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See you next year.
Edit: Oh, you mean actually wrong.
RAM is memory inside the computer, ROM is memory on the disk (5.25" floppy)
That moment when I only know that’s wrong because I’ve played Hyperdimension Neptunia.
That the civil war was fought over states rights.
State’s rights to slavery.
States rights as in civilian rights? Maybe my teachers just glossed over the history, but I thought it was fought because states with large slave owning populations were afraid of subtracting slavery from their economic equation.
So that’s the thing, it’s a lie of omission. The full line is ‘The civil war was fought over the states rights… to own slaves”. We were taught that north were not freeing slaves out of a moral standpoint, but to ensure monetary dominion over the south. Anyway, it’s carefully curated propaganda and white washing of history that is apparently still happening to this day.
I mean the “omission” understanding might depend on what a “right” is. An ethical right? Definitely not, as natural law makes all humans equal. Which makes the “it was fought over the states’ rights” sound like the biggest example of “but the constitution said I could do this” in history. You’d think all the people who care about rights would care as much about ordinary law to be fair.
My middle school computer teacher once said that unwanted email was called “flame”. I had never heard that term before or since used in the context of email.
My guess is they got confused with the concept of “flame wars” and “flaming” from forums. It doesn’t quite match their definition of “unwanted” messages exactly, but it’s not entirely far off either.
Gives a new meaning to “flame wars”.
She very matter-of-factly stated that steam wasn’t as hot as boiling water. This was a chemistry teacher.
Given, it was elementary school, so the “chemistry” was mostly super basic stuff like mixing dish soap and yeast with hydrogen peroxide. But still, I’m salty about that one because I had been burned pretty badly by active steam before she said that. I still have the scar and everything.
You’d think the expectation would be that gases are hotter than liquids.
“Life sciences” teacher in middle school at a Christian school told us evolution was impossible because genetic mutations only cause a loss of information. Sneaky assholes
Pores in latex condoms bigger than the AIDS virus.
Fuck a science class, that motherfucker shouldn’t have been allowed near the school.
Pores in
latexlamb skin condoms bigger than the AIDS virus.That’s probably what they were going for, but you’d think a teacher in that position would check their data if challenged.
How would they work if they were going to fail at their one job?
Latex condoms have been around longer than the AIDS crisis. They have another job.
The virus simply respects your decision to not want to be infected and doesn’t leave.
We had that taight in our high school too!
(And as a totally unrelated fact I’m sure, our biology teacher was a major figure in our local church and was pro abstinence. Completely unrelated, of course)
My 6th grade science teacher interrupted me while reading aloud after I correctly pronounced “tsunami”. He goes “What’s that?..tuh-soo-mee?”. I said Yeah, he spends 10 seconds digesting it, and I continue reading aloud.
The next kid to read after me pronounced it tuh-soo-mee.
I only pronounced つなみ like that with a t when I was young and first came across the word but then I learned the correct pronunciation
They sound like they’ve never watched Toonami before.
“You’ll enjoy ice skating, it’s easy!” - the teacher who took our class to an ice rink… 😂
The moment I’m over the ice I become the human equivalent of a scruffed cat and people started pushing me around like I was a hockey puck and I was smiling pretending I was having fun but inside I was like
Was it an extracurricular activity, a field trip, or an actual part of class?
Sounds like my school and the local lido. “You’ll get a grasp on what to do in no time” one could expect them to have said. Still waiting for “no time” to come and go.
I don’t remember the specifics because it was damn near 40 years ago, but I had a teacher tell the class that everyone has a sort of 6th-sense sight through an invisible 3rd eye in the middle of your forehead. And her example was that blind people will pick out clothes by colors or tell someone they were wearing an ugly tie. Which I’ve never seen, at least not outside of some sort of Hallmark Romance Drama quality religious schlock.
I never had any problem correcting a teacher if they made some calculation error or misquoted something out of the book (I wasn’t an asshole who corrected every single thing, just the ones that might be material to everyone else’s understanding of the lesson).
But when confronted with a teacher spewing utter bullshit, I was at a total loss for a response. I can’t imagine anyone else believed it, either, but what a fucking loon. My sister was/is blind and the only superhuman power she had was being fucking annoying.
I don’t even know if that was the worst/only one, but that’s the one that has always stood out for me.
I guess you could add that American Exceptionalism was taught as a legitimate point of view rather than nationalist bullshit.
I wonder if she had heard of a (controversial) phenomenon called blindsight in which some very specific conditions of blindness some people are said to not consciously see but still have some sort of subconscious “sight”.
As in the eyes physically work and these people have damage to a very specific part of the brain, allegedly.
Anyway she was obviously wrong but that just reminded me so I linked that.
How did she think colorblindness worked?
Your teacher was full of shit, but we do have more than 5 senses. You know the taste, touch, smell, hearing, sight. There are two more everyone has:
Vestibular - sense of balance and movement in space (like falling).
Proprioception - you can sense where your arms and legs are relative to your body without looking or touch.
My sister was/is blind and the only superhuman power she had was being fucking annoying.
There’s blind and there blind. Besides actual damage to the eye itself, most definitions of blind are loss of connection of the optic nerve to the visual cortex (the part of your brain which takes nerve pulses and translates them into vision). However recent science has found that even if there is a break/damage to the visual cortex, there are certain visual things that blind person can “see”. The optic nerve makes a couple of stops along the way from the eye to the visual cortex, specifically the Amygdala in the brain. Many that are “visual cortex” blind can still know where someone’s face is and even determine what mood they are in from their facial expression. They can also sometimes dodge object thrown at them. Both of these are Amygdala actions. Its not like they actually SEE the face or SEE the object being thrown, but they “know” if someone is upset or happy without that person even saying anything if their facial expression tells the story. Here’s the science if you’re interested in more.
Since reading these studies I’ve always been curious to talk to a blind person to have them describe their experience with this.
I used the word poesy in a written assignment, as in the art of poetry. The teacher didn’t recognize it as a real word and deducted points from my grade. She had a policy that we could correct and resubmit for half points, so I did that but didn’t change the word, I just helpfully gave her the definition in a footnote.
Shocked, naive, innocent little me didn’t not know what to think when she took that as an insult. I was only trying to help her, didn’t she get that?!?
This was one of a handful of events when my sister started implying I might have a neurospicy brain. IDK, maybe, but I was just being accurate so I didn’t really see that as anything I needes to address. I thought the overly-sensitive and factually incorrect teacher was the one who needed to self-reflect.
neurospicy brain
Hey I have one of these. Maybe not in the typical way, but still. So don’t worry.
For reasons like you describe where neurotypicals aren’t always exactly known for being critical, sometimes I think of how accurate it might be under some definitions to say neurotypicals are the faultily-minded ones.
Had the same with an english teacher (in germany), that probably had a smaller vocabulary than me. Whenever I used words she didn’t know I had to argue with her and pull out a dictionary
Linux is created by RedHat
What’s RedHat?
first day of a new school year “what are you doing in this class, didn’t we made you fail last year?”
I had bad grades but mathematically good enough to pass just barely. She was the Computer Science teacher and I proved her wrong more than once in front of the class. So yeah, she had a grudge.
“Made you” fail last year? Quite the wording…
I had a friend whose computer teacher had such a severe grudge on him that when his brother (who was her favorite student) went to jail, she gave him a passing grade despite him failing, in order to get rid of him out of lamentation.
That Columbus was a good person.
Not so fun fact, he is said to be the first European to have syphilis as it was originally a Caribbean condition, and he was said to have caused it to spread in Europe, which also means he is the reason everyone started wearing powdered wigs as it went from a way to hide syphilis baldness to a fashion statement. So now you know what to expect (a version of George Washington who looks like Brad Pitt perhaps) if you ever go back in time and burn the Santa Maria.
Shakespeare’s plays were never printed in his lifetime, they were compiled from people who saw the plays live, went home, and wrote down what they remembered.
I wouldn’t think there would’ve been enough literate people in those times to do that.
Well, consider his audiences as well…
Sounds more like how the Bible was written
