#<- inaccurate and misleading

[sambambucky]

‼️‼️thank you and i love you to everyone who has tagged me in any writing type anything in the last few weeks, unfortunately i have forgotten how to have A New Idea

[ohandcounting]

Theme for the secret boss fight with Floor, Baby! at the bottom of Bee's Stinky-Meat Hole in Void Stranger. Bandcamp OST link

[threetrenchcoatsinatrenchcoat]

mom says during serious conversations i burst into song without rhyme or reason. and that's completely unfair. i rhyme.

[shoechoe]

the invader zim fanbase is full of so much commonly accepted misinformation it's so irritating

[wonder-worker]

"Because Richard (III) usurped the throne, his retinue is inevitably seen as inimical to the crown and therefore in an important sense independent of royal authority. In the context of Edward IV's reign, in which the retinue was created, neither assumption is true. The development of the retinue would have been impossible without royal backing and reflected, rather than negated, the king's authority. Within the north itself, Gloucester's connection subsumed that of the crown. Elsewhere, in East Anglia and in Wales, that focus for royal servants was provided by others, but Gloucester was still part of that royal connection, not remote from it. In the rest of England, as constable and admiral, he had contributed to the enforcement of royal authority. When he seized power in 1483 he did not do it from outside the prevailing political structure but from its heart."

-Rosemary Horrox, "Richard III: A Study of Service"

[tenth-sentence]

Inaccurate information, severe biases and logical fallacies often reinforce misleading narratives.

"Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists" - Julia Ebner

[just-antithings]

wtf is a cafab is that new

Coercively assigned female (or male, for camab) at birth. I believe it’s intersex-specific and refers to the way in which they are often forced into the box of one or the other via surgery and other invasive means.

[asaichiban]

Rereading the YoruAsa description blurb that's used everywhere and realizing how truly awful it is at summarizing the story like what the hell

When Asaichi decides to start up a band to pick up chicks, he soon realizes his band's in trouble. He's a bad singer. Thankfully his bassist Yoru is there to help but Asa isn't interested in his help or his advances. Will the stubborn Asa open up to Yoru or will their relationship be nothing but screaming and violence?!

[rubiscodisco]

We don’t actually use bomb calorimeters to directly determine caloric content of food. We test for the content of energy-giving macronutrients in the food (carbs, fats, and proteins), and then look up how much calories correspond to that weight of each macronutrient. 

The calories per gram of each macronutrient was determined by finding the combustible energy of food as it comes in minus the combustible energy of the waste as it is pooped out (this is the part where we use bomb calorimeters). This work was done in the late 19th century. To this day this is how we determine calorie content in food.

I’m not saying this is in any way perfect. Not all macronutrients absorbed by the body are 100% converted into energy. Protein, for example, takes quite a bit more energy than the other two to metabolize. But to misleadingly say scientists are stupid because they use bomb calorimeters on food and think the total combustible energy of like, idk, a celery, is what we put as calories on its nutrition facts label is dumb. That’s not how it’s done.

Like I totally get the motivation to do it, a lot of bad recommendations were and are still given to fat people from doctors and nutrition scientists but I wish I could tell y’all that a whole lot of work in the field of food science and nutrition, especially today, has nothing to do with making prescriptive recommendations on How To Make You Not Fat™. 

We actually need them to answer questions like, for example, how keep impoverished populations healthy given low resources and a rapidly changing environment brought about by climate change. We shouldn’t actually throw this entire field of biomedical science out.

Just found out that the dietary calorie is still measured by burning food in a "bomb calorimeter" and then measuring the heat produced. There's no solid evidence that this method is at all equivalent to how our bodies process food (an entirely different chemical process from combustion), the accuracy of this system has been disputed for as long as it's existed, and there are no available alternatives

There are 4800 calories in a kilogram of dry sawdust even though wood is completely indigestible to humans, because calories don't measure nutritional value, just how well something burns

Nutritional "science" is pure bullshit

[llycaons]

I have to come out in support of - not AI generated product reviews, but AI generated summaries of product reviews. they are actually so useful when I don't want to read 900 individual reviewes for something. if a computer can scan and summarize the main pluses and minuses of multiple human-written reviews. I am legitimately in favor of that do you know how much time and effort that saves. like it's just a convenience, but it IS a convenience

[xxxjarchiexxx]

being asked what race i am is so funny cuz like well depends on ur definition and construction of race. im mixed ethnically and part indigenous and have faced racism and been racialized but i look white and am pretty assimilated but also i don't relate to a lot of white american experiences due to the mixed thing but also i didn't even have a quinces. so u tell me.

[rt8815]

I'm about to lose my goddamn mind.

Jeopardy! has had several clues in the past where both the words in the clues, and sometimes the answers to the clues, come from the Nahuatl language.

They butcher the words. Every. Single. Time.

The contestants as well as the hosts.

There's never any gentle correction. But they correct people for mispronouncing words in other languages 🙄

The "tl" in Nahuatl words is pronounced as a voiceless alveolar lateral affricate, which for the purposes of this post basically means you don't pronounce the "l."

And then, tonight, this clue:

And I thought, great! They have an opportunity here to educate and provide accurate informa-

Aaand the contestant pronounced it na-wat-ul.

And Ken didn't correct him.

It's really becoming impossible to respect Jeopardy! as an educational program when they repeatedly, confidently get things egregiously wrong.

[baconmancr]

tried to google search for that post that's like.. something about squids and it goes "the squirterrrrrrrrr" and believe it or not that did not show me the thing i was looking for

[softlittleheartsandsparkles]

You had breast cancer?? Your so young.

Not breast cancer. I had a breast tumor. I don't wanna mislead or confuse people. It was a tumor that was growing to fast& causing pain and discomfort & cramping. It was a phyllodes tumor.

[headspace-hotel]

gazing in wonder at the wikipedia page for meander

Out of all the terminological categories in the English language, geological terminology is the most intensely poetic; who could fail to be moved by metamorphism and orogenesis? There is something awesome and mythic about it.

Anyway as I was reading this article I recalled a dim, possibly inaccurate memory of Chinese mythology where four dragons transformed themselves into the four rivers that flow through China.

I've been taking walks beside the creek. The creek has "an erosion problem" as it was once described to me. I notice on one bank the creek cuts underneath the roots of the trees and threatens to collapse the bank, and on another it deposits a low, broad beach of broken stones and mud.

The recent history of humankind would mislead us to think that erosion is a linear process of degradation, but the article for meander tells me that rivers move, the loops in their channels steadily rolling along the river's length, like the slithering of a snake over a time scale of thousands of years...

A river is a kind of dragon.

[tenth-sentence]

Trolls sometimes plant misleading or inaccurate information into credible sources, such as think tanks or local media, which are then frequently quoted by journalists.

"Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists" - Julia Ebner