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We are all flawed and incapable of perfection. Even the most intelligent people will have occasional “dumb” moments, and that’s okay. 

However, some of these blunders recently became a topic of discussion on Reddit when someone asked, “What’s the dumbest thing you’ve seen an intelligent person do?” 

One story involved a microwaved fork at a research institute. Another was about a doctor who placed his hand under a lawnmower while it was still running. 

You may laugh at some of these responses and feel bad for a few others. But if there’s a key takeaway, no human is superior to another because each one’s skills and traits tend to balance out somehow. 

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30 Of The Dumbest Things People Witnessed Geniuses Do Support Trump. I'm not saying this in a cheeky way, necessarily, but I have friends and family that will do mental gymnastics to justify supporting Trump despite a *vast* amount of evidence piled up against him. They will then turn around and believe anything they hear about Biden and family without a shred of evidence to support their position. It's baffling. I'm conservative, but the way Trump has hijacked my party with non-stop false claims is alarming. The way he is undermining trust in our electoral system just because his ego can't handle losing is scary. Smart people in my life falling for it really confuses me. Like *how*?! Maybe my assumption that they are able to critically think is vastly inaccurate.

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Libstak
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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And...he is now your next president, after spectacularly failing the first time.

Penny Hernandez
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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And with those whom he is surrounding himself with now, he's truly terrifying.

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Penguin Panda Pop
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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had a weird interaction online about this kind of topic. Someone had posted a video praising the Christian virtues of the Trump. I responded to the poster of the video by asking where in the bible it says it's ok to pay hush money to p**n stars to cover an extra-marital affair. Apparently I'm going to hell now for blasphemy.

Tiger
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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They don’t like it when you point out the truth, they like to stick their heads in the sand and stick to the story they’re telling themselves. So allergic to “woke” that they’d rather say asleep and uninformed 😅 it’s terrifying.

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Cathy Roberts
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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yep. This. I actually had a woman told me the other day. “Oh, he’s not going to do any of those crazy things he talks about he just says those things… And I’m super excited For cheaper gas”. I thought by now everyone understood that the president doesn’t control gas prices, but apparently not. when I told her cheaper gas was not my priority, especially in comparison to the social issues potentially at play she assured me I would care more about gas as I get older. I’m 51.

Gozer LeGozerian
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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Here's to hoping she'll feel the consequences of her dumb actions on her own body. I'm absolutely done being nice to these people.

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Earonn -
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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was born and educated in Germany, and I have to agree. We tried to warn everyone. It's not just what he does, but also the mindset of his followers (for example, google "Dolchstosslegende / stab-in-the-back-legend ). Even the accusations against the groups he wants to use as scapegoats are basically the same. The Proud Boys will become the next SS if Americans aren't careful. Wishing the USA good luck and all the best, from the bottom of my heart.

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Tiger
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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you’re genuinely okay with the amount of proven lies, corruption, scamming, racism, sexual assault, felony charges, childish name-calling, fascism and destruction Trump brings, I truly worry about your intelligence. If you were too dumb to look at the ACTUAL facts (not what the two parties were claiming but the actual facts), you’d know Trump isn’t good for America. Not all republicans are racists, but all racists are republicans - that alone indicates a huge problem in the party.

Kelly Scott
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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

According to these people, the felonies were made up, all the facts about him are made up, and everything is a conspiracy to make him look bad. I tell people he raised the national debt by 7.8 trillion dollars (some reports are 40.43% or 8.18 trillion) and because of his cuts to corporations, Bezos pays less in taxes then 43 million working Americans. But it's like telling cavemen about gravity.

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Gozer LeGozerian
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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Had Biden done even 1% of what DonOld has, they would've had an aneurysm

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Gozer LeGozerian
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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wauw. Your brothers who were born from a woman. Who has a sister. Voted for a rapist. Voted for a man who wants to take women's rights away. I hope you've gone NC.

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Riley Quinn
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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Trump didn't hijack the GOP. The Christian Right/Moral Majority started hijacking the GOP during Regan admin, so this worship of Trump has been a long build up of far-right conservatives ability to install an authoritarian government. Democrats rested on their laurels far too long, making the foolish assumption progress was being made, and we all turned to TikTok and reality TV.

Rod McCrae
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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So, people can have an opinion, as long it is the same as yours.

Murdocksgirl
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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i couldn't agree more with this OP. the mental gymnastics to justify putting a convicted felon in as someone who will restore law and order... !?!?!?!?

Michael Largey
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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Trump's lying doesn't bother his supporters because he tells them the same lies they tell themselves.

Steve Robert
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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't care what his politics are. He's a lying, bullying, convicted felon and rapist, and one of the worst human beings to walk the planet. No decent person should ever support a creep like him. Period.

HolyDiver
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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The amount of people who think their way is right and the other side lives in ignorance is astounding. US Elections haven't been a choice between two excellent candidates in decades. There are a multitude of reasons for people voting the way they did on both sides. There is media manipulation and outright lies on both sides. There is an active smear campaign based on out of context quotes, partial information, sound bites, etc. on both sides. If you think that "Your" side was righteous and anyone who voted against you was horribly wrong and , then you have been fooled by the machine and an active participant in the demise of critical thinking.

Richard Hansard
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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Time to get a grip everyone. Policies matter. Kamala had nothing to say but platitudes. I dealt with Obama for 8 years and Biden for 4. Time to take your medicine for 4 years. Jeez

Nikole
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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"With the vision I'm outlining today, not only will we stop our businesses from leaving for foreign lands, but under my leadership, we're going to take other countries' jobs," he said. "Did you ever hear that expression before? Have you ever heard that we're going to take other countries' jobs? It's never been stated before. We're going to take their factories — and we had it really rocking four years ago — we're going to bring thousands and thousands of businesses and trillions of dollars in wealth back to the good ole' USA."

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Greenmantle
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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It is a massive failing of the education system over there that so many people do not have critical thinking skills. So much valuable time wasted singing the anthem, flag waving, saying the pledge, learning biased history etc and there should be *just* enough time to learn critical thinking skills and reflection.

Bob Brooce
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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Since somebody misunderstood the topic, here it is again: Dumbest Things People Witnessed >>> Geniuses <<< Do

Big Bear Buchko
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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Donald Trump is a rapist. A lifelong, heavily-documented rapist. The fact that so many people were comfortable overlooking that fact, and as such, are wholly endorsing the act of rape... violence is coming. There's really no way around it anymore.

Rafael
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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is not dumb, it is just sad. The reality is that people WANT him and his misogynistic, racist, retrograde and petulant ideas. They sound dumb justifying it by saying "gas prices" or whatever, but they really see themselves in this man, and voted accordingly. Sucks for the 49% of you that have to live with the other 51% (and us from the rest of the world stuck with the fallout), but fascism is just the fashion in America right now.

BrunoVI
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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Believing someone with different values is stupid is a hallmark of stupidity itself.

Nikole
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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sorry we think everyone should have fundamental human rights and the republicans don’t…?

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Divado
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5 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

People were sick and tired of all the dogs and cats being eaten.

TheForrestGreene (he/they/it)
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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i would just like to say, that if i ever had the chance to speak to trump, i would sing the chorus of the song "wolf in sheeps clothing" to him.

Poppy
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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

One of my work friends has a boyfriend who is trans. His whole family voted for Trump despite what it would do to him. They accept him for who he is otherwise but voted for the man who's policies and rhetoric could get him killed.

BeKind&Rewind
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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

NOTHING WILL HAPPEN TO LGBTQ+ PEOPLE unless you are a child. In that case, you will have to wait to cut things off and take cancer d***s. They can't pierce their ears so they shouldn't be able to do a single permanent thing to their bodies before adulthood. That's it.

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Earthquake903
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1 week ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Un-f'ing-believable he got elected again. I resent my fellow Americans who voted for him. Don't talk to me. Don't come near me lest your ignorance rub off on me. I dislike any MAGA supporter greatly.

BeKind&Rewind
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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How can you call yourself a liberal and yet you dislike MAGA supporters? You are the party of tolerance, of Everything Goes, Do Whatever Makes You Happy blah blah... you only mean tolerance when it's something that doesn't anger you!

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Jay Freeman
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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I believe this with EVERY fiber of my soul -- The biggest crisis in this country is a lack of critical thinking. We will only survive as a species if more and more parents raise their kids with critical thinking skills.

Rich Black
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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Elites with college degrees dissing blue collar people of faith. Way to go!

Nicole Weymann
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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Faith" is an argument when electing a church leader. The US are heading the same direction as ISIS and Iran. Way to go!

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Texmaam
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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I can't read any more of this. I'm living it, fighting it, nightmares every night.

WubiDubi
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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He had a good incentive to win, going to jail. Your US is also reminising for something that never was. Our grandparents who served would be devastated.

Tommy DePaul
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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This. I am a lifelong Republican. But I am a Reagan - Bush - McCain - Romney Republican. Not Trump. Never!

Glenn M
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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

imagine, a convicted felon is now president....does anyone else see the problem here?

BeKind&Rewind
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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oddly, I feel the exact same thing about Kamala. I have been an independent but I changed my party this last few years. We have watched the woke left completely throw reason out the window. Kamala raised over ONE BILLION DOLLARS for her campaign and now she's $20mil in the hole. Maybe the US dodged a bullet. We certainly have been gaslighted for years by the media and I love watching everyone find out!

Murdocksgirl
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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Please explain something to me. If you look at the campgain ads for ANY democratic person running this cycle, not a single one of them bring up a "woke" agenda. all of them were focusing on border control and the economy. The only thing that came close was reproductive rights restoration. But if i pull any add that El Cheeto Jefe or anyone in the RNC they keep hammering down trans surgeries that DO NOT HAPPEN IN SCHOOLS etc etc Make the math work because it doesn't work in my brain. I am not trying to be insulting, but please, I am trying to undersstand because what I saw with my own eyes says a different story (and AND it wasn't just me, John Oliver pointed it out on this weeks episode oF Last Week Tonight too)

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Michael None
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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

People hate to be wrong. They hate to be wrong to the point of mental illness. It's called Delusional Disorder. "A delusion is an unshakable belief in something that’s untrue. The belief isn’t a part of the person’s culture or subculture, and almost everyone else knows this belief to be false."

WalterWhiteSavannah
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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Theres a ministry song that would have been perfect for the Trump campaign. "Uneducated and ready for war, indoctrinated the facts we ignore." It's called goddamn white trash, but it's the lyrics that make it perfect.

Nicole Weymann
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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I also like Nerina Pallot's "Everybody's gone to war", though it's about the aftermath of 9/11: If love is a d**g I guess we're all sober, If hope is a song I guess it's all over, How to have faith when faith is a crime, I don't want to die

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Maisey Myles
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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We will have a president who goes down on a microphone and a VP that screws a couch.

SolitaryIntrovert
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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Don't try to show them facts. I made that mistake and got called things that I can't repeat,especially on BP

Earonn -
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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Decent Republicans, as well as decent Christians, learn how it felt to be a German in the past 50 years...and they do have my sympathy.

juni
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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In the past 50 years? You are off by a couple decades. But Anne Frank and Martin Luther King were born in the same year. So I get the confusion.

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Verena
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1 week ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Anybody accepting this voting system, with the "winner takes it all"-system, is not right in their mind.

Nicole Weymann
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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yepp, that system is pure and utter BS. Living in it, however, makes "not accepting it" a moot choice.

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CCLoos
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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I didn't! Canvassed every weekend. Sleepless nights. Disgusting fear mongering. Racist garbage. It's a mess.

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R.A. Haley
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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Smart people voted for Trump. Maybe you should take a hint. The "D" in Democrat must surely stand for Dumb.

Nicole Weymann
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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Interesting interpretation of "smart". The "R" in Republican must surely stand for Ridiculous.

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Colleen Glim
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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Anybody who is gay or trans in the US better watch their backs. It’s not hard to see that they’ll be next on the chopping block. To all the sane people in the US, I’m so sorry. The next four years are gonna suck epically

Piwakawaka
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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Mental health and suicide hotlines had massive spikes after Trumpet won, mostly from LGBTQ+ or their families or teachers.

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shankShaw deReemer
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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My sister is smart. But she's a full-on Trumper. My mom and I just don't understand it. She's a nurse, too, and a woman, so we think she'd care more about women's reproductive rights and such. Apparently not. SMH.

Nikole
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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My mom’s friend in Florida is a retired ER nurse… Guess who she voted for?

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Lisa Inman
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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am right there with you! I am mind blown over intelligent people who follow him like they drank the kool-aid!! It is terrifying!! I still can't get over all of these people saying that they support the side that is for God. I really don't think God is happy about rape, fraud, and someone starting an insurrection!! Is this 2024s new version of Stepford Wives?

Libstak
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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In all sincerity when was the last time Donald Trump Jnr was Not off his face on d***s on any media?

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KDS
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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This election was an IQ test and millions failed I for one can be thankful that I didn’t vote for Trump not in 2016,2020, or 2024.

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i have a relative like this. so i tested the theory to see how far they'd go with it. i told them Biden was caught shoplifting at target and that Trump had promised to personally finance another Home Alone movie on the condition he gets to have a speaking role in it like he did in Home Alone 2, just to see if they'd believe it. they did. didn't ask for video, didn't search it on the news and actually spent the next two hours talking about it as if it were fact. when i came clean and told them i made it up, they didn't believe me.

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At least kamala can fix the country in these 2 months while she's still in charge

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HAhahahahhaha! So are you intelligent enough to re-think where you have failed in your thinking yet?

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America truly is the greatest show to watch every 4 years. The right wingers threaten to rise up in arms, and the left wingers are filming themselves crying and screaming. Both sides talk about the stupidity of the other side and how uninformed they are. But i gotta say that i have never seen a debate on youtube where the left side comes out on top, usually they start screaming and running away. Except if the topic is religion.

Gozer LeGozerian
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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You think people actually losing their lives because of political decisions is funny? Of course a man would laugh about that

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Yet he's been elected for the second time. Maybe they're right and you're wrong?

Luke Branwen
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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wrong doesn't become right, lie doesn't become truth and evil doesn't become good just because it's supported by a majority.

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30 Of The Dumbest Things People Witnessed Geniuses Do I’m an ocean lifeguard - I was driving a truck on a beach that has unstable cliff faces, so part of my job is telling people it’s unsafe to sit under them. I pulled up to a man that was comically sitting on a fallen rock, directly in front of a sign that said, “DANGER FALLING ROCKS.” Warned him it wasn’t a safe area, and he kinda smirked for a second before looking around, and seeing that I was right. He got very, very embarrassed - turned bright red, head in his hands, visibly upset and very apologetic. I told him it’s fine, and that a lot of people don’t think about things like that. He said, “No, you don’t get it. I should know better, out of anyone. It’s not fine. I’m a geologist.”.

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30 Of The Dumbest Things People Witnessed Geniuses Do My psych once asked me what caused my PTSD

As I was telling him, I started crying and shaking.

"Damn I didn't think the question would make you cry" he responded.

THREE PHDS AND YOU DON'T THINK REMEMBERING THE CAUSE OF THEIR PTSD WILL MAKE SOMEONE CRY???

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30 Of The Dumbest Things People Witnessed Geniuses Do Last week I couldn't find my phone, so I looked down to the phone in my hand and started to try the Find My Phone thing when... oh.

(I swear I'm at least reasonably intelligent.).

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30 Of The Dumbest Things People Witnessed Geniuses Do Just this week someone microwaved a fork in the office kitchen. I work at a research institute. Everyone in here has at least a master's in engineering.

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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het
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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Working at a research institute? He was just researching the unknown effects of metal in a microwave. For science.

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30 Of The Dumbest Things People Witnessed Geniuses Do My Dad is super smart. Like... He's a member of MENSA smart, has several patents he wrote when he was in his early 20's, once asked a flight attendant a bunch of weird questions about the plane we were on so he could do some crazy math equations FOR FUN. You get the picture.

But his smarts were no match for little toddler me crying because my toy pony stopped making noise after I brought into the bathtub. Dad panicked, figured he could dry it out.... In the microwave. He did not seem to make the connection that in order to make those noises it had to have electronic (aka METAL) parta inside it. So pony goes in the microwave and a few seconds later it basically explodes into flames. We were both in shock for a few minutes. Surprisingly I stopped crying because it was so unexpected and then Dad taught me about how metal doesn't go in the microwave.

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30 Of The Dumbest Things People Witnessed Geniuses Do Buy a billion dollar platform and tell the main revenue stream to f**k off.

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30 Of The Dumbest Things People Witnessed Geniuses Do My cousin (21) got the highest marks in his A levels and GCSE’s in england, he’s now in scotland studying at one of the hardest university’s to get into, one day he decided to hoover the lounge this is how it went:

*me walks in*

“what are you doing?”

him- “hoovering the lounge?”

me- “you need to plug it in first?”

he was pushing the hoover around the room without plugging it in and turning it on.

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30 Of The Dumbest Things People Witnessed Geniuses Do There's a lot of guys who would never get laid if it wasn't for intelligent women who make bad choices.

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30 Of The Dumbest Things People Witnessed Geniuses Do As a kid I saw my stepfather (a Doctor with several specialist qualifications who did two Masters in the same year on a whim) put his hand under the lawnmower to dislodge something....The lawnmower was still on. He didn't lose fingers permanently but had several months of recovery and skin grafting surgeries. He was academically brilliant but lacked a lot of practical life skills, clearly.

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30 Of The Dumbest Things People Witnessed Geniuses Do My grandmother infamously tried to make an ice cream cake back when those were a new thing in the early 80s. She put ice cream on the cake batter…and put it in the oven.

My grandfather said it was tasty though.

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30 Of The Dumbest Things People Witnessed Geniuses Do Someone with a Harvard PhD in biochemistry told me that it never occurred to them that different colors of Nespresso pods in their office meant different types or blends of coffee. It was just all coffee and sometimes the coffee was good, sometimes it was off, and sometimes it felt like it did nothing. It wasn't until they mentioned the last point to a co-worker, that the co-worker pointed out that this person was in the process of loading a decaf pod into the machines.

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30 Of The Dumbest Things People Witnessed Geniuses Do A cardiologist I worked with was contacted by "Apple" about his computer security. He gave them access to his laptop and was working with the guy to set something up on there when I got suspicious and googled for him. I ran to his office to show him the apple website, saying they would never contact you by phone, and if you do, it's a scam. He immediately ended the call and shut the computer down. He had to make many phone calls and change MANY passwords as it was his work laptop. Thankfully, no harm was done. Proof that even highly educated doctors can be scammed.

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Tiger
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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Honestly this happened with the C-Suite execs weirdly often at my last work. They’d get an email from a strange address saying “Hey this is (CEO’s name), I need you to do me a favour and pick up a bunch of gift cards and send me the numbers” (classic scam) and they kept falling for it 😂 I have no idea why they were making 300x everyone else’s salary.

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30 Of The Dumbest Things People Witnessed Geniuses Do Computer tech here, traveling for work, I checked into the hotel. My room is on the first floor. I get in the elevator and press 1. Nothing happened. I press it again a few times. The other guy in the elevator says "Hey buddy, you're already on the first floor."

"Oh... Yeah."

I was really burned out.

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Ace
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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In most of the world that's normal. Start at the Ground floor. up 1 is the first floor, up 2 is... you get the picture.

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30 Of The Dumbest Things People Witnessed Geniuses Do Physician got a flat on his high end Mercedes.

Mr Fixit decided to take things into his own hands, dismounted the wheel and got a ride to the tire store.

“I need a tire for my Mercedes.”

“Where’s the flat one?” They asked, presuming they could either repair it or get the specs.

“I threw it away, it was flat.”

Dumb**s threw the entire wheel and tire into a dumpster and it was gone when he returned. Car had to be towed, new OEM wheel ordered.

What may have been a $10 flat repair put his car out of commission for over a week and cost more than $1,000. This was in the ‘80s.

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#17

30 Of The Dumbest Things People Witnessed Geniuses Do I once had the great pleasure of getting to ask our very experienced master electrician who had decades in powering giant events but one day couldn't get his computer to boot:.

"Uh, Mike? Are you sure it's plugged in?"(it was not).

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#20

30 Of The Dumbest Things People Witnessed Geniuses Do Go down the entire anti vax big pharma bad rabbit hole. Threw away the free bowl cancer screening kit our government sends out every two years once you turn 50.

Now, she is undergoing chemo for bowel cancer. (Fixed major typo).

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

OK, big pharma bad...but, the scientists who dedicated their life to researching and finding vaccines for so many things are GOOD, stop conflating the 2 just because big pharma are the ones with the resources to produce and distribute the results of all that good work.

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#22

30 Of The Dumbest Things People Witnessed Geniuses Do I knew a many of people completely ruin their future by storming the capitol. Totally smart people. I talked to one recently after avoiding contact with him and he told me about his life since then. He cannot get a job at all no matter what the job is he cannot get it. He recorded it all on his phone so of course the FBI found him pretty easily. Took his phone. But the weirdest thing: he no longer owns a phone. He has like this nokia looking government provided phone that does absolutely nothing but call and text. Of course all messages sent and received are monitored. I literally don’t know how he’s supposed to advance in life like I don’t know if he will ever find a job.

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sadly it seems like they'll all get pardoned now. What a completely fskd up system. Armed insurrection will be forgiven once your demagogue manages to get into power.

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#23

30 Of The Dumbest Things People Witnessed Geniuses Do My friend was dropping me off home after a day of hanging out, and he tried to argue with me on which street that I live on.

Dude is an engineer.

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#24

30 Of The Dumbest Things People Witnessed Geniuses Do Bought balloons for a house warming party, blew them up by mouth, and didn't understand why they didn't float.

Granted, she grew up a Jehovah's Witness and wasn't around balloons a lot.

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They always work that way in the cartoons, so it's not entirely unreasonable.

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30 Of The Dumbest Things People Witnessed Geniuses Do I have a close friend, super smart, always had the highest average at uni, won multiple awards and stuff, and in conversations generally just either knows a lot about any subject at hand, or knows enough from other subjects to draw a probable theory about it. She's also kicking it in every other aspect in life- great girl, kind, humble, caring towards everyone, works out, eats healthy, is always learning a new language or skill, all in all an amazing girl. But I swear on my life, I have never seen anyone with a worste taste in men. Most of the guys she was attracted to/dated were losers, cocky bastards who think too highly of themselves, or just utter scum. I can't even explain it, to me the guys were walking red flags, a waste of a bag for bones.

Luckily, she finally found a decent, smart, caring, well-spoken man. I damn near cried tears of joy when she told me about him. They've been together for a few years now.

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sometimes I wonder if those are cases of what Terry Pratchett described as "jerk syndrome", where a woman is so grandiose that most people would not dare approach her because they think her out of their league, leaving only idiots to ask her out and her being grateful for it because she thinks others avoid her because she's not good enough...

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#26

30 Of The Dumbest Things People Witnessed Geniuses Do He coded a full on website in his notepad, then when he tried to copy it, he deleted everything by accident. guess he was shocked so he immediately closed notepad. then he realized he just ruined his last chance of undoing it.

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I’ve done this (not with a website, but with an entire chapter of one of my novel manuscripts, when inspiration struck and I didn’t have my laptop). The pain is unmatched 😭

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#27

30 Of The Dumbest Things People Witnessed Geniuses Do My mom, who was multilingual, said to me, “Watch out for that ice. It might be frozen.”.

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#28

30 Of The Dumbest Things People Witnessed Geniuses Do Believed she could cure her ALS by having her fillings removed because they contained toxic metals that caused the disease. Spoiler: it didn't work.

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#29

30 Of The Dumbest Things People Witnessed Geniuses Do Try to sand the underside of a fan belt while the engine was running. His index and pinkie finger are the same length now.

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had a friend with a Volkswagen Beetle Old model. The car would not start and she asked a male friend to help. He opened the FRONT of the Beetle and said to her that someone stole the engine. (for those who do not know the old Beetle the engine was in the rear of the car) She was so shocked and went to the police to open a case of a stolen Beetle engine. The police just laughed at her

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#30

30 Of The Dumbest Things People Witnessed Geniuses Do I had the most amazing friend he was super smart talented and rich. But was he a soft touch 3 times he married the same women each time with no pre nup because this is true love this time.

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30 Of The Dumbest Things People Witnessed Geniuses Do My roommate’s best friend was an engineering major. He helped us move our furniture to our upstairs apartment in an old house. Obviously no elevator. VERY narrow staircase. This intelligent person got our couch stuck to the ceiling of the staircase. I was like “I don’t know what you study as an engineering major, but I don’t think this is right.”.

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#32

My brother is one of the smartest people I know, but he habitually eats the onion. Every now and then he comes at me with crazy storys, and then when he goes to show me his source, I can see him notice in real time that his source is the onion, and then he scrambles to find the real article the onion "spoofed" off it. Then he says "I can't find it now, but this one was based on a real event that was slightly less weird!".

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Eats the Onion" is now my favourite phrase of the day.

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#33

In college, I saw a kid who, a year later was among the top recruits into PhD programs in his field, jump off the roof of our dorm building and break both of his legs. He celebrated getting his casts off by jumping off that same roof again.

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#34

NFTs and Cryptocurrency.

NFTs are 2/3 of a trading card: the silly picture and the monetary value. The missing part is the important bit of how they fit into their system, which is what gives the picture meaning and value.

Cryptourrency doesn't have an important part of currency, which is someone legally guaranteeing its value by providing services for it. Faith is great but needs to be backed by reality in some way to be justified.

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1 week ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The smartest people I know/follow online didn’t even bother with NFTs because they saw right through it. I don’t think I know anyone who uses cryptocurrency. My last job (a retailer who sold products worth $50,000-$150,000) spent time and money configuring themselves to accept crypto, but after two years and 0 crypto payments, they shut it down. It all just seems pointless for ordinary everyday average people. Meaning 99% of us on earth.

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#35

30 Of The Dumbest Things People Witnessed Geniuses Do I saw a doctor walk right into a window at Panera Bread one time. I guess he thought it was an open door.

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm not a doctor but I do that with my own sliding glass doors to my back deck.

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#36

30 Of The Dumbest Things People Witnessed Geniuses Do My mother is a college professor and has a PhD but still believes in various kinds of pseudoscience.

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Don't feel bad. Jill Stein graduates magna cum laude from Harvard, also graduated from Harvard Medical School, practiced medicine for a quarter century, and now refuses to state that vaccines are safe and efficaxious. [sigh]

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#37

30 Of The Dumbest Things People Witnessed Geniuses Do Try and get toast out of a toaster with a metal knife.

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I did this once when I was about 11. Was a fork, actually. Yes sparks, no shock though.

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#38

Join a cult.

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1 week ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I knew a woman escape one cult, only to join another a year later. After escaping the second cult she was convinced by a televangelist to send money she could not afford to him. Because Jesus would make sure she got the donated money back tenfold.

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#39

30 Of The Dumbest Things People Witnessed Geniuses Do A senior physicist trying to go his lab on the edge of an area with chemical hazard warning lights flashing. It turns out that it was a false alarm, but the readouts were a gaseous chemical leak of the "melt your face off" variety. The people he wanted to talk to had definitely already evacuated.

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#40

Before banks were all electronic, my mom would write a check, knowing it wouldn't clear before the welfare check rolled in. Always one day away from check fraud.

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#41

30 Of The Dumbest Things People Witnessed Geniuses Do One of my schools mates dad was a professor at a top university in economics. He did a lot of traveling giving speeches. Anyway, he decides to go walking on his own around a township in Johannesburg at some hour of night.

He was luckily picked up by a passing police car, and the officers were apparently having a meltdown at how stupid it was to be around that part of town and at that hour.

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

To he honest, not everyone grasps that some areas are just too dangerous to go alone at night if they are from areas where it's safer. I walk freely at nights alone as a woman here in Finland every other night or so (returning from evening shifts), so I might make some mistakes according to safety. (But probably don't because I read the news.)

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#42

One of the programmers at my work was trying to connect his computer to the projector in our conference room. He was trying to plug the HDMI cable into his Ethernet port and asked everybody in the room why he can't connect to the projector.

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Tiger
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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Durrr why square peg don’t fit in round hole? 🥴 (or I guess rectangle in square-ish hole)

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#43

Waiting hours in line for a store opening.

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Tiger
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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I see people waiting in line for hours for the soup kitchen to open because sometimes it’s first-come-first-serve and they sometimes run out fast :(

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#44

Knew a guy who was a robotics enthusiast who was honestly on his way to working for a place like Boston Dynamics. However, he never seemed to realize that his GF was a manipulative psycho and stayed with her for years.

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#45

I knew an orthopedic surgeon who fell for a pyramid scheme.

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1 week ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My best friend from college is now a doctor. She also sells Arbonne.... Although she doesn't have a down line or push the products obnoxiously.

#46

Read a horoscope.

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1 week ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Make sure you avoid travel for the next 2 weeks, Jupiter has the zoomies 😂 I can’t take horoscopes seriously but they’re fun to read, they’re like fortune cookies lol

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#47

30 Of The Dumbest Things People Witnessed Geniuses Do Smoke.

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Again, this has nothing to do with rational thinking, and everything to do with emotional needs. As with all d***s, tobacco use is due to factors like stress, emotional turmoil, and having to live in difficult conditions that are beyond one's control.

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#49

Push on a pull door.

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I pull on push doors, push on pull doors and when I finally get it right, the damned thing is locked.

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#50

Vote conservative.

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with being conservative (I say this as a pretty liberal person). I think there’s definitely something wrong with taking away women’s healthcare so they die in hospital parking lots, attacking LGBTQ people and removing the spaces and services they need, villainizing POC and immigrants and calling adults who disagree with your policies childish petty names. I’m 100% cool with mature, rational conservatives. I’m not okay with the hateful racist ones.

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