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[-] madthumbs@lemmy.world 58 points 5 days ago

A lot of times memes are what they are because they're harder to fact check (can't copy and paste text from them). People use them to spread misinformation for fun. -This is actually a confirmed meme though.

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 16 points 5 days ago
[-] Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 57 points 5 days ago
[-] mynameisigglepiggle@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago

We need to make it mandatory that all memes link to a reverse image search on Snopes so we can fact check them

[-] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 5 points 5 days ago

Fact checking memes what has the world come to

[-] tomatolung@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 days ago

Sounds like a good bot.

[-] madthumbs@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Not a fan of snopes. Copyfish and reverse image search on right click works good for desktop users.

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 11 points 5 days ago
[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 0 points 4 days ago

This is actually a confirmed meme though.

Except for a couple of details from the link you posted: there were only two worms, and they are likely of the same age (don't think this can be determined more specifically than 'around 40 thousand years'), and the picture is absolutely wrong.

this post was submitted on 24 Nov 2024
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