• parody@lemmings.world
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    7 days ago

    If he’s illiterate we don’t need to call him dumb

    Also allegedly the Rockies, not all mountains… we hope

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      7 days ago

      I doubt he is being labelled “dumb” due to being illiterate.

      Doing no research prior to setting out is a great reason to call him dumb.

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        7 days ago

        Though lack of research because you can’t read is a bit of a speed bump in the whole “doing research” process

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          7 days ago

          Yes, but people 40 years ago managed. Youtube and a friend that can read. Hell asking random strangers their opinions on what the challenges of skateboarding across the country are.

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            6 days ago

            People 200 years ago managed.
            It’s extremely dumb to just go out cross country with zero knowledge though.

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            7 days ago

            You’re not wrong!

            I will say, I learned stuff like that to be a good idea through a productive education system which also helped me learn to read

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          5 days ago

          Maybe this is explained somewhere if I could be bothered to research it, but how can he be actually illiterate?

          He has an instagram account. How is he reading anything to do with it if he’s illiterate? Sub numbers, password resets, comments? How would he even know people are watching if he can’t read numbers?

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            21 hours ago

            Illiteracy is not binary. If he reads at a second grade level (sounding out, length of word and difficulty of spelling being barriers to correct reading)