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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

The world just keeps getting more and more efficient at being dumb. Let's just count all the appallingly stupid things crammed into this small meme with 2 million views:

  1. "Insurrection Barbie"
  2. Celebrating the defunding of useful scientific research by a new government efficiency agency
  3. This new agency is named after a cryptocurrency
  4. The cryptocurrency in question was created as a joke to satirize cryptocurrencies, but became a top prominent cryptocurrency itself.
  5. The "Department of Government Efficiency Agency" has 2 heads, both of whom have other primary jobs and were chosen in return for political support.
  6. There is also already an existing government agency that does the exact same thing, called the "Government Accountability Office". But most people seem to be unaware of it, likely because it's not named after a cryptocurrency/dog meme.
  7. This whole scheme was the idea of the richest person in the world.

Idiocracy didn't happen because of unnatural selection, it happened because social media unlocked a runaway chain reaction of stupidity.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

Why are people saying that it was named after a cryptocurrency?

Isnt the dog the first thing people think of when seeing "doge"?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Its reasonable to make the connection to the coin, as this particular cryptocurrency was propagandized and manipulated by musk, who will be running the agency.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 minutes ago

Wouldnt it be possible that he just likes the doge meme, promoting a cryptocurrency that is named after it?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 hour ago

True! It was then technically named after a meme...which the coin named itself after, as it was supposed to be a "meme coin".

Still stands though.

"Government agency named after meme. Such dumb. So chaos. Woooooow." Lol

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 hour ago

Neolib idiots don't see the (immense) value of fundamental research because it doesn't directly generate profits, more at 11

[–] [email protected] 4 points 55 minutes ago

Goddamn, it really is impossible!
How the fuck am I gonna filter US politics out of my feed when it creeps in through Science Memes?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 27 minutes ago

China is going to devour the scientific world of we keep it like this

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 hour ago

Welcome to a new era of weaponized ignorance

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

"Haha, I'm insurrection barbie, get it? Because the libs think when Donald Trump lets a massive mob of his supporters to the Capitol to disrupt the election certification process the libs thought it was an insurrection!"

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Like the dead don't realize they're dead, they don't realize they're stupid. They're just everyone else's problem.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

They were when they were alive, too

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

We've built a society with full guard rails. There's very little a stupid person can do to remove themselves from the gene pool before they procreate. Being stupid seems to actually increase the odds that they'll procreate early, and often.

[–] [email protected] 77 points 4 hours ago (4 children)

Say it with me:

No. Research. Is. Useless.

If we say that research is useless because it doesn't bring you mo ey we could stop teaching children math beyond the absolute basics because "it doesn't brinf them anything". This is stupid, because those are the fundamentals that tech children to thing logically and become useful member of society. Same with research. It teaches us the things necessary to maybe invent some of the most useful stuff ever seen

[–] [email protected] 49 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Republicans: "No. Research is useless."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

That's a good one, but sadly true.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

You say that but I've heard concerningly many people say that there is no point in teaching everyone stuff like basic math because chances are they won't use it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

India just removed pythagorean theorem from their educational curriculum for the very reason you mentioned.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 hours ago

Republicans want drones and cannon fodder, not scientists and intellectuals.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

the 2010s science bazinga man being the reason all the cool science gets cut is darkly funny.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

Welcome to the new Dark Ages, brought to you by religious fascists.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Elon isn't even religious. Like always religion is just a fucking disguise for enriching themselves, both with money and power.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago

Neither is trump, or any of these other people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

I’m thinking this too… let’s hope Renaissance mk2 only takes a few years to blossom - but my confidence is not high.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Stupidly funny, right? Like watching a movie, where something dumb is about to happen. You are watching and screaming in agony, pleading for the characters on the screen not to do the dumb thing. But you watch in horror, as all your words are without any effect, you can't reach anyone.

But now with the added bonus, that the dumb thing might affect your life. Or that of your loved ones, neighbours, friends.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 hours ago

Hell can we mention that the cold war era these fucks idolize was also the golden age of the government throwing money at side projects?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 hours ago

Like they said after Brexit…”tired of experts”.

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