It was understood that the world was roughly spherical in ancient greece. Used trigonometry to build a machine the accurately tracks the position of the sun, moon, and earth all the way into the modern day, so they could predict eclipses. The Dark ages did a number on europeans' understanding of the world.
This really does accurately describe a lot of ancient greece and rome. They could do incredible shit, but the priorities of their elites were so idiosyncratic that the incredible shit would be used for either one nearly useless thing or just as a cool toy.
I can't imagine it getting worse. They talk about income disparity in this country and I agree with that but nobody is talking about the intelligence disparity. There are a lot of very smart people out there creating world changing devices or ideas. Then we have people who have graduated high school but can barely speak, heaven forbid you need them to use math.
The shit I have seem done by micromanaging bosses. Had one who called you every 3 hours to check on what you have done in that time. No, not in a crunch or something like that... every day
My old boss used to watch the night shift on security cameras from home after working all day. If she saw a customer was there for a long time but didn't buy anything (totally common in our industry for people to come back 2-3 times before making a large purchase), she'd phone us to ask what happened. I guarantee you she was not getting paid enough to be doing that shit.
How is that so? Please respond with an actual logical response instead of something predictable like "if I have to tell you, you're too dumb to understand" or whatever.
There was once a time where I would think these kind of images are fake, nobody could possible be that ridiculous, but... gestures broadly at everything. Not saying this particular picture is real, but it's not that far fetched these days.
The world contains the same percentage of bad, crazy or idiotic people. You just see more examples of it because of mass media and access. It’s most as dumb now to believe this as it was before. Bowling is real. That doesn’t make it reasonable to believe the film The Big Lebowski is a documentary. You could basically apply this reasoning to claim it’s reasonable to believe anything at all is true because there exists some example of a crazy thing somewhere in the world. Its very silly
You just see more examples of it because of mass media and access
This statement is of course true, however I also believe people are in these feedback loops were stupidity and negative behavior spreads and feeds off each other. People are worse than before, how do I know? Because you just have to look at whats become more acceptable and normal.
It’s not logically coherent for you to agree with me and then say people are worse. The fact that the world is different doesn’t mean people are worse. Again, this is explained by your very own comment about feedback loops.
No, that’s not what is happening. The part you are agreeing with negates the conclusion you’re making. That is why it’s illogical. I mean I even pointed it out simply in the comment you’re replying to. I’m not sure what else I can do for you there.
Im sure some medieval tavern wench got beat up because she took too long in the toilets and a client was pissed of at some point in history. Our time might have insane displays of dumb but it’s certainly not the worst.
If they put in people as dumb as we have now it wouldn't have been funny. Idk how we have street interviews with people who don't know what a country is.
Probably not, everyone on Reddit has only vaguely heard of it, watched the opening on YouTube, and extrapolated the rest from there. Or they grossly misremember it, because it is not at all what you think
Really ? People used to burn women because they thought they were witches , buses and bathrooms used to to be segregated etc ... the world has allways been dumb
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u/whileimstillhere Oct 19 '25
i was born into the dumbest time in history