Too Stupid for Words category archive
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.
(snip)
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.
Fly the Fiendly Skies 0
From coffee break to coffee broken.
Epidemiology, Reprise 0
As I have mentioned before, the panic being fomented, primarily on cable news and “social” media, over the coronavirus is wholly disproportional to the threat. And now that panic is going viral in its own inimical way.
Alexandra Brewis and Amber Wutich explore this at Psychology Today Blogs. A snippet:
This is because growing fears toward groups associated with emerging epidemic diseases act to hasten disease spread. This may seem counterintuitive, but it is all because of the way stigma undermines effective public health responses. For coronavirus, that stigma is targeting people from China. It is happening all over, including at Arizona State, our own university campus . . . .
Follow the link for their description of how such reactions hinder effective public health responses.
Twitterer-in-Chief 0
As David points out, this isn’t normal.
Or is it the new normal?
Twits on Twitter 0
A pointlessly prevaricating pretend-pedant twit.
Information superhighway my anatomy.
Traffic-jam of terrible is more like it.
Yet More Cause for Despair 0
We are a society of stupid.
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.
Full story at the link.
Lair of Liars 0
Julie Kim explores how “social” media enables frauds and scammers. An example:
More examples at the link.
Aside:
It has always puzzled me–I know I’ve said this before–that persons will believe stuff they read on a computer screen when they wouldn’t believe the same stuff if it happened right before their lying’ eyse.
A Flair for the Obvious 0
And this surprises you how?
Devolution 0
The slide back into the primordial ooze continues apace.
More primordial ooze at the link.
Phoning It In 0
Although I can’t approve of this, I can certainly understand it.
Phoning It In 0
Afterthought:
When we go out to a meal, I often see a group of persons sitting around a table, all of them buried in their “devices.” I can’t help but wonder, why did they even bother?
Tilting at Windmills 0
Yastreblyansky marvels at Donald Trump’s fact-free feud against wind power.