• TexasDrunk@lemmy.world
        37·
        2 months ago

        I am always shocked to find out how many engineers are hard right wing. Even more surprising is how many of them are legit insane conspiracy theorists. Not even like mainstream stupid conspiracies like pizzagate. Like ancient aliens built the pyramids to capture Elvis and Batboy to force them into gay marriage before changing both of their genders so that they’re in a double gay marriage then force them to write children’s books so that the children will willingly go with the aliens conspiracy theories. Shit that’s so complicated that there’s not enough red yarn in the world to connect it together.

        • yogurtwrong@lemmy.world
          101·
          2 months ago

          I swear this always happens to intelligent people when they age

          Me and my best friend are both gifted kids. Our families are all very smart people and so his mom and dad but for some reason, his mom is a really conservative conspiracy theorist (chemtrails, bill gates and the jews stuff) and his dad has weird spiritualist beliefs and rituals (cult inspired from buddism I think? I’m not sure) even though such stuff is forbidden under islam

          Recently his mom randomly showed us a video where “they” are “vaccinating the fish”. I was going to burst into laughter if I didn’t hold myself so hard. My bestie is a progressive leftist, he believes in science, and he has a very materialist point of view. He says it’s sometimes embarrassing for him when his family members do such thing in public

          And the weirdest part is these are not caused by cognitive decline due to age. They still do understand everything pretty good and they can still process new information in a much more efficient manner than “average” people

          My main idea about it is that skepticism can sometimes be a curse for boomers who did not have a source of knowledge to base their skeptic ideas on, and they are just not used to accuiring reliable knowledge from the web. Reliable knowledge often being in English and majority of boomers in my country not knowing English also contributes to that

        • aesthelete@lemmy.world
          6·
          2 months ago

          Shit that’s so complicated that there’s not enough red yarn in the world to connect it together.

          Sounds exactly like the type of software an incompetent software engineer spits out.

        • MrMukagee@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
          4·
          2 months ago

          I met a mining engineer once who believed in flat earth … I debated with him for a while for fun because I thought he was joking. Half an hour later I realized he was serious.

          I had to laugh because at one point I told him that if he honestly believed all this, his work place hazard in mining would be that he could drill right through the plane of the earth and fall right through into infinity … or onto the back of a turtle.

      • Takumidesh@lemmy.world
        31·
        2 months ago

        Ok but linear equations are like early highschool, like the slope intercept y=mx+b and all that. I would hope that most people at least know of them.

  • Cyrus Draegur@lemm.eeEnglish
    718·
    2 months ago

    Also apparently basic sanity.

    No one in their right mind wouldn’t want to punish the Republican party - especially to death.

    Yeah. It needs to die.

    The GOP needs to be taken out to the gravel pit and fed very fast, very hot buckshot until it stops moving.

    But because we can’t get away with using that weapon to do the job, we’ll just have to use these icky Democrats instead. Even though the Democrats don’t WANT the Republican party to die, we are using the tools we have to do what must be done.

  • Serinus@lemmy.world
    17·
    2 months ago

    Any source for this? It wasn’t today’s comic.

    The image is hosted on xkcd.com, but I expect there’s some article with it?