• Sas [she/her]@beehaw.org
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    1 hour ago

    Dumb people are not happy most of the time. They’re perpetually angry and afraid because rich people manipulate them to be that way

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    2 hours ago

    Is the truly intelligent thing not to be to recognise when things are out of your control and put them out of your mind

    • orbitz@lemmy.ca
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      49 minutes ago

      Depends on the reaching of the action, even if the event was out of their control but going to impact them, say an invasion or war breaking out at their location it’d be warranted. However in a general sense I agree, it causes undue stress if there’s nothing directly they can change.

      People thinking like that is how we get some people fighting for rights, the current fight may not directly impact them but they can see how it’ll impact things in the near future when more rights are changed. I mostly agree with not adding undue stress but sometimes it can be difficult to know when it’s undue or warranted because it can happen quickly once the ball starts rolling.

  • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Some days it feels like it would be easier to take a ball peen hammer to my prefrontal cortex than deal with the rest of my species.

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      1 hour ago

      Dunno about that, plenty of dumb successful people out there, this world ain’t a fair one.

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    11 hours ago

    Smart enough to realize everything is shit is a real debilitating condition and honestly, one doesn’t haven’t to be very smart to realize that.

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    12 hours ago

    I knew someone like this. Bless her, dumb as a brick but a happy little silly goose, never seen her without a smile on her face.

    We never made fun of her, and was always nice to hang out with in a group. She didn’t get a lot of the things going on in movies so we’d bave to explain, but never detracted to the fun.

    Wish being dumb was more often like that. Instead most dumb people I know are hateful and vitriolic towards things they don’t understand (which is almost everything) making everybody else miserable.

    I try surrounding myself with as many intelligent people as I can, those that don’t rage against things they don’t understand (which is also almost everything).

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      10 hours ago

      Same, I also know a girl like this. Maybe not the sharpest tool in the shed but she’s lovely and I wouldn’t change her for anything. Intelligence isn’t the only positive attribute a person can have. Kindness and generosity are massively important!

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      11 hours ago

      She was smart enough to not let the things she doesn’t understand drag her down. In reality, there’s not one single intelligence.

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        I used to hang out with a different kind of dumb person. He would watch a movie he didn’t understand but thought he did. Once i “flirted” for him with his ex girlfriend over text, because he wanted her back, but most of the time had no idea what she was talking about. She said she saw him today and he had a new haircut. I texted back: yeah they grew over my head (it’s a saying in german that means something is getting too much, but it also is a hair pun.) she laughed and i gave his phone back. He read it and didn’t understand it. Even if I explained it to him, he just didn’t understand what might be funny. So he texted her back: he also shaved his pubes. God bless his soul.

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          So he texted her back: he also shaved his pubes.

          LMAO, I thought that was funny.
          I guess this means I am also a dumb one.

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            Making a clever joke, and then following it up with a completely juvenile joke or dumb observation is also a valid strategy. Shows you can be smart but not aloof.

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    I often also feel this way, although I also look at a lot of voting-aged people in the US and realize that being that dumb usually just means you are angry all the time.