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We live in a world where the average person, I'm sorry to say, gets stupider and stupider. By which I mean, they probably have relatively normal intelligence, but their native ability has been completely overridden by the brainwashing of the educational system and the brainwashing of our liberal culture. What would be otherwise normal people turned into functional idiots.
1 posted on 05/22/2026 10:39:05 AM PDT by Merrick
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So, here’s an example. By all appearances, not only is this guy this unaware of the world around him, but it would appear the person taking the images he is rebroadcasting is as clueless as he is. How did we get here?

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fiN3kyMZt7A


2 posted on 05/22/2026 10:40:19 AM PDT by Merrick (It's a car - that runs on water, man!)
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To: Merrick

AI the Artificial Idiot ?


3 posted on 05/22/2026 10:40:34 AM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: Merrick

The requirement to post the actual title, is to save on band usage, of multiple posts from the same source. Because band usage costs money.


4 posted on 05/22/2026 10:43:00 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Merrick

Yeah but, if you get a public school education, you can define what every letter in LGBTQ.... stands for, and while you might not be able to balance your check book (what’s a checkbook anyway? derp) you can calculate how many pedestrians you need to run over in GTA before you can level up your upgrades.


7 posted on 05/22/2026 10:45:05 AM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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To: Merrick
George Carlin

11 posted on 05/22/2026 10:47:31 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (TDS -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: Merrick

Unrelated, but I recently saw a “Man-in-the-street” interview where the guy had a map of the world with no colors or place names. Just outlines of countries. He found a woman and pointed to a very small country just East of the Indian subcontinent. This little country had been colored red for the interview. Nothing was labeled (it was Bangladesh). The woman thought about it and guessed that the country was “Africa”.

I have also seen college students in Florida interviewed and asked to name the ocean which is visible off the coast of Florida. One student was baffled — “It doesn’t have a name. It’s just The Ocean.”


12 posted on 05/22/2026 10:49:47 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: Merrick

Do you believe everything you read or hear on the internet?

Why do you believe everything you read or hear from AI? They are the same.


14 posted on 05/22/2026 10:52:27 AM PDT by Rad_J
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To: Merrick

I should add, this one guy in particular is, unbeknownst to me having happened on this video randomly earlier today, a really popular YouTuber lots of patreons and over 400K followers - I checked out a few of his videos. A true failure of the educational system who is WILDLY popular with his peers.

THAT’S what scares me.


16 posted on 05/22/2026 10:56:14 AM PDT by Merrick (It's a car - that runs on water, man!)
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To: Merrick
The only AI I use...


23 posted on 05/22/2026 11:17:38 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it! I want lower taxes.)
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To: Merrick

It took me a while to find it, but here’s yet more examples of failure of the educational system.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c6HsiixFS8


24 posted on 05/22/2026 11:17:52 AM PDT by Merrick (It's a car - that runs on water, man!)
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“”””OK - I got one yanked a while back””””

Enough with these Boebert claims.


28 posted on 05/22/2026 11:34:48 AM PDT by ansel12
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To: Merrick

EMBRACE AI-—FIND OUT THAT SOON YOUR PROPERTY HAS NO WATER OR POWER. YOUR EQUITY JUST PLUMMETED TO ZERO.


29 posted on 05/22/2026 11:36:28 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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"It's OFFICIAL! We are now too stupid and need to be saved by AI!"

Woe be unto those who forget how to heal the devices that do their thinking for them.
38 posted on 05/22/2026 12:18:20 PM PDT by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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To: Merrick

I’m a 73 year old boomer.
I:m a 1st generation GEEK! Punch cards, metal perforated tape programming, weather tickertape forecast symbology, “fortran”.
As I evolved from IBM to Univac 1050-ii(that means two,ilhan), to HPIB electronic test equipment benches, to compaq desk weights, to Thinkpads, to government leased network systems.

I’m doing just fine without an electronic helper, idea stealer, grammatician, and what else the developer thinks you cannot do by yourself, except for necessary bathroom functions.


40 posted on 05/22/2026 12:25:57 PM PDT by Terry L Smith
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