I don't know if I'd use the word "dumb." However, instant access to what amounts to information overload has allowed the spread of plenty of completely stupid notions. Plenty of whack-job "theories" have risen in the internet age. Flat earthers, 911 conspiracy theorists, anti vaccine crusaders, moon landing hoax exposers (and many more) abound. When I was in high school and college back before the internet, research consisted of finding and evaluating primary and secondary sources of information. Observation, experimentation, testing hypotheses and rechecking for validation were nomal activities of research. Nowdays, Someone will claim the "ball earth" is some giant lie presented by NASA, because he did his own "research" consisting of watching YouTube videos or Googling "Flat Earth" and reading only the results that fit his preconceived notions.
"On the mythology side, legend says the gods used mistletoe to resurrect Odin’s son Baldur from the dead. And Baldur’s mother, the goddess of love, vowed to kiss whoever passed the plant, a symbol of love." Not quite. Baldur was killed by a piece of mistletoe.When Baldur started dreaming of his death, his mother Frigg went around to everything in the world having them swear not harm her son. Dismissing it as too weak and insignificant, Frigg failed to ask mistletoe. Confident in Baldur’s invincibility, the gods amused themselves by throwing weapons and any random thing they could find at Baldur and watching them bounce off of him, leaving him unscathed. Loki found out about the omission and made a spear of mistletoe and convinced the blind god Hodr to throw it at Baldur. The projectile pierced the god, and he fell down dead. Baldur ended up in the underworld and had to remain there with the goddess Hel until after Ragnarök, when he and his brother Höðr were reconciled and ruled the new earth together with Thor's sons. Baldur's mother was Frigg a goddess associated with foresight and wisdom. Frigg is the wife of Odin. She dwells in the wetland halls of Fensalir.
In my experience, many companies are not interested in keeping their long-term employees anymore. It is cheaper and more profitable to hire low-wage part timers. Especially profitable if they don't have to offer insurance or benefits to those working less than 30 hours per week. Where I work, I am one of the 10% who have been there more than 5 years. The other 90% are mostly part timers who learn the skills and then find full-time work somewhere else. If my company offered full time to new employees, maybe some the 70% who work there less than a year, might have stayed.
That "viking sword" he is holding is a $70 wall hanger with a stainless steel blade.If you are looking for something that won't break when you use it, get one with a carbon steel blade.
Pessimists Paradise! The glass is not half full. It isn't half empty. It is made of glass and if you dropped it it would break, and if there was alcohol in the glass, it will make your cut sting. I'd move there, but then I'd have to learn Finnish.
Next thing you'll be telling us that gambling has been going on in Las Vegas.
Kurt Vonnegut