Like people, dogs can easily pick up a on patterns. They might not know exactly why something works, they just learn that something DOES work and they keep doing that. Pretty much exactly like people. For another smart dog, here's an intriguing Tumblr thread about a dog who learned how to herd a lawn roomba.
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When the "that's the right answer" hits, many seem to get the chills. Can't blame them.
Say you're watching a dumb youtube video of a guy throwing a watermelon off of his roof. The comment section is all "lols" and "who's watching this in 2020s" when it happens. Right out of the blue some rando who lives in his mom's basement taps out an essay on why everyone is stupid and anyone who doesn't listen to Chopin while pretending to do quantum physics is a sheep. Now he's downvoting your okay melon puns that he doesn't have the attention to understand. All you can really do is wonder what makes this ridiculous person think they're a genius.
The internet, home of ridiculous people who think they're geniuses. These are people who describe themselves as "too rational" to get a joke, think they understand space travel after thinking about it for 10 minutes, and rate online IQ tests poorly for giving them bad (accurate) scores. They're here to brag about themselves and ruin comments sections because they think they're geniuses.
This fun AskReddit thread takes a look at various workers that discovered shortcuts in their various lines of work to accomplish jobs the easiest ways possible. It's remarkable what kinds of paths can be opened up by someone motivated by the burning desire to not have to work too hard.
Some folks might connect with this Quora post that aims to break down the implications of the assigning the word smart to different individuals. Seems like there are a whole lot of "gifted students" out there that suffered the fallout of fielding so much pressure at a young age, just cause tests in class were a bit easier.
Students will go to extraordinary lengths to not have to study for that next, dreaded exam. Seriously, it's remarkable. We're talking devious kids printing out fake Snapple labels with answer keys on the labels; we're talking students collaborating to cheat off each other's tests by using M&M's; we're talking students tapping their fingertips on their desks to create some kind of morse code. There's some kind of brilliance interwoven in acts of academic cheating.
Give a sheepdog something to herd and by god it will herd that thing. In this case it was a little lawn care robot. That is a smart dog. Under the right circumstances, pets find ways to do creepily intelligent things. And there's something about roombas that make them seem more than just a mindless robot. For example, here Tumblr explores human nature with the concept of a "knife roomba."
With the power to post about yourself on the internet comes the responsibility to not spend your time putting people down and pretending to be a brain-lord. The internet is full of absurd people who think they're total geniuses just because they were an early reader. Being able to sit through a Youtube lecture on quantum physics doesn't make you a genius, but it might make ridiculous individuals believe they're geniuses.
If there's one thing no one could have anticipated about social media, it would be the sheer volume of individuals who think they're geniuses using it as a place to stroke their own egos. They're here to lie about cool things they said, ruin jokes they didn't get, and condescendingly use big words that they just learned. Nobody's safe in a world of ridiculous individuals who believe they're geniuses.
These employees were fed up with their controlling, toxic boss and his load of nonsense. So, in due time they waited to enact their ingenious revenge. That revenge looked like their boss unknowingly driving out to Omaha to make some money off selling shirts, without actually having the shirts. Just imagining the look on the guy's face when he turned up in Omaha, and realized he had nothing, is enough to fill one's heart with deep satisfaction. Way to go, dudes.
When we were stupid and weird kids we were too busy digging holes for no reason and hitting each other with sticks to think through diabolical plots like this. In fact, we probably wouldn't think to do this today. Here are some weird things parents caught their kids doing.
As good as it might feel to declare yourself a genius, call people stupid because they like a different TV show, use overly complicated language incorrectly, and absolutely ruin any joke that comes across your path, people get pretty annoyed by ridiculous individuals who believe they're geniuses. So practice your self-awareness, or you might become an absurd individual who believes they're an utter genius.
