• betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    152·
    2 个月前

    I want to believe that the kids mentioned in posts like this are playing along with their parents’ delusions so they don’t have to sit through another lecture about how the Federal Reserve is a Ponzi scheme and they’re chemtrailing us with fluoride.

      • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
        13·
        2 个月前

        I wanted to dismantle the state for a socialist ideal in at least middle school. I didn’t like punk until freshmen year of high school though, so we all go through changes even if my politics have mostly stayed the same.

        Edit: thinking back on it I remember having an anticapitalist moment in 5th grade, Miss Hill’s class so we’ll scale that back to elementary school.

      • postmateDumbass@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 个月前

        They brought in a special teacher for my AP US history, straight from the Masonic lodge i figure.

        Made the usual teacher, a liberal guy, take a sabatical year.

        Thanks secret government assholes.

        • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          31·
          2 个月前

          That’s awesome. I have a formative memory as like a 10 year old putting on a magic play for 5 year olds, and our teacher told us that little kids believe in magic and it turned out to be true because they believed what we were doing

    • saltesc@lemmy.world
      12·
      2 个月前

      Haha you reminded me of a video of some poor young teen having to film his mother making chemtrails disappear by spraying a bottle of vinegar at them.

      He was so unenthused.

      Edit: I can’t find it. My guess it was obv taken down .

    • Ithral@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      42·
      2 个月前

      I mean technically the federal reserve is a ponzi scheme they charge interest on money printed requiring more money to be paid back than they printed. Ergo there isn’t enough print money in existence to pay them back.

      • madcaesar@lemmy.world
        4·
        2 个月前

        Regular economic thinking doesn’t work on the scale of nations. Just like a family having debt is not the same thing as a country having debt.

        Pretty much everyone in the world has no full idea how an economy works and how to best stimulate it. It’s like a trillion moving parts and smart asses always go “yea this pin over here? That’s the one that’s the problem / solution”

        Pretty much no-one knows. We have ideas what’s better / worse but anyone who tells you they’ve got it figured out, is lying.

  • Squorlple@lemmy.worldEnglish
    139·
    2 个月前

    Rice confirmed sentient and sapient. Vegans everywhere are in tears. International governments are drafting a Bill of Rice to ensure the rights of these beings. Churches are redirecting rice purchased for weddings to be given directly to their missionaries. Little do we know, the grains will soon band together and revolt, and the Rice War will be upon us.

  • Python@programming.dev
    55·
    2 个月前

    Is this like, some weird parent “lesson” thing you’re actually supposed to fake? Like maybe you’re supposed to put some vinegar in the good jar to prevent mold growth, and the goal is to make your dumbass children behave?

  • Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldEnglish
    52·
    2 个月前

    If rice has feelings, consider the unimaginable horror you’re inflicting when you eat a bowl of it for lunch.

  • Kairos@lemmy.today
    52·
    2 个月前

    “Words truly matter” but I can’t understand for the life of me what these ones mean. Can someone help me out?

    • niktemadur@lemmy.world
      17·
      2 个月前

      Words have powers bordering on magic, I guess is the idea.
      And for many people that’s true, for as long as they are willing to believe that.

      So I guess what I’m saying is that placebos have powers bordering on magic.

        • ArchRecord@lemm.ee
          8·
          2 个月前

          There are people who think that “positive” or “negative” words have a magic-like effect on natural processes.

          From what I’ve seen, this was originally popularized in 2004 by Masaru Emoto’s book “The Hidden Messages in Water,” where part of his claims were that snowflakes would develop differently in containers labeled with negative or positive emotions.

          Naturally, this turned out to be a complete lie, but many people, such as those in the original post, still believe that words can somehow influence things like mold development on food.

            • niktemadur@lemmy.world
              1·
              2 个月前

              Ah, yes! Of course, there’s that other half of the post - the “experiment” itself. What I said about words applies to the people involved, it’s not the mold in the jar who “believes” in the placebo, I completely skipped over that part.

              For a laboratory scientific experiment to prove something, anything at all, it has to pass a threshold known as sigma-5, which means that the margin or odds of error must be less than one part in around 3 million. There has to be a laboratory certainty of 99.99994%

              There are a million-plus-one ways that an attempted “controlled experiment” can go askew and wrong. In the case of the jars, my guess is that they packed the “unloved jar” more aggressively. That kitchen experiment is messier and more chaotic, uncontrolled, than a school lab, and a school lab doesn’t cut it even for a sigma-1 I would reckon, you’d get equally “useful” results by flipping a coin.

          • gens@programming.dev
            2·
            2 个月前

            I watched a youtube video about it. It’s temperature that dictates how a snowflake looks. Simple as that.

      • UNY0N@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 个月前

        Well that’s an opinion I xan get behind, placebos are certainly more powerful than common sense would dictate.

    • lugal@sopuli.xyz
      11·
      2 个月前

      It’s basically explained in the next sentence. The words we use to each other matter

        • mikezeman@lemm.eeOP
          4·
          2 个月前

          They wrote mean words on one jar of rice, nice words on the other, and the one with mean words grew mold, illustrating that you should choose your words carefully. That was their intention at least.

  • Greg Clarke@lemmy.caEnglish
    41·
    2 个月前

    Huh, it really makes you think… some people have no idea how to run an experiment or about statistical significance.

    • LANIK2000@lemmy.world
      20·
      2 个月前

      Nah, they actively avoid it. My mom was also like this, and when we did experiments as a kid and something didn’t work “we were just doing it wrong”.

      • Asafum@feddit.nl
        19·
        2 个月前

        Sounds like my mom too.

        She practiced reiki at one point and wanted to convince me it works by trying it on me. When I said I didn’t feel anything at all her reply was “oh well that’s probably just because you don’t believe in it.”

        …I love you mom, but yes that is it and not in the way you think it is lol

        • Vilian@lemmy.ca
          3·
          2 个月前

          …but she’s right, people feel better from alternative medicine by believing that it work, it’s placebo

          • Asafum@feddit.nl
            3·
            2 个月前

            Yeah lol that’s what I meant by “that is it (not believing), but not the way you think.”

  • Eager Eagle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    28·
    2 个月前

    All I can see is that this might be evidence that jars with green lids ate bad for storing food. Further studies are needed.