I had NO idea kids were THIS dumb..

[@trollerbladdering]

For people thinking that this is fake I have one simple story to tell you. About twelve years ago I worked for Geek Squad. We got a call from a from a guy who just purchased a laptop and a wifi router so he could attend online college a couple of hours prior to the call. He called Geek Squad to bitch because the router was not working. I proceeded to ask him simple trouble shooting questions. THE FIRST FUCKING QUESTION was "what color are the lights on the front of the router, and are any of them blinking?" He replies with "It ain't got not lights." So I asked him if he had it plugged into the wall, and his modem. His response "Nah, buddy at the store said this bitch wireless." Just remember, people with this level of education are voting in elections.

[@Egospair]

lmao

[@Sammysapphira]

The aggressive confidence despite how wrong they are is really the icing on the cake. You never see that kind of attitude from someone who has a clue.

[@The-One-and-only-Devilain]

That's rough. lmao 😵‍💫😆

[@Musasabi31]

I worked for years for an internet supplier in France, and I had someone like that, who didn't plug the router. Same situation: when I told her she needed to plug it, she got angry as we promised wireless internet. I stayed calm and explained that if the internet connexion could be wireless with wifi, she still needed to plug for the electricity. Her answer then was that our equipment was shitty, because competitors offered wireless electricity. Before that, I used to be a recruiter for a temp agency, and I organized abilities tests for workers: the test was to answer some logic questions written on a paper sheet. The answers were just bellow the questions. JUST BELLOW. Nobody used that, and I had to correct the silliest answers. You are right, these people are voting in elections, but I have no idea how they find their polling stations

[@whatif8741]

If great minds like Einstein, Tesla, Leonardo Da Vinci, Musk, Bezos, etc are so few, doesn't that mean the stupidity is in abundance?

[@pamelajacosqui]

My coworker recently told me 5% of 100 was 20, corrected herself to 25, then got out a calculator and told me it was 100. She has a masters degree. I fully believe it (Edit: for anybody who doesn’t want to read all the replies, it’s a masters in Biochem. Yes, really.)

[@DrLoaky]

Masters degree in what?

[@kokocaptainqc]

as a bottom of the ladder guy, ALL my superiors were WAAAAY dumber than me each place i worked at then would get on muy case to push me to leave once they realised im way more intelligent than they are and they felt threatened

[@pamelajacosqui]

@@DrLoaky biochemistry 🙃

[@young-salt]

​@@kokocaptainqcin all but one of the places ive worked my superiors were more knowledgeable about the job than i was and also showed good common sense when not under an abnormal amount of stress. Are you really sure that you were smarter than them or is it possible youre one of those overconfident people that always seem to be "the smartest in the room" - types?

[@TruthHurtsLikeH3ll]

​@@pamelajacosquioh boy

[@Wallaces_Wood]

As someone who works in IT support, this is absolutely real. I had a lady in her 20s the other day call to complain about her computer not turning on. I asked her to see if it was plugged into the wall for starts, and she said it was wireless. She thought wireless internet meant wireless computer.......This took about 10 minutes to deduce all this mind you. People are absolutely this dumb.

[@fenneck9676]

English it's not my native language and i got more good respond than the people talk English in a regular basis, i feel less dumber...

[@Hagen838]

Maybe she knows about induction, but I doubt it.

[@Stephan-qt8mh]

Yeah, I used to get annoyed about a support asking me all that basic questions about things that I already checked before even calling for support, I can totally see why they do it tho.

[@stanleylutzow3132]

maybe she's just from a different timeline where Tesla's project came true

[@lepricated]

Wireless electricity is on its way. lol

[@derekrequiem4359]

I love how the dude responds "yes" after every single incorrect answer 😂😂😂

[@tkc1129]

The simulation can't expend CPU cycles on low-level NPCs like this.

[@ZeptoreVSgaming]

🤓

[@Anthony-ky7nd]

The higher the population, the less computational power each NPC gets

[@Equinsu0cha]

This comment was S tier

[@jbonegw]

Lmfao

[@n3squ1k666]

I have only one question, why does the simulation puts so much effort on me?

[@kalathan5712]

I've seen things like this for the past 20 years, this has nothing to do with "kids", it's just America

[@Itsallsotiresome]

Yes, but it's gotten worse and worse.

[@Cupcake12347]

How many people do actually even know about the Barbary trade? Every time I mention it to them they're mind blown.

[@WithoutliesShlimShlamdie-rc9ry]

It has been going on since the 60s. It's all intentional.

[@tweatification]

Eh, kind of worldwide tbh.

[@Sierraone1]

it's the oldest trick in the world, interview 100 people and just show the 10 dumbest answers.

[@S0ulsinner]

These people vote and have children.. let that sink in. (Sick 1,000 likes. You guys are savages)

[@gargoyled_drake]

i doubt it. I doubt that they know when and where to vote or what voting actually is. And i'm not sure they know how to make children either. But they probably know how to use an insta account or OF 🤷‍♀ But the common folks like to blame everything wrong in society on the those younger or those less fortunate than them selves.

[@TheRealCaptainFreedom]

Most of them don’t vote though.

[@7erong3mas]

but i dont have enough space for the sink in my house :(

[@juanche978]

They shouldn't have kids

[@Astuga]

Ignorance often runs in the family for generations. Most of these things you learn during interactions with family members or friends. And since media and school today is often dumbing people down, they also can't learn it there.

[@MakinBacon0651]

Results of programs like "No child left behind" and "common core".

[@thecatfarm]

💯

[@KHfan0011]

"It doesn't matter cuz she's hot." You see, this right here is a problem.

[@xeroxyde3397]

It is a problem, but it is also TRUE.

[@pvshka]

She's not even hot tho

[@RDV333]

We just simpin for everyone at this point I guess.

[@KHfan0011]

@@RDV333 I meant it's a problem because the idea of being set in life just because you're useful for breeding is kind of not good.

[@Medjed-pi5pw]

She is a 4.5/10

[@justsomeguy697]

No wonder they are confused about gender. They can't even tell time.

[@catbert7]

Riiight, "they" 😏

[@kevgasper3934]

@@catbert7 they/it/them/combat helicopter

[@jojogodtier]

How offensive

[@justsomeguy697]

@@jojogodtier life is offensive. Get a helmet. 🤣

[@SkyAtlas_]

@@jojogodtier its the truth

[@eatonkuntz]

This is why teachers say, "show your work" Because some people just draw information from the void.

[@lcako1616]

From the void has me cracking up💀

[@DustinDonald-cz9ot]

My teachers allowed me to skip that especially in simple math I just had to prove to them that I could do it in my head. Have you even seen the crap they try and make these kids do nowadays, was trying to help my niece with math she is only in the first grade and they had her doing all kinds of stupid stuff to come to a conclusion its basic math and they got her trying to fill out boxes and diagrams no wonder most kids don't understand it they have complicated it all to hell.

[@kathleenking47]

​@@DustinDonald-cz9ot "Fuzzy math😞"

[@faizanhassan4406]

@@DustinDonald-cz9ot its probably designed to help them if they cant intuitively see how it works but sure

[@noahstevens3060]

No, it's to force a specific method. I refused to show my work.

[@jeffreyleatherman334]

her boyfriends been lying to her if she thinks 5 inches is 2 feet rofl

[@gamma4053]

Some US problems. Metric is the way.

[@ghostface1818]

I caught a customer stealing from our family business and I asked why he thought stealing from a family was right. His response” well you guys get all this stuff for free”.

[@Chaso-1124]

"Gubments pay fa dat"

[@eafesaf6934]

Uuf

[@EaglesQuestions]

Did he eventually realize that that was incorrect? Tell me you told him.

[@ItsBrendo]

Gibs me dat

[@aggrocd1985]

Well technically they weren't wrong. Most companies buy inventory on credit and then pay the following month. My family business got three or four container trucks in each month and it was all on credit. We would make the money, pay them back next month almost like it was free and money was coming out of thin air.

[@earlyriiser]

Two of the most important skills are just not taught properly anymore. 1. Listening to understand 2. Context

[@schnabelnugget1066]

I think that is the main problem here. And a shortened attention-span because of Tik Tok and other Short form content

[@earlyriiser]

@@schnabelnugget1066 our attention spans have been getting shorter and shorter since the 60s, long before social media of any kind. But social media has exacerbated the problem tenfold

[@John_Caravella]

Don't forget reading and basic math skills. Otherwise you get people claiming 3 x 3 x 3 equals 9.

[@TimesUp8888]

​@@John_Caravellaand don't forget "18"!!! 😂😂😂

[@GenerationNextNextNext]

Critical thinking.

[@dredfurst2699]

"Can I have a glass of water?" "Water? Like...in the toilet?"

[@22QXX112]

I love that movie. Idiocracy is coming true

[@CountryAndProud]

Its got electorates

[@StormRaven18]

electorates is was plants need

[@joshispro345]

but brawndo is what plants crave its got electrolytes

[@DanteAngeli-l9s]

that movie is a prophecy

[@feartheghus]

The octagon girl might actually have just gotten really flustered. Witha mic in her face he asked about a 5 sided shape, her brain froze, malfunctioned and gave her octagon. She panicked becuase she knew it was wrong, but because her brain froze and malfunctioned it again failed her by saying it's 6 sides. She is smart enough to have figured out that her brain lied in 1 second or less and that it was actually 8 sides. How did she get "a stop sign" as the answer? Simple. She forgot the question was for a 5 sided shape because her brain keeps panicking and then lying to her, and she has now become focused on the octagon since it had multiple issues regarding it come from her brain. She said gave "stop sign" as an answer because it was an example of an octagon, and her brain told her the question was about the 8 sided shape because that shape kept being the topic at hand ever since she fucked up by allowing her brain to form an answer and run her mouth at the same time while she was panicked and without any quality assurance from her conscience.

[@Boyso5407]

So basically she has no listening skills

[@feartheghus]

@@Boyso5407 no, it’s that she ran entirely in a panic. Panic could be the cause. She listened fine, then her brain went haywire due to panic, then she did a calculation that made sense based on what her brain told her while panicking, then she panicked some more

[@seb17702]

So basically she can’t answer an on the spot question? That’s not smart

[@maritofuentes4690]

A lot of the questions are like that Like the very first one Asking "what country is the queen of England from, originally? Implies that she is not from England

[@maritofuentes4690]

A lot of the questions are like that Like the very first one Asking "what country is the queen of England from, originally? Implies that she is not from England

[@MisterDantastic]

You know something inside you has died when a person guesses that the earth has 2 moons and you're like, "pretty close."

[@gedgenatoraj]

Fun fact, the earth technically has a second moon named Kamo’oalewa. It’s small and made of materials that make it hard to see but does exist. That being said it won’t be orbiting earth anymore in 300 years. If you’re curious, I think Time Magazine did an article on it a couple years ago.

[@M3rVsT4H]

@@gedgenatoraj Glad someone mentioned this. I think at some point in the last hundred years, we technically had 3, but only noticed one as it left our orbit.

[@ReubenBBX]

what timestamp?

[@crashed_potato]

​@@ReubenBBXGot it for ya friend, at 16:38. Here you go

[@Requilith]

​@@gedgenatorajit is not in fact a real moon, because it is a quasi satellite and semi unstable, whereas the moon of the earth is a natural satellite. It is a piece of the moon but that doesn't make it a moon (it's orbit is also too far away to be a natural satellite)

[@wushushorty1]

One of my IT stories: I had a dude call in because he said his old laptop would not copy correctly when transferring info to a new laptop. After 15 minutes of explaining over the phone, I just got up and walked over to him. He was highlighting the info, right click/copy on the old laptop. Then would unplug the mouse and plug it into the new laptop and try to select paste.. yeah.. fun day that was.

[@Blox117]

well that can work. if you have a network file sharing application like teamviewer

[@jasonisfamous6544]

Omg lmao

[@Ahoooooooo]

Smart . I should try this hack .

[@Abra_TV]

That's genius.

[@wushushorty1]

@@NoughtSure I don't think this would have helped this dude.. IT just was not his thing.. haha

[@kingdjoser]

"Think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half the population are more stupid than that" - George Carlin.

[@VerySaneDr]

Stupider, that is the word you use instead of `more stupid`.

[@Kovac_]

@@VerySaneDr They are interchangeable and mean the same thing, unless you wanted to demonstrate yourself being more stupid than the person you're trying to correct?

[@kflive1]

Average American

[@TheFreshestLyrics]

He mostly asked black people lol..

[@wolfheartofphoenix]

​@Kovac_ "stupider" is the word Carlin used in his joke/quote. That's all VerySaneDr meant.

[@Tehguuui]

Here is a great learning I recieved from one of my teachers way back in high school. He explained why analogue clocks are better. The hands dont just tell you what time it is. It also tells you how much time is left. It is an amazing and truely timeless invention.

[@ArlanKels]

I know some teachers and one of their biggest complaints is that kids graduate who shouldn't, kids do not succeed at all in classes but the school passes them. Because they don't want to keep the kids, they don't want to deal with them, the school just wants to churn them out.

[@AuntNessie-u2e]

Just think these are our future teachers

[@GenerationNextNextNext]

It's not just that the schools don't want to keep the kids. The first problem is many of the parents. I have parents who have come to me every year complaining about me trying to fail their child or not doing enough to accommodate their child (when their child just doesn't want to do any work). Teachers are punished with their jobs and school closures when students don't perform. Children are no longer punished at all on a state level. There is also the fear that "grown up" children will harm younger children, so they pass them on so they won't influence or harm younger children. But no one has come up with a good solution to that problem.

[@onlyhuman1625]

dang

[@mattm2767]

Parents and the apathy of students is the big problem. Why hold a student back when they do not care about learning? They make it harder on teachers and the students who do care.

[@LordVerdo]

Teachers have no say in the matter. It is admin who force teachers to push kids through so the numbers appear better to state governments.

[@joeyflvkko]

I argued with a grown man who asked, "if the earth was round, how come we don't lean forward when driving down a street?" Meaning we should be falling forward due to the curve of the earth. I cannot make this shit up.

[@Crilifton]

Simple becuz earth is big as hell compare to us for example if u zoom too much at circle line it show straight line

[@HelloThere.....]

Dude that's not just it. There are prominent figures in flat earth communities that believe they've debunked the round earth by showing animations of a ship sailing around earth, and once it gets to the bottom they say "see, at this point the ship should fall off, but it doesn't, so clearly these people are complete idiots and round earth is fake" like not only is their logic of gravity so wrong, not only do they not believe in gravity, of which the entire point is that it pulls things toward a center of mass hence WHY the earth is round, but they're condescending about it. You can't make this up dude 😂 Look up Dave Mceegan he's debunked this video. I think you can find the thumbnail with this animation on his channel.

[@8onnie8oyz]

Don't worry. That's not woke thinking. That's just being a flat earther.

[@TheEriccli]

my daughter told me there are still people believe the earth is flat, I'm in shock

[@aminerkin9844]

tbf, most smart ppl (probably u included) don't exactly know how and why we perceive it in a way where no matter where we go, earth is down, sky is up, let alone explanation of how gravity and mass in relation to our senses work.

[@markedfang]

"The great wall of China is Japanese." The lack of surprise on his face. It's the look of a man who once had faith in humanity. Only to realize he surrounded himself with the top 1% of people that can hold an intelligent conversation.

[@pentbot]

It is even more than that - he asked /where/ it was, and the answer given was a /nationality/.

[@gazz3867]

Well, Japan tried but it didn't work out.

[@mymai5859]

To top it off she said, "Japani."

[@TinyToadSage]

I'm Chinese and my blood went ICE COLD hearing her say that.

[@cynxmanga]

Everything around just proves that we're a bunch of a little bit more intelligent than average animals

[@Slking507]

My dude, I have taught 45 year old men how to read a measuring tape. I have taught a guy working with circuits on how to use a multimeter. I may not be a genius, but these people make me feel like I am at least above average. The person who takes the cake for world's dumbest has got to be my neighbor. Poor guy.

[@RogerRamos1993]

Many times people were too embarassed to ask questions all their lives and never learned. It doesn't necessarily mean they are stupid. It's important to create an environment where it is ok to ask questions and not to know the answers. Glorifying stupidity on the other hand is not ok.

[@Avchop]

I got fired when I was 16 for bringing in fully measured tape, boss got pissed because I was trying to memorize to tee lmao. You him?

[@xinpingdonohoe3978]

Come on, you have to tell us *why* your neighbour gets the title.

[@JulitoAgapito]

Yeah! Tell us please 😬

[@mrplayfulshade]

Wtf is a multimeter lmao

[@billybob4274]

I taught my daughter how to read when she was 3-4, only kid in preschool that could read. Was teaching her addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division when she was 5-6, and how to read a clock when she was 8. The clock was easy, I just bout an analog clock and hung it on the wall in the living room, when she wanted to know the time I had her figure it out for herself with that clock. It's not mostly the schools, it's mostly the parents. Oh, and I have been a single dad since my daughter was 3.

[@tehBirry]

Yep. I agree. My dad divorced my mom by the time I was 5. He was the one who taught both my younger sister and I to read and write up to 5-6 letter words before kindergarten. We also learned to tell time, add & subtract, exc.. all with a small chalkboard. All it takes is a good parent to lay the foundation of how to think critically and core skills to teach themselves. Public education is just a lesson plan where students get out whatever they put in. Parents need to put the screens away and develop their kids. I'm afraid that it may be too late, we're doomed.

[@renken7481]

This is so true. I don’t have children but my cousins and aunts do and I’m just amazed on how this kids are already five or six years like already about to enter preschool and they still let them watch Brainrot kid shows all day and don’t teach them how to properly speak. It’s crazy because on the Internet you see a lot of kids that are clearly well educated, and can speak clearly enough, being just three or four years old. It’s mind-boggling how some people don’t care about their children enough to know, they are crippling their development by not taking the matter in their hands and think they can just leave it all to school teachers

[@kawkasaurous]

Yea but how old would your daughter moon if pizza was now?

[@0Lameran0]

i think key word here is "when needed" i doubt any of these new yorker city people ever needed in their whole life a compass, of course why would or should they know N,W,S,E means, its 2020 we have gps in our lives since 10 years. they know how to order food from their phones, thats modern day survival 101, thats all you need and money of course.

[@billybob4274]

@@0Lameran0 my daughter just turned 16, years younger than the people questioned. It was about her actually learning, unlike most of these people.

[@wintermintmojo2418]

“The north pole is below us” was *alot* of damage

[@SquirrellyFries]

Technically the question is wrongly worded. North/South is not the same thing as up/down, that's just the convention we use for maps. I'm not sure what elevation the north pole is at, so it could in theory be below us. 🤔

[@frequentsee3815]

That was a crit+overpower with every proc running

[@Arendvdvenk]

Guess you can make a case for that if you're an Aussie

[@alexiso6215]

​@@Arendvdvenkwtf are you talking about lmao

[@keepitclean8791]

​@@alexiso6215If they are from down undah 👇

[@zhulikkulik]

20:35 -What is your greatest weakness? -I correctly interpret semantics of a question, but completely miss the point. -Could you give an example? -Yes, I could.

[@bluevash5000]

28:26 The look on the interviewer's face right after she (confidently) gives her garbage answer is absolute gold. The most "what am I doing with my life?" expression I've seen in quite a while.

[@cosmifall]

"do you know what 3 x 3 x 3 is?" "yes..." "wait thats my line!"

[@frequentsee3815]

The reverse uno card

[@GamesPlayer1337]

I mean tbf he asked if she knew. Thats a closed question where yes or no are the answers you give. That one's on him 😂

[@KagamiGaming]

the way she said yes, i thought she knows him and it turns into a gag. then it turned out to not be the case, and it kind of hurt double.

[@alexeykotlyar978]

@@KagamiGaming Why do you think it's not the case? I got the feeling she was trolling with her 21. I would totally say the same thing if I knew the guy and then suddenly got stopped by him with this question

[@Lonelysum]

​@@KagamiGamingshe said 9 then changed it to 21

[@xmusicisumx]

What's depressing is that if someone doesn't know the answer, they seem to just guess and don't even try to work out the correct answer.

[@bree30pa]

Bot

[@tzeitelmccormick8297]

You have a good point. If I was asked one of these questions and I legitimately didn't know the answer, I'd try to get as close to a correct answer that I could by eliminating things and using prior knowledge of other things. I definitely don't know different units of measurement, but I could get close to the right answer with what I do know about units of measurement and the language used for the names of those units.

[@xinpingdonohoe3978]

Some tried. For how many weeks, 4×12 is actually fairly sound logically. If only he could do the multiplication.

[@oodo2908]

"Ain't that leap year? Or some shit?" That line could have been in Idiocracy. That is beautiful.

[@devinpaul9026]

Extra Bigass Taco. Just sayin'.

[@youness4247]

the sad part as someone mentioned before, is that most of them are making more money than some of us ..

[@domusavires19]

Go away, I’m ‘batin

[@IncognitoActivado]

That's has to do with i. q. ; not idiocy.

[@devinpaul9026]

@@IncognitoActivado No, not idiocy. Idiocracy. You're saying it wrong, brah.

[@Wintercourse]

4:04 Girl: "How big are you?" Guy: "Got two feet down there..."

[@aprilpower1158]

The best argument against Democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. - Winston Churchill

[@jimmcneal5292]

Note that it was said in 1940s or so. Would be interesting to see the reaction if politicians from back then saw this video

[@youmichua]

The average population knowledge is not much different now from then. In the 70-80-90-00's there was some improvement, actually big one, but now it is going back to default 😅

[@NurmaBP]

There's reasons why the tyrants made education is so expensive.

[@capoman1]

So true.

[@nonono9194]

And having politicians like him who took bribes to push for ww2

[@mathewluby9896]

Idiocracy isn't a movie, it's a documentary about what the future looks like

[@Jay-bq1dq]

Future? We've always been like that.

[@phils4634]

The future appears to be the present. Things are looking terribly bleak if this is widespread (as it appears to be).

[@brandonwagner5934]

I've been saying that since the 2010s

[@jooei2810]

Its got electrolytes!

[@Stealth55555]

Not even "future"... its a live video stream of TODAY...

[@NayburhoodSnipa]

I'm a 90s kid, and most people in my school could read a clock. A lot of kids wore watches with analog dials. Most of my friends were in special education and lived in section 8 housing. We all knew how to tell time and relay it. It was a necessity to have freedom by keeping a schedule before cell phones were popular.

[@TimesUp8888]

Yes but the 1990s was before George W's "No Child Left Behind," "Common Core," and "New Marh." My (former) stepdaughter in 2018 had 0 idea how to tell time on a ⏰️. No one her age did. She's 14 now. Also, half of them couldn't memorize anything to save their lives. they really don't know their multiplication tables!! But they still pass them every year, to 5th and 6th grade like that. And they stopped doing Phonics 20ish yrs ago. So they also really cannot "read" the way we understand what that means. They just memorize what certain words look like, but don't know why - which is why they can't spell and also get really confused between what a "country" is vs a "continent." Show them a word they've never seen and they have no idea how to sound it out, or guess what it means in the context of a sentence. They just ask their phones a question using their voice. Some ppl.think that's a good thing. I am of the Unpopular Opiniom that it is not.

[@tocide]

​@@TimesUp8888it's both good and bad

[@GenerationNextNextNext]

And we all had to memorize phone numbers, especially the important ones. I was working in the education system as a teacher's aid one year, and I had to stay really late with a student because she missed her bus looking for her lost phone. I asked her what her parents' phone number was. She was 14 and told me she didn't know...I asked her what her address was so I could look it up in our database. She told me she didn't know...It was a scary thought that if something were to happen to her, she would not know the way back home or how to contact someone if something did happen. I didn't feel comfortable sending her out into the streets without supervision.

[@NayburhoodSnipa]

@@GenerationNextNextNext It seems the vast majority of people prefer to outsource their thinking these days. Self accountability is dying.

[@qtrg5794]

Do people not wear wrist watches nowadays? here in germany most people do and theyre pretty much all analog...

[@davegnarlsson4344]

These are adults. Stop calling them kids.

[@SolitaryVirus48]

are you surprised hes calling them kids? their knowledge is at like a 2nd grade level ONE GUY THOUGHT THERE WERE 30 MOONS FOR CRYING OUT LOUD

[@Tylercx3]

I can tell you, as a teacher, believe these could be true. I've heard this same shit from my students. People/kids just don't give a fuck anymore.

[@nicholascampbell90]

Honestly, I don't blame them their future is being sold out to the highest bidder.

[@ProtossTempest]

Former TA. Yup. And it's not generationally exclusive either. From High schoolers who don't understand what time it'd be in 20 minutes... at 1:00 to parents who fail to understand that failing/below average grades mean your ball of rotten sunshine is not going to be an A-student. Thinking of you, Brent's mom, proud mother of "Well if he got 60% he got an A because that says need that least 60!!" *Points to the 90+ bracket for As*

[@Mozokuni]

I went into a gas station and bought a Mountain Dew for $2.73 and said, “And $17.27 on pump five.” I handed over a 20 and thanked him. His jaw dropped and he asked, “How did you do that?” I didn’t even know what to say to him.

[@UniverseShinobi]

How did you do what? Pull out a 20?

[@Mozokuni]

@@UniverseShinobi the math in my head.

[@CaptainPlanet792]

It’s sad how people just expect stupidity now. At work sometimes I’ll be ringing a customer up and the total will be something like $18.12. They will hand me a $20 and I put it in and then they ask if I give you 12 cents will that screw you up. Like no I’m not an idiot, I’ll give you $2 back.

[@nathanhughes4466]

Assuming that he can do basic math like you can, he was probably just impressed at the fact that you could work the amount out in your head, whereas most people wouldn't go to the effort for it or are incapable of it. Otherwise, he probably felt ignorant at the fact that he couldn't do what you just did, and most likely relies on his cash register to do the math for him. I guess we'll never know, but those are the only two conclusions I could come to. Also, congrats on not being a moron in a dim-witted society.

[@garrettgreen9667]

Ngl I couldn’t do that in my head that fast

[@karinalemieux9396]

Worked as a dentist assistant for a few months. Had one guy come in complaining about tooth pain in multiple teeth. He came in, we looked at his mouth then asked where majority of his teeth were because he had them at last week’s appointment. He said “I took them out because they’re gonna grow back. I just wanted some pain medicine until they started to come back in.”

[@Falcodrin]

Man and his friends had too much to drink one night cause extractions as an adult probably need help

[@Whocares1987]

Then the dentist gave him new teeth and he got his pain pills….IQ level 1000000

[@vintagemotorsalways1676]

Bro really thought he was a shark 💀

[@LemmingMartyr]

god I fucking wish that was how it worked

[@daveh16]

actually there was a man who discovered tooth regrowth using ultrasound, but yeah....

[@SqueakyMilk]

“I’m not dumb I’m super dumb” fucking made my ribs hurt😭

[@Loosatsu]

0:05 i think we all know what she's good at.

[@deathstr1ker6666]

I know someone who's an English teacher in my town, at a pretty good public highschool. The students with atrocious English comprehension used to be confined to a small percentage of kids. The number now is so high that she hardly sees her friends anymore, because she spends most of her free time grading the student's work, & constantly changing her lesson plans to accommodate so many failing students. Even the Advanced Placement students struggle at a rate she's never seen before. Don't get her started on kids using AI to plagiarize papers either, because it happens all of the time now.

[@barlo90]

What are all these essays in this comment section ain't no one reading ya 4 paragraph comment

[@Peterowsky]

@@barlo90 And here we have a prime example of what kind of student they were talking about.

[@yapyappixi]

@@barlo90 It literally took me 15 seconds or less to read what he typed....

[@barlo90]

@@yapyappixi 15 second is too long to read a nobodys comment on yt imo, unemployed??

[@yapyappixi]

@@barlo90 lol, I just pulled a number out of my ass. Didn't mean exactly 15 seconds XD Also not unemployed and I have two degrees - not that it matters. There are plenty of intelligent folk that are unemployed but just haven't been able to find a position in today's economy :) I wish we wouldn't judge people so hard for being unemployed. It also looks like we need some emotional intelligence, empathy, and compassion classes for today's youth by the look of your comment :3 Happy trolling!

[@jacupwakup9109]

MY ex girlfriend used to believe that Antartica was a state next to Alaska. She was a marine for 6 years. Dunno how they gave that woman a rifle.

[@jacupwakup9109]

@@SkeleTonHammer she was actually pretty intelligent otherwise. Had a decent vocabulary. She blamed it on having a shjt geography teacher during high school

[@iyaramonk]

@@jacupwakup9109 Most of us suck at geography. But there is a difference between that and thinking the frozen hellscape of Antarctica is next door to Alaska lmao

[@jacupwakup9109]

@@iyaramonk after learning this I realized she was super gullible. I came up with the wildest and most outlandish theories and told her I whole heartedly believed it all. I left with her believing it all as well 😭

[@SkunkShrimp]

Because she was female... dei

[@iyaramonk]

@@SkunkShrimp Women have been in the marines for over 100 years relax pal

[@ultrablade2580]

1:09 "In Barbados eating sushi like I'm kung fu" ahh moment

[@andresilvasophisma]

- "Can you name five states?" - "Erm, solid, liquid, uh, gas, uh..."

[@lukashenrique4295]

when you got 200 iq but you're a social sheldon cooper.

[@laurelkeeper]

Plasma, Bose-Einstein condensate. There we go!

[@PrincessTidge]

​@@laurelkeeper Technically correct, the best kind of correct 😏

[@dylpickle0192]

“Solid. Liquid. Solidus. Metal. Gear.” “Yes!”

[@adan1221]

Snake? Snake??

[@MatureGamerHD]

The mental clinic is trying to test the patients to see if maybe there are some who could go home, so they give a simple quiz: Subject 1): Question: how much is 6 times 6 Patient's answer: 97 doctor: nah, go back. Subject 2): Question: how much is 6 times 6 Patient's answer: Friday doctor: ough... go back Subject 3): Question: how much is 6 times 6 patient's answer: 36 doctor: oh yeah! how did you calculate? patient: I deducted Friday from 97 ....... So yeah... good point @asmongold, how did they come to the answer IS important

[@DanteAngeli-l9s]

lol good one

[@qxndy]

this is gold.

[@letsmakeit110]

ha!

[@alonzomartinez971]

Then I added today and that's my answer.

[@seevanmaroge]

My 7 year old heard what I was watching and he said "of course it's China. What kind of silly question is that?"

[@DE-wq8cp]

my 4 year old nephew can name all the countries from their flag... and decent majority from their shape

[@kOoSyak]

😂you should teach your daughter then

[@Tra5N]

​@@DE-wq8cp knowledge ≠ intelligence

[@gioulatombra3008]

@@Tra5N these questions are common knowlege you dont need to be einstein to answer

[@natemekis3959]

Show off 😂

[@leftright2]

the ones that think this is fake 100% have never socialized in the real world or worked in a customer service job

[@mysticstrikeforce5957]

or never touch grass

[@alshee356]

Hahaha true, you don't realise how dumb people can be until you work in customer service.

[@camaroneedsanewdesign4892]

​@NoahElShemyare you slow??

[@TimesUp8888]

AGREE!!

[@cerveshred]

I worked on accountant office, coworkers were dumb as hell.

[@ichigokotetsu9540]

20:50 "yes" is a very valid answer asking "Do you know what 3x3x3 is?". He didnt ask "Can you tell me what 3x3x3 is?"

[@austinbale3289]

“Yes, I can”

[@TimesUp8888]

I begrudgingly award 1 point for this answer for this reason. A confident "Yes!" Is a correct answer, have to agree.

[@zoroxo2543]

@@austinbale3289 this for the second one

[@brandonkellner2920]

He kept asking that, too. You'd think he'd learn to ask "what is 3x3x3?" I'm surprised she's the only one who said yes.

[@anthonykneipiii4562]

That’s not quite the question to ask either… You need to ask the question in such a manner that the participant has to provide the answer, and not an open-ended response. “What does 3 x 3 x 3 equal?” This is a question you have to provide an answer to.

[@kanaria-cu3uv]

the smug satisfaction in their faces when they hear “yes.”

[@oturukira3182]

"Is it a stop sign" caught me completely off guard. That broke me 🤣🤣

[@kothejunglist]

I went to a high school that wasn't great, but no one (and I mean NO ONE) was that dumb. Makes me appreciate what my teachers did for us.

[@GlennTheSadMarinersFan]

Right. These don't even make sense. even people having to repeat a grade would know these answers.

[@maximilian200057]

That's impossible unless it was a private high school or a REALLY small one. I've met some of the dumbest people of my life at the public high school I attended.

[@wastrelperv]

​@@maximilian200057 I graduated HS in 2019 in Virginia Beach. The kids there, at least most of the ones I knew at least vaguely, were more or less smart and respectable. Most the nonsense I hear about on the internet never caught on where I went to school. And I attended public school. VA Beach has a large population. Not all young people are idiots or degenerates.

[@maximilian200057]

@@wastrelperv I was supposed to graduate the same year as you, but I graduated early from online high school after dropping out of the public high school I attended for two years. I finished junior and senior year in just six months.

[@RetroGamingSweden]

HIGH SCHOOL?! You learn this shit in preschool! The hell......

[@bernardthequagsire2373]

Here is a fun story from back when I was living in a dormitory. We were hanging around in the common area which had a kitchen for people to use and these 2 girls started to cook dinner together. 1 of the girls asked the other one if she would boil the potatoes while does something else. So the other girl started to work on the potatoes. We didnt pay much attention to them as we were talking on the couches and watching TV but after some time the first girl wanted to check how the potatoes are coming and as she lifted the lid to see we could hear her ask why isnt there any water in here? The girl was confused and laughing while the other girl had no idea what she meant or what she had done wrong. Me and my friends had to get up from the couch to see for ourselves and there really wasnt any water in the pot. The pot had a bunch of potatoes and dill inside and no water. She didnt put any water in the pot because when her mother cooks and she goes and takes the potatoes when they are done there is only potatoes and dill inside it. This girl who was at this point over 18 did not understand how boiling something works or what it even means. This was was when I realized how scary it is that people like her can vote and that her vote has the same power as my vote does.

[@woos479]

was this in university? 😮

[@bernardthequagsire2373]

@@woos479 yes

[@maskedbadass6802]

@@woos479 Of course it was in university. There is a huge misconception that going to university means you are smart. All it means is you learned the very specific practice of memorizing some information only long enough to answer multiple choice questions and then immediately forgetting what you learned.

[@grad_student]

When you watch brain rot all day this is what happens

[@mysticstrikeforce5957]

Never take a collage girl seriously we'll not all just the ones who are not trying hard.

[@jamesryan2325]

If you wonder how some kids get this way, you should see how they behave in classrooms. Zero value for education.

[@cobblestonegenerator2183]

So... you admit that schools aren't suitable for learning by not getting kids motivated and should be abolished in favor of libraries, parks and asmondgold public shaming videos.

[@maximkonechno8742]

​@@cobblestonegenerator2183not getting beaten is good motivation but that feature getting removed.

[@xuimod]

Its deeper than that. Zero value for parenting.

[@LMN3_Works]

@@cobblestonegenerator2183 dunno bout that, schools here in Asia is great, dunno 'bout dream country America.

[@MahmudHasan-me9qe]

​@@xuimod100% true

[@skepticalsleven]

For learning how to read an analog clock my dad put little stickers with the minutes next to each number, but only on one of the clocks in the house. That way we had a visual aid to see what the time was and could form an association that we could use/remember when looking at the other clocks that had no stickers.

[@RaphyLive]

So Idiocracy was not a fictional movie. But a documentary.

[@jjosh420gaming3]

yes did you just find this out the movie was from the future and was sent back to warn us how stupid everyone was going to get sady its happening a lot faster than we ever expected

[@jimmiekarlsson4458]

Yes it was

[@nyccoyax3831]

This is why the rest of the world is laughing at USA and nobody will ever change our mind

[@milesgauthier3541]

I say this excactly all the time! It's a movie of prophecy!

[@AnnoDominiAD]

"predictive programming"

[@gabrielhermes1627]

I am forced to wonder exactly how these people even function in society. How do they get approved for a job? Where do they work? What are their ambitions? Do they vote? This isn't stupidity since "stupid" implies that they can't learn, this is ignorance. How do you live life without questioning ANYTHING?

[@nicholascampbell90]

Ignorance is bliss is so true, I sometimes wish I just didn't know potential outcomes like when I was younger.

[@maitotechlab9035]

To question anything you need to think... This people cannot think about simple math like 9+9+9

[@memeticist]

Simulation theory seems more plausible by the day.

[@ProtossTempest]

To answer some your questions. Some just skirt through, either because nepotism or because the interviewer just let them slip through. Some get managerial work so it's a clown leading a circus, stuff usually goes wrong. Their facade of ambition is get this one job, get money. Sadly they vote. And ignorance is bliss as they say.

[@Garbotio]

People live in delusion and denial or as they say “their truth”

[@jukkab5352]

During high school, all the ghetto gangsta kids would always come into class stoned and talking and giggling in the back. This is how I imagine they all turned out

[@Elegiast]

Bro, this is exactly the case.

[@DeinosAres]

Jail, they in jail.

[@AGripOBabys]

its literally how they turned out.

[@JustapErson]

Yep, this. It's largely a black american issue, the culture is beyond saving. If they look for one second like they're putting in any effort at school, they'll stop being popular. It's also getting worse nowadays, many of them aren't being told to do stuff by teachers because a lot of them flip out and assault the teacher. And these people know they will get to go to tertiary education because of their skin colour, so there is absolutely no point in bothering at all. The system failed them.

[@NuclearNuke41]

@@JustapErson You mean their single mothers failed them.

[@foundationsoversight8479]

The guy with the clock wasn't all that bad tbh. He looks like a younger guy who didn't grow up with analog clocks, and he still answered the question correctly (just a little slower than someone who would be used to reading out analog clocks would). He even counted the minutes the same way I learned to do, though I do it in my head and a good bit faster.

[@JamCie]

Everybody knows America‘s education system is fucked, but holy shit sometimes I forget *HOW* fucking bad it is.

[@NishantRana-fr1hl]

can you elaborate ? cuz we indians think you guys have best one in world

[@thesauceguy1809]

It's unreal

[@bobbycrosby9765]

@@NishantRana-fr1hl its just a common trope. Poor people tend not to care about education so many of them don't ever learn anything. Videos like this - of people who never cared about education, that are potentially drunk/high then perpetuate this idea. The problem is cultural, which also makes it harder to solve. Money won't fix it, some of the worst performing schools have the best funding. My daughter is in 4th grade and I'd put any of them up against the people in this video. But I live in a middle class neighborhood with parents that care that their kids learn something.

[@MrWendrew]

You can literally make this video for any country but surely someone as educated as you realizes that already.

[@Alucardd-tt8eb]

@@NishantRana-fr1hl the American education system is terrible because a lot of funding comes from test scores. The higher the students score in standardized tests, the more funding a school can receive, the idea being that they facilitate the good scores and thus the students are "smarter", however all it actually does is force students into memorizing things instead of actually learning. Also, schools that struggle with their test scores see less funding, which is counterintuitive because the kids that are struggling to learn have less resources to help them, and with less resources comes less pay for teachers, and less pay for teachers means they don't care as much about actually educating. Ultimately it rewards schools that condition kids to be good test takes, but don't retain the information they've "learned" and penalizes schools that don't have the resources to make their education better. It's an ass backwards system that a lot of people complain about but nothing gets done about it except occasional cuts to funding, because the American government doesn't care about the education of their future as much as controlling their populace and funding their military. Besides, dumb people are easier to control than smart ones.

[@tqs3]

And we expect these people to understand per capita crime statistics. And vote.

[@Ender7j]

We can expect that but it’s clear they don’t.

[@jmw1500]

And we let them

[@jimqjordun6431]

@@jmw1500 True, we shouldn't let the uneducated vote. Might want to google who had the bigger uneducated voting base though lol.

[@jmw1500]

@@jimqjordun6431 I already know the statistics and did not need Alphabet Inc. to influence my search for them. The decision boundary that I would choose, on who gets to vote, likely would exclude you as well. Cheers.

[@xinpingdonohoe3978]

​@@jimqjordun6431 they currently allow voting through Cinderella logic (when the clock hits midnight, magic happens and now you're suddenly mature). I don't see how a bipartisan test of comprehensive abilities would be any worse.

[@thesimas42]

I: Name 5 states. Me: solid, gas, liquid, plasma... Louisiana

[@justinwatch]

State of confusion

[@lokemannen101]

I completely had forgotten that plasma was a state of matter.

[@HyrulesGardener182]

😂 love this!

[@Lugmillord]

my fifth one would be the Bose-Einstein-Condensate, but I'm nerdy af

[@caseyhill636]

I meeeeean….. not wrong lol 😂

[@StefanS.8]

60 minutes of interviews like these should be sent by 3 spacecraft following Voyager 1. No alien entity would approach this planet again, not even by mistake.

[@JleonardoCard]

Being an Inmigrant to the US; I used to think as a Child that the vast majority of people here would be significantly smarter, because my country of origin was poorer, with less technology available and not everyone can be schooled or have access to education beyond elementary school; I came to realise, that there's still people extremely capable, smart and skilled in the US, but you also have the other end, where there's people that they just can't add 2+2 and some (or many) of them, are citizens of this country and SOMEHOW they get enough money to own houses or businesses or something; I say that bc I've worked customer service in multiple industries; And like, good for them, I´m not against everyone having their life essentials fulfilled, But HOW?! I've had coworkers that need a calculator to add 10+30, divide 200/4 or some shit and customers that can't memorize the address where THEY'VE LIVED for years. You learn that in elementary school, wtf.

[@Threemore650]

When you were a child - that notion held more truth

[@jtee6309]

The federal education system and social media are doing this on purpose to develop generations of idiot government dependents. Don't get it twisted, half this country wants it to be third world because they think they will be the ruling class.

[@henkdachief]

give yourself a pat on the back buddy

[@VDViktor]

@@henkdachief this comment seem to have made you very defensive. I wonder why. Come on, whats 2+2 = ?

[@FreakazoidRobots]

Technology often makes people dumber, or at least more ignorant. You don't need to know much about math if you have a calculator on your smartphone.

[@Elriste]

I was sitting here in sheer dismay until I heard "Isn't the north pole below us?" Then my brain gave up, threw up a blue screen, and crawled out of my head to get drunk at the nearest bar.

[@CarlosThadeu]

Come on, her Earth was just upside down :p

[@uRDM]

well she might've been thinking about that thing where the north part of your magnet is pulled toward the south part of the earth's magnet so things are flipped

[@craigsingleton2006]

I worked at a Long John Silvers, and this old ass lady called and asked how much our baked potatoes were. I had to explain that we didn't sell baked potatoes at Long John Silvers. She asked how much they would be if we did.

[@freedustin]

LJS eh? What are y'all selling exactly? We don't see anybody standing in your lines all week long how do you stay in business?

[@GamingTopTen]

I'm going to use that last line sometime. "Okay okay, but if UltaBeauty DID sell wrenches, how much would they charge for them?"

[@talkingtakotaco8611]

Tree-fiddy. Still. That's hilarious. I should ask people that sometime.

[@Ψυχήμίασμα]

6 billion Euros

[@zoulzopan]

tbf thats a funny question.

[@thebaumer02]

Best question of the video "Do you think it's fake... or do you want it to be fake?" "YES"

[@Jemsy_]

I struggled with math HARD in school, I was so bad that I got enrolled in a double period math class with a teacher and a college student teacher. I hated it so much, but if I didn't go through that, I knew I would have hated looking like an uneducated idiot even more. Two years later, I finally tested out of double math, and I made sure to never end up there again.

[@perplexedcats7687]

Congrats my dude.

[@tear728]

The same thing happened to me in middle school. 10 years later I taught myself half a math degree and became an engineer 😅

[@Draco_Zakai]

Don't beat yourself up too much. It's scientifically proven that some people's brains have a harder time comprehending numbers.

[@BigMeechEJ25]

Good to hear man, I kinda felt the same way when I was younger. I struggled with math and found out besides me not understanding the concepts, that I had dyslexia and would always switch up the numbers and that compounded on the difficulty for me. Eventually I found ways to work with it and have been successful as an adult, but still have to triple check number to make sure I didn't mess it up haha.

[@thomgizziz]

Okay... maybe they should have put you in a communications class because that was something nobody needed to know and doesn't really have anything to do with the topic.

[@CaledonianCraft]

Do you know what the four directions on a compass are? No. Can you name Kim Kardashian's first born child? Yes, North West.

[@Nildebt]

That's a direction

[@paulmilner8452]

@@Nildebt thats the joke

[@michaelklos1]

Woah oh, halfway there...

[@z.e....3175]

​​@@NildebtThats why two of those questions and answers were compared. That's the point. 😭 😭 😭

[@slyktech1860]

Is the second child South East?

[@apeblackberry3641]

This reminds me of my cousin. Once I asked him what was the ship's name in the movie Titanic... and he had no idea, even though he watched the movie and learned the history of the Titanic.

[@rysh0x982]

My dad used to ask new apprentices who started work for him. What's the ship called from that film mutiny on the Bounty. Most couldn't get it

[@KindAssassin-jw4lr]

Ask people if a rooster lay an egg on a gable roof facing north, which two directions the egg would roll!? Many people name a random direction!

[@areoxdeadeye]

It’s obviously the Olympic

[@johncenashi5117]

@@rysh0x982 Never heard about that movie. Have literally no idea what it is. But, just from the fucking sentence a normal person can tell its "Bounty". You have to be extremly bad at everything to not see that. How do people even open doors nowadays?

[@_degen69]

@@KindAssassin-jw4lr When you're asking that kind of question most people will assume that by rooster you meant chicken which means that it can lay an egg and egg can roll in some direction

[@senoritadookie]

The earth now has two "moons" the other one is technically just an asteroid caught in our gravitational pull and lives behind the moon in a perpetually dark area.

[@nocturnal101ravenous6]

"No Child left behind" policy has led to this, because now they get pushed through the system without any kind of standard. Also I would be so depressed I would eventually self delete, this isn't really funny its depressing shit.

[@ian5066]

I'm fine with it. I love less job competition.

[@DDracee]

@@ian5066 half these people live on your taxe money so...

[@SttravagaNZza]

@@DDracee _'AI wont replace anything'_

[@locmari]

@@ian5066 Except these people are going to be working with you, and in some cases these people will be placed higher than you depending on skin color.

[@azpont7275]

@ian5066 You don’t seem to be any more educated... Nothing should be competitive. It’s a capitalism lie. We don’t strive to surive anymore. We need cooperation to achieve great things, not competition.

[@codym5352]

One time I had 2 women come into my job looking for a security camera system, they said " We want 4k cameras, Wireless cyz we ain't finna wanna deal with wires no Wifi or bluetooth cuz we finna don't want them gettin hacked, no batteries cuz we don't finna wanna deal with that, and we finna wanna see the recordings on our phones when we ain't home" and when I told them that's impossiblethey said " Yes it is I seent it on ya wevsite, just get all the cameras out the back we'll look through them ourselves" I told them no and they could instead use one of the display computers to find the cameras they were talking about and if they did I'd get them from the warehouse, plot twist, they couldn't find the magic powered cameras on the website

[@ermanyolcu]

what is finna

[@DjNaste]

​@@ermanyolcudialect of the ignorant.

[@Crushonius]

@@ermanyolcu in black hood street and tiktok jargon they say finna instead of gonna or going to and sometimes it just gets inserted for absolutely no reason at all to sound cool i guess . its like some blacks say axe instead of ask absolutely ret ar dead

[@josephjoestar953]

@@ermanyolcu it's slang for "gonna" (which is slang for going to) but sometimes it has no purpose and is just kinda there.

[@Shopkeeper99900]

Can you name five states? Me: solid, liquid, gas, plasma, Bose-Einstein condensate.

[@pralayaryan]

plasma is not a STATE OF MATTER, can u turn plasma into solid or liquid ?

[@etiennedegaulle3817]

Well look at the brains on Brandon!

[@CirBam24]

​@@pralayaryanYes you can its called ionization

[@gailscrypto1536]

is it depressed, anxious, angry, happy and hysterical? how about drunk, high, sober, tipsy and blackout :)

[@LordLOC]

@@pralayaryan There are seven states of matter right now, solid, liquid and gas are the three most well-known of course. Plasma, Bose-Einstein condensate, degenerate matter and quark-gluon plasma are the other states of matter that we are currently aware of.

[@YangSword9x]

10 Year Doctor Degree Teacher with 60 years teaching experience: "We gonna test your intelligence, & only pass those who have common sense. Ive had enough complaints about me passing STUDENTS WHO KILL THEIR HOSPITAL PATIENTS, BECAUSE THEY GOT NONE!" --ME: FAILS HIS CLASS 2X RE-TRY....IN 2YEARS: "...Answer is a^2+b^2=c^2..."😊 --ALL STUDENTS WHO PASS: "THATS NOT THE, PYTHAGRIAN THEOREM!!! YOURE WRONG! '"🎉🎉🎉 WELCOME TO ASU UNIVERSITY!!!🎉🎉🎉

[@terminalfx]

George Carlin: '..and half of the population is even dumber than that"

[@clipsedrag13]

What happened to the vr headset?

[@RobertPayne556]

Or the HD camera the parents were begging, literally begging for?

[@TopCarsTV]

Dumber than average. I doubt that these picks in the video are the average

[@aggrocd1985]

My father: " most people walking around are complete morons."

[@Riseofziggy]

Please tell me what video that’s from

[@wesrobmat]

‘Isn’t the North Pole below us?’ You couldn’t even script that.

[@owlNolan]

The title says "kids"... not one kid in the video

[@0takuN64]

Technically the magnetic north pole is to our geologic south

[@Juustovastaava]

Americonomics

[@Yophillips3272]

I mean it depends what direction they are facing

[@tonywells6990]

@@owlNolan Americans use 'kids' to denote anyone under 25 (in England anyone under 16 is a kid), which is fine since they all seem to be as smart as 3 year olds.

[@visionhawk4403]

This is part of the reason Trump wants to get rid of the Department of Education and I agree with Vivek Ramaswamy when he said we should have to take a civics test (before a certain age) to be able to vote.

[@overthelight1914]

How would removing the department of education fix this? If anything we need a more robust educational system.

[@oneirotroph]

​@@overthelight1914 It won't, which is why he pushes for it. Uneducated people are his greatest supporters dude

[@mylifeismymisery]

@@oneirotroph im a phd in technical field and his my choice, gender studies are all for biden ofc

[@vennril]

After watching a video like this, I get that it's a tempting thought, but gatekeeping democracy is a terrible idea.

[@phonixfighter7966]

​@@vennril i know exactly where your coming from, but at the same time i feel like this stupidity has to be somehow contained. Definitly think its gonna have some kind of slippery slope once we do start, but im starting to think that would be way better then the shit we have now.

[@DGregster]

"After she gets this wrong, he should ask her if she has student loans." 😂 She's probably respond, "What's a student?"

[@pasmas3217]

in sixth grade i had a teacher that in order to let us go to the bathroom asked us questions questions like "What colour was Tarzan's white horse" or "how many horses drew Alexander the Great's 40 horse carriage"... you would be surprised how many kids did not even get the joke or the answer... edit because some people are too thic... 6th grade is a 12 year old kid. it is an age where kids have figured out that when they are bored in class they can go twice in 45 minutes to the "bathroom" to waste time. and also they have plenty of bladder control, to hold for an extra thirty seconds (if they really need the toilet). I have held my bladder 2 hours so many times during exams and tests. It is neither a 3 year old nor a 87 year old... Also for the younglings, there were times not too far back when we did not have phones as kids and phones were strictly for adults, could only make calls, send texts and wake you up. Also i never said that the teacher would not allow you to go to the bathroom. I said that he was asking such a question. He was asking those questions knowing each and everyone of us, paying attention to us when somebody was just bored and wanted to just get out or actually they had a need for toilet.

[@JayFallout3]

So nobody caught how messed up it is to force someone to answer a question to go to the bathroom. How about Ill answer that as soon as I complete a bowl movement lady !

[@endrankluvsda4loko172]

@@JayFallout3 you are exactly what's wrong with this place.

[@randomlycreative7194]

The questions give you the answer.

[@ThirteenCrows]

@@endrankluvsda4loko172 You are whats wrong. Forcing a child to listen to details and answer a question correctly while they are trying not to piss themselves in front of their classmates is borderline abuse

[@shayla106]

@@ThirteenCrows You clearly don’t understand what abuse is.

[@Strongbadia_The_Free]

I recently went shopping to buy a TV. They only had display models with the tvs you can buy in the back. I went and got an employee (who was doing a TikTok dance like it was her idle animation) and asked her what the resolution was. She didn't understand what resolution meant, I tried explaining what it was and after like 5 minutes she had to go get her manager who immediately said it was 780p.

[@deadturret4049]

That's a pretty shitty tv ngl

[@gaygoddessnamedmadoka2252]

what's up with employees doing stupid tiktok dances i always see this type of employees in malls they're like an NPC at this point

[@gaygoddessnamedmadoka2252]

what's up with employees doing stupid tiktok dances i always see this type of employees in malls they're like an NPC at this point

[@DannyBoy0619]

@@deadturret4049considering there’s no such thing as a 780p tv id say so.

[@mysticstrikeforce5957]

With best buy you think they hire at an ile people know about. Now i see why you barely see any employee's at best buy. There are times where i would make my self i need help and nobody came

[@mraltoid19]

Remember, these people can vote.

[@perlundgren7797]

You think? Saying that they are allowed to might be closer to the truth.

[@Azmania3000]

In Australia (my country) voting is compulsory. Sympathy please

[@tylerswingle9916]

Less than 10% of voters are under 29yo.

[@ceabo4u]

Do ameritards acutally believe their vote matters?

[@matijajuric5479]

Since 2000s i have been worried and wondering how(judging by friends and people around me) we are going to live thru tech advancement.. people will just let go ... More convenience leads to idiocracy... Brain needs to be trained like math.. not left to wither.. look into the eyes of these subspecimen😢 just an empty field of nonambition

[@lorreeandco.7717]

i used to work in an electronics store, you have no idea how many times people would come in with a battery and tell me that the battery stopped working, I am not talking about rechargable batteries either. I mean like "I have been using this battery in my digital camera for the past month and its stopped working".... I really struggled to not laugh

[@tnpcook]

Raiding in FF14 made me suspect this as real, even if it isn't. One boss has the mechanic of extremely basic math and number recognition. "Pick even", or "pick primes", and affords you a big chunk of time. People not only fail this, but complain about how including math is a design failure. I could see arguing it isn't fun. But *failing* it?

[@Aether776]

Tbh in the middle of the chaos that is 14 raids, it's difficult to concentrate at this stuff specially in a time limit.

[@BWA85]

I know which one you mean and I always have a smug look of superiority when I get 2 green ticks,, because I can count to 10 and know what a prime number is.

[@Mariodash23]

Ngl having to do math homework while fighting God would trip up even the buffest of Mathletes.

[@Gnidel]

This might be caused by language barrier. Someone might know what "even" and "prime" is in their native language but couldn't understand it in English.

[@henkdachief]

"even if its real" its obv real if you dont see that, to me you are in the same league as these people

[@wobbles86]

The movie Idiocracy is imminent.

[@mdh1775]

Isn't it weird how true that is? It's amazing how many people talk about the creator of that movie having a time machine. 🤣

[@MunchJinkies]

“The movie Idiocracy IN imminent” You proved your point😂

[@Azmania3000]

Time masheen? Oh Like money

[@Lazerspike]

@@mdh1775 something about predictive gramingpro

[@ThomasOrtizMusic]

It's here already imo

[@konaqua122]

This is why I am not surprised during the time I worked as a contact center agent for a computer company's tech support, and the calls I get was "My computer is not turning on. I've done everything. I even tried to use another socket and it still don't work." And my first reply is always, "Do you see the big circular button on the rectangular box sometimes beneath or beside your computer? Can you press that and tell me if that works?" Them: "Oh, my god. Thank you. I've been trying to turn this computer on for almost a day. True story. "computer" for some, is the monitor, so turning on just the monitor, of course doesn't turn on the "computer." And that's like 20% of my calls during that time.

[@DeepFreeze118]

Bruh, you're joking now, right? Right???

[@aggrocd1985]

Easy job

[@complexity5545]

Man, that is sad.

[@jennyj0007]

I've heard this before. Sometimes that happened to me because I assumed it's automatically on 😂. I'm like why isn't it working 🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️. Stop and check if I pressed the on button 😂

[@-cn2-67]

I've also seen this before, alot of office computers are configured to boot when the monitor is turned on, so I can kind of guess the thought process but still...

[@loganmaximus2160]

The month girl gets 9 out of 12 months and your face is classic when you say, "I think she's the smartest one."

[@deceptivekamatis7906]

as an asian, answers given by the interviewees results to being grounded inside the library until you memorize each word in every book

[@NotLookinGood]

Dude i worked at a tech support for an online banking and a guy called and complained because he thought that the number on his atm card was the amount of money he has in his bank account, i thought he was joking so i laughed and all my coworkers also laughed after i told them. The next day he called another support guy again asking if he can withdraw the money. People like this do exist, i don't even know how this guy survived his daily life and this guy was in his 30s too.

[@Squood]

Idiocracy was the warning of a time traveller.

[@KingDelitaWotV]

Idiocracy was a cautionary tale for the future

[@yepwhatever1142]

Got my Brawndo shirt on

[@Mamami701]

i think that they arent that dumb in idiocracy compared to reality

[@MP_3122]

Bro wait till you find out how dumb people used to be

[@NorthX7]

Idiocracy was a documentary.

[@braynjohnson4302]

I work for UPS. Just saw some dude write “Clyde’s Plain” and “Go Bills” in the grease on the underside of a plane. Dude works with planes every day and can’t even spell “plane”.

[@bored588]

this makes sense, think back to school, think about all the kids not paying attention, being overly loud, eating, looking at phones, or just not being there, these are those kids.

[@nonono9194]

The vast majority of my knowledge I learnt after school, I didn't pay much attention myself there either as the majority of it was utterly useless once you know English and basic mathematics

[@bored588]

@@nonono9194 so history isnt important ? geography ? science ? just english and math huh ?

[@nonono9194]

@@bored588 I can draw the entire world map by memory because of a video game. I know far more than was "taught" at school about history from KZbin, researching myself and video games (EU 4 specifically) - educational institutions also teach a version of history with a singular perspective and narrative, ww2 being a prime example, it's useless to know propaganda. Science is fine for the basics, again the fundamentals - although I've still never needed anything I learnt in science classes The point is is that school is just memorisation, and it's forced "learning" so even if you would've been interested in the topic it becomes dulled, it's trasssssh

[@bored588]

@@nonono9194 ahhh, one of those. pointless arguement, cant teach forest gump.

[@Cortalpsychmajor]

About a decade ago I was chilling with one of my college friends, he told me he needed some science credits so he was thinking about taking chemistry and that he already knew all the elements. I ask him, so you memorized the periodic table? He said "Yeah, it was easy, earth, fire, wind, water." He was 100% serious.

[@DrKritter]

This sounds like a joke lol

[@asmyself4021]

How did he get in the college? 😂

[@shroomer3867]

Bro learned chemistry in philosophy class 💀

[@nebi75]

holy fuck hes the avatar!

[@SunshineLoLypops]

No "Heart" = automatic fail.

[@shawnsmith3959]

In response to Asmon's "How did they get there?" to the stopsign girl, I think it's possible she stopped thinking about the initial question when she tripped herself up on "Octagon is six. No wait, it's 8." and then she sort of replaced the question in her head with the octagon part she herself introduced, and so the question became "what is ... something with 8 sides / shaped like an octagon (called)?" and so stopsign came to mind. At least, that's my best guess as to how your thought process could lead you there. Is it guaranteed that's what happened? No, absolutely not. Is it even probable or likely? Well, idk about that either, really. I'm merely just throwing out a possibility, in response to the "How do you even get to that answer?" I've gotta say though, even if it were hypothetically 5% of the people he interviews that gives some of these wild, out there answers.. You have to remember, these people have the fucking right to vote and choose what laws get passed and shit. And that's beyond terrifying to me. I genuinely think there should be some kind of qualifying exam you're required to take before you should have access to all kinds of things, voting would be one, having kids or even owning pets would be another. A sort of random example of another thing I see/hear so often, is people so proudly proclaiming "It's a free country!" and they literally have no idea what that means. People actually believe that means they have the freedom to do whatever they want. I'm talking about instances as wild as a thief saying this when caught stealing, as if it's somehow related, or they believe it means "everything is free and without cost to purchase or possess" or something. It's such intense ignorance and stupidity it borders on insane, legitimately mentally unwell behavior, like they actually need to be locked up and supervised.

[@DuBariLow]

You can look forward on Brazil if you want. It's basically US without the money and security. So you can have a idea of how it would be if 60%+ of the population were this dumb (which actually happens here on Brazil).

[@MichaelButlerC]

Good point. We have no idea how many people this guy asked to get these responses. And also I noticed sometimes he leads them in the wrong direction very early by saying "yep..." To the first thing they say wrong. I really can't defend them too much though!

[@LaBarata12]

1000% she got there because of Jack Black *FIND AN OCTAGON!*

[@gaugea]

requiring tests to vote is not a good idea, idk how serious u are about that

[@zekmaster644]

They should be sent to Aslume

[@elongatedpikachu4029]

20:57 gets me every time. I’m in tears.

[@SamizzleWren]

"they have no inner monologue" 🤣

[@AlexEternalChamp]

my first job when i was 21 was customer support for AOL. I had a guy call and told me his password wasn't working. I politely asked him to open up a new window in order to recover his password. He told me ok and suddenly went silent. After about 2 minutes i was about hang up when he returned and said "ok its done, but please hurry up because it is december here and i getting quite cold" ......

[@KindAssassin-jw4lr]

Come on, that's a joke, right!? I came across some truly dumb people, but that's just unbelievable! And you told him to open a new window, so he had another window open already!? 😂😂😂

[@Ravager-u2v]

bro I hope for his sake that it was a joke

[@luisgalvan2793]

Please tell me you are joking

[@j4m3sii]

has to be a joke

[@GamerDisturbed]

Oh no...

[@stephenj2014]

The internet, namely social media has seriously melted peoples brains

[@JackTheRabbitMusic]

Question: What’s 10-3? Random answers from Americans: I don’t know. I suck at basic math, however…Kamala Harris is amazing!

[@Dude_Slick]

Octagon... No wait, that's six. I'm fricking dying over here.