- Zerush ( @Zerush@lemmy.ml ) English52•7 months ago
Maybe the result of US education system
CHRISTIAN 4TH GRADE SCHOOL TEXTBOOK TRIES TO EXPLAIN ELECTRICITY
- django ( @django@discuss.tchncs.de ) English19•7 months ago
Link to the book please, I can’t believe this.
- Gloomy ( @Gloomy@mander.xyz ) English34•7 months ago
I second this, it seems a bit too much on the nose to be real.
Edit: Omg, it’s real.
- django ( @django@discuss.tchncs.de ) English7•7 months ago
Funny, that giving drugs to children is illegal, but shit like this not.
I wish people would give me all these free drugs, they’re wasted on the children.
- django ( @django@discuss.tchncs.de ) English2•7 months ago
Those free drugs are mostly a lie, drugs are expensive.
- Zerush ( @Zerush@lemmy.ml ) English12•7 months ago
Fourth grade textbook published by Bob Jones University, and highlighted in a ScienceBlogs post by PZ Myers
- Sternout ( @Sternout@feddit.de ) English8•7 months ago
This Artikel about it is really funny
https://1900hotdog.com/2020/10/learning-day-science-4-for-christian-schools/
- SybilVane ( @Sybilvane@lemmy.ca ) English17•7 months ago
People have most certainly felt electricity.
- Zerush ( @Zerush@lemmy.ml ) English11•7 months ago
Mistaking it for being touched by the hand of god, when they were trying to remove the bread from the toaster with a fork.
- Malgas ( @Malgas@beehaw.org ) English8•7 months ago
Also thunder and lightning really ought to count as seeing and hearing electricity.
Hell, seeing anything at all may technically count, because electromagnetic waves.
- cordlesslamp ( @cordlesslamp@lemmy.today ) English12•7 months ago
Is that really from a book that used to teach children? Holy fuckin hell. No wonder America got shittier every day.
- psud ( @psud@aussie.zone ) English6•7 months ago
I wonder whether the kids being taught by that book ever zapped each other with static
- cordlesslamp ( @cordlesslamp@lemmy.today ) English7•7 months ago
IT’S LIKE MAGIC!
Then they probably got punished for practicing witchcraft and dark arts.
- GBU_28 ( @GBU_28@lemm.ee ) English4•7 months ago
BRING IT FORTH
- Phoenixz ( @phoenixz@lemmy.ca ) English3•7 months ago
I threw up a little in my mouth…
- kaboom36 ( @kaboom36@ani.social ) English1•7 months ago
I’ve been shocked a couple of times, I think I have an okay idea of what electricity feels like
- Thorry84 ( @Thorry84@feddit.nl ) English32•7 months ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec9P3C1OXqE
The dumb thing is, I can kinda understand what the speech writer wanted to say and autoprompted to him. But his fried mind couldn’t understand it and because he’s so vain he won’t wear glasses even though he needs them so he can’t even read the autoprompter half the time.
- nxdefiant ( @nxdefiant@startrek.website ) English3•7 months ago
Windmills have automatic shut-offs based entirely on their Bald Eagle kill counts.
phax.
- Malgas ( @Malgas@beehaw.org ) English3•7 months ago
“Knowing their weakness, I sent wave after wave of my own national bird at the windmills until they reached their limit and shut down.”
- TexNox ( @TexNox@feddit.uk ) English12•7 months ago
Truly a modern Don Quixote for our age.
- magnetosphere ( @magnetosphere@fedia.io ) 12•7 months ago
‘You know we have a world, right?’ is what got me. I could barely finish reading past that point.
- Zerush ( @Zerush@lemmy.ml ) English12•7 months ago
https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/evolution-teaching-states
In which states are the most Trump voters? Ignorance is the capital of the right wing policy and religion their tool.
- 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️ ( @Kolanaki@yiffit.net ) English9•7 months ago
Donald would probably try to fight a windmill thinking it was a giant.
- MonkderDritte ( @MonkderDritte@feddit.de ) English9•7 months ago
How does a mind that has no thread at all still spew words?
Edit: right, autoprompt, makes sense.
- Zerush ( @Zerush@lemmy.ml ) English6•7 months ago
Jellyfishes also can live an moving without brain
- Scrath ( @Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English2•7 months ago
Just open your smartphone keyboard and keep pressing the recommended word in the middle.
- Sphks ( @Sphks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English8•7 months ago
I don’t know if he has really said that or not. It saus long about the man.
- Elgenzay ( @Elgenzay@lemmy.ml ) English6•7 months ago
Not exactly, there’s missing context between each sentence. I hate him as much as the next person but the quote is inaccurate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec9P3C1OXqE
- BarqsHasBite ( @someguy3@lemmy.ca ) English7•7 months ago
And 40 something% of the population will vote for him.
- Leate_Wonceslace ( @Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English5•7 months ago
This seems even less hinged than usual, is it real?
- shiveyarbles ( @shiveyarbles@beehaw.org ) English3•7 months ago
He’s so thoughtful swoon