cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/2218175

That fluoride makes people stupid.

That humans only contribute like 0.2% of greenhouse gases and have no impact in climate change.

That petroleum is a natural renewable mode of transportation that doesn’t come from dinasaurs

And that science is not reliable because people just say “trust the science” but get made when you “question the science” and that he doesn’t trust what he can’t replicate

And that NASA just lies and was founded by NAZIs so they just do nothing and collect government money

What is crazy to me is that this guy is great at his job and has got me unstuck from coding related problems several times. Yet, he believes in all these conspiracies 😵

I considered this guy to be smart and yet he gave me this ackward conspiracy info dump session

  • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    At the very least he's intellectually divergent, which puts him above 99% of libs or chuds (the bar is on the floor yes)

    That humans only contribute like 0.2% of greenhouse gases and have no impact in climate change.
    That petroleum is a natural renewable mode of transportation that doesn’t come from dinasaurs

    are probably the dumbest ones

    IMO a lot of programmers tend to have this "pinpoint" intelligence where they're really good at isolated problems but horrible at having accurate holistic view of reality

    • Awoo [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      At the very least he's intellectually divergent, which puts him above 99% of libs or chuds (the bar is on the floor yes)

      It doesn't put them above anything. All of these qanon people end up fascists.

      IMO a lot of programmers tend to have this "pinpoint" intelligence where they're really good at isolated problems but horrible at having accurate holistic view of reality

      They behave pretty much the same as all engineers do.