▲ 160 ▼ On social media we have these huge conversations where nobody involved has any actual experience. They're just repeating what other people said. Isn't that literally insane? (lemm.ee) submitted 2 years ago* by Dr_Satan@lemm.ee to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world 42 comments fedilink hide all child comments And when you have a billion people doing this, that's a lot of insanity. Like, world-spanning plague-level insanity.
[–] Dr_Satan@lemm.ee [S] -2 points 2 years ago* (1 child) By that logic a little plutonium never hurt anybody. And you'd be quite right. But now we have a big hill of the refined stuff. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] 520@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago Except we've had this kind of brand of plutonium for hundreds of years. The concept of a widely distributed collection of knowledge dates back to the printing press. And believe it or not it was even more filled with utter bullshit than anything today. Remember when we thought diseases were caused by bad smells? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] 520@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago Except we've had this kind of brand of plutonium for hundreds of years. The concept of a widely distributed collection of knowledge dates back to the printing press. And believe it or not it was even more filled with utter bullshit than anything today. Remember when we thought diseases were caused by bad smells? permalink fedilink source parent