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I had an elementary school teacher who insisted that gravity came from the earth's rotation, and that if the earth stopped spinning there would be nothing holding us down.
I had a math teacher at my stem highschool claim that the touch screens on the ipads worked by heat and that if you touch them too much the screen will get too warm and stop responding
She also told students their computer was slow because they had too many desktop shortcuts, or hadn't emptied their "trash" files.
There was also an argument we had over whether something was actually a 3d vector or multiple 2d vectors but I don't wanna dredge my memories for the exact details, it was dumb.
So, there is some jank in how Microsoft handles the desktop that results in more shortcuts on in using more resources. It always has to have all the images and icons loaded at all times.
But with the increases in baseline RAM I'd be shocked to find anyone with more than 4GB experiencing slowdown from it, even in the most extreme situations.
Similar thing with trash/recycling bin. Are you already low on storage space? Then yeah, clean it so your PC has enough spare space to work, or to use for swap (effectively extra, slower RAM by way of using drive space). But that was also far more likely to be a problem on the old drives measured in MB.
Yep, too many icons was a thing in Win95 in 98. Can't remember if XP cared.
Huh, thank you for the additional info!
I think the only way this could be any stupider is if she said it has cameras under the screen looking for where your fingers go.
Lol, yeah somehow that would sink even lower. It fucking drove me up the wall when I was a kid
If anything would it not be the opposite due to centrifugal force? The faster the earth spins, the more you should be pushed away.
I had an 8th grade social studies teacher/football coach tell us black people had an extra bone in their leg and that's why they were so good at sports. He was pretty well liked teacher tbh, we watched Oliver Stones "JFK" in his class. During lectures he'd come around and sit on the front of his desk to seem more relatable. He ended up on the school board eventually.
dam, that teacher probably invented a new more racist theory of why the NBA is majority African American
funnily enough i've heard people say the same thing irl
it kinda baffled me how people would even think that way
Did your teacher believe in the hollow Earth theory?
She clearly had no idea which way the vectors point on the outside of a spinning sphere
I wonder if she ever played on a roundabout, being spun fast enough that holding on is barely enough