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Aug 11, 2023 3:37 PM
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FiftyShadesOfMascarpone
It's "sapiens" in both singular and plural. Present active verb tense (the "-ing" form) of the Latin sapio, meaning "wise" or "to discern". Homo sapiens = the discerning human.
namelessone
I'd like to think the woman with the zoo anecdote knew what she was talking about
WorksOnMyMachine
db629
RedTailedHawk
kidtutty
What future? We've got front row tickets to the series finale, babyyyyy
badatediting
rukeman
"Let'em die. Save the humans."
Alurkerforcedtologin
To be fair to the one woman who once saw a homo sapiens picking his what--dilly at the zoo, I've seen this myself as well. It isn't pleasant.
HapilyDamaged
LuLuPennyAndOdium44
Some people pay money to see homo sapiens picking their what-a-dillies
jacblake
At the zoo, on the bus, in the mall, on the tv during the Presidential debates…
thedarktowerguy
I've seen it on a NYC subway.
QueefMalone
RoyDMercer
Scary.
Exdeath5000
I don't like very many homo sapiens so my close friend circle is very small
HogWashDiddler
But do they pick their what-a-dilly's? Thats important i hear.
AlmostHappy
Well, most hairy homo sapiens I know do…
usernametakenisthestoryofmylife
Right?! My non-homo-sapien friend is my dog.
kiwicantab20116
Idiots gonna idiot.
ghsdkgb
What the fuck is wrong with just saying, "I don't know what that is"?
thedudeman519
It doesn't make for "good TV"
Iblamemyparentstoo
What? And look stupid?
DukeDarkwood
"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt." - Attributed to Abraham Lincoln (since as early as 1923), but the earliest provable source is someone named Maurice Switzer in 1907. (And, for all we know, it may have been inspired by older, differently-worded sayings. Or maybe not. Who knows?)
Trollingstoned
I'm guessing a good lot of them didn't understand the question clearly. But yeah, they chose to show the most entertaining uneducated ones.
donorkort
Americans aren't wrong, they're 'temporarily embarrassed'. It's a cultural thing.
Psilocybinaut
Temporarily embarrassed homo sapiens
barnwolf
Fake it till you make it.
DarkwingDuc
The people who said that don't make the edit. If you go around anywhere and ask enough people questions, even if the vast majority give intelligent answers, you're always going to find a handful who are idiots or who are just woefully confused on a given subject.
MrBrainslowski
Dunning-Kruger entered the chat
IWasACatAllAlong
It's more popular to shit out your opinion, than it is to ask a question.
NaughtButOne
It's important to remember, they might have had 200 people say as much. You're only seeing the ones they selected to show you.
zHurk777
Most of them are Americans, so nope.
Booyah719
Haha yeah only ONE country in the entire world has stupid people!
ghsdkgb
Sure, but even for those few, what the fuck is wrong with just asking for clarification?
montyman185
It sounds like these people had something specific in mind. That's an easy enough mistake to make, mishear something once and just never get corrected on it, or told something wrong by someone else who had that happen. It's people just making shit up instead of admitting they don't know that sucks.
SleepyHollowAppleTree
CaptainTypo
The Republican plant to "keep 'em ignorant so they're easy to fool" is working way too well.
Rogahar
Yeah I dont see this as "people are stupid", I see this as "education standards are low enough to allow this to happen often enough that this person was able to find multiple people in one day who didnt know it just meant 'humans'."
squigglebaketerraform
I've been to school. Trust me, there are plently of people deliberately trying to not let anything sink in. It's a weird "popularity" thing.
Rogahar
And there always have been, but without seeing all of the (probably cut) people who knew what homo-sapiens meant to compare to the eejits that we do see its admittedly difficult to judge how common this problem actually is from this clip.
StabbyMcMurder
That's no way this isn't satire. You can't convince me. I don't want to be convinced.
ShoopDeDoop
were* satire
Illithidbane
I mean, "homo sapiens" means wise humans. But we've learned that at least 1/3rd of our population is neither wise nor capable of empathy of social cooperation. Perhaps they aren't "homo sapiens" after all, but rather "homo egoisticus"
Thorketil
Sumdumguy42
These people vote. It’s important we vote, too, to keep teaching those that come after us.
kkanne20
thisisausernamelikeanyothersbutthisonesmellsweird
xizar
I mean... some of them aren't wrong. They're big, hairy, prone to picking their what-a-dillys. We don't need 'em, though, so let 'em die.
RicheTheBuddha
Are these lizard people?
DuelingBrothers
I also don't care if homo sapiens go extinct, but I know what that word means. GO COMET GO!
crossingdynasty
igiggledtoohard
mmckee44
While there are a lot of stupid people out there, let's not forget that when videos like this are made, all the people who DID know the facts accurately don't make it to the screen. Plus, I can see where someone on the street in front of a camera might have a "brain fart" and answer like one of these people because in their nervousness, they were thinking of a different definition for the term.
MissChickle
"Name a woman!!!!"
mmckee44
Is this a social media reference I'm missing?
MissChickle
Just search YouTube "name a woman" - it's Billy on the Street if you can't find it. Short video.
mmckee44
Thank you. I now feel more complete as a human being on social media.
erincpotterart
Shah hahah
DrewThe3DPrinterGuy
Wait till they find out about dihydrogen monoxide!
michiyl
That's the stuff that turns the frigging frogs gay, ain't it? Not gunna touch it, no-uh!
Ijustwantquiet
Or that there is premium air. Sshh. Keep it quiet.
llortamai
BellsTheorem
That shit is deadly.
petresun
Oh, don't breath that stuff. Bad news.
sadurdaynight
That stuff is so powerful it's called the "universal solvent", yet billions of people drink it every day! People drinking solvent! CRAZY!
pxlphile
So many deaths to that shit. It's basically everywhere in this planet!
JacktheKind
I want to hear the question they asked them now
vonkeswick
One time I accidentally inhaled a small quantity of it and almost died!
aloharamada
Water you talking about?
HaniiPuppy
Hydroxic acid is the real killer.
CeterumCenseo
It has a pH of 7, that's the highest pH of any acid!!!!1!11!!one!2
jacblake
Or the nitrogen gas that everyone is breathing!
alchemist12345
and nitrogen is an essential component in many explosives! Speaking of explosives, quack docs give you nitro for heart problems!
lorilith
if its good enough for hot rods, its good enough for my heart!
HollowmanZU
100% of people ingesting that die! Scary shit yo!
JustTryingToLiveLife
Everyone that breaths oxygen will die, scary right
QuigleyDownUnder
Starbucks puts it in their coffee
mondeca
Hitler drank it every day!
pianostacatto
But Hitler probably had better tolerance of the stuff. Still, it didn't stop him from dying! We need to warn the masses before it is too late!
Stefnos
this is how all the stupid shit on 4chan starts.... someone makes a joke and it goes on and on and on untill someone relly relly stupid thinks it's real >.<
Buffoonery
It's all about the dosage.
lorilith
tbf, its poisonous to humans
sneakypoo
Or how they put potassium chloride in all our processed food. Scary.
rkingesd365
What, all of it!? Even my chips?
RunawaySpoons
Wait, potassium?
nosnowyno
Potassium? It nearly killed ‘im!
widiwi
yeah, sodium or natrium chloride is likely what was meant, not potassium.
monocline
Mmm...banana and pool water.
taksoto
I mean... Some of them are sorta correct. Homo sapien is our ancestors, while we are homo sapien sapien. But it is a term only used by nerds and scientists. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Homo-sapiens-sapiens
thatauzzieguy
Nerd!!!!
counterintel
Not one of these people knows that.
thepriceisrightbitchez
I learned this growing up in elementary school. And I didn’t go to a great elementary school.
LeonardKleinrock
Biological anthro coming in handy! This makes me Erectus. Something something Habilis, Neanderthal something
FiftyShadesOfMascarpone
That's an outdated classification from the time when Neanderthals were classed as Homo sapiens neanderthalensis. The only reason we added the subspecies level was to squeeze another species in with ours. Now that we've sequenced their genome and know they were different enough to constitute a species of their own, we no longer need to subspeciate. H. sapiens (never sapien) is now considered the only extant species in the genus Homo without any subspecies.
counterintel
Mmmmm. This is my favorite "Ackshually" moment recently.
NullSeven
The only good "Ackshually" is one correcting another person's "Ackshually"
Serkus
JacktheKind
I wonder if everybody who ever read this quote considered themselves in the dumber half...
rd77Runner
and they all have a vote. as a side note, 90% of the drivers in Finland said they're better drivers than thr average...
SpaceballsTheComment
Think about how stupid the average person is, then reailize there's a 50-50 chance you're stupider than that.
CorgisButtsDriveMeNuts
CreativeThief
And the smarter you are, the more idiots there are. The real problem however is that absolutely everyone thinks they're right.
JadeNB1729
In addition to @LuminoZero's point about intelligence not meaning you're not an idiot, I disagree that recognizing a lot of idiots around you is a sign of intelligence. As you say, the dumbest people think that it's everyone else who's an idiot.
LuminoZero
It's like the old saying "If you run into an asshole in the morning, you met and asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole."
JadeNB1729
I first heard that from Timothy Olyphant on Justified. Such a great show.
LuminoZero
I disagree. Intelligence isn't a metric of not being a fucking idiot. Example: Doctor Ben Carson.
farfie
I'd say intelligence is a metric for not being an idiot. Ben Carson was *knowledgeable* but he was not intelligent.
farfie
But, it could be the other way around too. Semantics I suppose, purpose of words.
JustAnotherVictimOfAmbientMorality
That'd be median stupid tho.
OaksParcel
Intelligence generally follows normal distribution, so the mean and median (and also the mode) are equal to each other.
NullSeven
Which is a type of average.
HighwayWizard
also while medians and averages are often different, they're not different enough to change the intended impact of this statement, and in common speech 'average' will be easier for a general audience to understand.
ArchMagos
That last bit just highlights its truth.