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Comment by the__alchemist | original | Bug Blindness
[−]the__alchemist · 2026-08-30 Sun 06:56 UTC · link
This sounds like "Smart person who has little technical experience and might have cognitive decline from age". The world is fully of people who's intelligence is legitimately lower than you might expect.
[−]brabel · 2026-08-30 Sun 07:27 UTC · link
> The world is fully of people who's intelligence

What an example of a sentence a person *whose intelligence is lower than you might expect would write. I can only imagine this was intentional.

[−]the__alchemist · 2026-08-30 Sun 08:09 UTC · link
Could you clarify? Are you using the typo as this basis, or something else?
[−]mkl · 2026-08-30 Sun 08:25 UTC · link
I'm not the same person, but probably. There are at least two errors in the quoted fragment, though personally I don't think either is especially indicative of a lack of intelligence.
[−]brabel · 2026-08-30 Sun 08:44 UTC · link
There were 2 typos in that sentence (the one I didn’t mention is “fully” instead of “full”). Talking about intelligence in such a sloppy manner sounded like a joke to me.
[−]the__alchemist · 2026-08-30 Sun 09:30 UTC · link
Ah sry - phone typing
[−]bogdanoff_2 · 2026-08-30 Sun 16:37 UTC · link
This makes me think of "we're all just temporarily abled". This proves the point -- sometimes we're just typing on our phone, lol