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50 Hilarious Times Confidence Met Reality And Got Wrecked
Being publicly wrong in “real time” is one of those experiences so deeply uncomfortable that one tends to remember it at night for the next few decades. However, as humans, we can still find great ways to “enjoy” when others make the sort of mistakes that would mortify us.
There are few things funnier than someone being deeply convinced that they are right when they are blatantly incorrect. So get comfortable, since we’ve put together a lovely list of folks digging their own grave with utter confidence. Upvote your favorite posts and be sure to share your thoughts and experiences in the comments down below.
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Stephanie Did It 1 year ago
When a mommy chicken and a daddy chicken love each other very much...
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Roxy222uk 1 year ago
This is hugely important to understand, as it can save us from having the wool pulled over our eyes. Say we're told looking at tins of shoe polish reduces the chance of toe nail cancer by 50% - sounds great, doesn't it? But we've no idea if it's great until we know what the chance of toe nail cancer was usually. If it was 15% then a reduction to 7.5% is worthwhile, but if it was 0.05% then a reduction to 0.025% really isn't enough of a shift for keeping all those tins of Kiwi out.
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Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago
Edwina Currie. Just sayin'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmonella-in-eggs_controversy
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Yrral Spavit 1 year ago
Well, that there is a drawing of the rare and little known lined lion. True fact. Wouldn't lie to you :).
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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 1 year ago
Growing up watching Allo Allo I learnt French, German and Italian. It's all in the accent.
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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 1 year ago
Space man or not, he was a bloody good cyclist, shame he resorted to cheating to win all those tour de France.
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Stephanie Did It 1 year ago
That's when the Gregorian calendar officially replaced the Julian calendar. Ten days were removed in the process because the Julian calendar incorrectly measured the lunar year.
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Roxy222uk 1 year ago
For all of those that do have some deficiency in their colour vision there are two digits, made up of two different shades of green. If you can differentiate both shades of green from the orange you can see 74, but if can only differentiate the bright green you will see 71.
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Anthony Elmore 1 year ago
LLMS are TERRIBLE for math. At all. They apply weights to words (or in this case numbers) If you give it the statement 56 x 75 = y and ask for the value of y, all it's going to really consider is that the suitable answer is a number. If you're lucky, the training data contains enough iexamples of 56 x 75 = y and then someone listing the value of y to know that the value of y is 4200. If it doesn't the AI will pick what it perceives a pattern to determine the answer. When training an LLM, the AI develops it's own methods of categorizing words as values, which is why they're ridiculously good at picking up patterns that humans don't notice, but frequently give the wrong answers to math questions. There IS a reason it gave the answer it did, but it probably has nothing to do with what the math problem calls for. The work around for this is that they effectively teach the LLM to recognize math programs and then plug that problem into a sub routine.
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Stephanie Did It 1 year ago
That 'mommy' cow has a pretty distinct pizzle. Yes, that is what it's called. Thus, it's either a bull or a steer. A male bovine is never a cow.
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Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago
Astronomers would *love* the Starlink constellation to be a myth... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink#Impact_on_astronomy
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Stephanie Did It 1 year ago
The band named itself after a friend's Burmese Blue cat named Procul Harun. They misheard the name and spelled it wrong.
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Stephanie Did It 1 year ago
Could be that one is 2.37 lbs and the other is 3.67 lbs in weight, maybe?
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Doug Moyer 1 year ago
Well, all official government history is being scrubbed so no American can feel bad about the past, so...
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Geoffrey Scott 1 year ago
Except, as a 60+ yo man, I can verify your bladder will be FAR more active with coffee, there by negating the water.
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Riley Quinn 1 year ago
Oh, I want these nitwits to pull the prongs out with uninsulated pliers. Preferably while standing in a bucket of water.
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Riley Quinn 1 year ago
Funny, not 5 minutes ago, my neighbor and I were both saying how we think Elvis sucks because he never credited Black musicians for the songs he recorded, and bc he was a pedoph!le. He deserved dying on the toilet bc he was constipated.
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S Mi 1 year ago
That last information....please know that any drinking in pregnancy can have negative consequences for baby. Actually certain effects will happen if you drink during a specific few *days* of pregnancy. If you drank before you knew, you can still make a huge difference by quitting as soon as you find out.
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Fungus John 1 year ago
thank god they circled all the comments, I might have accidentally looked at the bottom of my shoe trying to see where the mistake was.
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Geoffrey Scott 1 year ago
Ice Road Truckers disproved this. Faster you go, you displace water ahead, when it runs out of room, BOOM, ice explodes.
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Stephanie Did It 1 year ago (edited)
Blonde A: How do I get to the other side of the river? Blonde B, on opposite shore: You ARE on the other side, dummy!
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Oerff On Tour 1 year ago
Probably the THIRD most toxic snake in the world. The most toxic snake in the world is the President of the United States
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Stannous Flouride 1 year ago
“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.” ― George Carlin
NJ P 1 year ago
I am embarassed at how stupid people are, especially when Google is right at their fingertips. Cannot believe these people will be running our busunesses and government. No hope for the future.
Stannous Flouride 1 year ago
“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.” ― George Carlin
NJ P 1 year ago
I am embarassed at how stupid people are, especially when Google is right at their fingertips. Cannot believe these people will be running our busunesses and government. No hope for the future.
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