Right there with you.

There's different flavors of stupidity. There's the "oh damn, why didn't I think of that first" and there's the smug "I did my own research and your evidence doesn't match by beliefs".

And it doesn't help that we are getting deeper in the idiocracy timeline everyday.

Stupidity in the sense of doing nothing good for themselves or anyone else, yeah. People are mostly a collection of local context clues about overly emotional nonsense.

Can’t have Hacker News without the hubris! Love it

> Because we're depressed at being surrounded by stupidity

And then we visit websites like HN, filled with people who think they are smart.

I don't mind a stupid person who knows they are stupid, but I despise the so-called 'expert' who is wrong, but society considers that person to be the authority