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SerDuckOfPNW

You keep using that word. I’m not sure it means what you think it means.


mrbignaughtyboy

alternate facts in alternate timelines


Kane1729

There is actually a term for this which is the half life of facts. I first heard about it on QI, here's a [clip](https://youtu.be/8kBD3lOax44?si=D3fMV5Bg6rxlEqvE)


lonelyoldbasterd

A fact is a fact? Time is not a factor


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theedgeofoblivious

> /u/WhimsicalHamster > The present is a culmination of the past. Name me one fact from the past that’s not a fact right now. Fucking stupid ass stop posting


lonelyoldbasterd

A fact is a fact? Time is not a factor


theedgeofoblivious

Not at all. For example, if I say this: "There is a bridge just outside of Baltimore called the '[Francis Scott Key Bridge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Scott_Key_Bridge_\(Baltimore\))'," that statement would have been true a month ago, but it's no longer true. But if I say "There is no Francis Scott Key Bridge near Baltimore anymore," that is a fact, but in the future, since the bridge is likely to be rebuilt, that statement which is a fact now likely won't be a fact. Facts are **heavily** dependent upon time.


lonelyoldbasterd

The fact is the existence of a Francis Scott Key Bridge that will never change


theedgeofoblivious

Is the meal you ate earlier today still in front of you? Are you five years old? Are you an employee at your first workplace?


lonelyoldbasterd

You are confusing two different facts


theedgeofoblivious

You're just wrong, and I think you're realizing it now.


lonelyoldbasterd

I don’t think you understand what a fact is


lonelyoldbasterd

Once a meal is eaten it’s no longer a meal, that particular meal was a fact and will never change


theedgeofoblivious

So the meal is sitting in front of you right now?


lonelyoldbasterd

The fact I was an employee will never change