Nothing serious, this is for fun. My example was a friend told me you get computer viruses if you use disks that were dropped on the ground outside. His logic was he was told you get sick if you eat stuff off the ground. Sickness is caused by viruses. Computers can get viruses. Computers “eat” floppy disks. So if you put a dirty floppy into a computer you will make it sick by giving it a virus.

Yes it’s mostly wrong but you can sorta see the logic…

  • AskewLord@piefed.social
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    21 days ago

    My 16 year old nephew told me he can’t date a girl he likes who is 15 because it’s pedophilia if she is not in the same year/grade as you. She’s 1 grade below him.

    Kids are cooked these days.

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    Thats hilarious.

    I seriously believed BC stood for before Christ until like a year ago. I’m embarrassed for that. Brainwashing is powerful.

    Also I think a kid told me the GBA sp can’t play GBC games. Well guess what I tried it the other day and it CAN.

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      21 days ago

      I think that does stand for “Before Christ”:

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anno_Domini

      Anno Domini (AD) and before Christ (BC) qualify years in the Gregorian and Julian calendars, whose epoch is the traditional year of the conception or birth of Jesus. AD counts years since the epoch, BC the years before the epoch.

      The modern terms are called Common Era:

      Common Era (CE) and Before the Common Era (BCE) are conventions used in the Gregorian or Julian calendar to specify whether the year is before or after the epoch. They correspond exactly to Anno Domini (AD) and Before Christ (BC): “2026 CE” is the same year as “AD 2026”, as are “400 BCE” and “400 BC”. BCE/CE are used to avoid religious associations by not referring to Jesus as Dominus (‘Lord’).

      Personally, I think we should pick the start of the Holocene as year 0

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      21 days ago

      Wait… Doesn’t bc stand for before christ? I know there’s also bce which is before common era which is effective the same thing but just renamed…

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      21 days ago

      Maybe you got BC confused with AD? Growing up, I was taught that AD stood for “after death,” which is wrong.

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    I’m remembering the “argument” I had with my daughter when she was six about how I thought it was implausible she could get away with wearing someone else’s skin, WHAT ABOUT THE EYE LIDS?? you can’t make that work!!!

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      Also even slight weight changes would be evident. They are slightly lighter, you don’t have enough skin to cover you. The are slightly heavier you now are extra flabby with your skin.

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    One kid put on his dad’s respirator and said it was a gas mask. Then he turned on an air compressor and said it was emitting poison gas and told me I would die over night.

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    I was told there is a tree in London that goes all the way to moon. I can see which fairy tale my 9 year old friend still believed now, but 7 year old me believed it for whole summer.

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    That’s why we only insert floppies into computers in a sleeve, a bit like a disk condom. And hard disks work better anyway