Reposted by @lafrad.bsky.social
Hot take: I don't think social media made people dumber. We've been dumb this whole time.
It's just that you used to have to have a job that people sent their dumb letters to, to notice.
This made "Engaging with fools" an occupational hazard rather than the 24/7 experience it is presently.
![Comic. [Sign above four people. A person sits at a desk working on a laptop. A person with ponytail is talking to person with white hat. A person with short hair walks away.] SIGN: It has been [-0.00000000000000044] days since our last floating point error](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreifrf3ayk2vpoka4s35aamdjbub5fcd62ou5zihkzfcj4neth3v27i)
