I wonder how many internet trolls are just badly programmed AI bots, constantly adjusting their content to get the most responses and becoming more evil with every iteration.
This actually happened. Douglas Adams tells a story in his book “last chance to see” about a multi-year conservation effort to revive some small game bird and when they released the birds into the wild some local rich guy saw them and organized a party to hunt them down and eat them. Apparently he thought that those delicious birds he hadn’t seen since his childhood had miraculously returned and his only thought was to roast them ASAP.
A pessimist is someone who sits sadly at the party all night long, thinking about the mess that there will be in the morning. The Optimist is the person who spends all night enjoying the party and then takes 5 minutes to clean up the mess while the pessimist is still sitting there gloomily thinking about how hard it’s going to be to clean up the mess.
Now that they mention it, how come we’ve never seen Trout and Hobbs in the same room together?