What's a myth/misconception you heard about the world that's went away as you got older?
I realized today, it's been a minute since I head the "glass is actually a very slow moving liquid" myth from someone. Just wondering if there's been anything else like this since you were a kid.
Americans are the good guys :-)
The world's biggest lie.
That you get more conservative as you get older. Really it's because boomers have been getting wealthier as they get older. Everyone else I know has only gotten more radicalized against the class war.
On a similar note, that money doesn't buy happiness. While technically true (see: Musk), it buys security and stability, which are prerequisites for happiness
Yeah the conservative thing has been so wild to me since I never saw my immigrant parents or millenial friends gain a ton of wealth or get more conservative. The political ideology is very clearly tied to wealth but I'm seeing even wealthier parents of friends not buying into it because they see how badly the economy has been fucked for their children and grandchildren.
Money doesn't buy happiness, but lack of money is a roadblock to happiness
Money also gives you access to resources to help you recover quickly and effectively.
Money also brings positive attention.
In another universe Musk is just a lonely incel. But as a billionaire there's an endless line of celebrities, gold diggers, porn stars, prostitutes etc lining up to please his every whim.
That was definitely only a boomer and older gen X thing.
Yeah I've come to accept that there's an amount of money needed to get comfortable. But when you get there, any surplus will not bring any happiness and might even inspire egoism and jealousy. But there is a line.
Social Mobility
"...one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
Makes my skin crawl everyday I hear this coming from the local grade school
, indivisible,
Ah yes, "indivisble" like Austria-Hungary
In elementary school I thought it was "and invisible"
A bit meta: That people who were wrong or mistaken about something just needed it explaining more clearly, and then they would stop saying things which are wrong or mistaken.
I wasted far too many years of my life trying to convince father-in-law of so many things, only to realize there is nothing that can be said to disabuse him. The problem wasn't the lack of facts or clarity of explanation, it's that he is fundamentally incapable of acquiring new information if it's inconsistent with his prior understanding or belief.
Moreover I realized that where I am ashamed of being inaccurate or uneducated about something (and so am keen to correct myself), for him it's always the case that I must be wrong or mistaken, because he can never be wrong or mistaken.
There's an axiom I don't know the provenance of:
"You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into"
It's not about the truth to them it's about making the scary unknown go away so they can get on with their lives. Nevermind the fact that their ignorance is causing their own demise and that of everyone else....
It takes an emotional shock, most of the time, to break that kind of deathgrip on a false reality
ceos know what they are doing.
they don't. however, it is their job to at least look like they know to attract investors.
Carrots do not improve night vision, radar does.
Eating 8 spiders a year in our sleep. I'm glad that one is disappearing though.
And that 40 year old single women are more likely to be killed by terrorists than getting married. Although that one may make a comeback and become true if we include local terrorists so who knows...
Every time I read the wiki list on this, I find new ones I didn’t know about.
Huh, I didn't know that the dodo was not hunted to extinction. Apparently the meat was considered tasteless and inedible. They died out due to invasive species hunting their eggs.
I usually don't make it to the bottom of the list, getting lost reading other linked articles on the way
After looking at the list, I get the feeling that most stories if historical intrigue are PT Barnum style hoaxes. Life is much more boring than we were led to believe.
Men are stoic, women are ruled by emotion.
I don't hear macs are immune to virus as much, now I hear Linux is immune to virus.
But that probably because I don't really know any mac users anymore...
that's went
that's gone
'Has went' is simply wrong, my dude.
Hmm, tripped me up too, but I assumed it was the extra "'s", i.e. it should be :"that went away".