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One thing that the internet has removed is the endless debates / discussions / disagreements between friends and family about different facts. We just now googl
by kyriakos 10y ago
One thing that the internet has removed is the endless debates / discussions / disagreements between friends and family about different facts. We just now google the facts and the argument is over as soon as it starts.
- falcolas 10y agoI wish. Instead, we spend our time arguing over the qualifications of the differing sources found via Google. "But he has a doctorate too!" Facts are, ironically, getting harder to find and verify these days.
- mafribe 10y agoI'd say, we up the difficulty of our discussions. Things we would discuss in the past (e.g. which year was XYZ born) are now settled beyond dispute with a quick google. Now we are stuck discussing questions that cannot be resolved this way.
- sevenless 10y agoBut now everyone has his own facts, that they can back up with authoritative sources like Breitbart or @GlobalWarmingLie.