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https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/14knc6t/got_r4d_for_pirating_someone_elses_john_oliver_so/

Pirates want to stay on Reddit? This is the last group I had expected to have such a reaction, but here we are. Yes, the mod could have worded it better, but these people actually want to stick around on Reddit.

I personally find Lemmy to be a perfectly viable alternative to Reddit for such subs. I wonder about the reasons why these people still don't want to move.

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[–] MrComradeTaco@lemmy.fmhy.ml 80 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

People are dumb bud.. there is, just a lot of plain dumb people out there.

Why? Idk bud, people are dumb just that no more questions about it. People are dumb.

[–] JaymesRS@midwest.social 35 points 1 year ago

Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.

  • George Carlin
[–] zxo@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some days I think "People can't possibly be that dumb, right?" and them I'm let down every time, 'cause they are.

Seems to apply to everything involving people.

[–] notsofunnycomment@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

To not even mention other animals.

[–] Azzu@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's important to note that the default state of people is being dumb. It takes effort, exposure and more qualities/circumstances during a person's early years to not be dumb.

Many people just didn't grow up in an environment that allows that, it's actually a quite specific one that doesn't happen automatically.

And once the early life phase is over, mental plasticity is a lot lower, so very very few people go from "dumb" to "not dumb".

If you want to be less dumb, I can really recommend https://lesswrong.com/rationality