We were taught blood was blue in school, not just once, in at least two grades. Not in the book mind you, but from the teachers' mouths.

The 7th grade science book did teach us gamma rays move faster than the speed of light, which is bullshit.

We're still there, aunt Marge is just called Grok now.

Now an LLM has parsed Aunt Marge's Facebook posts into it's knowledge bank and regurgitates it to everyone searching online for an answer.

I had an argument with a teacher in middle school who shared the crap of, “If you swallow gum, it stays in your stomach for 7 years.” The kids told me I must be wrong, because the teacher said it so he must be right.

I was so pissed that I came in the next day with three different sources saying that it was a myth. He quietly admitted the truth to me, but refused to tell the class.

I get being frustrated with kids chewing gum in class, but if you have to lie to get them to follow rules, that’s a failure as a teacher. He was a science teacher, no less. If anybody should be open to a student pulling up sources for a claim, or to admitting they learned something new and they were wrong before, it should be a science teacher.

Thanks, Mr H. Way to prove to me that even “cool” teachers care more about controlling kids than being truthful.

Now you ask uncle Grok and carry his misinformation for 20 minutes, because your long-term memory doesn't exist anymore.

My dad told me thunder is when clouds collide

"Urine is sterile"

"You can only fold paper 7 times"

Etc.

And with AI and anti-science grifters, we’re back to that world!

Nothing has really changed since then.

We were led to believe we'd die if we ate a single apple seed until about 1995, when I observed my FIL eat an entire apple, core, seeds, and all, which obviously blew my mind.

Tbf, some blood is blue, it just tends to be a few types of invertebrates that have that blood.

Now someone’s aunt marge in another country does it.

As if now people are knowledgeable...

Or, if you were lucky, you could look things up in your out of date encyclopedias.

I was taught that the white race was superior and that there was going to be a huge race war (one side of the family) and then Jesus was going to come back and murder everybody (other side).

My ex thought that night time just meant that the moon went in front of the sun. I have no idea how she managed to live to 30 years old before she learned about night time.

Cousin asked my uncle how cows stood straight on the hills. He said one set of legs were shorter than the other s and sincerely believed that until going off to college lol

You could go to your local library. I still do.

I used the library. Because I didn't trust people or they didn't even attempt to answer. "I don't know, who cares."

Even if I wanted to use the internet, when it started becoming popular, it used to be in the library. You'd have to reserve 30min to an hour timeslots beforehand. And then physically go back to the library at that specified time and use their computer to browse. Going to AltaVista.

I used to Ask Jeeves.

My grandfather told me that grits were ground-up pig's knuckles. I was in my late 20s before I learned otherwise. Pop just didn't want to share his fucking grits, which is at least understandable.

Now you can go online and double down on your misinformation.

"The eyeball is full of blackberry jam."

~ My grandfather, unironically, not remotely joking, actually completely serious.

Or you'd read an out of date Encyclopedia

I like the way Mary Jo and Bridget explained on a rifftrax video for 'Duties of a Secretary' - "Secretaries were the internet in heels."

This meme is older than Lemmy.