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When stupid people think their opinions are as good as opinions from experts, the world edges closer to extinction.
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
The lesson to be learned here is that shitposting doesn’t just happen online.
This person is almost certainly on a wind up.
It’s from Viz; their letters section is basically The Onion
This was a while ago. Now they are not ashamed anymore, to weaponize their ignorance.
you’ll have to take into account that this comes from the UK, where “The people in this country have had enough of experts”
Thats some next level stupid
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
That’s literally just humans being human
If you think this is real, I have some bad news about the overlap between stupid people and yourself.
This is only slightly less dumb than the people that think solar panels take sunlight away from plants.
I mean if the plant is under the solar panel they sure will block the sun.
Which is a great thing in places where the sun would otherwise scorch the earth not letting anything grow.
There are combined projects of “solar panels + grass + sheep”. The grass helps retain water, lowering the temperature under the panel, which increases panel efficiency, and the sheep keep the grass from growing too tall, while feeding themselves.
It also seems like planting this way saves water, since less evaporates. And the farmers have an additional source of income so they are less dependent on the market. There is a good article at the BBC about a farmer being able to grow older, nicer but less desired lemons because of agri pv
Kinda like the chicken/turkey + some sort of profitable tree. I don’t really remember actually but the birds keep things weeded, fertilized, and debugged in a non computery sense.
Hilariously you have to be careful what animals you mix with agrivoltaics. Goats chew the cabling and try to climb onto the solar panels and cattle run up against the structures holding the panels to scratch itches
It was a talking point used to prevent solar panels being installed somewhere by making people think farms not even on the same property would be ruined IIRC
Not nearly as dumb as everyone in this thread who thinks this is real.
People never cease to amaze me.
By that logic, if he’s butchering meat and cutting from a different direction, does it put the meat back on?
Sort of. You also have to hold the knife upside-down.
A good butcher would never cut from the wrong direction, bro. Against the grain.
Well yeah. If you cut the other way, it puts the meat back on.
Shit man I am a top ten expert in an extremely niche area with my work cited thousands of times and I still feel like I don’t know shit and will be in a state of constantly falling behind until I die.
Come on you must know your niche thing. I have confidence issues as well but stuff I have done who knows how many hundreds of times I know how to do.
I try to divide up the unknowns in any project. Knowing the exact point where my knowledge ends and begins again. If I know what I don’t know I can still have confidence in that much.
Imposter syndrome can affect anyone, no matter how experienced or knowledgeable they are.
If you think this person is serious, I have some bad news for you.
Maybe that’s the point? It looks like a lot of people are taking it seriously.
Nah, Mr Smug up there thinks they’re the smart one.
Those reminders are pretty poignant when they hit though.
Like me having to delete this to reply to the correct comment. Oof!
Feels like it should be true… aside from the fact that subsequent studies suggest it is due to poor statistical analysis.
E.g.,
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.840180
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What is that club for?
Lotta smug people in here having a laugh at the obvious satire, but from a technical standpoint this can be a real problem.
Happened to me this AM – had to eat cold bread after it untoasted itself, then get back in bed before my alarm clock unrung. I had stuff to do today
I’m pretty sure that’s against the law and you could be arrested.
That’s against the law and I’m pretty sure you could be arrested (you mean?)
You all know this is irony right? It’s either out of Private Eye or Viz.
The last decade has broken anyone’s ability to separate sarcasm from reality.
A former high school science teacher in NC argued at a public hearing for a solar project that the solar panels would suck up all the energy from the sun and then all of their crops would die.
Science.
Teacher.The fall of the Roman empire will be considered graceful compared to the impending collapse from the weight of our own collective stupidity.
well, if you place the solar panels together, with no gaps, on top of the crops…
Fun fact: https://lemmy.world/comment/5051720
Some places, a little shadow could be good for crops.
Pretty sure it’s Viz.
It’s 100% Letterbocks in Viz.
Definitely Viz dry humour vibes.
Reminds me of KenM
Those reminders are pretty poignant when they hit though. Oof!
His great great great grandad thought the same about water wheels. What if the river started flowing the other way? Did anyone think of that???
You’re one step away from reinventing hydro storage
When I was in high school we got to go on a field trip to a wind farm. They had one stopped on a kinda windy day so they could show us it starting up. Watching the blades rotate on their axis, then seeing this massive turbine slowly start to spin, was so fucking cool.
This is from Viz lol
First TopTip I’ve seen on Lemmy!
This man has a point. It would be much more effective if the wind is always blowing into the turbines. That sounds impossible, but you could simply place the turbine on a car. Whenever driving, there is lots of wind, and it always comes from the front of the car (unless you put the car in reverse, but that is not a state that the car is in for a long time).
/s (although I have had to genuinly explain to people why this does not charge the battery of an electric vehicle).
This is how we know the earth is flat. If it’s round, the earth would spin and the turbines would catch the wind and spin. I’ve tested this extensively by holding pinwheels while spinning in a roller chair until I blow chunks. Since the turbines stop sometimes, it’s clearly a spirit on the edge of the map, blowing until he takes another breath.
I’m telling you, everything about my theory blows.
Next thing he’ll be claiming they are giants and must be killed.
Not so fast. I want to know if he knows about birds fucking with the time trajectory when those turbines aren’t spinning and pushing Earth faster.
It’s my time to shine.
When the wind blows the other way, you are supposed to plug all your appliances in backwards to trick the power grid into going the right direction again. Duh.
I’m only an actress and even I managed to figure it out, who needs butchers for wind turbines anyways.
This man is an intellectual screw Einstein and bloody opiumhimer get this man on the world stage
I mean bro did admit he is only a butcher
Genius
