Fellow fedizens!

[sarpau@mastodon.social]

@LucasWerkmeister xkcd rules

[gimulnautti@mastodon.green]

@LucasWerkmeister Great subpage!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions_about_history

[vikingkong@misskey.vikingkong.xyz]

@LucasWerkmeister@wikis.world Looks like some sort of cargo cult.

[jerzone@techhub.social]

@LucasWerkmeister
Lemmings do not engage in mass suicidal dives off cliffs when migrating.
"The lemmings in the film were actually purchased from Inuit children, transported to the filming location in Canada and repeatedly shoved off a nearby cliff by the filmmakers to create the illusion of a mass suicide."
#wtf

[angelastella@social.treehouse.systems]

@LucasWerkmeister

We programmers could spend the days until the equinox educating ourselves about our own misconceptions or rather plain falsehoods:

https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood

These have teeth.

cc @mina

[mina@berlin.social]

@angelastella

That looks fabulous!

@LucasWerkmeister

[mina@berlin.social]

@angelastella

I am missing "Object oriented programming is always a good idea".

@LucasWerkmeister

[iron_bug@friendica.ironbug.org]

@LucasWerkmeister I didn't know any of the mentioned "misconceptions". it was the first time I had read that weird assumprions.

[angelastella@social.treehouse.systems]

@mina @LucasWerkmeister

Tools and methods talk gets too meta and that's the stuff holy wars are made of.

[gcvsa@mstdn.plus]

@LucasWerkmeister Also useful:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies

[fishidwardrobe@mastodon.me.uk]

@LucasWerkmeister i have said it before and i'll say it again: some of these are pretty silly. this may be more a reflection on the target readers than the writers — but does anyone *actually* believe there is a scientific basis for astronomy, for example?

(some others of these, on the other hand, are not silly at all.)

[mariellequinton@ottawa.place]

@fishidwardrobe @LucasWerkmeister are you confusing astronomy and astrology?