What's funny to me is that this topic comes up A LOT. Like, people hear about entanglement, and then decide they are smarter than those dumb physicists and have figured out FTL communication in 15 minutes.

Why is that? This keeps happening. Quantum entanglement is not a new concept. It's almost certainly older than 99.9% of the people on this site. Yet the myth that it could enable FTL communcation continues to persist.