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[–] FarceMultiplier@lemmy.ca 232 points 2 years ago (6 children)

When stupid people think their opinions are as good as opinions from experts, the world edges closer to extinction.

[–] brygphilomena@lemmy.world 85 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'

- Isaac Asimov

[–] LemmysMum@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Or more succinctly; don't conflate your ignorance with someone else's knowledge.

[–] 1847953620@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Lemmy's mum has got it going on, she's all I want and I've waited for so long

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The lesson to be learned here is that shitposting doesn't just happen online.

This person is almost certainly on a wind up.

[–] HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

It's from Viz; their letters section is basically The Onion

[–] LemmysMum@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago
[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 3 points 2 years ago

This was a while ago. Now they are not ashamed anymore, to weaponize their ignorance.

[–] SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 59 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Obviously… since it’s AC power it doesn’t matter what direction the powers going.

Some people just don’t know how stupid they sound…

[–] funnystuff97@lemmy.world 38 points 2 years ago (2 children)

That's not how that works, moron. Wind turbines only spin one way (see image above), so they clearly generate DC. Obviously, to convert it to AC, there are little hampsters in wheels switching the direction of the electricity back and forth.

Idiot.

[–] _cnt0@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Obviously, to convert it to AC, there are little hampsters in wheels switching the direction of the electricity back and forth.

Idiot.

Nice way to display your own stupidity. Everyone knows hamsters have fallen out of fashion for that like a hundred years ago. Gerbils is where it's at!

Mongrel.

[–] FlihpFlorp@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Way to tell us how dated you are

It’s common knowledge that stink energy from ferrets is the future

[–] _cnt0@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

Pft! You kids and your new-fangled mumbo jumbo. GET OFF MY LAWN!

[–] SuckMyWang@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

You should sell your idea to Adrian Newth

[–] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

If it's just AC power what am I gonna do with all my other gadgets? Can I make the AC blow into my fridge and keep my food cold?

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

you'll have to take into account that this comes from the UK, where "The people in this country have had enough of experts"

[–] SilentFury@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

it's the britain that made brexit happen, of course it's next level stupid.

spoilers : it's been getting worse since, I escaped in 2018

[–] SilentFury@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

😬😬 sorry my dude, hope your future is better wherever you ended up.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (3 children)

No chance this was satire from a hilarious person?

[–] Flibbertigibbet@lemmy.world 28 points 2 years ago

The hilarious thing is, this letter is absolutely intended humourously. It's from the comic Viz, and the "Letterbocks" section regularly contains jokes and letters mocking the letters sent into newspapers.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Maybe attempted satire, but definitely not from a hilarious person. Once you've met these people in the wild, these jokes stop being funny.

[–] SuckMyWang@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

They’re letters arranged in a sentence and people assume you can here the emotive voice in their head when they wrote it. This is why the /s exists. Without it sometimes people can’t tell and rightly so. Not using and /s and thinking you’ve wooshed someone can be ironic

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

I'm invoking Poe's Law. I've met people, family friends, who would flip between Climate Change not being real to Wind Turbines causing Climate Change. The posted image is absolutely possible to have come from a true believer.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern 4 points 2 years ago

That's literally just humans being human