My daughter and I did this for one of her science projects. I would drop lemon juice or sugar water somewhere on her tongue, and she was able to taste everything everywhere.

It was so long ago I don't remember, but I hope we got a good grade on that one!

Yah you didn't succumb to confirmation bias. I knew as a kid this was wrong because they said viewer was treated in the back... yeah then explain when i got laundry detergent on my fingers forgot about it and when to clean my fingernails layer and the tip of my tongue is absolutely tasting bitterness.

Was also confirmation bias in action

We “learned” that in 6th grade science.

I remember the same teacher had a test question which was something like “you and a friend are playing at a landfill, and your friend spills sulfuric acid all over themselves, what should you do?” and the ‘correct’ answer was “pour sodium hydroxide on the spill” instead of my answer of “pour water on the spill.”

I had another science teacher who made a huge deal about her chronic Lyme, which is this really weird alternative medicine thing.

It wasn't even "the Belgians." It was the king that owned the place, if I remember right.

I was explicitly told the reports of chopped hands were greatly exaggerated.

Disgusting.

It was "self-made" rich people (bourgeoisie) vs "birthright" rich people (nobility). We still got some cool side-effects though. Some of those bourgeois legitimately kick started what we call left and progressive politics today (Maximilien Robespierre, Jean-Paul Marat).

Thats how they teach it? Even here in germany (atleast in my state bavaria) they teach it that the revolutionaries were from all paths of life. Even some clerty and a few minor nobles were on their side. But the main front were the bourgeoisie (land owning city people)

I think that's still an oversimplification.

The revolution started after the king called the Estates General in hopes of solving the debt crisis that had come in a large part from funding the American Revolution. The Estates General was a body made up of representatives of the three estates, the aristocrats, the clergy, and everyone else. The representatives of the third estate we're primarily new money bourgeoisie, but they were elected, unlike the other two, and could therefore claim to represent the people. After failing to come to an agreement, the representatives of the third estate broke away and formed the National Assembly.

How much the National Assembly actually represented the people is debateable, but they did have some claim to that, unlike the other groups. There were also several mass actions like the storming of the Bastille that indicated support for what the representatives were doing, at least in the early years of the revolution.

Many countries, like America, had actual economic mobility. There was a time where working hard could improve your economic status.

My family lost everything. Twice. Once to over-leveraging before a mortgage collapse in 83, and secondly to a house fire. We lived in an absolute fleabag of a moldy motel, a stereotype like you'd see on-screen, for about 10 months. The mold was so bad we had tiny mushrooms.

We got back, both times, to a stable home life in a mortgage and a fresh start. Dad paid off his home before retirement, by working his absolute ass off.

That's just not feasible now, just one generation later.

Anyway, there was a time when hard work did get you something; so treat that as a historical thing and not a falsehood.

This one for me too, hard work gets you nowhere without knowing people or ingratiating oneself and I am missing that gene

for people who are workaholics that is a reward.

I think it's true, but I'm very few places. In the Marines, I was able to turn hard work into promotions, and now I'm regular life, I turn hard work into extra money, but only because I work for myself. So basically it only works in socialism or if you're at the top of the ladder.

That's less a lie and more 'teaching the ideal.' The problem isn't learning how the system is supposed to work. That's how you learn to be a mechanic. You learn how an engine is supposed to work so you can spot where it's gone wrong. The issue is more one of there are millions of people and they get 10 minutes on how it's supposed to work and then only 3 of them go into politics and learn how it actually works/doesn't work. Democracy requires more than a one week chapter on civics, once a year. We all have to be mechanics, or at least be prepared to try.

I think it can be fixed

I mean, good luck. The Principle-Agent Problem is a classic of sociology, particularly with respect to business. If you can solve it, there's a Nobel in Economics waiting for you.

Democracy is an attempt at aligning in the interests of the plurality principles with their government agencies. But there's obviously a whole lot of flaws with democracy generally speaking, even before you get into the particulars of the American system.

I do think that the Lockean Social Contract, as the foundation for any governmental system, is a more interesting and more well-thought-out concept to explore than the mythology surrounding the American three-branch system. Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent does an excellent job of breaking down how a public body can be turned against its own interests. Zinn's People's History gives a ton of insight into the underbelly of the American political beast and how people respond to industrial and state oppression. State and Revolution does an excellent job of describing the role of the state in society and how it can best be dismantled.

But the endless debate around whether US Government works as described or intended really loses the forest of social economy for the ideological tent post trees. Fetishization of the US system only contributes to its rot and our own downfall.

They don't even teach that in the army, dude.

still? That's actually really surprising. Not sure if that's more of a whitewash or more of a greenwash. Like maybe the teachers are racist idiots, but maybe they know and just like the tradition and want to give the kids something fun to do that feels good in a dark world. I don't think greenwash is the right term for that, but yeah.

I know a couple teachers that teach younger kids, I'll have to ask what they do.

5 senses

4 states of matter

fossil fuel (oil is made from dead dinosaurs)

the American Dream

China is evil

Communism is bad

Which certainly persists to this day. People saying that the USA is "only 250 years old" while ignoring all of the First Nations/ indigenous peoples. It even ignores all of the European peoples that were there before the it was called USA.

I don't seem to encounter this with Canada very often which is interesting. And if we are going off of dates the current nation/ government is created why don't people say "oh well Germany is a young nation, they don't understand history"?

This is only relevant if you went to school after M Night Shyamalan blew up

While I was taught that in elementary school, I was also taught about the 3/5ths compromise as early as middle school. By the time high school rolled around I was being taught about reconstruction and the corrupt bargain of 1877. I guess I’m lucky I got a good education in the north because I am aware that’s not necessarily the standard nationally.

Technically, it was founded on the principles of liberty and equality for all. Just not the practices of liberty and equality for all. it was an aspiration, a goal of our forefathers.

But the way they teach it in school is pretty deceptive— as if it was all accomplished magically on that day in 1776, when, even today, it’s a constant struggle— a goal that we’re much closer to, but still remains elusive. that’s the part they don’t teach.

If we didn't have this lie, people wouldn't be as mad when they found the parts where it is untrue.

Asshole was trying to teach you “how the real world works” by touting self care as paramount and then assigning seemingly higher value tasks to test your penchant for a good “work-life balance”. I’d feel betrayed too!