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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

Believing the earth is flat

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

People who are proud about their lack of knowledge on a topic as if that somehow means that they were not programmed prior to the encounter.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (17 children)

Being poor or lower middle class and voting for right wing/conservatives. You essentially give away your hard earned money and give it to ultra rich and worsen the quality of your life.. usually because the right wing scares people to be afraid of other people and new phenomena.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not learning from history.

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[–] Fandangalo 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’ll take β€œpoorly educated” over β€œeducated and unwilling to learn or grow.”

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Referencing the Dunning-Kruger effect in casual contexts. Most people who refer to it, have not really read about it enough to be qualified to use it.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Listening to loud music without giving a shit about the neighbours.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (9 children)

MAGA Hats. Those people are dumb by choice. And that's less forgivable than people who just don't know any better.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Using an apostrophe in plurals. Don't know why but this one drives me insane.

Also they're/there/their and you're/your

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

People who think their dialect or language style is grammatically correct and others are wrong, because they don't personally known the grammar rules of any other dialect or language. They don't understand that language is alive and evolving and that the purpose of language is communication.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Breaks for brakes, loose for lose.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just pointing out that not everybody who can't spell shit is poorly educated.

Dyslexia, ADHD, having a different native language, ducking autocorrect, ... Lots of reasons.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Being intolerant of those who don't think like you do.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Those who always put loud music or talk as if they were alone in the bus/public places. Always the same people

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Personal use of proprietary software in the 2020s. Or running a company to be completely dependand on dozens of unreliable and expensive proprietary software vendors.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

"but I have already learned Photoshop workflow..."
- my friend that uses it only to make memes

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It depends on how you interpret "educated". If including things that aren't learned on school: I think that fallacies, rushed certainties and decontextualisation scream "this individual was so poorly educated that they never learned how to think."

I think that everything else can be derived from the above, shitty moral premises, or a mix of both.

[–] stevehobbes 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Per say is a giant pet peeve of mine.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Would of. Mother. Fucking. Would of.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Using terms like 'u', 'ur', etc when writing. No one charges by the letter, it's simply lazy.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Doesn't this depend on the stylistic environment of the text? Personally, I'd consider it alright given that the sender and the receiver are in a casual relationship. It only makes one seem uneducated if they are using it in a more formal, or perhaps a public context.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

regurgitating talking points from a third party and the inability to distinguish between divisive issues and issues of difference. I

am a college professor and pastor and when I teach theology there is a crazy high instance of people who just spit out exactly what their favorite celebrity pastor says and immediate decide that it trumps whatever you are saying. Then they are unwilling to yield any bit of their position and get offended that you disagree.

disagreements do not need to be so divisive. The constant need for affirmation shows that you actually have no idea what you are talking about

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Nah, addiction plagues the well and the poorly educated. I was acquainted with a couple of Nobel prize winners who smoked like chimneys.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Confuses to, two and too.

Also their, there and they're

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