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.
“…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
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.
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
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.