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Fellow fedizens! As decreed by https://xkcd.com/843/ some fifteen years ago, it is once again time to spend the morning reading through the Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions.
now unfortunately, as you’ll quickly notice when you follow that link, the list has been split in thrain on account of its length, and unlike last year (https://wikis.world/@LucasWerkmeister/113945873067149318) it seemingly no longer fits into one page even with the references removed. so I guess it’s up to you whether you look through all of the individual lists, or some of them, or just through the brief overview page and call it a day
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now unfortunately, as you’ll quickly notice when you follow that link, the list has been split in thrain on account of its length, and unlike last year (https://wikis.world/@LucasWerkmeister/113945873067149318) it seemingly no longer fits into one page even with the references removed. so I guess it’s up to you whether you look through all of the individual lists, or some of them, or just through the brief overview page and call it a day
be that as it may, this year I learned:
• Michelangelo was standing, not lying down, while painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling (I probably read this before but had partially forgotten it again)
• the electrocution of Topsy the Elephant was not an anti-alternating current demonstration organized by Thomas A. Edison during the war of the currents
• the dodo’s intelligence was above average for an avian, and also its meat was inedible
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Fellow fedizens! As decreed by https://xkcd.com/843/ some fifteen years ago, it is once again time to spend the morning reading through the Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions.
@LucasWerkmeister Misconceptions Tuesday! A game to play with your cohorts is to use as many misconceptions during the day trying to pass them for truths while trying to spot misconceptions others are using.
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be that as it may, this year I learned:
• Michelangelo was standing, not lying down, while painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling (I probably read this before but had partially forgotten it again)
• the electrocution of Topsy the Elephant was not an anti-alternating current demonstration organized by Thomas A. Edison during the war of the currents
• the dodo’s intelligence was above average for an avian, and also its meat was inedible
@LucasWerkmeister
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Fellow fedizens! As decreed by https://xkcd.com/843/ some fifteen years ago, it is once again time to spend the morning reading through the Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions.
@LucasWerkmeister xkcd rules 👍
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Fellow fedizens! As decreed by https://xkcd.com/843/ some fifteen years ago, it is once again time to spend the morning reading through the Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions.
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Fellow fedizens! As decreed by https://xkcd.com/843/ some fifteen years ago, it is once again time to spend the morning reading through the Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions.
@LucasWerkmeister@wikis.world Looks like some sort of cargo cult.
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Fellow fedizens! As decreed by https://xkcd.com/843/ some fifteen years ago, it is once again time to spend the morning reading through the Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions.
@LucasWerkmeister
Lemmings do not engage in mass suicidal dives off cliffs when migrating.
"The lemmings in the film were actually purchased from Inuit children, transported to the filming location in Canada and repeatedly shoved off a nearby cliff by the filmmakers to create the illusion of a mass suicide."
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Fellow fedizens! As decreed by https://xkcd.com/843/ some fifteen years ago, it is once again time to spend the morning reading through the Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions.
We programmers could spend the days until the equinox educating ourselves about our own misconceptions or rather plain falsehoods:
https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood
These have teeth.
cc @mina
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We programmers could spend the days until the equinox educating ourselves about our own misconceptions or rather plain falsehoods:
https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood
These have teeth.
cc @mina
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Fellow fedizens! As decreed by https://xkcd.com/843/ some fifteen years ago, it is once again time to spend the morning reading through the Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions.
@LucasWerkmeister I didn't know any of the mentioned "misconceptions". it was the first time I had read that weird assumprions. -
Tools and methods talk gets too meta and that's the stuff holy wars are made of.
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Fellow fedizens! As decreed by https://xkcd.com/843/ some fifteen years ago, it is once again time to spend the morning reading through the Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions.
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Fellow fedizens! As decreed by https://xkcd.com/843/ some fifteen years ago, it is once again time to spend the morning reading through the Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions.
@LucasWerkmeister i have said it before and i'll say it again: some of these are pretty silly. this may be more a reflection on the target readers than the writers — but does anyone *actually* believe there is a scientific basis for astronomy, for example?
(some others of these, on the other hand, are not silly at all.)
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Questo diventa ancora piú interessante se l'immortalità non è innata, ma frutto di un procedimento che il soggetto subisce, ed in funzione del quale sa che avrà degli effetti nel ridurre/limitare gli effetti dell'invecchiamento, e quindi potrà da “subito” ragionare in termine di “immortalità nel senso dell'età”, ma non avrà idea del resto: è immune alle malattie? A tutte o solo a quelle mortali? Sopravviverebbe ad un incidente, o a un attentato diretto alla sua persona che farebbe fuori altri?
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Governare la paura. Ennesimo pacchetto sicurezza
@anarchia
Il governo italiano ha in cantiere due nuovi provvedimenti in materia di sicurezza, un decreto legge “recante disposizioni urgenti per il potenziamento operativo e organizzativo del ministero dell’interno e delle forze di polizia” e un disegno di leggehttps://www.rivoluzioneanarchica.it/governare-la-paura-ennesimo-pacchetto-sicurezza/
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> si potrebbe avere una buona fetta della vita (relativamente alla vita diun essere umano) da organizzare senza ancora essere fisicamente troppo deperiti.
E qui parlo di deperimento fisico intenzionalmente, perché come alcuni di voi hanno già osservato, bisognerebbe capirci anche su cosa significhi essere giovani o vecchi. (Ho già accennato a questo anche prima <https://sociale.network/@oblomov/116005887367992150>, ma evidentemente il discorso merita di essere meglio sviscerato.)
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@lorenzoquintavalle @sicurezza ciao, scusa il ritardo, ti ho invitato nelle stanze matrix italiane, fra poco le vedrai popolarsi di messaggi perchè all'entrata non dovresti vedere quasi nulla in quanto per motivi di privacy non è possibile vedere i messaggi precedenti.
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Nel caso a), ci si accorgerebbe della propria immortalità solo molto tardi; sarebbe anche difficile non solo pianificare la propria vita, ma anche affrontarla bene man mano che si invecchia. Il caso peggiore (non a caso Titone fu poi “salvato” trasformandolo in cicala).
Negli altri due casi, è probabile che ci si accorgerebbe prima della differenza nella velocità di invecchiamento rispetto agli altri, ed a seconda del ritmo a cui si invecchia dopo la presa di coscienza, nonché dell'età limite >
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@gbgallus se pensi di esserci anche il prossimo anno unisciti al nostro gruppo fosdem :) https://t.me/+0yztIytU0V8yYmZk
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Ma perché non può esserci un browser ' for kids'?
https://www.ilpost.it/2026/02/03/siti-porno-scadenza-non-rispettato-verifica-eta/
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@pfefferle@mastodon.social instead of an Undo(Delete), can you send an Update(Note) instead?
Perhaps that will trigger the tombstone to be... exhumed :skull:
Otherwise let's bring it up with the Mastodon team for better support 👍
