• SorryQuick@lemmy.ca
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      2 hours ago

      He’s 80 and spent 6 of then as president. I don’t think you’d fare much better. Why blame a senile man rather than those who put him in place?l

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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      7 hours ago

      when you have a propaganda apparatus on tv, online helping its not hard. plus general mysgoyny and racism goes hand in handle. rather than actual “action plan”.

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      18 hours ago

      Many people are just as stupid as him.

      Our society prioritizes trash like nft startups instead of education

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        8 hours ago

        When I read the comment sections of my local news most of the comments are incoherent rambling like Trump but with more spelling mistakes. Its sad.

      • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world
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        Many don’t really get to hear him unfiltered. Around T1 I was watching Fox and they at best had a text snippet of something he said. Never extra text around the snippet and certainly not the audio. Still many do go and see him live.

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        15 hours ago

        Many are, but many Trump supporters started out smarter than him but they’ve dumbed themselves down to his level in order to continue their support, I guess.

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          15 hours ago

          Some people will do anything to continue to fit in with their group. I don’t think it’s always even a conscious choice.

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      Just look how stupid the average person is. Half of the people are more stupid. Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

      • [object Object]@lemmy.ca
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        16 hours ago

        The last few years have taught me that the difference between stupid and not stupid is oceans wider than I thought.

        I turns out stupid people are closer to what I thought the intelligence of an animal was.

        These people literally don’t think. They basically pattern match and that’s it. There’s no deeper reasoning. There’s no capacity for nuance, no understanding or extension of empathy. They can barely read. If you string the gibberish from an AI they’ll blindly trust that it’s correct above all evidence.

        Meanwhile we’re seeing all these nuanced multi step problem solving behaviours from birds and all animals and even bumblebees…

        • Ack@lemmy.ca
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          I read something from someone on the internet who claimed to work with bear-proof garbage cans and apparently it’s harder than one might expect. There’s some overlap between the smartest bears and the dumbest people.

          I’m sure the bears are more motivated, but still…

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            The quote “There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.” is usually attributed to a Yosemite National Park Ranger taking about the issue with designing bear proof trash cans.

        • TheRedSpade@lemmy.world
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          17 hours ago

          Can’t speak for anyone else, but I was taught that mean, median, and mode are three different types of average.

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              13 hours ago

              Because mean means average. I wouldn’t consider the median or the mode to be an average. Not sure what that commenter means by different “types of average”.

              • lad@programming.dev
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                What they mean is that all three are different kinds of averaging. This is correct, but I don’t think people in general think ‘median’ when they hear ‘average’

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            Considering intelligence/stupidity isn’t defined, it’s a lot to assume that its distribution can be approximated by a Gaussian.