Ladies and Gentlemen, I Believe We Have Reached Peak Stupidity

I believe we have reached the point where one must accept that the human race is devolving and fast.

But don't take my word for it:

Before internet philosophers could take their extremely serious and pressing questions to Twitter — or even Instagram polls — there existed one website of immense wisdom: Yahoo Answers. 

Established in 2005, the platform was a place people could turn to for help with questions that were too embarrassing to ask in real life, like, “How is babby formed? How girl get pragnent?” Or, that were too complex for your everyday Joe, such as, “Is there a spell to become a mermaid that actually works?”

Perhaps more importantly, it also sought to provide explanations for the truly unexplainable: “Why is everything at my grandma’s house moist”; “If batman parents are died, Then how was he born”; and “Why do people with baguettes think they’re better than me?”

Even genius Stephen Hawking took to the platform to ask for help with the question “How can the human race survive the next 100 years?” — drawing nearly 16,000 responses within two days, reported The Guardian.  

But, like most good things on the internet run by a company, this repository of human intelligence and wisdom is being shuttered for good. Yahoo Answers, which is owned by Verizon Media, officially stopped taking questions on Monday, although users can still view those already posted.

Because there really are so many inquiries into whether or not Mickey Mouse was based on a real person one can entertain.

You don't have to worry about that "mythology" yourself, my dear:

A University of Cincinnati graduate assistant wrote that “intelligence is a White man’s mythology.”

“Stop calling your female colleagues ‘smart,’ or ‘clever,’ or ‘brilliant,’” wrote Mel Andrews, who studies cognition and evolution. “It’s sexist and infantilising… it shouldn’t be surprising to you in 2021 that women are capable of thought.”

If you insist.

You're stupid.

I'm merely trying to be part of the solution.

Whatever you say, Annie Oakley!:

(Sidebar: there are plenty of helpful hints in this regard. The Internet is full of people for whom everything is just so easy. What? Too soon?)

The gene pool isn't for everyone:

It’s not an earthquake. It’s just an over-the-top family with a baby on the way.

A massive explosion rocked New Hampshire and parts of neighbouring Massachusetts on Tuesday, triggering earthquake reports and anger in what police say was an ill-advised gender-reveal announcement.

The epicentre of the gender-reveal blast was a quarry in Kingston, N.H., where police say a family detonated 80 pounds of Tannerite, an over-the-counter explosive used for firearm practice.

“It was earth-shaking,” one Kingston resident told NBC4.

Let's make a shorter list.

What isn't racist?:

Behold the Globe & Mail’s recent double-bylined feature arguing that non-white people face “barriers” when they try to access Toronto’s ravine system. By way of evidence, the two reporters offer the account of a Black woman who said she worried that a white person might see her near the ravine and “call the police.” The woman is an experienced hiker, yet offered no evidence that she’d witnessed anything close to this kind of treatment. Just the opposite: the only interactions she detailed to the Globe were encounters in which “perfectly polite” park-goers tried to help her, on the mistaken possibility that she might need directions.

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As I read the article, I wondered how two Globe & Mail journalists — one of them being an “Urban Affairs Reporter,” no less — could visit Toronto’s ravine system and come away with this kind of narrative. But then I re-read the thing and realized that my premise had been faulty: Nothing in the text suggests that either journalist (both of them as white as can be, by the way) had actually visited the ravine as part of their reporting, let alone interviewed anyone they’d met there.

Students who are given no encouragement or any impetus to improve themselves simply stop trying. It is academic entropy and will produce drones who shuffle about only because they would rather not get hassled and useless idiots who will one day stumble upon the terrible knowledge that they are stupid and those who coddled them always believed so and made sure of the outcome of a meaningless life:

The Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) is moving to eliminate all accelerated math options prior to 11th grade, effectively keeping higher-achieving students from advancing as they usually would in the school system.

Given the global house arrest and the slow, steady strangulation of the world's economy, these abandoned students will find that "languishing" is really the only future they have.