Post AjaPWOfbGS06e1h2Nk by mhalligan@hachyderm.io
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(DIR) Post #AjaJyLgnLBRvmdCIG8 by stux@mstdn.social
2024-07-04T11:00:36Z
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I grew up in a small town and it may be all small and quiet" but I also learned quickly that most of the people are also super small mindedAt our school, the moms of other kids had such a big mouth about kid X or Y but didn't knew their own child was as bad if not worse :bloblaugh: It took me a while to realize that I wasn't the odd one but the rest of the town was 🤷 Like those people feared knowledge so hard, yiiiikes :run_cat:
(DIR) Post #AjaKOL4EHAQHNpYFwu by stux@mstdn.social
2024-07-04T11:05:18Z
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I remeber being that annoying kid that always asked: 'What is that?' or 'How does this work?' but more often then not the reply was: "because" or "it's just the way it is" Looking back I have a feeling they just didn't know the answer and that's okay but why not be honest about it instead of deniel perhapsJust saying, it's okay to say "I don't know" to your kids
(DIR) Post #AjaKOsXRpYP3C0TYZc by FallsMom@mastodon.coffee
2024-07-04T11:05:20Z
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@stux "feared knowledge so hard. . . " Maybe this is why we see most support for right-wing parties in small towns & rural areas?
(DIR) Post #AjaKcYz5KUNQbHvbNo by stux@mstdn.social
2024-07-04T11:07:50Z
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@FallsMom Jup i think soPlus, alt-right focuses also on this part and they often think the same :sad_dog:
(DIR) Post #AjaKoWLMyNUXsz3MUi by stux@mstdn.social
2024-07-04T11:10:01Z
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@FallsMom A little example I was thinking about this morning (i dont even know why..)But a while ago when COVID was raging a fromer school buddy from my brother and his dad died from it while they both where super anti-covid restrictions (they had a fitness thing)Perfect examples of easy to influence people who died from the thing they 'didn't believe in' :nkoFacepalm2: (also from the town i grew up in)
(DIR) Post #AjaL0unxquhHE4L2gq by stux@mstdn.social
2024-07-04T11:12:14Z
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@onecreativecat Woah, that's even better! 💪
(DIR) Post #AjaL1EOT1QBXymYxiy by FallsMom@mastodon.coffee
2024-07-04T11:12:19Z
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@stux Very sad. . .and we see this same stupid belief system up & down, from health ideas to political ideas. Was your town in the Netherlands?
(DIR) Post #AjaL7WUIf4a9poI7xg by roger_booth@social.bitwig.community
2024-07-04T11:13:25Z
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@stux Ben Folds wrote a song about thishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W7w932z0rc
(DIR) Post #AjaL8yU43ds0x8sD5c by stux@mstdn.social
2024-07-04T11:13:44Z
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@FallsMom It happens more and more :blobcatscared: And more often then not it's the people who don't have a clue about the basics of mathematics, physics or general knowledge but somehow they are EXPERTS in "COVID and RNA" :nkoFacepalm2: Pleaseeeee
(DIR) Post #AjaLA2x4voIL6ExJTc by stux@mstdn.social
2024-07-04T11:13:54Z
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@FallsMom Oh and yes! in the north of the NL
(DIR) Post #AjaLKK1iIpUqx51Vdg by greenWhale@dice.camp
2024-07-04T11:15:47Z
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@stux I dont know so let's find out together is even better.
(DIR) Post #AjaLMrauTBw9dhhKnQ by kevinrns@mstdn.social
2024-07-04T11:16:19Z
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@stux And best to say, "lets find out!" "I dont know" is true. Always true. For everyone. Its always true. Rocket scientist spend days and days finding out, and being a rocket scientist is ALL they have done for decades."I dont know" is ALWAYS TRUE, and "lets find out" is always the best next step. Next thought.What? . . . there are more cells in me that are not me, not my DNA, not made by my body, than there are cells that are me? With my parents or my DNA?
(DIR) Post #AjaLRbbnKdKnVaNBzc by stux@mstdn.social
2024-07-04T11:17:04Z
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@greenWhale That would be the best! 💪
(DIR) Post #AjaLYCqpmHNwkfYTia by stux@mstdn.social
2024-07-04T11:18:17Z
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@kevinrns It is! :cat_hug_triangle: But u meant more like, acknowledging the fact you don't know stuff instead of giving an easy reply that also says that with a massive way around :flan_laugh: Kids can't always figure that out
(DIR) Post #AjaLw4G9NBQp3Tm50y by alzimon@mastodon.nl
2024-07-04T11:22:34Z
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@stux My parents often said "It's hard to explain" which, of course, is a perfectly plausible answer.
(DIR) Post #AjaMaGPXc5e8KFKld2 by MarkAB@mastodon.world
2024-07-04T11:29:53Z
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@stux Likewise I grew up in a small town. I asked so many questions in church that one Sunday school teacher informed my father that “There’s something wrong with that boy of yours”.
(DIR) Post #AjaNhUn0eWeMtvK75U by trebach@functional.cafe
2024-07-04T11:42:22Z
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@stux I was in the same boat, except in the US. After I graduated, the local paper was basically "Who do I know that went to jail this week?"With the schools mostly being funded by property taxes, there weren't many resources for people who wanted to learn more than what the state required. Our computer programming course was QBASIC in 2004!Eventually they put me in the library and had me work for the system administrator in the school every once in a while or fix problems with DVD players, laser disc players and VCRs.
(DIR) Post #AjaP2RLWkXY0G11HmK by notmybackdoorbug@mastodon.social
2024-07-04T11:57:19Z
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@stux I had someone say: "I don't know, but let's find out".That day I learned HTML. I asked how websites were built.
(DIR) Post #AjaPWOfbGS06e1h2Nk by mhalligan@hachyderm.io
2024-07-04T12:02:44Z
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@stux whenever my old man had to say he didn’t know he would then either go to the library or take me to the library so we can figure it out, or to somebody who would know.Because of this, I’ve been to steel mills, assembly plants, machine shops, powder coaters, mines. We even took a course building “black powder” as part of those quests.I guess nowadays, Dads would just go to YouTube?
(DIR) Post #AjaPe4P4Uzbu6bcYhk by UrNotTheBossOfUs@mastodon.social
2024-07-04T12:04:12Z
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@stux This is so true. Grew up in a small town and bussed to another town for school. The bullies were everywhere and always trying to suppress learning as well. My parents taught me to stand up against barking bullies and help the underdogs. Most of the time the big dogs were all bark and no bite. Sometimes we had to fight. This year we decent folks around the world must all be prepared to stand together. The big dogs coming down the alley do bite.
(DIR) Post #AjaQVfR5XkgyJ97ahE by ranx@mastodon.social
2024-07-04T12:13:51Z
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@stux i admit my first instinct towards an annoying kid would be to reply GIMME A BREAK, WOULD YA!? 😩 but in reality if i know the answer i explain even more than the basics. And I don't even have kids 😬
(DIR) Post #AjaSxTVnfauHLJiFkm by pretergeek@mstdn.social
2024-07-04T12:41:12Z
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@stux I was very much like that as a kid too. I think that often I was asking about things the adults at the time had never questioned themselves and just accepted as it was.
(DIR) Post #AjaWr4SWIpXhioNdkO by jdjoe@mstdn.social
2024-07-04T13:24:52Z
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@stux Absolutely to say, “I don’t know.” I love turning posing the same question to them asking what their thoughts are, how they think it works or what conclusions they draw from a thing. They can come up with spectacular ideas. 😊
(DIR) Post #AjajQs8KnyvpMymCfY by kevinrns@mstdn.social
2024-07-04T15:45:57Z
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@stux Yes, exactly. Explaining how knowledge works, how curioosity works, how the plastic* brain works. If you learn music your brain grows new brain, changes shape, gets larger for music. Star Trek is about brilliant people finding out, reason fornthe season, and episode. The most learned people are involved, probably in their job, primarily in finding out.Your advice, and its reasons, are child mind centric, and therefore perfect. *Plastic means not stone, it grows, responds, changes.
(DIR) Post #Ajaxfqq7IRsd3iIAHg by justafrog@mstdn.social
2024-07-04T18:25:10Z
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@stux @onecreativecat I like doing that, because then I can show kids that the end of one person's knowledge is the start of literature research.And if that runs into the edge of science, we can talk about how one adds to science.
(DIR) Post #Ajb4cyHFt0Uaw9Yl04 by guinnessduck@mstdn.social
2024-07-04T19:43:22Z
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@stux when my kids started asking questions for which I didn’t know the answer I used it as a chance for both of us to learn, looking up the answer with both of them. In many ways my kids were a better source of education than a lot of my schooling.
(DIR) Post #AjbLxH49RFiyDmhIRc by beunice@c.im
2024-07-04T22:57:30Z
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@stux You see this in spades here in the American south (although surprising exceptions exist). I grew up in an exurban small town and I got those exact same responses as a kid to any questions I would ask from kids on the playground to teachers and everyone else save my immediate family. This dismissiveness also never went away as I aged, it just changed form to things like teachers in my high school dismissing questions I had about math because it wasn't in the course material and I "wasn't a math kid". A lot of these people went on to become your anti-vaxxers and science denying religious zealots that want to tear apart any progress my country has made in any way at all levels of government. Ignorance isn't bliss its a societal atomizer.