The average person on Lemmy works at a far higher level than the average person in the public. Remember that they have to tell you not to line your baby’s crib with plastic film. They have to tell you that the surface of an oven is hot. It’s all about statistics. Take 10,000 people and some of them are going to do terribly stupid things.
Because of people like Zuck, Musk, and whoever is twisting the YouTube algorithm these days. People are manipulable and they used their considerable power to manipulate young men without futures.
Why are people so stupid, we’re in the information age ffs!
Also in the misinformation age
Of course, it usually takes me a whole 30 seconds to verify news, I guess that’s too much to ask of people.
The human attention span has been eroding ever since the invention of the radio.
Removed by mod
Not the ancient Greeks, but that’s probably because they had parchment and not paper
Actually in the late 1800s people did actually complain about people not being able to use slate anymore since paper was now so much cheaper.
The average person on Lemmy works at a far higher level than the average person in the public. Remember that they have to tell you not to line your baby’s crib with plastic film. They have to tell you that the surface of an oven is hot. It’s all about statistics. Take 10,000 people and some of them are going to do terribly stupid things.
Disinformation even.
Because of people like Zuck, Musk, and whoever is twisting the YouTube algorithm these days. People are manipulable and they used their considerable power to manipulate young men without futures.