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[–] 11 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I am going to consider this a success story, given that you were transparent about the provenance of this factoid, and you corrected yourself. Yay for learning!

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    In fact it’s the most factoid it could be, an outright falsehood shared as a fact.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Yes, I did delight in getting to accurately use the word "factoid"; it's useful for working through the trauma of learning that "factoid" doesn't just mean a neat tidbit of fun facts, but rather quite the opposite. And for a "learning is fun" kind of gal like me, misinformation masked as genuine learning is deeply unfun — that is, unless we make the factoid itself our new object of study.

    The system works!

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