Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for December 13, 2022

Social media is anti-social.

First step: remove those earbuds from your ears. That will stop the voices.

There’s a reason that Call it Twitter you twit

“You’re just jealous that the voices talk to me and not to you, Doc.”

Switch to NPR podcasts. Not bizarre, or plain stupid.

As George Carlin once pointed out: Consider how stupid the average person is. Now realise that half of people are more stupid than that.

He’s a social medium for his voices?

To think, social media is the result of the computer revolution, which was created by guys that had no social skills at all.

Or leave the GOPQ.

takrs strike again

Rarely does one get the chance to see what goes on between Elon Musk and his doctor. Now… how do we get him to take the advice?

I truly like this form of ‘social media.’ It is just that, i.e., social. Comments usually can be gentle, funny, thoughtful, inventive, and evocative. But, ordinarily, they are respectful of other commenters.

A departure from that pattern occurs when elections or controversial events bring rancorous disagreement. Even then, disagreements, for the most part, don’t boil over into personal insult or profanity.

Unfortunately, the model is rarely recorded in the wider world.

Just when the mind worms have finally gone away, and there’s a blissful few months of peace — the Christmas music playing everywhere starts up again.

Dr. Mallard in an NCIS episode: Social Media is a cesspool of questionable human behavior.

First thing’s first: STOP CALLING IT SOCIAL MEDIA! It is CORPORATE media.

Golly, you mean you can easily fact check and check for media bias on what gets posted on and linked from social and anti-social media? Who knew? Well apparently almost no one

Wiley, you are SO on point!!

Perchance, did those voices ever tell you to vote for a moron with orange hair?:

Social media will be the death of society.

Social media – a modern social disease.

Too bad an antibiotic can’t clear it up.

An obvious and oblivious Liberal Democrat.

I saw a post this morning on a quote. The response started with an irrelevant observation and then followed with “I will not respect the intelligence of anyone who accepts the above quote who cannot refute what I said.” Since his comment was irrelevant, there was no reason they could not both be true, and I pretty much agreed with both. So I guess he thinks I am stupid even though I agree with him. That says something about him doesn’t it.

It must be true, I saw it on the internet.

I saw one cartoon that used a clever twist: the doctor asked for more information about what the “intrusive” voices in the girl’s head were saying. It turned out to be things like “don’t commit murder” and “consider the consequences of your actions.”

I value my inner dialogue. Fortunately, I don’t have access to the drugs or mental health professionals that would make it an external dialogue and get me in trouble.

I had a friend tell me that it was OK because he could hear the voices in my head. Needless to say, I backed away slowly. The only voice I hear in my head is mine.

“How many friends do you have left? I’ve heard of a so-called Prince who lives under a bridge at GoComics. He’s quite in-welcome there…”

Also turn off Fox ‘News’

It’s quite a problem you see. / I am not speaking to me. / And myself won’t relent. / So it’s chillingly silent. / It’s a terrible place to be / When I am not speaking to me. 8>)

I am constantly reminded of George Orwell’s novel, “1984,” — about the pervasiveness of the two-way television that functioned as a surveillance tool for The Party. Members of the Inner and Outer Party were all required to keep the screens on at all times. The volume could be lowered by some, but never turned off.

… and ditch Faux News, Little Sir Echo Chamber.

Weighing the positive and negative results, it would be a better world if the internet had never come to pass.

Social media maybe reaping the whirlwind, but the wind was sown by talk radio and cable news.

“Two heads are better than one.”—Annie Ross

Once they get into your head … it’s not your head anymore.

It’s hard to impose critical thinking on a civilization which has “let it slide” as politically detrimental. However, start with Occam’s Razor. If it’s a choice between aliens, a secret conspiracy or the usual human failings, human failings should win. :)

We can’t stop. We’re all infected!

So the cure for saying stupid things is to cut off all human communication except for the shrink? No, he’d just say the stupid things to the shrink instead. Not that he isn’t now.

What do you do when the voices inside your head tell you not to listen to the voices inside your head?

Today is National Ice Cream Day.Don’t get icepick headaches

Well now, this all has been very interesting.

Smart voices!

I only hear music in my head. Its gets interesting when there are 3 and 4 part harmonies

Apparently, elections are decided by what is or isn’t blocked on Twitter.

I used to let my conscience be my guide, until I realized how much of an idiot he is.

I hear voices … they tell me ’’Go to the store and get some milk, honey."

Little-know fact: All the weird stuff that gets passed around on social media is generated by one guy. That’s him there. Why OTHER people pass it around, I have no idea.