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bougienative t1_iydmaad wrote
Reply to comment by emperor000 in Today I learned that poinsettias were first cultivated by the Aztecs. They were brought to America by Joel Poinsett, from who they get their English name. by Underworld_Denizen
I was gonna go line by line and respond to all your points. But ita way too much effort for me to go through to placate your desire to defend a single dumb comment you made. Your correction didn't bring either precision or clarity, and it certainly didn't clear up or point anything out at the title, these are all post script justification because your correction was incorrect lol. If America is one or two continents had nothing to do with the point he made, and has nothing to do with the contradiction in the title, it was you just going "um actually" and offering a wrong correction lol. But have a great day mate.
bougienative t1_iydks9y wrote
Reply to comment by MuhnYourDog in TIL not everyone has 206 bones. More than a third of people have extra “accessory bones” by gedaliyah
He offered a very valid counterpoint when he brought up the purpose of said article, you just repeated the name of the article again. So it's more if you are done lol.
bougienative t1_iydji2k wrote
Reply to comment by MacRubys in TIL that researchers actually studied the brain activity of free-style rappers to figure out how they improvise lyrics on the go. by dark_knight1702
Because you need to control your variables as tightly as possible in order to obtain any usable data.
And the moment they are trying to compare two different careers usage of the brain you are now doing a completely different experiment to aquire completely different data.
It doesn't read like they have an agenda, it reads like you don't understand the scientific method.
bougienative t1_iydibgx wrote
Reply to comment by emperor000 in Today I learned that poinsettias were first cultivated by the Aztecs. They were brought to America by Joel Poinsett, from who they get their English name. by Underworld_Denizen
Continents are defined by local naming convention rather than any sort of scientific classification, because of this America being two continents and America being a single continent divided into four regions are both equally correct to say. But here in the Americas you will find that the majority of nations teach a single American continent model.
Correcting someone for using a different naming convention than you is like telling a German they are wrong for using a decimal comma instead of a decimal point. It's just different, not more or less correct.
bougienative t1_ixntl2h wrote
Reply to comment by cey97 in TIL This is Rakesh Sharma. Alive and well, He was the first Indian to go to space in 1984, making India the 14th nation in the world to send a man to Outer Space. by CrAzY_cOdeR4
it was Russian people who sent him to space, in a program created by the Russian government. So both nation and country would be wrong.
bougienative t1_ixmuk8p wrote
Reply to comment by JacobGouchi in TIL This is Rakesh Sharma. Alive and well, He was the first Indian to go to space in 1984, making India the 14th nation in the world to send a man to Outer Space. by CrAzY_cOdeR4
The title directly states that India is the 14th country to send a man to space. He's pointing out this statement is false, because India did not send the man to space.
This has to do with the second claim in the title, not the first, nobody is disagreeing that he is the first Indian to go to space.
And no, pointing out misinformation on an educational subreddit is neither being a dick nor is it ignorant.
bougienative t1_iydtgnm wrote
Reply to comment by emperor000 in Today I learned that poinsettias were first cultivated by the Aztecs. They were brought to America by Joel Poinsett, from who they get their English name. by Underworld_Denizen
It was incorrect because it was correcting someone over a statement with no correct answer. What was wrong wasn't your local Continental naming convention, but saying that his is wrong.