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[โ€“] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

As a human survival trait we need to find a way to shut down misinformation. Knowledge is our path to survival as an animal. Like ants have teamwork and building, wildebeest have speed, plants photosynthesise, humans learn.

By creating and spreading misinformation you're chipping away at pretty much the only thing that keeps us in existence.

Bit of a broad-strokes extreme takeaway from your comment there, but it got to me.

[โ€“] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago

I just left a thread about analog clocks being removed from schools because the kids can't read them. The comments alone were quite telling on how many humans don't want to learn much of anything anymore.