'Out Of Gas'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Do you guys think that people are getting dumber, or is it the prevalence of comments sections on every news article that just gives dumb people a microphone they didn't have before.
I'm constantly blown away by how vehemently stupid people will defend their own stupidity. And there are SO MANY of them.
And there are SO MANY of them.
We're outnumbered.
Allyson, I think it is because stupid people do not know they are stupid. Of course, that means I could be stupid and not know it. As discussed in the NYT: [link]
As nutjobs have taken to comments threads, reasonable people have fled them realizing the futility in arguing with nutjobs. I think the next stage is that the turbo-nutjobs will push out the nutjobs.
As nutjobs have taken to comments threads, reasonable people have fled them realizing the futility in arguing with nutjobs. I think the next stage is that the turbo-nutjobs will push out the nutjobs.
I'm suddenly seeing a future where one lone uber-nutjob rants and fights with his own sock-puppets in every comments section.
Has there ever been a supervillian called The Master of Sock-puppets or somesuch? If not, there should be.
or is it the prevalence of comments sections on every news article that just gives dumb people a microphone they didn't have before.
I'm constantly blown away by how vehemently stupid people will defend their own stupidity.
I's not just the comments section. I'm noticing a higher number of stupid letters to the editor as well, so not only do the stupid not realized their stupidity, they seem to be working under the misapprehension that it is offering some insight.
In this nightmarish time lapse video, a gentle spider crab is internally consumed by a terrifying angry red spider crab who then dispenses of the empty husk of its former host.
... or maybe its just molting
A freaky time-lapse video.
I'm noticing a higher number of stupid letters to the editor as well, so not only do the stupid not realized their stupidity, they seem to be working under the misapprehension that it is offering some insight.
This is because of the conservative vilification of "experts" as "elites."
Maybe.
I'm not talking about trolls and nutjobs, but people who don't know that the U.S. military is under civilian command, and can't grasp it even when told or shown. And then lash out to twist whatever facts are handed to them to fit their wrong notion, instead of saying, "huh. Did not know that."
Or people who think "theory" in science or math means "a guess."
And they do the same as the above to wrestle down any facts that don't mesh with their incorrect belief. Or simply ignore new information in some sort of cognitive dissonance gymnastics.
It's frustrating, and I keep wondering how they get through the day.