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Holy hell "unvaccinated" is trending on twitter and my god what an epic shit show of stupidity is festering over there.
@aebrockwell @freemo Ha, I stay away from that topic. The great thing about being retired is that I don't have to wrangle something out of stupid people. :)
@aebrockwell @freemo At the old company, I was on a group to prevent the 'Great 2000 turnover Disaster'. I looked quickly at all our systems and said in the first meeting - "Nothing is going to happen!' I was kicked out by the stupid people, who had a great party with that, and nothing happened.
Reminds me of this #demotivator poster: IDIOCY
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
https://despair.com/products/idiocy
@pj @aebrockwell @freemo I think the poster would be better, if they weren’t wearing parachutes. :)
@pj @aebrockwell @hasmis @freemo
Or in the case of Elon Musk stupidity in a group of one.
Actually from a fedi viewpoint he is a ‘useful idiot’
@zleap @pj @aebrockwell @freemo OMG, this is a nested thread. Brain turning off for the day…
@Xna_NaJu @pj @aebrockwell @hasmis @freemo
It's funny that the exact same term is used with the opposite meaning by other people.
@hasmis @freemo There's an excellent (1976) essay by a guy named Carlo Cipolla on the general topic of stupidity. You may already have seen it. If not, it's worth checking out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_M._Cipolla
See in particular, his 1st law: "Always and inevitably, everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation."
There's also a nice two-factor classification scheme in there (see the figure in the wikipedia article).