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[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 102 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Maybe the result of US education system

CHRISTIAN 4TH GRADE SCHOOL TEXTBOOK TRIES TO EXPLAIN ELECTRICITY

[-] django@discuss.tchncs.de 33 points 10 months ago

Link to the book please, I can't believe this.

[-] Gloomy@mander.xyz 60 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I second this, it seems a bit too much on the nose to be real.

Edit: Omg, it's real.

[-] kromem@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

The reviews are hilarious

[-] django@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 10 months ago

Funny, that giving drugs to children is illegal, but shit like this not.

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 9 points 10 months ago

I wish people would give me all these free drugs, they're wasted on the children.

[-] django@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 10 months ago

Those free drugs are mostly a lie, drugs are expensive.

[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 23 points 10 months ago

Fourth grade textbook published by Bob Jones University, and highlighted in a ScienceBlogs post by PZ Myers

[-] Ashyr@sh.itjust.works 20 points 10 months ago

I have a high degree of confidence this is real. Looks like the hard work of Bob Jones University Press.

I won’t disable my ad blocker to view the site, but there may be a discussion about it here:

https://dangerousminds.net/comments/christian_4th_grade_school_textbook_tries_to_explain_electricity

[-] Sybilvane@lemmy.ca 29 points 10 months ago

People have most certainly felt electricity.

[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Mistaking it for being touched by the hand of god, when they were trying to remove the bread from the toaster with a fork.

[-] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

As someone who did this before knowing it was dangerous I got away with it a ridiculous amount of times.

[-] hash0772@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

Your username seems to be weirdly accurate.

[-] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

It was not a title I chose but one I simply learned to accept.

[-] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

How was your Operation game? I'm guessing you won a lot.

[-] Malgas@beehaw.org 8 points 10 months ago

Also thunder and lightning really ought to count as seeing and hearing electricity.

Hell, seeing anything at all may technically count, because electromagnetic waves.

[-] kromem@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

People can also say where it's from.

[-] cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 25 points 10 months ago

Is that really from a book that used to teach children? Holy fuckin hell. No wonder America got shittier every day.

[-] psud@aussie.zone 12 points 10 months ago

I wonder whether the kids being taught by that book ever zapped each other with static

[-] cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 13 points 10 months ago

IT'S LIKE MAGIC!

Then they probably got punished for practicing witchcraft and dark arts.

[-] Resonosity@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

As an electrical engineer, JESUS FUCKING CHRIST

[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 months ago

Don't forget holy water in your toolbox.

[-] UFODivebomb@programming.dev 5 points 10 months ago

I didn't know you can't work when the sun is down. Are electricians vampires?!?

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 10 points 10 months ago

BRING IT FORTH

[-] carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Christians are as fucking stupid as djt it seems

[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 months ago

Feeding the children since centuries

[-] SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

What a loser. Everyone who has watched the Pokemon TV show knows what electricity looks like.

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago

I threw up a little in my mouth...

[-] kaboom36@ani.social 1 points 10 months ago

I've been shocked a couple of times, I think I have an okay idea of what electricity feels like

[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

If you really want to feel it you can, very easily. I have its quite the sensation

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