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Cheesesentience: /* Explanation */

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108.162.242.90 at 16:25, 31 October 2024

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172.70.127.163: /* Transcript */

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172.70.100.89: /* Explanation */

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172.69.43.211: /* Explanation */ Context to why various people, at various times, might not have liked his various degrees of karmic houdiniism, including the "Yamsi" telegrams that successfully kept sidelined future potential witnesses to the enquiries.

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‎Explanation: Context to why various people, at various times, might not have liked his various degrees of karmic houdiniism, including the "Yamsi" telegrams that successfully kept sidelined future potential witnesses to the enquiries.

162.158.186.34: Grammar correction

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162.158.158.119: /* Explanation */ affected is a verb. effected is too, but that's something else

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‎Explanation: affected is a verb. effected is too, but that's something else

FaviFake at 10:44, 29 August 2023

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Stormgate: /* Explanation */

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 *1928 - This one weird mold kills all germs
 :{{w|Penicillin}} was discovered by Alexander Fleming.
-:This claim is sensationalized in (at least) 2 ways. 1) Penicillin is an {{w|Antibiotic}}, a type of medicine that kills bacteria. The term {{w|germ}} includes viruses which are not affected by antibiotics. 2) {{w|List of antibiotic-resistant bacteria|Some bacteria}} are antibiotic-resistant, so penicillin does not even kill all bacteria.
+:This claim is sensationalized in (at least) 2 ways. 1) Penicillin is an {{w|antibiotic}}, a type of medicine that kills bacteria. The term {{w|germ}} includes viruses which are not affected by antibiotics. 2) {{w|List of antibiotic-resistant bacteria|Some bacteria}} are antibiotic-resistant, so penicillin does not even kill all bacteria.
 *1929 - Most embarrassing reactions to the stock market crash [GIFS]
 :This is a reference to the {{w|Wall Street Crash of 1929}}, the most devastating stock market crash in history and the beginning of the Great Depression. The "embarrassing reactions" may be a reference to the suicides of people suddenly impoverished by the depression.

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 *Jan 1, 1990 - 500 signs you're a 90s kid
 :A 90s kid is someone born in the late 80s or early 90s (and spent most of their childhood in the 1990s). Headlines like [http://www.buzzfeed.com/melismashable/25-ways-to-tell-youre-a-kid-of-the-9 this one from BuzzFeed] toy with their readers' sense of nostalgia. The parody headline is funny because it starts precisely on the first day of the 1990s, meaning that the only "90s kids" that it would apply to would be newborns. This is a reference to a common joke about the 90s not having a concrete identity in some ways like the 70s or 80s did in terms of popular culture, and yet those born in that decade always seem to have long lists of things that make you a "90s kid".
-*The title text: 1916: 'Physicist dad' turns his attention to gravity, and you won't believe what he finds. [PICS] [NSFW]
+*Title text: 1916: 'Physicist dad' turns his attention to gravity, and you won't believe what he finds. [PICS] [NSFW]
 :Einstein published his theory of {{w|General relativity}}, which is a vast generalization of the theory of {{w|Special relativity}} from 1905 and provides a model for gravity. In 1916 Einstein had two sons who lived in Zurich while he lived in Berlin.
 :[NSFW] is "Not Safe for Work" - a tag to identify explicit images. Here it is used to trick readers hoping to find pornography.

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 *1905 - How a shocking new theory, discovered by a dad, proves scientists are wrong about ''everything!''
 :{{w|Albert Einstein}} published his {{w|Annus Mirabilis papers}}, which changed views on space, time, mass, and energy, and laid the groundwork for much of modern physics. They included his papers on {{w|special relativity}} and on {{w|mass–energy equivalence}} ("E = mc<sup>2</sup>"). He had an infant son in 1905 (born May 1904).
-:The use of the term "dad" helps readers tune in emotionally. "Proving scientists wrong about everything" is obviously an inflation of Einstein's achievements, though not completely incorrect as Einstein's discoveries did undermine current theories about fundamentals of the universe such as space, time and motion. Einstein was awarded the {{w|Nobel Prize}} in 1921 for his work on the {{w|photoelectric effect}}; his work on relativity was still not accepted by many physicists at that time.
+:The use of the term "dad" helps readers tune in emotionally. "Proving scientists wrong about everything" is obviously an inflation of Einstein's achievements, though not completely incorrect as Einstein's discoveries did undermine then-current theories about fundamentals of the universe such as space, time and motion. Einstein was awarded the {{w|Nobel Prize}} in 1921 for his work on the {{w|photoelectric effect}}; his work on relativity was still not accepted by many physicists at that time.
 *1912 - 6 ''Titanic'' survivors who should have died
 :{{w|Sinking of the RMS Titanic}}. "should have died" seems to be referring to six passengers whose survival was downright miraculous, though the wording is (deliberately) ambiguous to imply the six passengers ''deserved'' to have died. Possibly referred to here is the survival of {{w|J. Bruce Ismay}}, chairman and managing director of the White Star Line, the company responsible for the Titanic. He was condemned at the time as a coward for leaving the sinking liner, though it is his various decisions precipitating the disaster that later analysis tends to concentrate on. He may well also have successfully conspired to deflect the future legal enquiries, through telegrams he sent from the rescue ship.

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 :Rewritten to get more clicks
-:[The years are always written at the center. The text has a line pointing to the relevant year. The first text is written to the left of the year. Then the texts below is alternately written to the right and to the left, finishing at the right in 1990.]
+:[The years are always written at the center. The text has a line pointing to the relevant year. The first text is written to the left of the year. Then the texts below are alternately written to the right and to the left, finishing at the right in 1990.]
 :1905 - How a shocking new theory, discovered by a dad, proves scientists are wrong about ''everything!''
 :1912 - 6 ''Titanic'' survivors who should have died
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 :1945 - These 9 Nazi atrocities will make you lose faith in humanity
 :1948 - 5 insane plans for feeding West Berlin you won't believe are real
-:1955 - Avoid Polio with this one weird trick
+:1955 - Avoid polio with this one weird trick
 :1957 - 12 nip slips potentially visible to Sputnik
 :1968 - This year's assassinations ranked from most to least tragic
 :1969 - This is the most important photo of an astronaut you'll see all day
 :1986 - This video of a terminally ill child watching the ''Challenger'' launch will break your heart
-:1989 - You won't ''believe'' what these people did to the Berlin wall! [Video]
+:1989 - You won't ''believe'' what these people did to the Berlin Wall! [Video]
 :Jan 1, 1990 - 500 signs you're a 90s kid

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 *1957 - 12 nip slips potentially visible to Sputnik
 :The Soviet Union launched {{w|Sputnik 1}}, the world's first artificial satellite. A ''nip slip'' is when a woman unintentionally exposes all or part of one or both of her nipples; in the context of the internet, it generally refers to a photograph capturing such a moment.
-:Saying that 12 were visible from space implies that they were really big 'nip slips', or at least that only those 12 were big enough to be visible to telescopes.
+:Saying that 12 were visible from space implies that they were really big "nip slips", or at least that only those 12 were big enough to be visible to telescopes. Alternatively, since the headline only says that the "nip slips" are "potentially" visible to Sputnik, the publication may simply have compiled twelve examples of women with their nipples exposed to some degree and suggested that they ''might'' have been visible to Sputnik, whether or not they could actually have been seen from space.
 *1968 - This year's assassinations ranked from most to least tragic
 :{{w|Martin Luther King Jr.}} and {{w|Robert F. Kennedy}} ([[John F. Kennedy]]'s younger brother) were both assassinated in 1968 (five years after JFK).
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 *1986 - This video of a terminally ill child watching the ''Challenger'' launch will break your heart
 :Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight. See {{w|Space Shuttle Challenger disaster}} for details. This was the first shuttle mission that included a teacher on board as part of the crew ({{w|Christa McAuliffe}}, ''{{w|Teacher in Space Project}}''), so there were many children -- a New York Times poll put the number at 48% of 9-13 year olds in the US -- watching this particular launch live as teachers around the country had TV sets in their classrooms showing the ill-fated launch in real time. The launch was not shown on most mainstream TV stations; only {{w|CNN}} broadcast it live.
-:Since this many children did see it, there would also have been several terminal ill children watching, and likely also some press out at one such place. So they could get this picture. And again toy with our emotions.
+:Since this many children did see it, there would also have been several terminally ill children watching, and likely also some press out at one such place. So they could get this picture. And again toy with our emotions.
 *1989 - You won't ''believe'' what these people did to the Berlin wall! [video]
 :{{w|Fall of the Berlin Wall}}.

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 :The use of the term "dad" helps readers tune in emotionally. "Proving scientists wrong about everything" is obviously an inflation of Einstein's achievements, though not completely incorrect as Einstein's discoveries did undermine current theories about fundamentals of the universe such as space, time and motion. Einstein was awarded the {{w|Nobel Prize}} in 1921 for his work on the {{w|photoelectric effect}}; his work on relativity was still not accepted by many physicists at that time.
 *1912 - 6 ''Titanic'' survivors who should have died
-:{{w|Sinking of the RMS Titanic}}. "should have died" seems to be referring to six passengers whose survival was downright miraculous, though the wording is (deliberately) ambiguous to imply the six passengers ''deserved'' to have died. Possibly referred to here is the survival of {{w|J. Bruce Ismay}}, chairman and managing director of the White Star Line (the company responsible for the Titanic), who was condemned as a coward for leaving the sinking liner.
+:{{w|Sinking of the RMS Titanic}}. "should have died" seems to be referring to six passengers whose survival was downright miraculous, though the wording is (deliberately) ambiguous to imply the six passengers ''deserved'' to have died. Possibly referred to here is the survival of {{w|J. Bruce Ismay}}, chairman and managing director of the White Star Line, the company responsible for the Titanic. He was condemned at the time as a coward for leaving the sinking liner, though it is his various decisions precipitating the disaster that later analysis tends to concentrate on. He may well also have successfully conspired to deflect the future legal enquiries, through telegrams he sent from the rescue ship.
 *1920 - 17 things that will be outlawed now that women can vote
 :The {{w|Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution}} was passed, guaranteeing voting rights for women in all US states. The prediction of new prohibitions is a reference to alcohol prohibition under the authority granted to the federal government by the {{w|Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution}}. While the Eighteenth Amendment was ratified before women's suffrage was guaranteed by the Nineteenth, alcohol prohibition was widely seen as an issue driven by women's opinions (hence the suggestion that more things would be prohibited now that women had the vote).

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 :Saying that 12 were visible from space implies that they were really big 'nip slips', or at least that only those 12 were big enough to be visible to telescopes.
 *1968 - This year's assassinations ranked from most to least tragic
-:{{w|Martin Luther King Jr.}} and {{w|Robert F. Kennedy}} ({{w|John F. Kennedy}}'s younger brother) were both assassinated in 1968 (five years after JFK).
+:{{w|Martin Luther King Jr.}} and {{w|Robert F. Kennedy}} ([[John F. Kennedy]]'s younger brother) were both assassinated in 1968 (five years after JFK).
 :Assassinations are rare and considered to be always tragic, so "ranking" them trivializes the political and emotional depth of the events.
 *1969 - This is the most important photo of an astronaut you'll see all day