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Your mind might be unchangeable, but if you want to change others’ minds in a world where memory is unreliable and anonymous internet posters even more so, you’
by wk_end 6y ago
Your mind might be unchangeable, but if you want to change others’ minds in a world where memory is unreliable and anonymous internet posters even more so, you’ll need something more than a claim of a 40+ year old recollection of the McDonalds menu in Missouri to beat Snopes for credibility.
- ipaddr 6y agoI 100% believe him. What we define as plastic may have changed. Perhaps we are all eating things that were formally classified as plastic. Perhaps someone was making a joke on their way to quitting. I never discount a person or a users memory. They are usually right over my assumption. When I look closer I see more reasonable answers that I never considered before.
- valuearb 6y agoIf you believe everyone’s memories you believe a lot of false things. Human memory is notoriously unreliable, and old memories are often patched together out of stories, dreams and entirely different events.