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People making jokes about dihydrogen monoxide, and imma be honest, I feel like it should have been the gold standard internet stupidity filter that disqualifies your credentials in any form of discussion because of the insane amount of people that fell for it back when the internet was still new.
If you couldn't handle H2O, you can't be trusted to use the internet seriously lol.
I had a high school teacher my freshman year play the "dihydrogen monoxide" joke on our class. this was before i had any chemistry knowledge so i sadly fell for it. -It was still funny.
That wasn't a study AFAIK it was the official report from the U.S. Department Of Education. -The department run by the spouse of a professional wrestling magnate.
Naw, my 6th grade was on the ground floor and so is my house. I read at the same level.
Touché
Every sixty seconds in Communist New York, a minute passes.
Next he'll be forcing us all to drink dihydrogen monoxide, a chemical that's known to be fatal to humans under certain conditions!
Sources claim an up to 100% mortality rate!
Water? like from the toilet?!
Yuck! It has no electrolytes!
It’s what we and plants crave!
They literally use that shit to power steam engines! Now imagine what it does to your insides. Nasty, nasty stuff.
Water? Don't touch the stuff.. fish fuck in it
Dont forget it is a key component in both hydrochloric acid and making nuclear power plants operate.
And its much more dangerous to try to breathe than carbon monoxide.
A friend of mine ingested a ton of it and died. They found him at the bottom of a lake
Thry say even small amounts are fatal in certain circumstances.
Arabic Numerals have taken over the world! When will this madness stop? /s
Especially that diabolic number "zero". It is a pure Arab invention. The Romans did fine without it. Then the Arabs introduced zero and we know what happened with the Roman Empire. Now, zeros can be found everywhere - they can even hide in computers. America should really exzerminate these zeros befote it is too late!!
OMG! They divided!
In Germany, we have a right-wing party en par with the US Republicans: The AfD. Just as Nazi, just as nuts.
Some time ago, someone riled them up with the "Did you know they teach Arabic numerals in school now?", and quite a few of them blew a lid...
Well, the dihydrogen monoxide that is in your Zuchini is literally an industrial solvent!
Have you seen what dihydrogen monoxide does to pure, strong iron?!? It corrodes iron unbelievably fast! And people just.....consume it in most of their "healthy" foods!
Wake up, sheeple! Stop drinking dihydrogen monoxide!
~/s - this message brought to you by Brawndo, the thirst mutilator~
FWIW this is by far less dangerous and aggressive than oxygen, which caused the first global mass extinction when it started to amass in earth's atmosphere (and plays a major role in the corrosion of iron you mentioned).
And yet people tell you to breathe in and out...
Oxygen? Oh, you mean rocket fuel?
zuchini is green squash now
Next they are going to find out they are learning other Arabic topics like al-Gebra.
i heard he'll teach kids the "latin" alphabet instead of Amerian one😡
If they force Arabic numerals and the Latin alphabet on our children, I’m leaving!
TL;DR - People are stupid
Get me the fuck off this planet.
And then in astronomy, students are being forced to learn the Arabic names of stars (like Sirius, Deneb and Betelgeuse).
My god, the red conservatives and the blue conservatives are so incredibly hysterical.
Again? They do this whenever a nonwhite person is voted into office.
So, there WAS an onion (or similar) article stating exactly this like the day after he won. So it looks like some of these idiots just ate the onion
Whole thing is just media hyping up an obvious prank so that the stupidest people start freaking the fuck out, which gets more media attention, which makes us click on links way out here in backwater Lemmy.
This is the uroboros of media that has wrecked our whole society, where all of our impressions about just about anything are being dictated by the smallest, most ridiculous outlier reactions. Remember the kitty litter boxes in schools?
This is what launched flat-eartherism and trumpism and the whole massive "incel movement" that has become a tidal-wave of depressing idiocy, which get more attention for being so disgusting and stupid, which makes people on the other extreme end of the bell-curve over-react, which gets more attention, which leaves normal, passive readers thinking this is how people are really interacting and treating each other, which leads to them also taking up radical or stupid ideas about the world.
It's not that The Onion can't compete with reality, its that The Onion can't compete the vast media empire built on deliberately turning every possible unusual reaction or hot take from random nobodies into headline news. Before panic was monetized, most outlets ignored pranks.
