No, it's not just you — people really are, per a number of surveys, way less intelligent than they used to be.
  • SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Every generation is more intelligent and connected than the last.

    No corporate media article is going to change that.

    This is laterally just an attempt to make older people think the young are stupid and lame.

  • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    My pin is on mold. So many young people I know today in the UK live around mold or likely have mold hiding somewhere due to living in old buildings, likely because it’s the only choice they have.

    I moved to a new building built in 2019 and my brain fog has lifted. Also having an actual apartment with separate rooms to myself and some space at least without selling my soul has massively improved my mental health in general. 50-40% max humidity is where it’s at. Back where I last lived it was 70-90% regularly.

    Mold and most other “nature-y” horrors are often underestimated by people due to green washing propaganda, but even bleach fumes are far safer to inhale even.

      • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        2 months ago

        Says the mold. Schools are useless shit anyway you learn fuck all apart from how to speak, read, and argue and think and seeing as most people who all go to the same schools with the same programs never learnt it, I don’t think schools have much of a part in it.

    • MichaelScotch@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Or… lack of education? Declining quality of education? Micro plastic is a major problem, but to think it’s the #1 cause of people being stupid is, well, pretty stupid.

      • NarrativeBear@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        It might be the micro-plastics in me making the assumption.

        Never stated it to be the #1 cause, that was your assumption.