Is the internetz making people stupider?

[OverVolt]

Link to the guy who barks 80 hours a day?

80 hours in a day? If he can bend time to his will like that, it's probably not barking, but the language of the universe itself; our poor, mortal minds can only comprehend the barest glimmer of its true meaning.

Oh gawd the lulz.

Things you're doing wrong every day: everything.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlA_YXDm9bg

I generally dislike lifehack articles as well.

 

[John Connor]

FWIW artificial butter flavoring is bad for your lungs.

This^ I'm unsubscribing before climate change shows up. :twisted:

 

[OverVolt]

This^ I'm unsubscribing before climate change shows up. :twisted:

Its called popcorn lung

 

[DrPizza]

Müller was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his discovery of the high efficiency of DDT as a contact poison against several arthropods" in 1948.

You guys are retarded with the science is always correct, all the time worship.

DDT is still being used and its use is still promoted by the World Health Organization for areas such as Sub-Saharan Africa where malaria is killing millions of people. The big problem with its use was how irresponsibly it had been being used. I'm over-simplifying it, but there are still some people calling for its ban in Africa and Asia because "side effects." It's akin to banning any medicine that has some bad side effects. Like medicine with side effects, if it's possible to use one with fewer side effects, those should be turned to first. But often, there isn't a choice. Well there is - many people die from malaria, or you use DDT. That's the choice.

 

[HeXen]

A bit arrogant to say such a generalized statement that people are stupid/dumb...etc, without including yourself. Because everyone not only makes mistakes but does and says things that others would consider dumb or stupid.
Comical how everyone here just thinks they are so much smarter than someone else that simply made an error, said or did something stupid at any particular time. Even when driving, calling other drivers dumb negating the fact that you likely performed a maneuver that pissed someone else off calling you non driver dumb mofo.

Get off your high horses.

 

[DrPizza]

I don't think the Internet makes people "stupider" I think social networking sites and most forums make people "stupider."

There's a vast amount of knowledge on the Internet and if you surf the Internet on a daily basis and don't learn at least one thing from the Internet in a day you are doing it wrong.

I meant to include this post in my last post so that the post was on topic. Anyway, "knowledge" and "stupid" aren't really opposites of each other. Intelligence and stupid are opposites. Knowing facts isn't a sign of intelligence. Knowing a lot of facts and/or being able to look up facts doesn't make someone any less stupid.

The ability to synthesize those facts, to apply them, understanding them, evaluate them, and use them to determine new facts - that's intelligence. I used to work with mentally retarded adults - severely and profoundly - people who will never be able to live independently, who can't add 5 and 6 at age 35 - that's beyond their abilities, people who have goals to learn the difference between a nickel and a quarter, and it takes them 6 months to be able to identify those two coins correctly. Yet, among them, occasionally there were people who could remember everyone's birthday - they could memorize facts like that. Yet, you could ask them what day today is, and they wouldn't know. "Hey, today is February 8. Whose birthday is today?" Not a clue.


I would argue that the accessibility of the Internet makes people think they're smart, because they have the ability to look up basic facts. I'm not saying though that you can't use the Internet to learn more than just facts.

Oh, and lastly, I think I liked the Internet a lot more before computers became cheap enough for just about everyone to be able to be online. Back when a starter system was a couple thousand dollars, the majority of people online seemed to be those who saw the value of being online. Facebook would be awesome if 80% of the people weren't on it.

 

[soulcougher73]

I think so. Nobody has to remember anything anymore. Just a quick google on your phone and your good to go.

 

[DrPizza]

I think so. Nobody has to remember anything anymore. Just a quick google on your phone and your good to go.

Unfortunately, the state of technology seems to be that your phone and spell check on most (all?) browsers is that contextual clues are not used for determining that a correctly spelled word is actually a homophone for the word that should be there.