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Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for November 18, 2016
Transcript:
Man in green: Does Twitter make people stupid......Or do we just notice stupid people more now because they've taken over Twitter? Old man: Ah...a brilliant updating of the chicken-or-the-egg conundrum! Congratulations! Man in green: Taking a big step toward wisdom! #Enlightened Old man: Ok...I take back "brilliant"...
johnt204 over 8 years ago
And then there’s the Darwin Awards.
KenTheCoffinDweller over 8 years ago
I believe the wisdom arrives at about the half-way point of the trip down.
Dtroutma over 8 years ago
Maybe it’s the reverse Darwin Award?
Bilan over 8 years ago
This brings up two questions: 1) Was there a time that twitter dialogue wasn’t stupid and 2) why didn’t he just tweet the question to #guru?
Superfrog over 8 years ago
It’s easy to be stupid in 140 characters but it’s difficult to be wise.
mischugenah over 8 years ago
It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.
Can't Sleep over 8 years ago
Before Twitter (and social media), if you were going to be stupid, it would be face to face with people, they’d let you know how stupid you were, and the stupidity would quietly die.
Now, you let the whole world know just how dumb you really are, and several billion people can repeat and ridicule you endlessly.
Years from now, people will still say, “Hey, remember the rapper who complained that we’d all been lied to – the Earth isn’t round?”
asianwoof over 8 years ago
Before Twitter, stupid people would hire writers to pen books under their name.
davidweinstock over 8 years ago
you want to see stupid? want to see darwin? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/nov/17/yellowstone-oregon-man-body-dissolved-hot-spring?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+main+NEW+H+categories&utm_term=200233&subid=15786347&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2
check this out. there are signs everywhere.
gammaguy over 8 years ago
One small step for a man….
whiteheron over 8 years ago
The first step towards enlightenment.
KEA over 8 years ago
“ninety percent of everything is crap”— Theodore Sturgeon.applies to social media too. Ya gotta find the 10% and ignore the other 90.
DutchUncle over 8 years ago
Yeah, and then there are the people who spend their time making and responding to comments on comics pages . . .
MeGoNow Premium Member over 8 years ago
If he’d paid attention in math, he could have worked this out for himself. Almost exactly one half the population is below average intelligence. You can spot the upper end, because they ask, “What’s this twitter thing?”
dsom8 over 8 years ago
And one more time: How do these comments differ from Twitter?
Bruce1253 over 8 years ago
Speaking of the Darwin Awards, did you see the piece about the guy who boiled himself in a hot spring in Yellowstone?
dflak over 8 years ago
I don’t twit.
dflak over 8 years ago
Why is it that if we can have artificial intelligence that stupidity is always so real?
somebodyshort over 8 years ago
Twitter is for twits.
dabugger over 8 years ago
About da litter twitter. . .
hippogriff over 8 years ago
DutchUncle
No, I spend my time waiting for the color wheel to stop spinning. I keep a magazine on the table to read during those times and sometimes finish it first.
Sailor46 USN 65-95 over 8 years ago
It’s Both!
Dtroutma over 8 years ago
NIght Gaunt: there were many springs in Yellowstone when I worked there 53 years ago that were plenty hot, and acidic enough to boil you down to nothing as happened to this guy when he was attempting to check the temperature, and fell in. We were MUCH more careful when checking for suitable hot pots, even when they’d been reported as at “safe” temperatures, as that can change drastically, even overnight!
Also saw a girl playing a video game as she walked out a ridge trail to a lighthouse in New Zealand, it was 200 feet down on either side to the beach below, and she was oblivious to the danger.
Darwin noted that species that don’t adapt, OR if environments change to quickly for species to adapt, extinction is the result. Our planet is now on the cusp of that for many species, even potentially homo Sapiens.
Thomas & Tifffany Connolly over 8 years ago
The circle is completed!!
hippogriff over 8 years ago
dtroutma <-0>Good points, but genus has the initial capital and species lc.
UpaCoCoCreek Premium Member over 8 years ago
It was a flash of brilliance… his very last one.
BuckOH over 8 years ago
egg came first it’s mother wasn’t a chicken according to evolution