No, it's not just you — people really are, per a number of surveys, way less intelligent than they used to be.
  • @[email protected]
    4•4 days ago

    My pin is on mold. So many young people I know today in the UK live around mold or likely have mold hiding somewhere due to living in old buildings, likely because it’s the only choice they have.

    I moved to a new building built in 2019 and my brain fog has lifted. Also having an actual apartment with separate rooms to myself and some space at least without selling my soul has massively improved my mental health in general. 50-40% max humidity is where it’s at. Back where I last lived it was 70-90% regularly.

    Mold and most other “nature-y” horrors are often underestimated by people due to green washing propaganda, but even bleach fumes are far safer to inhale even.

      • @[email protected]
        1•4 days ago

        Says the mold. Schools are useless shit anyway you learn fuck all apart from how to speak, read, and argue and think and seeing as most people who all go to the same schools with the same programs never learnt it, I don’t think schools have much of a part in it.

          • @[email protected]
            1•4 days ago

            I read this in a dumb voice in my head, it sounded kinda like goofy but like, lower pitch. So I’m gonna say you’re wrong, and I’m the smarterest bye bye XoXo

        • @[email protected]
          7•4 days ago

          Schools are useless shit anyway you learn fuck all apart from how to speak, read, and argue and think

          But this is precisely a failure of education. We don’t pay teachers well so there’s no incentive for good ones to stay.

          Class sizes are too large so individuals can easily fall behind unnoticed. Or the opposite, talented kids get bored and aren’t challenged because the class can only move at the pace of the slowest individual.

          Too much of education is steeped in tradition and no attempts are made to make the syllabus relevant to the real world.

          Schooling isn’t tailored to the individual so you’re forced to learn the way your teacher dictates when an alternative approach may suit you better.