Re: Oh, Randy (Borderlands 4 edition)

On 27/05/2025 17:05, Zaghadka wrote:

Ima go with Something Awful's tagline: The Internet*makes* you stupid.
 People who live entirely on their phones are getting dumber all the time.

I'm not sure the internet, well social media, makes you dumb. I'd probably say that instead it's brutally highlighted how people are willing to believe things they see if they support what they already believe.
As an example, during Brexit a reason of why we should leave the EU was a ruling under something called the ECHR which was supposed to have said that someone couldn't be deported as they had a cat. Now you think that people would look at that and think that can't be true (it wasn't of course*) but I heard people who were anti-EU repeat it and how the EU were dictating our laws. The other problem with it, just because the E in ECHR stands for European doesn't mean it's part of the EU. The amusing part is the ECHR was described by Winston Churchill as one of his greatest achievements - you don't get much more British than that.
*The actually truth was that it was a guy from Colombia that had over stayed his visa as he'd met someone who he then ended up living with for several years and still did. The cat part was a very minor detail that was included to help demonstrate that they were in a committed long term relationship. In summing up the judge quipped that Colombia would be safe from the mouser.