First clue that we are dealing with a person who loves to exaggerate.
I’d like to know if you actually believe the rubbish you post. I mean reading your comments indicates yet someone who believes anything they are told because they don’t possess the intelligence to see the big picture.
And trust me – intelligence vs smart is quite different. The average joe doesn’t know this because they want to think themselves intelligent but the main factor of intelligence is comprehension… something a vast majority of people lack [obvious with one’s pathetic driving skills]. On the other hand smart is the ability to learn – our dogs are smart because they can learn tricks, however, occasionally you’ll get an intelligent dog that will learn through trial and error without any human interference.
I mean the average human can’t be that intelligent when piglets in a number of tests are proven to have the same learning skills as 5 year olds.
Yes, there are few very social people who need to connected none stop. However without smart phones they were constantly chatting with someone. We might appreciate them being quite now, just texting.
Remember, every change doesn't bring only disadvantages. There are also good sides.
A few - a joke if there ever was one. Or do you cover your ears and go lala with the thousands upon thousands of similar stories that make the news yearly? Let me guess when ISIS comes on the news you turn the channel or flip to the rag magazine columns on useless celebs.
I bet you could. We can also pull many examples of smart people in action around the planet.
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Like the cop who gave his boots to the homeless guy last year and everyone was jumping down his throat trying to figure out why he went out of the way to do this.
See that’s a funny comment because if humans were by nature good then what we’re seeing nowadays with a considerable increase in crime, domestic violence, child abuse, etc., etc., etc. wouldn’t exist.
We aren’t evolving, we’re de-evolving. That was quite obvious with the slack jaws I passed yesterday, English – Canadian – about 20 years old and I couldn’t understand anymore than 25% of what they were saying because they were using such horrid slang. And I speak slang as readily as proper English seeing as I worked in a mental health center for the criminally insane & at a mall affectionately dubbed the mall from hell in Vancouver because of the sheer drug activity [not even the cops wanted to tangle with those people – and this included Triade and Hells Angels underlings].
You obviously go about town with rosy glasses on cause having lived in Calgary myself [I’ve lived across Canada, in five USA states and a number of European / UK cities] I can tell you the town is hardly a land of gumdrops. I mean unless it was fibs, you’ve got Mexican cartel moving into town.
What would be your solution to deal with simple joe? We can always blame the evolution or god(s) for creating them.
Are you aware of the fact that Alberta in the 30s to 60s was sterilizing people with mental and physical disabilities and I am not talking people in mental hospitals or prison but the general public. However, I seriously doubt you even have 10% knowledge of the history behind your own town.
As it is the simple joe is quite simple [joe]. Welfare and support systems have to be revised – Mike Harris in Ontario wanted the deadbeats tested on drugs & alcohol and to get training/schooling to get them off welfare. He was laughed out of the House of Commons.
However if you look to China it is a devil to get on such support systems – they don’t even spend a quarter of the money the US wastes a year.
It has nothing to do with evolutionary advances, but making new tools which help us live. We also have a choice not to use them.
I had one of these, Motorola flip phone, very durable. Although I praise my iPhone much more, for internet access, gps, maps, translation, voice dictation, music, etc which makes my job much easier and more efficient. It saves me money, enough to buy many of these iphones every year if I lose one. My last iphone 4s worked fine 4 years till I got a new model. I dropped my iphone 3 once, went to the apple store and they replaced it for free!
Since we got MRI scanners, organ transplants, space rockets, smart phones, internet, 24 hour delivery around the world, super computers, flat screen TVs, solar panels, cordless tools, all inclusive vacation for simple Joe, atom reactors, satellites, gps, desalination plants, genetic code sequencing, eradicated polio, fridges that give ice, music in pocket devices. Isn't it impressive?! All in spite of simple Joe stupidity!
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The only inventions you mentioned which were useful was satellites – computers – genetic code sequencing – and ice boxes [fridges]. Other than that the stuff is all toys for the simple joe to be entertained so that they do not pay attention to what is going on.
Who cares if the lion will be extinct in 50 years [if we’re lucky] when the latest Grand Theft Auto was just released. Or the last crappy pathetic acting movie [the stupid Jurassic World for example].
However, you are like the average joe … with the “good”, going off your dreamland mindset, personality of saying who cares whatever will happen won’t happen in my generation let the suckers in the future deal with the problems.
It is not my experience. 5 years in one car with only oil and tire changes. That is impressive! We should mention that today's cars are few folds more complicated with thousands of parts. We also have much more car now than 50 years ago, AC, power steering, windows, brakes, active suspension, 200-300 horsepower, winter tires, navigation, music, fuel efficiency, automatic transmission, and soon it will drive by itself.
Are you for real? Did you happen to go to any education system beyond high school by chance?
The 30s and 50s we were talking of flying cars – the closest we coming to “flying” is a vehicle that when released no one but the rich will be capable of affording yet according to Popular Mechanics everyone was to have such a vehicle.
Have you ever looked at human history or too stuck trying to impress some FB “friends” whom in the long run really couldn’t give a fk about what you do?
Wait don’t answer that because your response proves you haven’t a rat’s ass clue what you’re talking about. Cause the inventions – vehicle and otherwise – of WWII [given what we had to work with] makes what has come since garbage.
Human intelligence has decreased as obvious with the lack of invention / inventive nature in a mere 50-70 years.
And in Cuba, because their economies suck. They also use 50 litters of gasoline or more per 100km to churn 50 Hp. Contrary to what you say they were not good quality either, some of them still run but with constant repairs. The plus side was that they were so simple that only hammer, pliers and roll of wire was needed to fix them.
I didn't say Cuba.
Isn't it the idea of a city to be able to spit on your neighbors? I'm guessing you like living in a village, where you don't need to look at simple Joe every minute.
Goof. Obviously a little simple joe-boy if you couldn’t grasp what I was saying.
But I’ve lived all across Canada, in five US states, and in Europe – even Asiatic countries. I’ve lived in cities almost ten times bigger than the cow town known as Calgary. And you, my friend, are a stereotypical redneck Albertian [ya all great, but we really haven’t a clue about the real world because I live on the same block as grandpa did and the furthest I travelled was Edmonton to live].
Tokyo – Hong Kong – Delhi & Cairo – Berlin – Moscow – New York – San Fran. – Toronto – London [UK] – Glasgow – Shanghai – Beijing.
And those aren’t towns I’ve just passed through visiting, those are towns I’ve lived in for more than a year.
Yes castles and villas were build by rich and they are still standing. Most of simple Joes lived in wooden one room shacks with other 10 members of family. These shacks are all gone that's why you only see the stone castles and villas. 200-300 castles are still standing in America too.
I have a question – did you graduate high school? I mean, I do know Albertians are a little arrogant given as they’re a bit slow, but you’re taking the cake by a landslide.
Or do you think the original settlers to North Americas lived in castles & villas in great droves. I mean I’ve lived in a heritage house – more than 120 years old – in Alberta ironically that was built by a guy who barely had a penny to his name for most of his life.
Or do you think that the homesteads still available – many of which are more than 200 years old – figments of people’s imaginations.
That’s including in the Americas and Europe.
Do you think London [UK] was built by millionaires? Moscow? Berlin? Delhi? Mexico City? Any of the old cities around the world – many that make Calgary look like a toddler in comparison.
It proves that we as a group are intelligent enough to make them.
And yet we have cars, airplanes, computers and smartphones not them.
Laughable – cars? So, do you think that wagons were imaginary?
Computers – are far older than you, simple joe, think.
Smartphones – so? Most smartphones are utterly useless – the only appeal they have above the older phones is that they have games to entertain those simple joes.
The cultures that still don’t use cars, computers, smart phones, etc., etc. in some of the remoter areas of the world have existed for centuries. And when society collapses they’ll still be existing for centuries afterwards while the average “civilized” person won’t have a clue how to survive.
Isn't compassion and empathy part of being human? Would you rather want to have cold and cruel people around?
Laughable – compassion. Let me ask you, jack, when was the last time you helped the homeless guy on the street corner? How about volunteering your time at a soup kitchen? Thought of getting off thy ass and fighting the corruption of ISIS?
And no giving money to charities, etc. don’t count seeing as most of such ventures are scams. If they were legit the problems they raise money for [Africa – starvation] would at least be diminishing rather than increasing.
Has nothing about being cold / cruel – it is all about practicality. But then, as said, you are obviously of the mindset whatever happens won’t happen during my generation so who cares for the long run.
If you weaken the gene pool what are you going to get in the long run? A weak species plagued by disease… this has happened to countless animal species we maintain [cattle, pigs, sheep, grain, crops, etc.] are all pathetic weak examples of what existed but 50 – 100 years ago due to the simple fact we have supported the weak varieties by pesticide, etc. Take out the pesticides, etc. we use nowadays and not a lot of species will be worth the effort of keeping.
This is a new phenomenon of our advanced times, therefor no solution yet.
Anyway, thanks to human genius, in few decades or centuries we can fix this genetic calamities by genetic engineering. We wouldn't need to make such difficult and cruel choices anymore. However, no matter what we do, someone if future will complain that everyone around is beautiful, healthy and smart.
Laughable. You obviously have little idea about genetic engineering legality. It’ll take a long time before the average joe can genetically engineer themselves… however, the people with money will be profiting long before that.
Because they didn't have technology and knowledge to produce enough food to feed 7 billion people. Again, it is something new we face. Giving some time we can clean what we contaminated.
You made another equally ignorant comment with the “world is better” post. I laughed so hard I nearly fell off my seat.
We don’t have enough food – 800 million people go hungry yearly. Nearly 10 million starve to death, lowest stats, yearly.
Returning to your silly naïve “world is better” post and the concept of feminine equality – if female farmers had the same resources / access as male farmers worldwide starvation would be a mere 150 million.
Yet in past history we did much better – Stonehenge for example never would have being constructed had the builders not being well off because all their energy would have gone to survival otherwise [and it has being proven that those builders were VERY successful].
Any of the ancient cities / structures wouldn’t have being constructed had our forefathers being suffering. It would virtually be impossible.
Given time – again, the idiotic comment of let’s leave it for the next generation. Keep dreaming sunshine.
Without global warming we would face new Ice Age. Perhaps you would like it better? I guess global warming have good sides too, and makes plants very happy
Are you serious? Or just that dim?
Australia – California – BC / Alberta – India – China …. are but a few areas which are suffering droughts / lack of water.
Guess what happens with droughts – particularly at the rate they’re increasing nowadays – the plants aren’t “happy”. You don’t get good yield on crop foods which means livestock suffers …. … if it’s too hard, simple joe, that means less food.
In 30 years – 90 years tops – they are saying that a large part of the world will be plagued by droughts. That means as said – less food – means what food is available increases in price. Means more starvation for those that can’t afford those rising prices.
And of course less water resources – for drinking, etc.
