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Of course, it usually takes me a whole 30 seconds to verify news, I guess that's too much to ask of people.
The average person on Lemmy works at a far higher level than the average person in the public. Remember that they have to tell you not to line your baby's crib with plastic film. They have to tell you that the surface of an oven is hot. It's all about statistics. Take 10,000 people and some of them are going to do terribly stupid things.
The human attention span has been eroding ever since the invention of the radio.
I bet the ancient Greeks said the same thing about the invention of paper.
I have no clue how historically accurate that is, but my point is that humans have been stupid with short attention spans for a very long time
Not the ancient Greeks, but that's probably because they had parchment and not paper
Actually in the late 1800s people did actually complain about people not being able to use slate anymore since paper was now so much cheaper.