taking every extraordinary claim you see online at face value and never looking it up 🤝 declaring every extraordinary claim you see online to be fake and never looking it up
it's so easy. its so easy to type something into a search engine
this thread brought to you by SEVERAL people posting under a screenshot of an article about a billionaire dying of swallowing a bee, all saying "idk seems fake"
you can look it up! it's free! type "billionaire bee death" in the url bar! and then you can instead post "i thought it was fake but i look it up and like ten news sites ive heard of before are talking about it so probably real" and look like the most smartest poster online
SORRY i am PISSED OFF
the other week i posted a thing about an article about how 10% of all power usage in the world was for cooling and several people wandered into my mentions like "misleading nuber... it would have been good to have numbers split for commercial vs residential" it sure would! and as it happens if you spend like three minutes looking up the study the numbers do exist! "i wonder how they came to that number.. i dont trust" AHHH LOOK IT UP READ HE STUDY
@elfi thing is, there is a real discussion to be had about the accuracy of that number because it's not based on direct metering, it's based on total cooling capacity from sales of AC and fans and whatnot. and i dont know how accurate an estimate you can make from that. but that's not a discussion i want to have with someone who didnt have the curiosity to look it up before they came at me