[stcredzero]

When the game was over and I was able to look at all of the doodles that were used to train the software to recognize a hurricane ... the majority of them instead looked like tornadoes!

Idiocracy was prophetic -- except it missed the aspect that "Idiocracy" would first manifest on the Internet.

[lucasmullens]

The premise of Idiocracy is actually false; IQs have been rising over time.

[recursive]

Citation needed. IQs are defined such that the average IQ is always 100. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient

[semiel]

Citation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect

[stcredzero]

So the internet is really just revealing more of the idiocy that's always been there.

[rspeer]

You are really stretching to find a way to feel superior to people.

[stcredzero]

Alas, if I had to stretch. Basically, there's rampant prejudice and anti-intellectualism from all points on the political spectrum. The response to the enabling of trolling by anonymity is an upsurge of authoritarianism by (of all people) many on the Left. The Right? Not much better.

If I had a dollar for every time someone pattern matched me or a phrase I wrote, then jumped to conclusions about my ideas of internal emotional state then even insisted I am lying when I tried to disabuse them of the notion -- I'd have a whole lot of dollars. (Hint, if you start sniffing around trying to justify that they're right, I haven't left you sufficient evidence and you're probably also doing that.)

Apolitical people? Mostly just as bad.