#dangerous misinformation

[life-ennder]

fun fact! if a lithium ion battery in your device is bulging, this is because air has seeped into the battery and inflated it. to fix it, get some kind of blade or sharp object and carefully poke a hole in the battery. this will allow the air to escape and the battery to stop bulging

[khazdmazerb]

I am still thinking about the other day when ChatGPT said “you can pour aluminum into a silicon mold, this is safe as silicon can withstand the high temperatures of molten metals.”

Yiiiiiiiiiiiiiikes.

[twinkletwinkletruly]

Why is there no “misinformation” option when reporting a post?! A post about how Planned Parenthood harvests babies and put them in our food, and I can’t report it for blatant, dangerous misinformation, cuz there’s no option for that!

[fromscratchmom]

Bizarre Lies From People Who Don't Understand Proper Human Nutrition

"Dangerous misinformation" is a key phrase of many people on the wrong side of many different issues in the last few years. And it isn't as if we can't all recognize that there is misinformation in the world and some of it is dangerous. Yet, It is so commonly badly used by people using poor reasoning and poor argumentation to attempt to control others that just that phrase by itself has grown into a red flag. We really should, in many cases, dismiss all of it when anyone uses that phrase in their attempt to engage with us. Just dismiss everything they have to say. They are not open to reason, to rational and logical ways of good public discourse.