Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for December 12, 2024

If stupidity filters were a real thing, we would be living in a much better world.

I use adblock

knocks all the stupid out? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I MUST JONKLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Does Rat use a meanness filter?

There is a stupidity filter, it’s called a wi-fi outage.

How many people would recognize they needed a stupidity filter? Wouldn’t most people just want other people to use them?

Me make real intelliGent posts without needing or using no steenky filters.

We used to call that filter “discretion “

A stupidity filter , what a great idea! The only problem is the stupid people do not know they are stupid and getting them to use it would be a problem!

A more rational and effective solution: cognitive therapy.

And a return to teaching critical thinking. Been missing from academia for about 50 years.

Peace sells, but who’s buying?

That sounds like Apple’s new ad for their AI which lets you change your letter from Angry to Nice.

Filtered him looks to be quite a scrapper. He had the stupid knocked out of him, and doesn’t even have a shiner.

Benjamin Franklin: “We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid”.

Stupidity filters? We could use those.

Pig? You have always been a genius. Love you.

It’s called “discernment”

we love you Pig, just the way you were!!!

Moody Blues … Days Of Future Past … The Day Begins … But We decide which Is Right , Which Is An Illusion ;-)

There’s actually a commercial for this exact thing

Everyone needs something like that, both online and offline.

I just block stupidity but not before getting the last word in.

Does it work for Liberals or is their Stupid too strong and too much to filter? Examples? God Bless America!

The dad of one of my high school buddies said he had a “crud filter” on his radio, and he would set it so that his car radio wouldn’t play the music he didn’t like. When my daughter was in middle school, I installed one, but it never seemed to work. and that’s how I know what Brittany Spears and the Spice Girls sound like.

Judge Judy would love it—she always said “You can’t fix stupid”.

Oh, if only there were such a thing!!!

But the output volume goes down considerably … which is probably a good thing.

Stupidity-filtered social media would be silence.

I should think that Pig would be much more…diminished?…with all the stupid knocked right out of him.

I wish there really is such a thing. Closest thing to it in reality tho, is a good dog (any animal, really) : )

The unfiltered version is just pulp fiction

That is why it is called “artificial” intelligence

I know that a lot of public figures feel they need to be active on social media, but either don’t trust themselves to use it in a way that won’t get them into trouble, or just don’t don’t want to waste their time on it. So they hire assistants to manage their accounts for them. If I noticed someone suddenly making a lot more sense than usual, I would assume that was the reason.

Can you imagine the gift giving possibilities?

Can we make these standard issue?

It’s called ChatGPT, and the development teams are now permanently housed at the Inhumanity Institute for the Criminally Insane.

Quick! Somebody get to work such a filter!

Maybe they can filter political opinions, which sicken minds everywhere

I could really use one those or a hand full of cards I can pass out that say“I’m much smarter then I sound”.

I wrote a post for a FB group. I used AI to correct the grammar. The post got kicked out as written by a bot. So I rewrote it as I saw fit and it was accepted.

Stupidity filter: Tell people that putting their phone in the microwave charges it. If they are stupid enough, they’ll do it, and not be able to post on social media anymore.

We need about 8 billion of those.

Do they have one for politicians?

Stupidity, like beauty, is an ‘in the eye of the beholder’ experience so the filter should be applied on the receiving end.

Fortunately there are means to accomplish that. Choosing your company and refusing to, or at least try hard not to, get agitated when someone obviously is trying to provoke you is a good start.

REALLY intelligent. Not “real intelligent”.