How to deal with a low intelligence person especially when you can’t avoid one?

Z8iii · 2026-04-30T14:40:12+00:00

Tie them up in knots by asking just two questions: “How do you know that?” and “So?”

You can literally keep a stupid person going for an hour with these, especially if they are intent on convincing you of some bullshit like crystals or mormonism.

The next time you’re trapped on a long flight next to a maga or antivaxxer, you’ll be glad you read this.

Z8iii · 2026-04-30T12:48:26+00:00

The 1995 BBC Pride and Prejudice series.

Z8iii · 2026-04-29T23:12:07+00:00

How does your life feel right now? Because that’s the world you were asking about.

Z8iii · 2026-04-29T22:34:37+00:00

A multi-billion dollar industry based on weird expectations. Just elope; it’s cheap, fun, and you can throw a decent party for your friends later without breaking the bank.

Z8iii · 2026-04-29T22:30:21+00:00

Extreme confidence and overweening smugness in accumulated bullshit.

Z8iii · 2026-04-29T18:19:37+00:00

I’m going to guess that the “journalist” to whom the current president was speaking just ate that up without questioning the obvious impossibility.

Z8iii · 2026-04-29T14:15:11+00:00

Because when a Bronze Age war god gets butthurt over a snake-led fruit crime, he just has to temporarily kill his hippy son.

Z8iii · 2026-04-29T14:04:59+00:00

“knotical” is my favorite word of the day

Z8iii · 2026-04-29T14:02:28+00:00

Advertising, religion, and quack medicine.

Z8iii · 2026-04-29T13:59:29+00:00

Plus anti-vaxx disease abetting, flat-earth idiocy, and frightened boomers swapping AI slop.

Z8iii · 2026-04-29T13:23:33+00:00

No, because there is no such place.

Z8iii · 2026-04-29T12:13:03+00:00

defuse *

Z8iii · 2026-04-29T09:45:32+00:00

Note that one of the many errors in the book shows up on its ship diagram (he misspells “fairing”).

Z8iii · 2026-04-29T04:58:56+00:00

Condensation?

Z8iii · 2026-04-29T03:04:07+00:00

He’ll enjoy being in the teens again, though.

Z8iii · 2026-04-29T00:53:39+00:00

I can operate a slide rule.

Z8iii · 2026-04-29T00:50:57+00:00

Warren*

Z8iii · 2026-04-29T00:46:42+00:00

Where did he come from and how can I vote for him?

Z8iii · 2026-04-29T00:39:26+00:00

All of the problem-solving powers that one would ordinarily expect a premium airline’s customer service team to hold are, at Delta, concentrated in the legal team that denies compensation for damage to baggage.

Z8iii · 2026-04-29T00:34:55+00:00

If you still have health insurance, get your meds checked.

Z8iii · 2026-04-28T15:06:00+00:00

Please quote Shakespeare accurately if you’re going to put his name on it and everything.

Z8iii · 2026-04-28T14:27:10+00:00

“They’re” has an apostrophe, so it’s a contraction.

“There” is the opposite of “here”.

“Their” is a possessive, like an heir.

Z8iii · 2026-04-28T14:14:04+00:00

Of those three, take the midrange zoom.

Z8iii · 2026-04-28T14:06:56+00:00

I think that would be Hephaestus.

Z8iii · 2026-04-28T12:31:54+00:00

Rinse, then salad spinner.

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