#dumbification — Public Fediverse posts

If Netflix produced a remake of Jaws today:

"We're gonna need a bigger boat... because this shark is very big. Yes, it's the shark who ate all these swimmers the other day, so we went on this boat to hunt it down. But the boat is probably too small, because the shark is bigger than we thought."

#movies #Netflix #Dumbification

We have reached the era where I don't dare make a joke about cooking something with olive oil, rice oil or motor oil, because I fear some 'genius' will actually try the latter.

#dumbification

Twice this week, I had people telling me, about completely different things: "this is a bad design because people who don't want to bother to learn how to use it won't be able to use it." And this, my friends, is exactly why the world has become stupid and we can't have nice things.

#stupidity #design #dumbification

$148 million slashed from #NSW #publicschools funding as deputy principals forced back to classrooms. #freeeducation #dumbingdownofsociety #dumbifytheworld #dumbification

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-10/nsw-public-school-funding-to-be-slashed-by-148-million/103688640

#Australian #universities have been a hallmark of equal opportunity since the #Whitlam #Labor government abolished fees in the 1970s. The aim was to allow the growing population of young Australians to get a higher #education – based on their merit over their money – and without the threat of financial ruin.

“We are all diminished when any of us are denied proper education,” #goughwhitlam told parliament, and the economy for a period gained a highly skilled workforce unencumbered by debt.

But now university enrolment growth has slowed, and degree completion is the lowest it’s been in almost a decade. #dumbification

https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjvx4q/why-are-australian-universities-bad-now