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wafflez, (edited ) in What's the simplest thing humans are too dumb to grasp?

Choosing life over taste pleasure. We don’t need to commodify animals.

benni, in What's the simplest thing humans are too dumb to grasp?

When people want to enter a bus, especially a crowded one, it makes a lot more sense to wait for the people who want to get out of the bus to leave first.

This one is so baffling to me, it’s really changed my view of how stupid some people really are. What do they even expect, that the other passengers magically disappear? It’s really not an abstract problem if the other passengers are trying to leave right in front of you. Trying to enter a bus is also not a rare situation, so you’d expect people to understand this at least after the first few times. Unbelievable.

rosymind,

Same with elevators!

v81,

Worst with trains

Skanky,

Or getting baggage from the baggage claim at the airport

Fly4aShyGuy,
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This one so much. How can people not realize if everyone stood back in a larger halo around the carousel, it would be so easy for everyone to get their bag when it’s up. I usually stand back at a distance, and if people have it completely blocked standing right next to it I grab right around them getting uncomfortably in their personal space.

state_electrician, (edited ) in Spotify Wrapped 2023 is out, what's your top artist and top song for the year?

I’m in the top 3% of listeners for Sabaton, but my most played song was 59 times Another Love by Tom Odell. And I’m an alchemist because I create more playlists than other users. Overall I listened to 44 genres.

thenewred, in What inconsequential or surprisingly good thing can I get from Aliexpress?

Diamond sharpening stones. Still waiting on mine but they were cheap and I got the grits I wanted. Somehow I keep ending up putting new edges on knives, chisels, and other blades. I hear diamond stones remove material faster.

middlemanSI, in What's the simplest thing humans are too dumb to grasp?

turn signals

ZoopZeZoop,

Heavy groceries do not go on top of eggs, fruit, etc. Cold groceries together. Dry groceries together. If there’s a bunch of bags inside of a bag, use those before the bag that’s holding the other bags.

Wtf, Publix baggers? I get you don’t get paid 6-digit salaries, but this is not heart surgery.

Pratai, (edited ) in Be honest: if you had the power to stop time, your morals would go out the window.

No, they wouldn’t. Because real life isn’t like superhero shows.

tobiah, in What's the simplest thing humans are too dumb to grasp?

Continued drinking or gambling. They cause huge problems, but the individual tries everything to fix it except for stopping.

Starayo, in What inconsequential or surprisingly good thing can I get from Aliexpress?
@Starayo@lemmy.world avatar

I got some nice keycaps when I was building my first mechanical keyboard. Aside from that… Soldering gear, 3D printer parts… Cat toys, preflashed smart bulbs (so I can use them completely locally with home assistant), magnets… And generally any time I see something on Amazon that clearly is just rebranded Chinese stuff, and I don’t need it quickly, I can find it on there for a fraction of the price.

thisisnotgoingwell, in Spotify Wrapped 2023 is out, what's your top artist and top song for the year?
Spacehooks, in Be honest: if you had the power to stop time, your morals would go out the window.

Just don’t get lost in the Sauce. That was the problem with death note. Keep it subtle and set boundaries.

weeeeum, in What's the simplest thing humans are too dumb to grasp?

Gambling. Everyone knows the house always wins and the exact probability of winning any specific lottery but people can’t grasp this. I don’t know how people look at these massive luxurious casinos and think they win against this company with an unfathomably profitable business model by taking money from people who think they can win.

jimmy_spider,

I think the logic there is not that they constantly win against the casino, but more that they only need to get lucky once or twice. They just see that some people, sometimes win and there is no reason that they would not be the winners. Not sure I’m being clear about it but I hope you get my point.

weeeeum,

It makes it more understandable but I also think of it as “what is going to make ME win versus all of the thousand other poor souls here”

CheeseNoodle, (edited )

I play the lottery a few times a year for the following reasons:
-Permission to dream about what I would buy if I won for a few days
-Justification for bitching about not winning the lottery

bluGill,

Instead of buying a ticket I just search the sidewalk for the winning ticket (that someone else lost) while I'm otherwise doing my normal activities. My odds are winning are nearly the same as someone who buys a ticket, so I can dream just as much - but I can spend the money on something else.

moody,

First, someone has to have bought the winning ticket. Then, that same person needs to have lost the winning ticket. Next, that person has to have lost that ticket near where you are. And finally, you have to find that lost ticket.

So while both situations are very very far from certainty, and both are approaching zero, one of the two is much, much closer to zero than the other.

YoorWeb,

Lottery: tax for dreams.

Cralder, in Spotify Wrapped 2023 - what 0.05% are you in over how many monthly listeners?

Not 0.05% but I was top 0.5% of The Strokes listeners who have 12.6M monthly listeners. Not sure what that number can tell you though

Ringmasterincestuous,

Yeah nothing (the number) really. Just some idea of scale I suppose. But nothing direct or meaningful certainly.

The Strokes is amazing, thought I missed a new album for a second there lol. 😅

Gabu, (edited ) in What's the simplest thing humans are too dumb to grasp?

This is a paradoxical question with no possible answer. If we’re to dumb to grasp it, how could we possibly know that it is in fact simple? Quantum mechanics may well be “the simplest thing” for an alien race, yet none of us would think our inability to fully comprehend it is a sign of stupidity.

dunz, in Spotify Wrapped 2023 - what 0.05% are you in over how many monthly listeners?
@dunz@feddit.nu avatar

I was top 0.5% for ZZ Top, with just shy of 800 minutes.

Ringmasterincestuous,

This is so interesting. What distro are you running? Tehehe!

I’m not sure what I had in mind but I probably wouldn’t have guessed this one was going to be here.

Makes a bit more sense when I think it through (with my incorrect, limited, one eyed perception of the user demograhic)

dunz,
@dunz@feddit.nu avatar

Right now Ubuntu… but I ran Arch(btw) for 10 years before that, and various before that, for 10 years. I just happen to enjoy classic rock… but I listen to a lot of different things. Mostly different forms of metal, but quite a lot of electronica and classical music as well My top genre was stoner metal, I listened to 3298 different artists, and 140 different genres. Like 61k minutes or something :D

synae, (edited ) in Spotify Wrapped 2023 - what 0.05% are you in over how many monthly listeners?
@synae@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

I got top 0.05 of Type O Negative who have 1.5M monthly

Edit to add: 7618 minutes

Ringmasterincestuous,

Wow you made me realise it’s been some years for me (since listening to them). And by some I mean very many! Very cool!

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