Stupid Is the New Smart

[dimaxion]

"Out of the mouth of Babes" . She is a product of our Tax Dollars  . Do you understand now why I am so disturbed about younguns ? We have Grandchildren . How long  until she has a Star place in Darwin Awards ? Thanx .. 

[SfanGoch]

She has a promising future in the lucrative department store window display mannequin industry. BTW, anybody got two tens for a five?

[Earl Marischal]

I watched that clip and cannot believe anyone could be that stupid. It's a joke, surely?

steve

[Ace-Garageguy]

50 minutes ago, Earl Marischal said:

I watched that clip and cannot believe anyone could be that stupid. It's a joke, surely?

steve

It's not just that one clip. It's rampant, it's everywhere. And it's time to wake up and do something about it.

 

[SfanGoch]

We can take away something positive from this. If it weren't for these stronzos, we wouldn't be able to post stuff like this for entertainment purposes. 

[kitbash1]

7 hours ago, Modeltruckbuilder said:

I'm surprised no one has commented on this. I watched it 3 times trying to figure out how she was able to come up with Jupiter....

Definitely a product of the Public Education system in North America. We have the same type of Dim Witted, Vapid Flakes  in Canada. Hell, our Prime Minister is a great example of this Dim , Simple minded thinking. I weep for the next generation who have to cleanup the mess left by these idiots.

[peteski]

On 1/13/2018 at 7:22 PM, kitbash1 said:

Definitely a product of the Public Education system in North America. We have the same type of Dim Witted, Vapid Flakes  in Canada. Hell, our Prime Minister is a great example of this Dim , Simple minded thinking. I weep for the next generation who have to cleanup the mess left by these idiots.

And what in the world makes you think that the next generation will be any smarter than this one?  It seems like we are going on the opposite direction.

[Mike999]

Amazing story of stupidity recently covered on the ID Channel.  Two criminal masterminds rented a car in Missouri, for a trip to Florida where they would commit a murder for hire.

So sitting in MO, they entered the victim's FL street address into the rental car GPS.  Sure enough, the GPS took them right to her door.  They checked out the house, then drove to the nearest Wal-Mart.  Where they bought  "flushable wet wipes, 30 gallon trash bags, a lock pick set, black shoes, water shoes and black towels."  They bought all that stuff in full view of the store security cameras, not bothering with caps or any other disguises.

They went to the beach for a while to catch some rays, then broke into the victim's home, waited for her to return, and beat her to death with a hammer. 

After the killing, they programmed the return trip to MO into the GPS.  Then they returned the rental car...with all the GPS data intact.

The real punch line:  one of the killers was known locally as a computer whiz and IT specialist.  But I guess he never learned how a GPS works.

 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/docs-husband-plotted-murder-of-florida-doctor-killed-with-hammer/

[High octane]

2 hours ago, Mike999 said:

Amazing story of stupidity recently covered on the ID Channel.  Two criminal masterminds rented a car in Missouri, for a trip to Florida where they would commit a murder for hire.

So sitting in MO, they entered the victim's FL street address into the rental car GPS.  Sure enough, the GPS took them right to her door.  They checked out the house, then drove to the nearest Wal-Mart.  Where they bought  "flushable wet wipes, 30 gallon trash bags, a lock pick set, black shoes, water shoes and black towels."  They bought all that stuff in full view of the store security cameras, not bothering with caps or any other disguises.

They went to the beach for a while to catch some rays, then broke into the victim's home, waited for her to return, and beat her to death with a hammer. 

After the killing, they programmed the return trip to MO into the GPS.  Then they returned the rental car...with all the GPS data intact.

The real punch line:  one of the killers was known locally as a computer whiz and IT specialist.  But I guess he never learned how a GPS works.

 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/docs-husband-plotted-murder-of-florida-doctor-killed-with-hammer/

I don't use GPS either as I've been using MAP since the mid 60's and it still works.

[Snake45]

I just ran across this on another website, thought it would fit here:

---Carlo Maria Cipolla, an economic historian, is famous for his essays about human stupidity, such as "The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity". He viewed stupid people as a group, more powerful by far than major organizations such as the Mafia and the industrial complex, which without regulations, leaders or manifesto nonetheless manages to operate to great effect and with incredible coordination.

These are Cipolla's five fundamental laws of stupidity:

1. Always and inevitably each of us underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.
2. The probability that a given person is stupid is independent of any other characteristic possessed by that person.
3. A person is stupid if they cause damage to another person or group of people without experiencing personal gain, or even worse causing damage to themselves in the process.
4. Non-stupid people always underestimate the harmful potential of stupid people; they constantly forget that at any time anywhere, and in any circumstance, dealing with or associating themselves with stupid individuals invariably constitutes a costly error.
5. A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person there is.

[Deano]

3 hours ago, Mike999 said:

Amazing story of stupidity recently covered on the ID Channel.  Two criminal masterminds rented a car in Missouri, for a trip to Florida where they would commit a murder for hire.

So sitting in MO, they entered the victim's FL street address into the rental car GPS.  Sure enough, the GPS took them right to her door.  They checked out the house, then drove to the nearest Wal-Mart.  Where they bought  "flushable wet wipes, 30 gallon trash bags, a lock pick set, black shoes, water shoes and black towels."  They bought all that stuff in full view of the store security cameras, not bothering with caps or any other disguises.

Wait ... WalMart sells lock picks???

 

[Mike999]

1 hour ago, Snake45 said:

-Carlo Maria Cipolla, an economic historian, is famous for his essays about human stupidity, such as "The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity...

James F. Welles, PhD, has written 2 very entertaining books on that subject:  "The Story of Stupidity: A History of Western Idiocy from the Days of Greece to the Moment You Saw This Book" and "Understanding Stupidity."

Reviewing "The Story of Stupidity" on Amazon, one reader wrote that the book "leaves one astounded that the human race remains at the top of the food chain."

https://www.amazon.com/Story-Stupidity-History-Western-Present/dp/0961772913

https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Stupidity-James-F-Welles/dp/0961772905

And I didn't know Wal-Mart sold lock picks either.

[Mark]

3 hours ago, Deano said:

Wait ... WalMart sells lock picks???

 

It'd be ironic if they'd shoplifted the lock picks...

[Snake45]

9 hours ago, Mike999 said:

Amazing story of stupidity recently covered on the ID Channel.  Two criminal masterminds rented a car in Missouri, for a trip to Florida where they would commit a murder for hire.

So sitting in MO, they entered the victim's FL street address into the rental car GPS.  Sure enough, the GPS took them right to her door.  They checked out the house, then drove to the nearest Wal-Mart.  Where they bought  "flushable wet wipes, 30 gallon trash bags, a lock pick set, black shoes, water shoes and black towels."  They bought all that stuff in full view of the store security cameras, not bothering with caps or any other disguises.

They went to the beach for a while to catch some rays, then broke into the victim's home, waited for her to return, and beat her to death with a hammer. 

After the killing, they programmed the return trip to MO into the GPS.  Then they returned the rental car...with all the GPS data intact.

The real punch line:  one of the killers was known locally as a computer whiz and IT specialist.  But I guess he never learned how a GPS works.

 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/docs-husband-plotted-murder-of-florida-doctor-killed-with-hammer/

Almost sounds like an Onion story. Is there a more reliable source than CBS "News"? 

[Tom Geiger]

6 hours ago, Snake45 said:

These are Cipolla's five fundamental laws of stupidity:

1. Always and inevitably each of us underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.
2. The probability that a given person is stupid is independent of any other characteristic possessed by that person.
3. A person is stupid if they cause damage to another person or group of people without experiencing personal gain, or even worse causing damage to themselves in the process.
4. Non-stupid people always underestimate the harmful potential of stupid people; they constantly forget that at any time anywhere, and in any circumstance, dealing with or associating themselves with stupid individuals invariably constitutes a costly error.
5. A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person there is.

6. Stupid people don't know they are stupid.  That's why they are stupid.

[Ace-Garageguy]

33 minutes ago, Tom Geiger said:

6. Stupid people don't know they are stupid.  That's why they are stupid.

Which is a pretty good working definition of the Dunning-Kruger effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect

Edited January 16, 2018 by Ace-Garageguy

[Mike999]

55 minutes ago, Snake45 said:

Almost sounds like an Onion story. Is there a more reliable source than CBS "News"? 

That story had a lot of weirdness in it, I could only hit the highlights.  It was covered extensively by local media in Florida and the national press.  Just do a search on "Teresa Sievers murder."

I learn all kinds of useful stuff from the true-crime shows, and a lot of it could have come from The Onion.  For example, on a recent "Snapped" episode, I learned that you should make sure nobody is watching when you toss your spouse's dismembered torso into a Dumpster at 5 AM.  That was Valerie Pape of Scottsdale, AZ.  Who sort of stood out, even at 5 AM.  She was wearing designer clothes and high heels, and hauled the torso out of the...er...trunk of her Jaguar.

[Ace-Garageguy]

18 minutes ago, Mike999 said:

...and hauled the torso out of the...er...trunk of her Jaguar.

I see what you did there... 

[kitbash1]

18 hours ago, peteski said:

And what in the world makes you think that the next generation will be any smarter than this one?  It seems like we are going on the opposite direction.

Because I have grandchildren who are nothing like the generation before them. Even my own two kids are better equipped then the kids in those videos. That's what gives me hope.    

[Snake45]

2 hours ago, Mike999 said:

That story had a lot of weirdness in it, I could only hit the highlights.  It was covered extensively by local media in Florida and the national press.  Just do a search on "Teresa Sievers murder."

I learn all kinds of useful stuff from the true-crime shows, and a lot of it could have come from The Onion.  For example, on a recent "Snapped" episode, I learned that you should make sure nobody is watching when you toss your spouse's dismembered torso into a Dumpster at 5 AM.  That was Valerie Pape of Scottsdale, AZ.  Who sort of stood out, even at 5 AM.  She was wearing designer clothes and high heels, and hauled the torso out of the...er...trunk of her Jaguar.

I didn't know Jaguars had trunks. I thought they had "boots." 

[peteski]

2 hours ago, kitbash1 said:

Because I have grandchildren who are nothing like the generation before them. Even my own two kids are better equipped then the kids in those videos. That's what gives me hope.    

I think that they are in the minority - the general population (and their offspring) seem to still be going in the wrong direction.

[Ace-Garageguy]

32 minutes ago, peteski said:

I think that they are in the minority - the general population (and their offspring) seem to still be going in the wrong direction.

"These are dangerous times. Never have so many people had so much access to so much knowledge and yet have been so resistant to learning anything. In the United States and other developed nations, otherwise intelligent people denigrate intellectual achievement and reject the advice of experts. Not only do increasing numbers of lay people lack basic knowledge, they reject fundamental rules of evidence and refuse to learn how to make a logical argument. In doing so, they risk throwing away centuries of accumulated knowledge and undermining the practices and habits that allow us to develop new knowledge."

FROM:  https://www.thedailybeast.com/americas-cult-of-ignorance

[Mike999]

The Jaguar had to have a trunk to make the joke work. :-P

Not a joke...

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time - when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...

The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.”

Carl Sagan in one of my favorite books, "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark ."  He wrote that book in 1996.

[Snake45]

21 minutes ago, Mike999 said:

The Jaguar had to have a trunk to make the joke work. :-P

Not a joke...

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time - when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...

The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.”

Carl Sagan in one of my favorite books, "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark ."  He wrote that book in 1996.

I remember an interview on 60 Minutes 20 or 25 years ago, where somebody said, "If we don't do something to retain our manufacturing base, in about 20 years we're all going to be sitting around selling insurance to each other."

As the two most common images on my TV these days seem to be Flo and that annoying little lizard, I suspect he was right.

[espo]

47 minutes ago, Mike999 said:

The Jaguar had to have a trunk to make the joke work. :-P

Not a joke...

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time - when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...

The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.”

Carl Sagan in one of my favorite books, "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark ."  He wrote that book in 1996.

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