I love that too, but I feel like we have to make them smart and not angry :(

Angering dumb people makes them vote. And they vote real dumb

In universities for computer science they must learn the teachings of the muslim https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Khwarizmi, that's disgusting.

Don't forget about the dangers of al cohol and candy!

Just like caravans, you remember how those where a thing in American politics once? What ever happened to them?

Well, the dihydrogen monoxide that is in your Zuchini is literally an industrial solvent!

Have you seen what dihydrogen monoxide does to pure, strong iron?!? It corrodes iron unbelievably fast! And people just.....consume it in most of their "healthy" foods!

Wake up, sheeple! Stop drinking dihydrogen monoxide!

~/s - this message brought to you by Brawndo, the thirst mutilator~

They literally use that shit to power steam engines! Now imagine what it does to your insides. Nasty, nasty stuff.

A friend of mine ingested a ton of it and died. They found him at the bottom of a lake

Water? like from the toilet?!

Sources claim an up to 100% mortality rate!

Whole thing is just media hyping up an obvious prank so that the stupidest people start freaking the fuck out, which gets more media attention, which makes us click on links way out here in backwater Lemmy.

This is the uroboros of media that has wrecked our whole society, where all of our impressions about just about anything are being dictated by the smallest, most ridiculous outlier reactions. Remember the kitty litter boxes in schools?

This is what launched flat-eartherism and trumpism and the whole massive "incel movement" that has become a tidal-wave of depressing idiocy, which get more attention for being so disgusting and stupid, which makes people on the other extreme end of the bell-curve over-react, which gets more attention, which leaves normal, passive readers thinking this is how people are really interacting and treating each other, which leads to them also taking up radical or stupid ideas about the world.

It's not that The Onion can't compete with reality, its that The Onion can't compete the vast media empire built on deliberately turning every possible unusual reaction or hot take from random nobodies into headline news. Before panic was monetized, most outlets ignored pranks.

Or about Mr. Al Kwarizmi (Algorithm).

Nice, didn't know this! According to the article "The numeral system originates from an ancient Indian numeral system," so i guess confusing names are a feauture of numerical symbols, and not a bug.

Especially that diabolic number "zero". It is a pure Arab invention. The Romans did fine without it. Then the Arabs introduced zero and we know what happened with the Roman Empire. Now, zeros can be found everywhere - they can even hide in computers. America should really exzerminate these zeros befote it is too late!!

Dihydrogen Oxide