Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for September 04, 2023

Oh, just trying to figure out who can be replaced by an AI chatbot.

If you go to Olds Fatigue Therapy, will they put a new engine in your Oldsmobile?

Set up a Faraday cage to block all wi-fi and cellular signals and install some comfy chairs, then I think you will have something.

For a good time, turn off T.V. and radio.

The Now Serving Number is only 135? Amazing. I thought it would be a lot more.

i am just trying to figure out why everyone in the waiting room is pink.

It’s the scale of things that is out of control… Really goes back to the telegraph, or maybe the daily newspaper. Used to be easy to be exceptional within the small group of people you knew and who knew you. “He’s the fastest runner in the village” or “He knows the best places to fish in the river.” But now… The people who are seriously competing against the entire world have to start by being nuts—and even if they “win” it won’t last long.

News fatigue, is that a thing? Sadly, yes. I suffer from it daily, except when I don’t turn on the tv.

Happily, I can soak it up for a few days, so I can stay informed. But then I definitely need several days off or I can’t sleep at night.

Poignant. I wonder if there’s anything to add to this.

A parallel to the old lady that complained to the library that the DVD case for “The Sound of Music” actual contained a trilogy of XXX-rated films.

And she said, "They were as disgusting the second time through as the first.”

I have my silo. I watch it for about an hour a day. I compare it to being a kid in a candy store sampling all the wares. I know that a steady diet of it is not good for my health.

This is why I get my news online. I can get a greater variety of articles and points of view. I do have to take care to click on FOX “News” routinely, first to see what propaganda they are broadcasting, but secondly to confuse the bot.

If I seek out only left-leaning articles the bot builds a silo for me. The bot is trained, “People buy the products advertised if you tell them what they like to hear.”

About two months ago, I wanted to research an assertion by FOX “News” that one of President Biden’s policies would coast well-qualified home buyers thousands of dollars more on a mortgage. It’s true: on a $500,000, 30-year mortgage, it’s $3,500 or 40 cents a day. A fact ignored by FOX and four other articles (including some left leaning sources). Forbes Magazine had the metrics. I’m a data analyst, “thousands of dollars” is NOT a number, but to most people it is.

So even when you have an article, it is often difficult to get a second opinion.

I think a lot of people are about to go all “psycho” therapy around here. If everyone knows something needs doing, but nobody knows what to do, they everybody does whatever they can to achieve whatever they want, and no one really does it well.

The lady behind the counter… isn’t that Helen Waite? Take a number and go to Helen Waite? Why, yes… The Count does believe it is.

Except for local weather minutes, we stopped watching evening – or other – news about 4 years ago. The old saw – ignorance is bliss – works well for the tv news with its flash and glitter, its manufactured tension over almost any subject and the ads. We have felt generally better for its absence.

However, we have not ignored the world altogether. Since our local and once revered newspaper turned into something fit only for kitty litter boxes, we read a wide selection of online news articles. A much wider more balanced perspective, more informative, and, thank goodness, written in whole sentences.

most of the stuff causing fatigue is not news, it’s just crap

I recognize the guy next to the potted tree. I see him a lot in airports, in that exact same position doing what he’s doing.

Since the biggest news story is about inmate number P01135809, previously known as Donald J. Trump, and his next possible address, I am filled with the joy that the victory of Good over Evil creates.

Easy fix, take away the stupid smart phones! They make dumb people.

That place they are at is actually “The Mental Health Clinic”.

I was saying the other day that I have Trump fatigue, disaster fatigue and general moron fatigue so I carefully cull the “news” stories I read.

Looks like news addiction therapy.

The reason that people have ‘News fatigue’ is because they consume the news passively. I can tell you, no comedian ever has had news fatigue.

And me, as long as I have a soap box to monologue from, I love the news as well.

Sure signs of fatigue are constant anger against any and all opposing points of view. Therapy includes turning off the TV but that’s not enough to dispel the anger one gets from being online.

Not a surprise the waiting rooms is overflowing….TMI

How many of these news-fatigued people will vote for a non-fatiguing politician?

I stopped watching TV news in 1968. I still manage to know what’s going on in the world from other sources.

Reposting the link to the charity auction Wiley posted a few days ago:

http://comicartfans.Com/galleryroom.Asp?gsub=239420

just dont wach it

“If it bleeds, it leads” has been the unofficial motto of the journalism trade since the heyday of yellow journalism back when it was Hearst vs. Pulitzer. And if you think the news sources are biased and sensationalistic today you should check out what they were like in the 1890s.

Looks like they’ll be waiting a while .. perhaps they can use the time to, um, catch up on the news?? Don’t bother calling, I’m taking a cold shower …

Very easy cure, turn it off fer cryin out loud!

The therapist could well with a internet signal jammer.