In fact, I used it a few minutes ago, since some of the idi… er… people I’m friends with on FB are sharing this as if it is real and I am pretty sure I recognize that accident from a while back (well before Pokemon Go existed).
Haven’t thought about it … Has to be 5 years since I needed to debunk something … Guessing my “friends” finally got sick of my holier than thou attitude and stopped forwarding me stuff.
i have a coworker i commute with, and need to remind him that facebook isn’t a good place to get any of his news on a near daily basis. everything from anti vaccination to weird bible cults to election news. edit: also, i think snopes is garbage.
Basically any time my mom starts freaking out about something. “Chinese people eat their babies! I saw a picture!” “Pepsi is made out of fetuses!” “I read yet another conspiracy theory that I instantly took at face value!”
I used to have an “Adult” girl/friend that would send me forwarded links daily. Stuff like “Junkies hiding HIV needles in gasoline nozzles–be careful pumping gas.” She was extremely serious, and I’d just send her Snopes articles debunking everything. I tried to teach her critical thinking, but she wasn’t interested. I eased into it, but eventually I just told her I was going to add her to my spam folder if she wouldn’t stop. It was sad cutting off communication with her…It was like proselytizing to her. She HAD to warn me. I subscribed to Skeptic and Skeptical Inquirer for years, which may have contributed to my sensitivity to that gobbledygook.
As my daily horoscope says “Today’s conflicts are simply not worth your energy.”
(EDIT: I missed cancelling my VMP membership by like 12 hours, (shakes head). so I might as well keep it another month. If only I would have had some kind of talisman or something to remind me. I think this was some kind of bad mojo. )
I want to invent an app that debunks all the shit fiends post on facebook. Like Samsung paying Apple in nickles. Snopes said it would require all nickles in circulation and the weight alone would require 2,755 eighteen-wheeler trucks.
@RedOak Yea I noticed that the political section was a bit one sided and not making a whole lot of sense on why they “proved” it false. It was like we can’t prove that it’s 100% true therefore it’s false.
@thismyusername I love xkcd…
In fact, I used it a few minutes ago, since some of the idi… er… people I’m friends with on FB are sharing this as if it is real and I am pretty sure I recognize that accident from a while back (well before Pokemon Go existed).
Snopes has this to say about it.
@baqui63 cartel press has published darn near a dozen pokemon go accident articles for the ad revenue. people are very dumb.
@meh I kne what wasn’t real. An accident that big would’ve been on the news. At least for 30 seconds. Lol
@meh It is the first time I’d seen cartel press…
Haven’t thought about it … Has to be 5 years since I needed to debunk something … Guessing my “friends” finally got sick of my holier than thou attitude and stopped forwarding me stuff.
I haven’t used it as much as I used to… Probably because all that crap is on Facebook now. Or maybe I just gave up.
i have a coworker i commute with, and need to remind him that facebook isn’t a good place to get any of his news on a near daily basis. everything from anti vaccination to weird bible cults to election news. edit: also, i think snopes is garbage.
Thought snopes was a crock of shit. Seriously, didn’t it check out a while ago?
@brenda Wait, is Meh a Snopes subsidiary?
@brenda Yeah, I’m sure I read that somewhere.
I subscribe to their RSS feed. I find out the BS before anybody posts it to social media.
Basically any time my mom starts freaking out about something. “Chinese people eat their babies! I saw a picture!” “Pepsi is made out of fetuses!” “I read yet another conspiracy theory that I instantly took at face value!”
I used to have an “Adult” girl/friend that would send me forwarded links daily. Stuff like “Junkies hiding HIV needles in gasoline nozzles–be careful pumping gas.” She was extremely serious, and I’d just send her Snopes articles debunking everything. I tried to teach her critical thinking, but she wasn’t interested. I eased into it, but eventually I just told her I was going to add her to my spam folder if she wouldn’t stop. It was sad cutting off communication with her…It was like proselytizing to her. She HAD to warn me. I subscribed to Skeptic and Skeptical Inquirer for years, which may have contributed to my sensitivity to that gobbledygook.
As my daily horoscope says “Today’s conflicts are simply not worth your energy.”
(EDIT: I missed cancelling my VMP membership by like 12 hours, (shakes head). so I might as well keep it another month. If only I would have had some kind of talisman or something to remind me. I think this was some kind of bad mojo. )
I was all about Snopes for years. Until smart phones made Wikipedia more accessible.
I just don’t have any friends. It works out best for everyone.
I want to invent an app that debunks all the shit fiends post on facebook. Like Samsung paying Apple in nickles. Snopes said it would require all nickles in circulation and the weight alone would require 2,755 eighteen-wheeler trucks.
What’s a “Snopes”?
Snopes is full of just about as much shit as the shit they write about.
@RedOak Yea I noticed that the political section was a bit one sided and not making a whole lot of sense on why they “proved” it false. It was like we can’t prove that it’s 100% true therefore it’s false.
When people send me stuff like that, I send them Weird Al’s reply: