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Regarde Aduck posted:i live in the UK and the stupidity of the 'average person' doesn't have a visible floor hawowanlawow posted:let's not get carried away im specifically talking about the people for whom "smart" is their primary personality trait, the kind of folks who get posted on r/iamverysmart. they have a distinct habit of posting a meme and saying "don't worry if you don't get this, not everyone is as smart as me" and it's some bullshit about tesselation that everybody learned in geometry in 8th grade. also, i think people can do stupid things and not actually be stupid!
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I can't wrap my brain around actively thinking yourself to be smart. Like, I'm lucky if I go a day without feeling like the dumbest motherfucker alive.
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It's not that "smart" people underestimate "average" as much as they overestimate themselves.
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Being intelligent enough to know you're loving up is a curse, because you'd gently caress up whether you were ignorant of that fact or not.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I can't wrap my brain around actively thinking yourself to be smart. Like, I'm lucky if I go a day without feeling like the dumbest motherfucker alive. hell yeah lets be dumbasses forever
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My coworkers all think I'm a genius because I'm really good at problem solving, so whenever a situation arises I'm usually the first one to come up with a plan Conversely I've hurt myself drinking pickle brine because a pickle nailed me in the eye, I've eaten multiple batteries just to see what would happen (nothing, lame), and my husband threatened to divorce me because I called Taylor swift "that lady from Cats" This leads to me getting to complain that people keep interrupting my lunch break to fix their poo poo because they need "the pickle eye guy" to fix their stupid problems for them. I've managed to accidentally stumble into the surly dipshit miracle worker janitor archetype and honestly it rules I can say and do whatever I want and people find it charming
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Danaru posted:This leads to me getting to complain that people keep interrupting my lunch break to fix their poo poo because they need "the pickle eye guy" to fix their stupid problems for them. I've managed to accidentally stumble into the surly dipshit miracle worker janitor archetype and honestly it rules I can say and do whatever I want and people find it charming
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Danaru posted:I've eaten multiple batteries just to see what would happen 
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Did you have like a sampling tray, working your way up from watch battery up to D?
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Brawnfire posted:Did you have like a sampling tray, working your way up from watch battery up to D? Nah, I ate a watch battery when I was a dumb kid, a triple A as a bored teen, then another triple a like a year ago. Maybe it needs to be a 9 volt before it does anything
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Cleretic posted:The actual answer to that is actually the 'Let People Enjoy Things' comic, because it's frequently used to stomp all over legitimate criticism and discussion.
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Danaru posted:Nah, I ate a watch battery when I was a dumb kid, a triple A as a bored teen, then another triple a like a year ago. Maybe it needs to be a 9 volt before it does anything  the dumb kid and the teen i can understand but i need a real explanation for the one a year ago
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Okay it was in a package of vienna sausages I'd opened, I was trying to eat around it but you know target fixation
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Honestly all I remember is thinking "actually that was really loving stupid I shouldn't have done that" afterwards, then forgetting for a week until I realized I don't remember making GBS threads out a battery. I wasn't paying close attention though E: VVVV not yet, waiting for the funniest possible time to drop that tidbit Danaru has a new favorite as of 16:41 on Nov 16, 2021 |
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Danaru posted:My coworkers all think I'm a genius Do they know about the batteries?
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How it started: https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1457692536714063875 How it's going: https://twitter.com/RhiannonDauster/status/1460416254980861955
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Mak0rz posted:Do they know about the batteries? Please try to get alex jones' audience to eat batteries instead of brain foss plus.
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Not bothering to screencap because Yglesias doesn't delete his idiocy. https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1460631944941785104 https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1460633533056262150
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Danaru posted:Nah, I ate a watch battery when I was a dumb kid, a triple A as a bored teen, then another triple a like a year ago. Maybe it needs to be a 9 volt before it does anything just remember, you gotta give
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Danaru posted:My coworkers all think I'm a genius because I'm really good at problem solving, so whenever a situation arises I'm usually the first one to come up with a plan This is rad as hell. I would absolutely drink pickle brine with you.
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OPAONI posted:hell yeah lets be dumbasses forever 
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Whose the idiot? It's a parody article about, I assume, University of Austin, that clearly identifies it as a parody. This is also definitely Bari Weiss' view on both free speech and BDS.
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You didn't know the Virgin Mary regularly sat for portraits 14-16 hundred years after her death?
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Getting into a debate with historical jesus people by believing in jesus but not history
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I heard somewhere the theory that most people assume they're slightly above average in intelligence. And honestly, that seems to explain a lot. I think I don't quite believe in people being smarter than other people. There's so many ways of being smart. There's problem solving, or memory, or spatial reasoning, or emotional intelligence, or strong analytic skills. You might be naturally stronger at some of them and weaker at others, but they're all important ways of thinking. Like, I have a head for trivia and can pick apart meaning in things, but I'm also constantly tripping over my own feet and if you ask me to make something halfway complicated in three dimensions it will be a disaster. I want to be able to do carpentry, but my brain just does not work that way. I have a very ugly wooden spoon that is testament to my willingness to try, though.
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RoboRodent posted:I heard somewhere the theory that most people assume they're slightly above average in intelligence. And honestly, that seems to explain a lot. Unfortunately very few of us live in Lake Wobegon
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I have no idea where I am compared to the "average" person in terms of intelligence, but I've definitely met people dumber than me.
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Being like "I don't get being smart, I'm like the dumbest guy in town, a real bonehead" all the time isn't humility or honesty, it's depression
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People generally assume that their intelligence is closer to average than it is. That's largely (and possibly wholly) explained by regression toward the mean.
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Heath posted:Being like "I don't get being smart, I'm like the dumbest guy in town, a real bonehead" all the time isn't humility or honesty, it's depression Don't get me wrong, I'm good at some things. Hell I recently got hired on the spot to do maintenance on planes which, if you don't know, like to plummet out of the sky or explode on the spot if you get complacent or don't know exactly what you're doing. I speak three languages fluently and more badly. But I also go crosseyed at tenth-grade math and can't draw a cube. I can't comprehend feeling like you're just "smarter" than the average person. What the gently caress does "smart" even mean? And I get the same thing from other people. "Woah, you speak french? You're so smart, I took four years and can't understand a word!" Yeah, I didn't try, I just have french parents. That doesn't just give me +5 to Language (french), it makes languages 3+ way easier because I have a reference point.
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"I'm the 2nd trombone in that band where the lead singer pissed on a guy on stage"
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Douche Wolf 89 posted:"I'm the 2nd trombone in that band where the lead singer pissed on a guy on stage" That's like half the bands I can think of you need to be more specific
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