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L.A. Burn (Audio Only)

🕑 Added 2025-01-11 05:07:09 +0000 UTC

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Alex Isaac

I can see your point, and there are paid bad actors online making people look worse, but if you use social media and engage with others, or read comments sections, overall it's less tolerant and using more simplistic words than ten years ago online. Of course it's not a study, but that's a red herring to deflect from the general direction there political class is.

Alex Isaac

Turns out I was mislead.

Alex Isaac

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2025/jan/14/more-perfect-union/does-a-billionaire-couple-own-almost-all-the-water/

Yakub Da Scientist

Can you elaborate or provide further reading materials please Alex Isaac

Bryan

I think the spirit of the question on gradual dumbness is closer to questions of being an informed civilian regarding things that matter like civic duty, critical thinking and media literacy, stuff jordies advocates for.

Andrew Stanley

See my Christmas is the same menu but the ham is from a pig farm that sells butchered meat direct. Prawns from the seafood shop which gets fresh seafood directly. Who so doing Christmas any other way ?

-thundergolfer-

Flynn effect apparently stopped

Hill Billy

There’s evidence that we’re getting smarter on average. Look up the Flynn Effect

Bryan

Id be surprised to find a book tracking aggregate dumbness as it's not well defined, but we all see it. The IQ measure is designed so that 100 is average, so an empirical measure like that can't capture changes in dumbness. It could be dumbness could be like wealth where it gets concentrated, more people got dumber and elite few got smarter.

Shell

The Xmas ham critique is on point.

-thundergolfer-

I hope you don’t seriously consider your social media feed good evidence. People are very dumb now, yes, but they were also very dumb decades ago. I’m liable to agree, but we should seek real evidence (from books)

Alex Isaac

Just looked up the L.A fires, the water is due to one family who grow one type of plant just like cotton farmers in Australia. And the death toll is too high, but the fires going through the riches properties is nice for once.