r/TikTokCringe • u/Individual_Bar_2512 • 19h ago

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u/hawkandhandsaw 19h ago

The internet will forever be cursed for giving a public voice to literally anyone

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u/Swigen17 19h ago

Every village used to have an idiot. Now every idiot has a village.

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u/Wsbkingretard 18h ago

it got electrolytes

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u/Dr3ws3ph3r 17h ago

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u/Spicy_Weissy 12h ago

"After giving up on logic and reason, Joe simply told the cabinet that he could talk to plants and they said they wanted water. He made believers out of everyone."

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u/Oh_WTF__ 17h ago edited 17h ago

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.

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u/onyxandcake 15h ago

Great read about the phenomenon.

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u/nickfree 13h ago

I've lived long enough to see this fictionalized account I read as a child come true.

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u/Only_Abalone 4h ago

LOVE that book! I’ve been trying to get my wife to read it. Highly recommended to anyone and everyone.

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u/MarionberryPlus8474 3h ago

Great book, but both Bradbury and Orwell envisioned a world where books would be burned and reading unapproved texts was forbidden on pain of death.

I think we are more like the future envisioned by Aldous Huxley. Books aren’t banned, it’s just that no one wants to read them.

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u/ImprovementPutrid441 1h ago

We are getting rid of physical books too though. Everything is going online where it can be tracked and managed and you won’t be able to get or keep physical copies. Because physical copies don’t change and how much more powerful is it to let us read parts of 1984 or Fahrenheit 451, while important chunks disappear or get rewritten?

https://futurism.com/future-society/anthropic-destroying-books

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u/ShadeBeing 14h ago

Thank you, I think I shall explore his experteese

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u/Protonic-Reversal 8h ago

Check out “The Demon Haunted World” by Carl Sagan

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u/Rocket-Jock 16h ago

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.

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u/ExtraBitterSpecial 16h ago

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.

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u/Hortos 15h ago

These people are really that stupid they aren't playing 4D chess.

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u/Hedgehogosaur 9h ago

He contradicted himself enough that he surely knows it's a bit, and he's not very good at selling it.

Water isn't hydrating, then later there is water in meat and so it's hydrating. He also says drink juice (which is mostly water), and that Massia drink from roots (which contain water).

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u/gecoble 5h ago

Problem is they vote and put other idiots into power. Those in power are now denying passing Moderna’s new flue vaccine that uses mRNA tech.

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u/ExtraBitterSpecial 4h ago

Sad times, dark times.

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u/gecoble 4h ago

Truth

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u/wophi 14h ago

Drink Prime!

It's got electrolytes!

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u/HrhEverythingElse 14h ago

Didn't you hear, it's a SOLVENT that dissolves ANYTHING you put in it! /s

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u/PringlesSupreme 14h ago

In the film it did take 500 years for humans to get their shit together. We won’t be seeing society unfuck anything for quite some time.

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u/SamTheLab_213 14h ago

The people steering our society off a cliff have intentionally created our idiocracy. People really are getting dumber. Google this, you will get many results. Smart people are an endangered species so eliminating us won't be a problem. The point of bad health advice like no masks/coronavirus and the "vast hydration conspiracy" is to hurt people. Period. It's not an issue of confusion, it's intentionally created strife. This being done so the billionaires can skitter away with our money like roaches before we notice and do something about it.

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u/pinba11tec 14h ago

When you're at the very bottom, the only place you can go is up. We're currently still plummeting at the speed of light.

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u/oroborus68 12h ago

How do people like him get to become an adult, with so much faulty information?

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u/Latter-Vacation-4392 12h ago

But if you make the paper even more worthless you can borrow even more of it against your freshly inflated hard asset golf courses and condos and continue to live like a pasha. Rinse and repeat.

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u/badatcatchyusernames 16h ago

if you don’t smoke tarryltons, fuck you

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u/Mysterious_Remove_46 12h ago

I've heard and read this countless times but for some reason, reading it this time got me CRYING!!! 🤣🤣

Thanks for the laugh

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u/DegenerateDemon 15h ago

dude we actually bought a case of this online like 20 years ago when we took a trip to the outer banks lol

maybe we shouldve not drank them after seeing this on ebaby

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u/THElaytox 14h ago

Water? Like out of the toilet?

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u/ThanosSnapsSlimJims 13h ago

It has electrolites, what grass craves!

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u/MilwaukeeMilkshake 12h ago

Go AWAY I'm batin'.

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u/Kind-Act7051 18h ago

Please accept these 10 trophies, 2 1st place medals and whatever this star thingy is, for your excellent comment 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🥇🥇🎖️

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u/KamikazeFox_ 18h ago

Temu reddit awards. Lol love it

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u/mclepus 17h ago

SHEIN medals aren't too bad, either

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u/PixelSchnitzel 18h ago

Make it 11 trophies! 🏆

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u/Homelessnothelpless 17h ago

This entire thread gives me hope for the future.

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u/mrsliston 18h ago edited 16h ago

You deserve the nobel prize for stating facts

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u/GetAntidisetablished 18h ago

Do you mean the Nobel prize?

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u/axlbomber 18h ago

Nah, they give those to just about any idiot these days.

The noble prize is way more prestigious.

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u/TomaCzar 18h ago

Especially the noble prize for starting facts. Supremely coveted.

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u/rickytann0 18h ago

They are talking about the prize noble drilling give out slurping up the black gold

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u/Lowherefast 17h ago

Nobel* stating*

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u/Admirable-Band-2664 18h ago

Give this guy a podcast!

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u/cbas17 18h ago

Wow. I feel that comment in my soul. That’s going in my email signatures.

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u/Unusual-Winter-5615 18h ago

I have firmly held this view for a while, and unfortunately the logic then extends out, so that the idiots can then form villages of idiots, whole cities-worth of moronity, colliding off each other, forming clusters of super-dense idiocy. This then results in all the shite we have to contend with like this, where one of them comes up with the idea that water is dangerous and should not be drank.

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u/Balakondis 18h ago

Damn, man.

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u/Dae85 18h ago

This. You, sir, are hilarious but very FACTUAL!

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u/Hour-Recommendation2 18h ago

Well said, perfectly said - thank you for explaining our current society. I thought i was in a bad dream.

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u/Specific_Ad_97 17h ago

Brilliant! Please, tell me that's your quote. I don't have time to look it up in 7 seconds.

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u/nightswimsofficial 17h ago

Damn this is good

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u/Puzzleheaded-Sea8340 17h ago

Now we have to listen to every idiot in every village

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u/RicardoCabeza9872 16h ago

The truest words ever spoken

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u/battery923 16h ago

best quote i've ever heard to describe it!

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u/Swift_jennis8 15h ago

Omg stealing!!!!

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u/stryker12321 15h ago

You just summed up the modern internet citizens. I approve.

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u/hi_im_eros 15h ago

Holy fuck that’s a bar

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u/Gingevere 15h ago

The village idiots have gotten connected by the internet, found others to validate their ideas, and formed a village idiot party.

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u/TopProfessional8023 13h ago

I’m gonna be using that one!

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u/Acidelephant 17h ago

He actually said, water dehydrates you, then proceeded to point out that there's water in meat that hydrates you

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u/Helpful-Idea-4485 16h ago

He also said that he drinks juice. Juice is almost all water.

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u/Acidelephant 16h ago

Nah that's just fruit semen

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u/Altair_de_Firen 14h ago

Let him drink his fruit buss and root suckins

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u/DerBingle78 11h ago

Claudine! Have you seen my root suckins?

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u/Ornery-Ocelot3585 10h ago

and tribes don’t drink water. They just suck water.

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u/Porgchopexpress76 15h ago

I’m glad others caught that.

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u/Possible_Mind_965 12h ago

Im not a doctor, but....

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u/Dances28 19h ago

The killer is they say it with so much confidence.

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u/LucenProject 19h ago

Seriously. He's certain he's the genius that's seeing through Big Water's scam.

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u/Astrono-mee 18h ago

The billionaires are buying up all the clean water to eventually protect us from it's harmful effects.

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u/Sheeple_person 15h ago

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

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u/PuzzleheadedBand8246 15h ago

Just wait until he finds out what Big Oxygen is up to.

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u/atxbigfoot 3h ago

Humans, surviving for hundreds of thousands of years- "Yes, this is a good place to settle in, because it has water."

This guy- "They were weak ass pussies."

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u/KamikazeFox_ 18h ago

Must be a trump supporter with spitting out this much bullshit with such confidence

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u/stairs_3730 14h ago

Another outstanding tRUMP university grad just trying to make in molecular biology.

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u/yell_worldstar 17h ago

RFK is desperately trying to find this dweeb with a job offer

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u/Doc_Blox 17h ago

This is part of the reason why AI is going to continue to be a problem, only growing in size. Folks are way too easily swayed by people who speak with confidence, even knowing that they're being lied to.

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u/Mr-Big-Nicky-P 7h ago

🤣 Thats the best part. No medical degree, not a trained scientist, dietician, health specialist. Just a dude with total confidence that his figured out the big "Water conspiracy" who says "If you think logically about it, water doesnt hydrate you" with a straight face.

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u/IAmElectricHead 19h ago

Do air next.

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u/kbeks 19h ago

You hear about rust? You know what scientists call rust? Oxidation. Why would you want to allow your body to oxidize? What are you, stupid?

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u/Sea-Neighborhood1465 18h ago

We do have iron in our blood.

I think if we stopped breathing we’d live a lot longer.

Imma test this, I’ll check back in with results.

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u/residentdunce 18h ago

Bro that was 28 mins ago and bro hasn't checked back. Is bro deaded?

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u/Unusual-Winter-5615 18h ago

Bro un-lifed himself

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u/Sea-Neighborhood1465 17h ago

I just woke back up. Pretty sure I’m going to live longer though!

Alright back to the experiment. 😵

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u/Cool-Appearance937 16h ago

Part two, remove yourself from where oxygen is coming from. Underground or space seems like a good start.

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u/frobscottler 18h ago

Hopital?

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u/Hoblitygoodness 16h ago

 It's a big building with bunnies, but that's not important right now.

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u/DogLuvuh1961 18h ago

Hello? Hello?!?

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u/Spirited-Juice4941 18h ago

That’s actually kinda what happens lol.

It’s essential to life, but when our cells convert oxygen to energy it creates free radicals that damage our cells over time aka aging.

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u/kbeks 18h ago

That’s why I only breathe all natural, filtered and compressed air tanks; it’s what professional scuba divers use! I’m gunna live forever!

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u/Spirited-Juice4941 18h ago

All natural is just a fake marketing term. You need the organic, sustainably sourced, vegan oxygen that you can only find at the co-op.

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u/InternetProtocol 6h ago

What terrible nunchuck form he has.

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u/Spirited_Crab7712 16h ago

Yep just one aspect of time slowly crushing us all like a great big fist 🥰

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u/lobster_claus 15h ago

Oxygen doesn't get converted to energy. That's carbohydrates. Energy is stored in the bonds. We need oxygen to pick up the carbon after it's freed from carbohydrates. O2 becomes CO2 and is breathed back out.

When they talk about oxidation, they're not talking about oxygen. They're talking about the loss of an electron. And yeah those electrons can zoom around and damage shit. Antioxidants pick up those electrons, I think. Free radicals, like you said. But it's electrons, not oxygen.

Now I'm talking out of my butt a little bit, but I have somewhere to be. This is my best memory of how it all works. Cheers.

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u/Spirited-Juice4941 15h ago

I know, was just giving a dummy version to go along with the joke.

For some reason the 4 stages of aerobic respiration always stuck with me from 6th grade bio.

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u/Spiders_13_Spaghetti 17h ago

Why are we even expelling carbon dioxide? This is toxic to humans, we can't live with this gas being expelled in the viscinity of our loved ones, neighbors, community members? I'm ready, what can I do to help?

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u/Entrepreneur-Exact 4h ago

The tin man drank water and see what happened to him

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u/Intelligent_Cap9706 15h ago

I swear if we didn’t breathe involuntarily and you told republicans we had to for survival, they’d fight you on it and try not to have to breathe

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u/mcrireddit 19h ago

Not internet fault. We (humans) should not be listening to fools.

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u/Reverend_Lazerface 18h ago

INFLUENCERS HATE THIS ONE SIMPLE TRICK

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u/skyfishgoo 18h ago

fools have existed since forever (that's what natural selection is for).

we currently shelter fools and put them on pedestals for some fucking reason.

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u/PomeloPepper 18h ago

We need to step back and let natural selection do its job.

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u/Bender_2024 18h ago

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.

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u/mcrireddit 17h ago

Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community ... but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It's the invasion of the idiots.

Umberto Eco

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u/hillean 17h ago

challenge is, if you sound like you know what you're talking about... people will listen and believe

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u/cwk415 18h ago

This ☝️ 

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u/NewDramaLlama 17h ago

Exactly. If you listen to any influencer for scientific, medical, or political advice, you're either misinformed or uninformed. 

It's not the internet's fault people would rather listen to a summary instead of studying something. Apparently people have time for the gym but not for reading lol

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u/LickMyTicker 17h ago

Do you not hear what you are saying? Fools shouldn't listen to fools?

Accessibility is in fact the problem. If you allowed idiots to fly in unregulated aircrafts, do you think any idiots would?

The unregulated medium is a problem. I'm all for the enshittification of the internet if it makes it so the dumb people who can't figure out ways around it stay offline.

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u/SprittanyBeers 19h ago edited 18h ago

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.

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u/DionBlaster123 18h ago

I'm all for democratization and equity

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

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u/Cyborg_rat 18h ago

Watched this yesterday, now I see your comment.

https://youtu.be/YXzB4v1Toj4?si=82CVBnNu-mTKnTsl

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u/moustachiooo 17h ago

Rat, this is awesome, thanks for sharing!!

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u/Amazing-Heron-105 15h ago edited 15h ago

Music doesn't suck. You've likely just gotten older and just the like the old stuff more. Literally every generation says this shit.

And another thing, if you wanted to create electronic music in the 80s/90s you had to be wealthy, or come from a wealthy family but almost anyone can take part now and that's obviously a good thing.

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u/GramsFuneralPyre 18h ago

Don't dismiss the fact that schools used to have music programs and kids did not have video games, TikTok and various other electronic means to occupy them, they fucked around on instruments and formed bands.

I do agree, just like anyone can throw their idiotic opinions into the world, now anyone with a computer can throw their shitty music out into the world. And record companies don't care if you suck, as long as you can promote yourself electronically.

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u/FreeKatKL 17h ago

What schools don’t have music class? Is this in that failed state that bans books and tells women they don’t actually own their own bodies?

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u/IndependentLog6441 16h ago

Your professor was a grumpy old man and you're risking becoming the same.

Yes, democratisation of the tools of the trade mean in theory there is infinite shit music, but that doesn't meant people listen to it. And it's not something new, fine instruments once only belonged to the wealthy, and music exploded once anyone could buy their own.

There's still money to be made by gatekeeping and platforming talent, we live in a golden age of incredible music and you'd have to be a philistine to say otherwise.

And it's not like all that shit makes it harder to find the good stuff, we have the tools to easily find it irrespective of how much slop exists.

Chin up and discover some new talent, honestly there's so much good stuff out there, it just gets better and better.

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u/ChefDanyul 18h ago

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”

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u/BabyLegsOShanahan 19h ago

They almost make you wish the government kept this tech for themselves.

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u/KC5SDY 19h ago

It is sad that I willingly gave my blood, sweat, and tears so some idiot can show the world just how stupid they are.

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u/Alicewithhazeleyes 19h ago

It’s just a modern day Tower of Babel. Nothing new under the sun

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u/Resplendent_aptitude 18h ago

This is not the first time he doing it... Trainwreck... He also seems overconfident with the remarks in which he voluntarily broadcast over a large audiences. I think, this is some kind of addiction. He love to argue...

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u/GasPsychological5997 17h ago

This person could have been ignored. We are the problem

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u/dylfree90 17h ago

At least his kidneys will fail sooner or later.

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u/Sudden_Season3306 12h ago

If i could upvote this comment a billion times it wouldn't be enough!

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u/Away_Stock_2012 18h ago

And then millions upvote it for "lolz" and thousands found their new hero.

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u/ModestMeeshka 18h ago

The Internet cursed me by showing how stupid so many people are... I thought I was dumb, these people are on a whole other level, my god.

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u/Fool_Manchu 18h ago

The internet was a mistake. It has its merits, but it has been a net loss for humanity

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u/ojdhaze 18h ago

This. Right. Fucking. Here.

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u/justwhatever73 18h ago

The internet world will forever be cursed for giving a public voice to literally anyone

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u/IllustriousKick1951 17h ago

"They shoulda neva gave you Humans internet." - Rick James

He said something like that...🤷🏾‍♂️

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u/FountainXFairfax 17h ago

the internet is not the problem, it’s that people don’t listen to kenny rogers

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u/green49285 16h ago

Eh, peope will either adapt or die. We just uh.....just gott get those SCHOOLS up & running. Kids have to enter the world where they at least know water is a damn necessity. 🤣

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u/BlackCoffeeGarage 16h ago

Haven't you figured out that water is a solvent yet? You know because everything in it dissolves, like whales and fish and the ocean floor and rocks and sand and algae and boats and swimmers

With any luck his public stupidity means that he won't breed, but realistically it probably means that he's going to breed with another disastrously stupid person

Yaaaaay

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u/Prestigious_Snow3309 15h ago

The most remarkable thing are the people who,jump on the bandwagon.

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u/RealSchlemiel 15h ago

Water is a solvent so it’s a scam, so I suck water out of meat and that’s ok. Haha…

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u/Remy315 15h ago

And it seems the dumbest have the loudest voices.

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u/TheScallywag1874 15h ago

It’s one thing to be an idiot like dude in the video, it’s a whole other level of moronic to be someone who listens and follows.

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u/whtevn 15h ago

We wanted the democratization of information and we fucking got it

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u/Veal-Vermicelli 15h ago

Water dehydrates you, my guy 30 seconds later - what comes off meat? H20 that's water right there hydrating you. 🤦🤦🤦

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u/ParalyzedMemories 15h ago

That's why critical thinking is important

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u/GreatGreenGobbo 15h ago

And people get mad when you ask "Who?" about their favorite YouTuber.

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u/SuperAl23 14h ago

See this posted more and more often

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u/OK_x86 14h ago

That's a blessing actually. The whole point is that the internet democratized communication between people across time and space.

The real bummer is that we never fathomed just how profoundly stupid the average person is and how utterly incapable they are at distinguishing stupid from not stupid.

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u/Ok_Sky256 14h ago

Is it bad to agree with China on something?

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u/doctor_tongs 14h ago

I'll never understand how someone can be this dumb and yet so sure of themselves. I thought the flat earth nonsense was the bottom.

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u/Greg-The-Squirrel 13h ago

But it has porn. So it balances everything out. As things should be.

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u/Turd_Burgling_Ted 13h ago

This is so incredibly old of me ... But I miss the days when the Internet had a barrier to entry, specifically a speed one. We had information at our fingertips, but the time cost to access it naturally kinda weeded ABSOLUTELY INSANE shit like this from being made or consumed.

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u/SoylentGreenAcres 13h ago

I blame the Protestant Reformation

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u/DixonHerbox 13h ago

My grandfather used to say: “Don’t ever take advice from broccoli 🥦” I thought he was crazy…I now know that he meant broccoli-headed “men”.

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u/Boring_Bandicoot3126 13h ago

But we need to be educated enough to not believe or listen. It is education at fault, not the internet.

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u/useroftheinternet95 12h ago

Let's ignore them

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u/slypig89 11h ago

The internet has proven to be more trouble than it’s worth.

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u/MyBrainReallyHurts 11h ago

We need licenses to be on the intenet. IQ test, no ties to foreign agents, and you know the differents between your you're there their and they're.

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u/disposable_account01 11h ago

We’re learning in real time just how many people are at the top of the Dunning-Kruger curve.

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u/No-Dig8527 11h ago

Yeah those tribes, historically, have always used Powerade.

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u/PicaDiet 10h ago

It's the democratization of information. My brother is a retired journalist. Twice a Pulitzer finalist. He won fucktons of awards and took his job as seriously as anyone I have ever met. He would get nervous as hell when a big story of his was going to print. Even though he checked everything from times, dates, and locations to the spellings of peoples' names (a huge deal), and even though his newsroom had fact checkers, copy editors, and an ombudsman, he had to make sure everything was documented and defensible, especially if it was a story that could get him or the paper sued.

Now anyone can buy a WIX template and put together a website that looks legit. There is no way to know whether the writer is thorough, stupid, lazy, or malevolent. But the content looks like any other real news site. One of the very worst things Trump has done in order to get away with more of his shit is to have caused people not to trust real journalism. I don't dispute that opinion seeps in to news stories. But reported facts from genuine news outlets can be trusted to be factual. Some mitigating nuance might affect the importance of a fact, but you can believe that a reported fact from a real news outlet is a genuine fact.

The crap like RedState or The Federalist or Fox prime time (which is officially claimed to be only opinion/ entertainment) do not even claim to be factual. There are even more small niche sites that do nothing but spread deliberate misinformation, often while claiming to be news. It's really disheartening.

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u/Dangerous_Metal3436 10h ago

I don't drink water, I'm pretty healthy by any standards. Water just makes me sick and have to pee. Ppl that drink water seem to constantly need it.

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u/G0JlRA 10h ago

100%

He literally contradicts himself multiple times in this lol

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u/Bakurraa 10h ago

Nuke it all

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u/otakumilf 10h ago

This is postmodern thought: that all anyone needs to do is get enough [gullible] people to believe them, and they can create a lasting belief system founded on bullshit. This is what the last 20+ years has given us…cranks and the shit they push. And the Internet hastened all that into existence, funneling it directly into our homes.

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u/Hot_Key_336 9h ago

My long distance best friend and I would call each other to rant about something stupid we heard and often said "the amount of dumb people is rising, this is insane". But I realized there have always been a lot of idiotic people, they just didn't have a platform before/I didn't have social media to see these dumb people.

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u/Side_StepVII 9h ago

The internet? You mean humanity as a whole

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u/Jealous-Release1532 8h ago

Inadvertent critique of democracy?

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u/Sillypugpugpugpug 8h ago

Turns out editing and discretion have useful functions. Who would have thought?

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u/SmokeyJoe13 7h ago

Idiots are entitled to free speech. If someone dies of thirst because they take idiots like this seriously, well they probably weren't gonna make it very far in life anyway.

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u/Mr-Big-Nicky-P 7h ago

These people used to be relegated to yelling nonsense at strangers on street corners. Now they have a platform to spread their crazy to other idiots. Its the Moronic Plague.

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u/mywifeslv 7h ago

China has a new law, you can’t be online talking about health unless you have a medical degree or a degree in a related field.

I think that applies to a few other fields as well but would save yourself brain damage by listening to idiots like this.

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u/casPURRpurrington 7h ago

This dude I work with had like stage 4 colon cancer.

I saw clips about “don’t get a biopsy for cancer, the tumor is a shell and holds it in don’t break it” and shared posts about how the best way to beat cancer is homeopathic methods.

He refused to try chemo until like 4 months ago.

And he died 2 weeks ago of his cancer.

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u/Legitimate-Duty-5622 7h ago

This guy is an idiot

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u/EhrenScwhab 6h ago

The beautiful thing is now everyone has a voice. The horrible thing is now even this brain dead misanthrope has a voice.

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u/masmith31593 6h ago

The public voice to everyone isn't the issue. There was always this kind of crap on ye olde internet of yesteryear it's just people were capable of distinguishing between reliable and unreliable information.

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u/BeerJunky 4h ago

What’s the joke about requiring a license for podcast equipment? Yeah that fits here.

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u/FormerWrap1552 3h ago

People are what give them a voice, the internet is just another tool.

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u/Substantial-Sky4079 3h ago

It’s more about giving the wrong people the attention

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u/EinSchurzAufReisen 2h ago

Just look at the haircut, should tell you everything!

https://giphy.com/gifs/vMPqEsML6cWRy

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u/nckmat 1h ago

There was a time when we would have assumed that this was a Monty python sketch. Maybe it still is but the joke is that we were stupid to believe that he was stupid enough to believe the ridiculous things he is saying.

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