• TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today
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    It’s always fun to see people who learned how to debate from posting online bring that energy to real life. Just a fun reminder that sometimes learning something can actually make you more of an idiot.

    Sometimes I’m really thankful that my brain was already mostly developed before the Internet became popularized. Lord only knows what my autistic ass would have done with all the terrible information available nowadays.

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      It’s like they have enough intelligence to retain information, but absolutely no ability to form complex thoughts and do anything with said information.

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      Just a fun reminder that sometimes learning something can actually make you more of an idiot

      I feel like these people are idiots to begin with, and the fact they learned just pointed then into a different flavor of idiocy

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      And yet, I’ve noticed that people who grew up with computers as opposed to computer-free life tend to radiate higher intelligence.

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        Eh, I think that’s just due to selection bias. We’re at a point where computers are such an integral part of life that the only people who do not know how to operate them are people who chose not to keep up with the times.

        I have plenty of older patients who did not grow up with computers, but learned how to operate them later in life because they recognized their importance. They tend to retain much better cognitive function later in life than those who checked out of having new experiences a long time ago.

        On the opposite side, I have plenty of younger patients who grew up with computers and are definitely not the sharpest tool in the shed.

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          I think there is a drastic difference between what computer counted in the 90s-00s vs now. It was not user friendly, everything was advanced, troubleshooting was engineering, etc., you didn’t just push a power button, launch a browser and go to youtube

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            Eh, it wasn’t that much different than now. Tbh in some ways it was a bit easier, just because there wasn’t as much going on. Really everything windows 95 and after were relatively similar to what most people are using today.

            Even before YouTube there were plenty of forums available that would walk you through most any troubleshooting.

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              Right, but we had forums, we constantly troubleshooted things, we did alot of reading, etc., nowadays average person spends most of that time consuming media, which was borderline a luxury back then.

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    I often think that there’s no way a man could possibly achieve levels of douchebaggery so high that he sends a message like this unironically. Then I get in my car and see large pickup trucks behaving the way they do.

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        Do conservatives still say that? I remember Dubya saying that decades ago - and my wife and I still laugh at that occasionally. Anytime we have a minor convenience it’s because someone hates our freedom.

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          Usually not in those exact words. But everything adjacent to those words. Ben Shapiro repeatedly makes the comment that liberals hate America. Except he can’t say liberals. They’re the radical left. They’re Democrats that hate America. Their DSA the hate America. They hate its abundance. They hate its progress. They hate its free markets. Unfortunately, one of the good things about Ben Shapiro is he does specify who “they” are. And he calls out people who don’t specify who “they” are. It’s one of the only good things about him.

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            I always find this stuff funny, but it sucks that so many people hear it and take it seriously. The idea of anyone that doesn’t vote Republican just hating America because of our abundance, progress, or freedom is just ridiculous. But I suppose he can’t go out there telling the truth or he’d lose his audience.

            It’s like those graphics you see on Fox News about the “radical left” ideas like free healthcare and affordable housing.

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              He is losing audience. The Tucker/Fuentes right are cannibalizing his audience. Becoming a Trump Supporter didn’t help him because he did it right before Trump supporters started thinking Trump wasn’t radical enough.

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    I didn’t ask to read this post. This post asked to get in from of my eyes. In not saying reading it was right, but don’t try to make this post bigger than it was.

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    Someone trying really hard to ignore the transitive symmetric property.

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    All of the red in the world has been sucked up and consumed and placed into this flag.