The Irish Virus litmus test: are people really getting more stupid?

To me the answer is yes; this blog post serves to provide my reasoning.

Once upon a time in my IT career (it was the 90's) this meme (we didn't call them memes back then) came around:

We all laughed a lot, it was patently absurd ... it was unquestionable: nobody would be that stupid. Then I encountered this article in Ars Technica.

You fucking what now? You open a terminal (as administrator) and enter that string of text without even understanding it into the heart of your computer... breaching every defence it has and invite the invaders in through the tunnel you dug for them.

Fuck me, people are more stupid than I thought possible. So here I submit the remarks from "The Dadbod reacts" as my closing.

So it seems that we are indeed getting to live in the plot of Idiocracy....