To clarify here, I don’t feel like I’m significantly smarter than most people, but I feel like people have a hard time doing any sort of thinking about stuff. Especially when it comes to verifying “facts.”
Well I know which half I'm in.
Submitted 11 months ago by QaspR@lemmy.world to [deleted]
To clarify here, I don’t feel like I’m significantly smarter than most people, but I feel like people have a hard time doing any sort of thinking about stuff. Especially when it comes to verifying “facts.”
Well I know which half I'm in.
It definitely seems like 90 percent of people will twist themselves into knots to find a way to defend their beliefs regardless of how wrong those beliefs might be, morally and factually.
Admitting that you are wrong is hard.
That’s because you don’t realize the stupid things you’re doing or thinking.
The scientific method is the only way we know to reliably discover actual facts, and even with it it can take decades to see through some bullshit we consider as facts.
If you add manipulation, déception and lies, you can’t blame people for being mistaken or stupid. You can blame them for being assholes though.
only when I’m driving
Snark mode activated: After reading through the “Threads Federation” comments, and see what opinions/comments are currently most popular, I’m going to go with YES.
But jokes aside, my actual personal opinion is no.
I think they haven’t tapped into their potential intelligence.
can’t say about rest of the population but when I read about some great people, I feel there’s too much to learn and too little time.
and it happens every single day.
You, of course, are firmly in that 10%, I assume.
Varyk@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
You live in Ohio? Florida?
skeezix@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Florida license plates slogan says Ignoramus State