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Cake day: December 13th, 2024

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  • If it kills you, its not “safe for human consumption” which is the defining characteristic between something edible and any random item you can stuff down your throat.

    You can eat anything once. If it’s edible you can eat it more than once. Words having meanings. Yes, I am fun at parties.



  • Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.comto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneDaily prayer
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    9 days ago

    This is a real measurable phenomenon.

    65% of Americans think they have above average intelligence. People who are smart downgrade their own intelligence, slightly. People who are idiots greatly over estimate their intelligence. The deltas are separated by multiple magnitudes.

    A more mundane version of this, 85% of drivers think they are above average drivers.

    If you cannot surmise from this that most people are actually less smart than they think, the most polite way I can put that is that the problem is not with those who are calling out the issue. A quarter of society is unable to recognize they are below average.

    That is real problem. It is serious problem. It’s made worse because a large chunk of society is composed of stupid people thinking they are smarter than the smart people. This isn’t new. It is not imagined. It is not exaggerated. It is measurable. It is very real.

    Denialists doom us all because stupid people glob to their comforting lies.






  • You know how there a immigrants who are pro ice. Same is true across the entire spectrum of fools. This writer is not part of the “us” but thinks that by aligning themselves it some how makes them part of the group. Anyone with basic reasoning skills knows otherwise but the world is full of fools and they aren’t all illiterate.