If you work hard you’ll have a successful life
See also: “get good grades in university and you’ll be flooded with job offers!”
That wasn’t a lie, exactly, it was just Baby Boomers not realizing how much the world changed since they were in school. It used to happen that way. My mother got her first job out of school when the employer came to campus to recruit through a job fair.
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I don’t think it’s a lie, just outdated and obsolete advice.
God exists and watches everything you do and loves you while threatening you with eternal damnation.
And he’s terrible with money! He needs more money!
George Carlin, how we miss thee.
“you’re not going to carry a calculator with you everywhere”
The thing is I believe that statement is a bit misunderstood.
Calculators were already becoming pocket sized back in the day, but using it to calculate things if you don’t know how to use it is where the actual problem is.
Hence the reasoning to learn how to math vs only having the device.
Calculators were already becoming pocket sized back in the day…
True, but I can count on 0 hands how many people I knew carried one in their pocket.
Now if the calculator were built into a beeper, everyone would have had one.
or a watch!
I’m not saying I disagree, but I had a different experience.
it’s very easy to enter wrong numbers on a calculator, but you need some basic reasoning and familiarity to know when an answer is off, and you need to start over
I don’t think people realised how quickly tech would advance.
I was being fed that line in 2008 when everyone in the class did, in fact, have a calculator in their pockets
Yeah, in my experience “You won’t carry a calculator with you everywhere you go” was what they said to justify pointless busywork.
And you might not have a smartphone or smartwatch with you. I’ve seen people who needed a calculator to do basic math.
That republicans are better on the economy. Nah it turns out they consistently screw it up by every measure.
It’s like saying tapeworms are good for your nutrition
Yeah that was a persistent “it’s just generally known” type of thing in the area where I grew up.
- all colors can be made from red, yellow, and blue
- how an airfoil works
- language is immutable
- you won’t always have a calculator in your pocket
- infinite growth is sustainable
- language is immutable
No, it changes with what’s popular. It’s so fetch.
Stop trying to make fetch happen.
That you should base your diet on carbohydrates, and minimise fat intake.
Wait why the f the base is full chok of calories? Is this *how to get child obesity " manual?
Do you not remember the food pyramid? This is what they used to use for nutrition:
Now it’s this:
I remember food pyramids but in my country nobody cares and I don’t think people would accept it unless it has beans and rice clearly at the bottom.
The food pyramid is commonly taught in American schools as the “ideal” diet.
It was started as a sales tactic to boost grain sales, but was marketed as scientific research. And since this was started decades ago, you couldn’t simply google their sources to verify whether or not the studies were legit.
Turns out it’s a crock of shit, and teaching it to kids does make childhood obesity rates worse. Because of course it does, an excess of carbs is horrible for you.
Fuck
So the short answer is greed again.
Because it was sponsored by grain industries. Similar to the “breakfast is the most important meal of the day!” and “milk is good for your bones!” myths.
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Same here friend. But they were lies Their parents told them and so on and so on so it’s understandable how they thought they were doing the right thing.
Police are there to help
Depends on where you live it seems
Where do you recon they are helping? Out of three countries I’ve lived in, they are either useless or just simply ACAB.
It does exist. But it’s 99% ACAB.
One of the countries I spend a lot of time, the police are amazing. There is no crime, so the police truly are just to assist. They don’t carry weapons. They don’t give out traffic tickets, it’s all automated. They do give out directions, photo ops, perform ritual ceremonies, distribute free meals to anyone who wants one, give free workout sessions on the beach, give free sports training, lead free expeditions into nature, etc. It’s a sense of community spirit that is their mission.
I’m sure there is a bad apple somewhere but every single one I’ve seen or interacted with has been pleasant to wonderful. I’m not even terrified to approach them as I am in the USA where I’ve almost been murdered twice by pigs.
Germany
Police are there to help *maintain the status quo
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That if a racoon saw you swimming, it would swim out to you and sit on your head and drown you.
My fully adult mother actually feared this was something that could happen to her children, and she warned us of this “danger” every summer when we were young.
Those goddamn racoons!
If that were true I’d go swimming a lot more often!
Me parent convinced a few of friends that the ice cream truck only played music when it was OUT of ice cream
Haha thats awesome
" you can be whatever you want to be"
When you grow up everything you write will need to be in cursive.
On the plus side, I have a pretty bangin’ signature. On the minus side, they wasted a good chunk of lesson time teaching a useless script. Fortunately it was on the way out already, so I was never really required to use it even in school.
That I’d never have a calculator in my pocket
That I’d get more conservative as I grew older
I didn’t get more conservative as I grew older. At least I don’t think I did. What happened is that the definition of conservative changed.
Criticizing censorship and restrictions on free speech didn’t use to be a conservative cause, it is now, so I grew “more conservative” without any of my beliefs changing.
That saying holds more truth if you’re using the “non-political” definitions of conservative – i.e. moderate, cautious, or resistant to change.
Moreso “set in your ways” as the world changes around you.
I suppose this is true, but remaining set in your ways while the world changes, taken to it’s logical conclusion is political conservatism/fascism
People who aren’t liberal when they’re young have no heart.
People who aren’t conservative when they’re old have no money.
There are multiple things wrong with this, the most glaring of which is that a conservative with money would lack a heart as well. Conservatism is incompatible with having a heart.
Christopher Columbus set out to prove that the Earth was round after eating an orange or something and that’s how jesus discovered America
Wait, what‽
Mormon?
yea they taught this in school in the us
You probably had the same damn book I did, with an illustration of him eating an orange and seeing the wings of a butterfly coming up over it and supposedly realizing they look just like the sails of a ship and so, gasp, the world must be round like this orange!
yes Christopher Colombus exactly
Everything’s gonna be ok.
Trust me, I know what I’m doing.
You’ll understand when you’re older.
As a parent, sometimes it’s a hope, not a lie.
