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That's what the ? mark was for, because beatniks are generally too high to take seriously, except about the brown acid

I like the point about trying to remove "sexist" pronouns as Orwellian, I hadn't thought of that before. It is Plus-Good.

Also, I use guy as a gender free pronoun in its singular anyway.

If feminists didn't spend so much time on pointless grammar changing the glass ceiling probably would be gone by now.

Eh, who ever said anything about coming together and collaborating ? Stigmergy works regardless, it can even make telepathy look awfully impractical and clumsy. The Revolution will be decentralized (and profitable).

Yeah, but The Machine uses stigmergy as well.

Discordians should stick apart ?

The old, "This is Your Life" speech from fight club. 

Anyway, the intro actually got me thinking:

This is a counterthought of a much older post of mine where I called upon the statistically-expected geniuses of the world to Get Up And Do Something Already: with 6 billion people alive, we should have about as many Great Artists / Scientists as there have been during the last several millenia, yet we don't, so I shall blame them for their own inaptitude at living up to my mathematically-backed expectations of them. This text thakes the opposite stand: that we do not have those many geniuses, and why. Maybe playing on those two conflicting views can bring something up in unsuspecting readers ?

I'd say the problem is that it is too hard to collaborate, sure together all the genius's may stand a chance in a revolution, but unfortunately it is much too difficult for them (us maybe?) to come together. Plus add to the fact that even the great minds of the world have shrapnel in them that will stop them agreeing on issues, everybody has had some level of brainwashing performed on them.

Okay, firstly as you said dictionaries will be stuffed up, that would be a major problem. Even with online dictionaries, there would be a problem, because you would have, at least, 10 different ways of spelling the one word. So the entire thing would get extremely messy and take up way more space than needed, which in turn would cost people money.

Secondly, even with people using the same pronunciation when speaking, there are still several ways of writing the one word. If we take into account the different pronunciations, some words will have so many spellings it would be ridiculous.
And then on top of the differences of Tomayto and Tomahto, you have differences of where to place the emphasis on certain words.

Also, I'm sure people remember that internet thing, where it pretended that it didn't matter what order the letters of a word was in, as long as the last and first letters were in the right place. Now, I know that it is bullshit, but it has some truth, we don't always look at every letter in a word when reading, so such a system of phonetically spelling would just make reading more difficult, and harder.

Furthermore, misspellings would become a nightmare.

for instance, retyping your sentence:

dere is no roolx u r fere, if audients undrsatnd then langwoth is suxefssool

Plus add to that homonyms and the like, then you have no idea WTF you are reading.

Oh and let's not forget overly long scientific words.

Oh, and also, sometimes I may come across a word that I don't know the exact meaning of, but I can pretty understand because I consider the roots of that word, which would be fucking difficult under that system.

[/crazy rant]

i see these dumb American interviews done on a bunch of different shows (tonight show, Sean hannity there was even a game show, street smart)  and they all get morons i suspect they all edit for entertainment and shock value, they never show a smart American. if i had my tinfoil hat on i would say it was a conspiracy , but since i am in a more reasonable mood i will chalk it up to advertiser driven ratings..

Oh I agree, it surely had to be edited for content. However, that even one human believed a triangle to "have no sides" or one, seems troubling to me

i agree "scary" but why don't they do dumb Canadian, EU, African, Australian shows ? if they can find one American that stupid the same is probably true for the world. humanity should be a wreck in equal proportions .with  money/ratings and stick-it to the yanks fever i doubt i will ever see one.

Actually, the Chaser team (the guys who made the vid) don't always go after stupid Americans, but most of the time it is easier to laugh at people in the US (as it was made by Australians)

Hmm, how about an official looking sign, like the cellphone one that says:
This is federal property, any unauthorised persons found trespassing will be detained

Or something similar, placed at entrances to parks, malls, etc

Nice!
If only I had a colour printer, 

Those that do see it coming generally realise that they can't stop it anyway

Just grab a surfboard and enjoy it

but without the lulz it is all just

if you ignore the mirth side of horrormirth it is all too depressing

It's not enough to consider your mind a blank slate. You have to consciously erase it.

I particularly like this quote.

Just tried the Peppery Chicken Boobs^TM
Fucking Awesome!

Isn't that the job of Anonymous?

They finally wised up? 

Also, big-bang wise, last time I checked it hasn't really been proven, at least not to the extent of evolution, but it is the best theory we have at the moment. Of course singularities have always been fucked up.

[the american empire is crumbling, almost before it's even got started]

It strikes me as amusing that it was christianity which, even if it couldn't take all the credit, certainly played a huge part in overseeing the demise of the roman empire and now, as the american empire is crumbling, almost before it's even got started, we see the cult of jehovas bastard zombie, rearing it's retarded head again.

Nah, I think it's just that empires don't last as long as they used to, just like wars don't last as long as they used to, seeing as though it is easier to kill people and help the prols rise up.