
This reads like a Look Around You narration
skisnow@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
What are birds? We just don’t know.
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 1 day ago
De-energize an electrical panel, remove the panel covers, energize it and let them fuck around and find out.
burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 1 day ago
what are frogs
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Gay.
rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
A mystery.
T156@lemmy.world 1 day ago
So where does that put people who have been electrified? Did they simply die of terror because they thought they had grasped a live wire?
ebolapie@lemmy.world 1 day ago
God called their souls home. Of course. HE works in mysterious ways but we do live in His universe and we have to trust His wisdom.
J92@lemmy.world 1 day ago
As a sub-par professional electrician, i have definitely felt electricity.
Aqarius@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Seen it, too!
Hadriscus@jlai.lu 1 day ago
Claude François : am I a joke to you ?
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I know people in my day to day who dont belive the earth is more than 2k years old, who believe there were never “cavemen”, and dinosaurs weren’t real. Baffling. This person is rich and has a ton of land. Education dont mean shit in freedom land.
x00z@lemmy.world 1 day ago
We have caught the electricity monster into a circuit and now we need to keep it in a loop.
Sergio@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The electricity monster was caught by Jesus! Why do you think electric poles are all crosses?
Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Oh my god, energy travels via divine intervention. This is a miracle!
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Hackworth@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Obligatory Gremlins 2 Brainstorm Key & Peele sketch
Zink@programming.dev 1 day ago
That’s how MRIs work! Superconducting electromagnets.
You see, the electricity monster will lend us its magical “X-ray vision” that doesn’t actually use ionizing radiation like x-rays.
mayo_cider@hexbear.net 1 day ago
I have heard, felt, tasted and smelt electricity and all that was required was a lack of self-preservation
leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Mehdi, is that you…?
Posadas@hexbear.net 2 days ago
The cultist Sintist demand you belive thier particle-wave duality while denouncing the Holy Trinity.
piranhaconda@mander.xyz 1 day ago
I’ve definitely fucking felt it before, luckily only a little 120 VAC tickle, but yea I felt it
0x0@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
You felt god!
LethargicPuppy14@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
As a kid, I used to purposely stick my fingers between prongs while plugging Christmas lights in in order to electrocute myself. It’s shocking that I came out from that unscathed.
EM1sw@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Electrocution is electric execution. Assuming you’re still alive, you shocked yourself. Pet peeve of a former electrician, forgive me.
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Eh, you only get a little tickle from that. Now completing a circuit across your chest is a doozy. Would not recommend.
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 1 day ago
I had that feeling… I never did it again. I am lucky it was a split second or I’d be dead.
SonOfAntenora@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I know this screeshot is as old as the internet because of that toilet. Still embarassing.
LordWiggle@lemmy.world 1 day ago
When they want to feel it, they should take a bath with a plugged in toaster.
MangioneDontMiss@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Jesus…
rekabis@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
And with the dismantling of the US Department of education, things are going to get a lot, lot worse.
Taldan@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This is from 1976 (uncertain if this specific passage was change from the original run though)
The US education system has been slowly, but surely gutted since then
rekabis@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Conservatism needs its masses of ignorant and near-illiterate electorate who cannot think for themselves and cannot use critical thinking to realize how badly they are being hoodwinked. This hollowing out of the educational system has been done on purpose to bulk up the Republican electorate.