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[–] Majorllama@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I can't think of a single thing that 100% of people from any decently sized group will agree on. Some will just pick the opposite to be contrarian. Some just don't care.

[–] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The Lizardman Constant is about 4%. So that leaves 11% unaccounted for.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

According to the reporting, after dealing with Danish colonisation some Greenlanders see the US as (still) less imperialist than Denmark. The grass is always greener on the other side, basically.

Good to know that the vast majority understand that's BS.

[–] Quill7513 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Replacing your current shitty imperial power with a foreign imperial power never goes good

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 18 minutes ago

cough North Africa cough

[–] Majorllama@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Thank you for that lol. Now I have a term for those types of answers.

[–] silence7 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, you get some silly answers from a small percent of the population, like this one:

Seven percent of all American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows, according to a nationally representative online survey commissioned by the Innovation Center of U.S. Dairy.

[–] Majorllama@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I am choosing to believe that 7% of American adults think it's funny to answer questions like that. Even though I know it's wrong. God dammit.

Our education system is just cooked huh.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I have neighbors that still think toadstools and warts come from toads.

[–] Majorllama@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Ehhhh that one is more forgivable in my opinion. Folk tales and the like tend to last longer just because people keep repeating it. Some of them as a joke.

The chocolate milk brown cow thing is a fundamental lack of logic and critical thinking.