• dudinax@programming.dev
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    5 months ago

    In 2016 he said “I will make all your dreams come true.”

    I thought “He’s really going only for stupid people.” Turns out that was enough.

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      5 months ago

      People like to think that humans as a whole are intelligent.

      The reality is about 80% of us are barely above a dog in intelligence meanwhile the other 20% are desperately holding the other 80% on their shoulders because empathy is a thing for them.

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        5 months ago

        Read “The Marching Morons” by C. M. Kornbluth. The novella that "Idiocracy’ was based on. Much darker than the movie. Much, much darker.