- I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.worldEnglish5 hours
I remember a couple years ago there was that rumor that skittles all tasted the same. I immediately called bullshit, because of course they fucking taste different, and went digging for the source, only to find it was a claim made in a scientific paper showing how the internet is quick to latch on to and spread false information. Somehow this made me even more upset.
- dogdeanafternoon@lemmy.caEnglish2 hours
That’s actually the origin of the “average person eats 8 spiders per year” myth. Started for the reason of showing how fast false info spreads.
- SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish42 minutes
Fun fact. It kind of was, and it kind of wasn’t. At least not in the sense that most people think.
The base claim is “people eat 8 spiders in their sleep”
Which was debunked by snopes in 2001, citing someone who make up that claim as an example, which then spread as misinformation
But that’s not the end of the story
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Snopes themselves fabricated that citation, making this whole story very meta
3 hoursThat has a distinctly battletech feel to it. Pissed off the phone company? behold, four King Crab mechs at your door!
That fucker is alive!! i blew his head off at Fort Hagen! Oh… nevermind… wrong Kellogg, you should still shoot him just to be safe.
- AuroraZzz@lemmy.worldEnglish5 hours
Why does the guy have an 800 number? I’m going to take a guess here and say that the middle picture is fake
- Tarquinn2049@lemmy.worldEnglish5 hours
By “the guy”, do you mean Kellogg’s? We don’t know cletus’s number, but it must have been listed on either his twitter, or something he linked to from his twitter. While I don’t know if this is real, it is fully possible. And usually simple.
Each of the different color dyes have a subtle but distinct flavor. Only true fruit loop enjoyers would notice!
- nailingjello@piefed.zipEnglish4 hours
That may be true for fruit loops, but the post is referencing froot loops. Totally different products
- glimse@lemmy.worldEnglish6 hours
Twitter was the best social media site on the Internet pretty until they changed the character limit.
It stayed pretty good until MAGA and MAGA bots flooded it, then it was shit if you didn’t have a tight list of follows.
It did not recover when they fled to Truth Social and was effectively unusable by the time of the takeover…which crushed any shred of hope of recovery.
- bugbear@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish1 hour
Eh, it was always crap. The same way all social media are crap, that is.
- 4 hours
I fled Twatter once it looked like Muskrat was going to have to buy it.
The bots were already way out of control then.
At this point, there’s nothing that would get back on that platform.
- glimse@lemmy.worldEnglish4 hours
Same, I had been using it a lot less and less anyway but that was what made me click delete
