#misconception — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #misconception, aggregated by home.social.
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Misconception (t)
Well, Breeze was really surprised when he realized he had signed up for three years as chief bottle washer at a Zen temple instead of getting a free carwash. At that moment, Breeze decided maybe his investment in the language course, Rosetta Stoned, was a waste of money!
Sand Canyon, Kern County, California 2013
#Misconception #Hogwash_Book_Seven #temple #Sand_Canyon #Kern_County #California #Hogwash #Hog_Wash #photography
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Misconception (t)
Well, Breeze was really surprised when he realized he had signed up for three years as chief bottle washer at a Zen temple instead of getting a free carwash. At that moment, Breeze decided maybe his investment in the language course, Rosetta Stoned, was a waste of money!
Sand Canyon, Kern County, California 2013
#Misconception #Hogwash_Book_Seven #temple #Sand_Canyon #Kern_County #California #Hogwash #Hog_Wash #photography
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السّلام عليكم
مع ال
#Linux, #Privacy, Open-source and open-web #news
الثّانية لرمضان، فمّة أخبار تقلب ال
#Misconception
إلّي عند برشة ناس:
#Nvidia
و
#Intel
ماهمش بالضّبط منصوح بيهم مع
Linux
أما الحاجة إلّي تعطي أمل للمستقبل، أمل باش يكونوا أحسن خيار في كلّ الحالات، هو أنّهم حطّوا عروض شغل لمطوّرين متاع
Linux,
بالطّبيعة هاكة ما يعطيش أخبار مؤكّدة، أما أمل رغم هاذاكة
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/nvidia-hiring-linux-driver-engineers-to-help-with-vulkan-proton-and-more/
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Linux-Jobs-February-2026 -
#israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #genocide / #emigration / #exile / #zionism / #misconception
„Over 150,000 citizens have left the country in the past two years alone — many of them with a one-way ticket and no plans of returning.”
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[en] Misconception: strength of an #egg when dropped
Funny or not:
No, an egg is NOT strongest when dropped vertically.
"A horizontal egg, being more compliant, bends and absorbs energy over a greater distance — similar to how bending your knees during a fall softens the blow."
https://news.mit.edu/2025/mit-engineering-students-crack-egg-dilemma-sideways-stronger-0508
#misconception #funny #mit #engineering #research #mechanicalengineering
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[en] Misconception: strength of an #egg when dropped
Funny or not:
No, an egg is NOT strongest when dropped vertically.
"A horizontal egg, being more compliant, bends and absorbs energy over a greater distance — similar to how bending your knees during a fall softens the blow."
https://news.mit.edu/2025/mit-engineering-students-crack-egg-dilemma-sideways-stronger-0508
#misconception #funny #mit #engineering #research #mechanicalengineering
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[en] Misconception: strength of an #egg when dropped
Funny or not:
No, an egg is NOT strongest when dropped vertically.
"A horizontal egg, being more compliant, bends and absorbs energy over a greater distance — similar to how bending your knees during a fall softens the blow."
https://news.mit.edu/2025/mit-engineering-students-crack-egg-dilemma-sideways-stronger-0508
#misconception #funny #mit #engineering #research #mechanicalengineering
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[en] Misconception: strength of an #egg when dropped
Funny or not:
No, an egg is NOT strongest when dropped vertically.
"A horizontal egg, being more compliant, bends and absorbs energy over a greater distance — similar to how bending your knees during a fall softens the blow."
https://news.mit.edu/2025/mit-engineering-students-crack-egg-dilemma-sideways-stronger-0508
#misconception #funny #mit #engineering #research #mechanicalengineering
#ResearchHighlights -
[en] Misconception: strength of an #egg when dropped
Funny or not:
No, an egg is NOT strongest when dropped vertically.
"A horizontal egg, being more compliant, bends and absorbs energy over a greater distance — similar to how bending your knees during a fall softens the blow."
https://news.mit.edu/2025/mit-engineering-students-crack-egg-dilemma-sideways-stronger-0508
#misconception #funny #mit #engineering #research #mechanicalengineering
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@world_beauty OK… Am I the only one that upon first glance mistook the lander and parachute for litter? Like… A discarded chocolate bar and cupcake wrapper? #FalseFirstImpression
#Misconception #Confession -
Guest Contribution by #Mohamed #Hussien: "In #Defense of #Weak #Dualism"
This guest post is by Mohamed Hussien, who contacted me to see if I could publish his #essay "In Defense of Weak Dualism" on my site. It is true that I am not one of the outspoken "defenders of #dualism", whether weak or strong. On the contrary, I am primarily interested in #overcoming the 2500 years old #misconception in the #philosophy of #mind.
The originaltext is in English.
More on: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2023/07/07/in-defense-of-weak-dualism/
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Guest Contribution by #Mohamed #Hussien: "In #Defense of #Weak #Dualism"
This guest post is by Mohamed Hussien, who contacted me to see if I could publish his #essay "In Defense of Weak Dualism" on my site. It is true that I am not one of the outspoken "defenders of #dualism", whether weak or strong. On the contrary, I am primarily interested in #overcoming the 2500 years old #misconception in the #philosophy of #mind.
The originaltext is in English.
More on: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2023/07/07/in-defense-of-weak-dualism/
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Guest Contribution by #Mohamed #Hussien: "In #Defense of #Weak #Dualism"
This guest post is by Mohamed Hussien, who contacted me to see if I could publish his #essay "In Defense of Weak Dualism" on my site. It is true that I am not one of the outspoken "defenders of #dualism", whether weak or strong. On the contrary, I am primarily interested in #overcoming the 2500 years old #misconception in the #philosophy of #mind.
The originaltext is in English.
More on: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2023/07/07/in-defense-of-weak-dualism/
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Guest Contribution by #Mohamed #Hussien: "In #Defense of #Weak #Dualism"
This guest post is by Mohamed Hussien, who contacted me to see if I could publish his #essay "In Defense of Weak Dualism" on my site. It is true that I am not one of the outspoken "defenders of #dualism", whether weak or strong. On the contrary, I am primarily interested in #overcoming the 2500 years old #misconception in the #philosophy of #mind.
The originaltext is in English.
More on: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2023/07/07/in-defense-of-weak-dualism/
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Guest Contribution by #Mohamed #Hussien: "In #Defense of #Weak #Dualism"
This guest post is by Mohamed Hussien, who contacted me to see if I could publish his #essay "In Defense of Weak Dualism" on my site. It is true that I am not one of the outspoken "defenders of #dualism", whether weak or strong. On the contrary, I am primarily interested in #overcoming the 2500 years old #misconception in the #philosophy of #mind.
The originaltext is in English.
More on: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2023/07/07/in-defense-of-weak-dualism/
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There's a #misconception about the #timespace speed limit, the speed of light. It seems that if you're determined to travel to another galaxy you won't live to see it. But the truth is that you can actually travel arbitrarily fast, if you only consider the on-board, local time. If you forget what you're leaving behind, you can go anywhere as fast as you go. The Lorentz transform will take care of everything. You can get to Andromeda in a day. You can get there in a minute. Just need to go faster. Lorentz contraction will take care of it. You can get there in a second. You can go arbitrarily fast! The outside observer will see you frozen in time when traveling.
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Thousands of senior citizens died in Los Angeles while homeless in the past 10 years,
with
♦️residents age 60 and over representing a quarter of all deaths of unhoused people♦️
in that period,
according to a Guardian analysis of public records.A common #misconception about California’s homelessness crisis
is that the majority of people on the streets are young adults who came from out-of-state,
drawn to warm weather and homeless services.But death reports obtained by the Guardian reveal
more than 3,000 of the 11,500 people who died while unhoused in Los Angeles county between 2014 and 2023
were 60 and older,
🔸highlighting the vulnerability of older residents in one of the US’s most expensive regions.The crisis has grown over time, the records indicate.
Last year, the Los Angeles county medical examiner recorded a record high of 496 deaths of older and elderly unhoused people,
nearly four times the fatalities from 10 years earlier.The records also reveal that:
💥More than 1,700 of the unhoused people age 60 and over who died probably lived unsheltered. They were found in alleys, tents, encampments, bus stops, parks, yards, parking lots, cars, RVs and sidewalks and other locations suggesting they may have been living outside. 💥About 1,500 deaths of the deaths were ruled “natural”, attributed to causes like heart failure, liver disease and Covid; 1,355 deaths were labeled “accidental”, including drug overdoses and traffic collisions; 74 were homicides; and 44 were suicides.
💥Elderly people far past the age of retirement died on the streets and in homeless shelters: A total of 221 people age 75 and older have died while unhoused since 2014, including dozens of people in their 80s and two 92-year-olds.
💥Black Angelenos were disproportionately represented in the death toll, making up 33% of older people who died while unhoused, while only 9% of the broader county population is Black.
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Koalas depend on bats
"Without the bats, the koalas wouldn't have the trees. So the bats are the ones that are fertilising those big eucalypts that koalas love."
"A lot of people overseas when they think of Australia, they think of koalas." In Australia "there's ...a lack of awareness about the role of bats in controlling insect populations, pollinating plants and spreading seeds, much like birds and bees do."
"Perceptions have consequences: The Conservation Council of WA (CCWA) says more than half of the state's species are in decline, or their status is unknown, due to a lack of research."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-28/australia-bats-poor-reputation-covid-links-and-vampire-myths/103669082
#koalas #bats #FlyingFoxes #eucalypts #mining #misconception #superstition #EcologicalLiteracy -
#WayneBrady #clarifies "#biggest #misconception" of what #pansexual means, illuminating how many people conflate it with #bisexuality.
The #entertainer weighed in at the latest #GLAAD #MediaAwards
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #Music #Representation #Culture
https://www.salon.com/2024/03/18/wayne-brady-pansexual-misconception/
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This guest article addresses the #prevalence and #problems of #educational #myths, such as the assumption that we only use 10% of our brains or the #misconception that #multitasking is an efficient learning strategy.
English Version: Siegel, S. T. (2024, February 15). Myths Debunked. Lehrblick – ZHW Uni Regensburg. https://doi.org/10.5283/ZHW.20240215.EN
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Touch ‘n Go Clarifies That RFID Tags Do Not Have An Expiry Date #cashback #fintech #misconception #renewal #rfid #tng #touchngo
https://www.lowyat.net/2023/311674/touch-n-go-rfid-tags-no-expiry-date/
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I think it's a #misconception that #proprietary services like #google, #facebook, etc.. are free. Objectively, your #data is just another currency that is way more valuable.
#misconceptions #privacy #bigtech #ads -
A significant #misconception needs to be rectified. There are no #rings around #Eurasia.
I hope that we see no more of this #misinformation and ignorance. 🧐 -
This paper is incremental, but might interest anyone who cares about #misconception revision, #confidence in #beliefs, refutation texts, and #explanation #comprehension processes.
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See my #Friendica postings on why #Fediverse instances should be operated by #ForProfit #cooperative|s:
🧷 (1) https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-5963-a78a-1fdb-280674518614
🧷 (2) https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-6963-a78d-48a0-6a2325471766
I consider it a fundamental & widespread #misconception that #NonProfit #corporation|s would somehow be #AntiCapitalist — in fact the very opposite holds:
Non-Profits (or rather: ›Community Interest Companies‹, #CIC|s) solidify #Classism & #socialize cost, not #revenue of #Capitalism.
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