@Grandtheftautism @11112011 @FreedoingVlad @Senator_Armstrong @animeirl @dicey @eisai @icedquinn Yeah, I think if you have the link, it's better to post it anyway. It sometimes means you don't have to explain it if you're talking to someone clever enough to click a link and read it, and if they don't do that...why talk to them?

> so much of my pre-internet knowledge turned out to be garbage and wives tales.

Ha, yeah, or you get these massive knowledge gaps because the State education system is a propaganda machine and the curriculum is borderline abusive. "What happened in Europe after WW2?" "Nothing, Europe was fine, total peace and no conflicts after Hitler was defeated. If someone mentions a wall in Berlin, it was a wall of friendship and then they took it down because of friendship." "Why is Sarajevo in the news now if Europe was fine this whole time?"

> For example, lampshades and bars of soap, plague blankets,

Well, to be fair, the historians often got got with this shit. Badly sourced nonsense persists a while, like the smallpox blanket thing. Stuff gets carefully omitted to paint a picture, things like that.