Too Stupid for Words category archive
Facebook Frolics, Fallacious Flummery Dept. 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, David Kyle Johnson reacts to a meme circulated by a person he calls, “Bob,” in which Bob lists all the world-ending crises he has survived. Said meme equates, to cite one example, Harold Camping’s rapture prediction* with avian flu.
Johnson points out that one thing is not like the other thing and warns against false equivalences in a time of COVID-19. A snippet:
Given the amount of stupid flowing down the disinformation superhighway, his piece is well worth the three minutes it will take to read it.
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*Man, I didn’t remember this one at all, but I don’t pay attention to crackpot preachers who are only in it for the money.
Stray Thought, One Tool in the Toolkit Dept. 0
It occurred to me last night that Donald Trump and his dupes, symps, and fellow travelers have not realized that you can’t bully a virus.
Facebook Frolics, Going Viral Dept. 0
At Science 2.0, Hank Campbell warns us that Facebook is not a good place to study epidemiology.
Follow the link for his evidence.
Misdirection Play, Going Viral Dept. 0
Sam comments–well, more accurately, casts scorn–on a Fox News attempt to market the notion that the coronavirus and precautions against it are parts of a plot to bring down Donald Trump.
Meanwhile, life doesn’t go on.
Afterthought:
The sad and frightening thing is that persons who spend their days hermetically sealed inside the Fox News/AM talk radio bubble will likely be susceptible to this–at least until they self-quarantine.
And the Farce Renews 0
Once again, we have sprung forward in docile and sheep-like service to an unproven and likely baseless notion.
. . . To an Epidemic of Stupid 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., offers a eulogy for competence. A snippet:
Follow the link for the recap.
Trumpling Science 0
And, for more Trumpling of scientists. . . .
Just the Vaxx, Ma’am, There’s No Vaccination for Stupid Dept. 0
NJ.com attempted to talk with two New Jersey State Senators their anti-vaccine stance. Here’s how it went (emphasis added):
He said he read articles on the Internet: “Social media is full of them.”
We wondered, if he doesn’t trust the overwhelming scientific consensus that vaccines are safe, does he believe the 97 percent of scientists who say human activity contributes to global warming?
“Am I Encyclopedia Britannica?” he countered.
The stupid. It burns.
(More stupid at the link.)
Suffering from Consumption 0
I just took a legitimate on-line survey from a legitimate on-line survey outfit in which “watching the news” was referred to as “consuming content.”
You don’t “consume” news, for Pete’s sake. You watch it or read it or listen to it or perhaps even witness it first-hand.
You “consume” peanut butter (or sardines or chocolates or what have you).
We are a society of stupid.
Bringing New Meaning to the Term, “Cell Phone” 0
Honest to Betsy, you can’t make this stuff up.
We’ve Gone App Sappy 0
We are a society of electronic stupid.
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After Paul says Gig Share suggested that she and her companion sleep in the car overnight on the side of the road, she called for a tow truck “to move us three miles down the road where there is cell service so we can start our car[.] The future is dumb.”
Follow the link. You may find this difficult to imagine, but it gets stupider.