Not to mention technofallacies (Marx), disinterest and mere stupidity of low level employees and the structural failing of large scale IT-projects both in the public and private sector.
But if highlighting racism is largely beside the point, what are we left with but the ritual of public shaming enduring disgrace for a moment of mere stupidity or weakness where social media becomes judge, jury, and executioner.
Sometimes laughter yesterday afternoon was stirred up by slapstick ideas, and at other junctures the mere stupidity of the principal character had the desired effect.During a few chapters in the beginning there was more or less interest in this feature.
Will George W. Bush and his minions ever stand up in court before someone like Judge John J. Sirica who might set a boundary between criminal acts and mere stupidity and fecklessness?
Overall, an engineering approach means building systems to mitigate cognitive errors rather than assuming they result from mere arrogance, stupidity, or sloth.
"…[I]f the agents, or those who choose the agents, or those to whom the agents are responsible, or the lookers-on whose opinion ought to influence and check all these, are mere masses of ignorance, stupidity, and baleful prejudice, every operation of government will go wrong" (Ibid, 207).
But neither Schmidt nor Völler did anything that veered from mere heat-of-the-moment stupidity into seriously wrong, the-future-of-football-endangering misdemeanour.
If so, it lessens the creepiness of their content, but not the stupidity of their mere existence.
Retail investors, however smart in other fields, are disparaged as outsiders, mere laity, credulous innocents prey to every stupidity and bias.
A mere 15% increase would total some $10 trillion, overwhelming the deficit stupidities emanating from Washington.
Instead, these ideas are the product of a complex mathematical equation, one that I will exclusively reveal now: 30% stupidity, 20% ignorance, 10% inability to take anything into consideration beyond mere aesthetics, 10% over-privilege, 30% infantile attention-seeking.
