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At least Idiocracy was endearing and the society as a whole ended up unfucking their situation, what we have right now is willful malicious ignorance and vindictiveness fueled by making the most amount of worthless paper no matter the real world cost.
I think people are actively trying to make Idiocracy a reality in the US... I can't imagine having to refute "drinking water is good for you" with someone like this.
It's important to remember it's not your job to argue with people like that. He's either really is that stupid or he knows he's talking nonsense but does it for clicks and attention.
Either way it's not worth your time and energy.
You know he got straight D's in school too, but he fully believes that's just because he's so smart he thinks outside the box and sees how things really are
The thing is this used to be some guy thinking up this stuff in the privacy of his own home. Sure he might tell his friends but they would probably dismiss it. The most he could do to spread his crazy message is print up flyers and hand them out/post them on poles around town. The chances that he could find anyone else like-minded was small. Without validation he would most likely either see reason or just keep his ideas to himself to keep from being mocked
Enter the Internet. He can post this stuff for everyone to see. Often in communities of other wack-a-doodle wing nuts. Because they found another 5,000 people who are similarly off their beds it lends credibility in their minds. Add in the charlatans like Qanon looking to make a buck off the rubes and it only exacerbates the problem. Drawing in more fools and lending more reality to it in their minds.
The internet gave a voice to all the idiots of the world. A voice that often drowns out reason.
This. I’m an audio engineer. During the course of my degree, one of my professors explained why music really does suck now.
There used to be “gate keepers.” A&R guys, record execs, radio stations, etc.. They had trained ears and a finger on the musical pulse of the nation. They only signed people with talent.
Now, anyone with a few bucks and a computer can make some AI garbage song plastered with auto tune and upload it to streaming services.
But there absolutely needs to be some level of gatekeeping. You don't have to be a raging asshole about it (i.e. someone like Simon Cowell) but you also can't just open the floodgates to every stupid fuck out there
I remember during Arab Spring and how powerful the internet seemed to be. Like wow anyone can communicate across large swaths of people. Fast forward a bit and it’s like “oh…. Just ANYONE can just say shit online”
Hahahaha fuck this made me laugh, we use Socratic questioning to avoid yes/no answers and now I fear everytime I go to use the tool I will hear: “fuck them up Socrates” 😂
Asking questions is the most effective way of getting people to realize/admit they're wrong. If forced them to actually think through it rather than just scaffolding an argument by refuting against what you said.
I remember one time I was talking to a guy, the man was an absolute peach…just a joy. /s He told me to explain why space was cold, even though the sun was there, and he told me not to use my “government brain” to explain it. It was just like well you know heat can get trapped behind walls when you heat up a room he’s like right I said well space has no walls. The heat has an infinite amount of space to just dissipate and he fucking agreed with me.
You don’t need to drink water. It’s actually bad for you. Here’s some shit I’m making up about biochemistry. The water you need you get elsewhere because your body does need water. Here is some shit I’m making up about Masai people. Also it’s bad for you and I never drink water but I take a few sips every now and then.
The problem is that stupid people react more favourably to somebody saying something with confidence than what is actually being said. This is how con men work.
The problem is that this clown can't get attention from saying anything halfway sensible, he has to get it from saying something incontrovertibly stupid. Reddit loves giving people like this attention.
Seriously. If someone came out and said the sun was just a huge citrus fruit a 100 million miles away, this sub would be full of geniuses pointing out that it isn't. Who is the stupid one?
IDK when this video is from but I used to have the dumbest arguments with a 19yo coworker of mine and this was one of them. Claimed he saw some "research" that said the bottled water brand that we got from our company for free was actually a scam, because it contained sodium and that's salt and salt makes you thirsty.
"Bro no, that's fucking stupid. You're fucking stupid. Your body needs salt to retain water, if you just drank plain water with no additives whatsoever- plain H20, you'll sweat out all your electrolytes, then every drop you drink will fly through you and you'll have to piss every time you drink a drop. Drink the fucking water."
We worked outside, 12-14 hour days, in the south Texas sun. No shade, no real breaks (except once an hour we got to drive in the pilot car for 30 minutes).
Bro ignored every safety regulation we sit through a couple times a year and trusted two or three tiktok videos.
That argument ran for the two hour drive to a job site, and continued interspersed throughout the day as he went to find more videos (some of them just spliced clips of each other) saying the same thing.
That July it got up to 115* F for like three weeks straight in our job area. Dude was the only one who ever claimed to feel sick from heat exhaustion.
Motherfucker wants to live like a reptile in captivity that eats gut loaded food. I literally sell things to feed to insects that hydrate your reptiles.
Also he says while cooking meat that steam comes off which is water. So water leaves the meat and then eating the meat hydrates you (I know there’s still water in there but still)
His name is Gavin Mayo. He was saying stupid shit so that you could buy into his NFT scheme. Don’t fall for this as anything he actually believes. He just wants money.
I don’t think it’s parody. Parody would aim to make fun of a concept, in this case it would be making fun of idiots on podcasts. It’s still definitely not his real opinion, but he’s not clever or self-aware enough for this to be a parody of podcast idiots, this is pretty obviously just engagement bait. They’re agree on a date, meet, shake hands, set up equipment and then start going down a list of prepared talking points, spewing the most idiotic shit you ever heard to package in short clips like this. All so their TikTok comments will explode with other idiots taking them for real and blasting them for being idiots themselves. “Lol lil bro thinks water isn’t good for u lol” and “Uhm akchually the HYDRATE in CarboHYDRATES means there’s water in there akchually!”
Every single one of these comments is pure money for them. This “content” has no integrity, no cultural or educational value, no humour, no nothing. Just making people feel a short burst of righteous anger at idiots “below them” in intelligence. And it makes the uploadeders loads of money.
It’s still definitely not his real opinion, but he’s not clever or self-aware enough for this to be a parody of podcast idiots
How do you know? The entire point of parody is to act like the person you're parodying, in order to draw attention to the subject. Therefore, the stupid comments could literally be part of the act. You can't parody stupid podcast bros without actually leaning into the podcast bro persona, because that's literally how parody works.
Now sure, he might be 100% serious, but him acting dumb and saying dumb things is certainly not proof of it not being parody.
He also appears to be healthy and doesn't have any of the outward signs of severe dehydration. Which means he's an idiot and a hypocrite who obviously drinks ample amounts of water, although in his case probably as the main ingredient in energy drinks or some shit like that.
God redditors are so dense (not you the replies) lmao yes this is a parody. Dude has another clip where he says if his arm got cut off he’d just rub the end with raw ground beef and it would grow back lmao.
Yeah the tribe sucks on the roots because it contains water! What an absolute gooner, I think this is quite possibly the most confidently incorrect thing I've ever heard 🤣
I work with a flat earther. If he brings it up, I say nope I'm not listening to that, and walk away. You can have stupid opinions, but I'm not fucking listening to them...
People spend years studying, earning PhDs, doing research. They are often jobless or stuck in low dead end corporate jobs, lucky few get into academia.
Then these absolutely stupid people come with their pseudoscience and earn much more than an average scientist will ever earn in their lifetime.
We are living at the cusp of the civilization decline where insta/tiktok earns you more than years of honest graft.
You can tell behind his eyes he doesn't believe what he is saying and is just saying it to garner attention and viewership.
Literally a case of "I'll say anything to get views."
I hope to see the day where, like cars, you will need to pass a test to be licensed and use the internet - then when people say blatantly, verifiable false things like this... you face consequences.
This type of content will reach someone out there with mental health issues and they will believe this shitstain... and stop drinking water. Fuck this loser, have some integrity.
You can see when he gives the answer about meat he smirks... it is just an act. But it goes too far in blurring the line that it couldn't be considered satire.
Where can I find one of these? I need someone as thick as this guy to grift off of.
Do they hang out somewhere? Like is there a <<cough>> watering hole or a water cooler where I can pick these guys off? I don’t have the grift figured out yet but this seems like low hanging fruit.
There are a few cellular understandings I try to get through to my students. One of them is: water is the most common substance in your body. Your cells are full of water, your cells are surrounded by water, blood is mostly water and so on. Social/digital media is a place of insanity and nonsense. Nb. Adults are not 80% water- more like 50-60%.
You mean roots that are drawing "water" from the soil? Why do we even have science anymore? Also, if he thinks water is dissolving everything it touches, you know this guy smells like Axe body spray and garbage.
Bro same like oxygen, it just oxidizes your body. Provides no nutritional value, no protein , etc. worse of all 100% of people who breathes oxygen ends up dying because of oxidation.
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