I’m under the impression that Google deliberately hinders their YouTube platform just because you have ad-blockers. With videos taking time to buffer, seems to signal this, because it almost makes up nearly the amount of time for when ads take if you had to watch them. So since you’re ad-blocking and they don’t like that, they’ll make your experience miserable until you want to pay their service or not use ad-block.
That most people are much dumber than they initially appear to be. “Average intelligence” isn’t enough to form a basic understanding of the world.
I distinctly remember the day I lost faith in educated people.
I do Workplace Safety and (waste) compliance. That day, I was at a rent-a-lab, telling people about how stuff works regarding their chemicals. Now, I have a doctorate in chemistry, but that room had more degrees than people by a pretty good margin.
I had to go over basic concepts like “the hand washing sink is not for rinsing chemicals. No, not even if you run the tap a lot” and “yes, you can run a waterhose down the special disposal sink, but it costs your company thousands of euros” several times.
Or “yes, if you scoop a little bit of [hazardous waste] into each bag of used napkins, you are technically below the level of it being a bag full of hazardous waste, but you’re also willingly and intentionally commiting ecological crimes and slowly murdering garbage workers. Yes, if I signed off on it, nobody would know, and that would make me an accomplice AND make this a conspiracy, so I suggest we don’t do things that will get me fined roughly all worldly possessions”.
Most damning was “no, these barrels aren’t magic. Anything you put in a barrel will stay in the barrel. Yes it says “disposal”, but they’re loose barrels. They don’t empty till someone empties them. Like a bucket”.
Actually, MOST damning was “no you can’t keep food in the lab. Not even in the special food-only fume hood”. But that was at a different place.
I think a lot of that stems from most peoples’ lack of innate curiosity about the world. I used to think most people wanted to know how things work so they have a stronger understanding of the world. Now? No so much.
me to until, i found out online spaces created safe space for pseudoscience, pseudointellectualism too. even people in stems fall into pseudoscience quite often.
But you aren’t one of the dumb people right?
I’m a fucking ignorant moron on the vast majority of topics.
A dumb person will happily talk about everything as if they understand it. A smart person will shut about the things they don’t understand and be open to being educated.
Not OP but I can fully accept I’m a roving idiot ¯\(ツ)/¯
One time I tried pump my fuel and it kept stopping right away. I moved pumps and the same thing. I was looking down the hole to see if anything was blocking it, I went inside to inform the attendant their pumps might be malfunctioning. Then I realized, the night prior I had already filled up. I’m a dumbass.
To my credit, however; it is my routine to fill up every morning (I drive courier) A night fill up was off routine. Still a dumbass.
You may be overestimating how literate the average person is.
Everyone is ignorant in their own way and there is not a person alive you can’t learn something from.
That doesn’t mean there are no differences in people’s intelligence.
Then please don’t let me interrupt the dick measuring.
Yep, dicks are very diverse too.
Except for babies.
Yeah, babies are fucking stupid… absolutely the dumbest. Constantly trying to kill themselves. No self preservation whatsoever.
Are you a new dad that was recently on “keeping it alive” duty? :D
Honestly I was just thinking about that and I think you could learn a thing or two from a baby. They’re very in touch with their emotions.
I’m the smortest! I know how to do things