Aunty Acid by Ged Backland for February 08, 2023

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Yes, we were able to give them the benefit of the doubt.

INFORMATION OVERLOAD!

I’m roadkill on the information superhighway!

I thought it was due to sniffing marker pens

True. More “information”, less understanding.

In-foam-ation: The Internet frothing at the mouths.

Determining information from BS’s the rub.

I quote Mark Twain, “A person who does not read the newspaper is uninformed. A person who reads the newspaper is misinformed.”

Twain would have a field day with the internet.

And another quote, this time myself, “I remember when ‘It must be true, I saw it on the internet.’ was a joke.”

@dflak

I remember too. In my case, it was “I read it in the newspaper”

Sadly, I can no longer trust the newspapers. I’ve seen too many examples of bad journalism.

Keeper for the refrigerator. . .

Exactly.

In the dictionary when you look up the word Stupidity it says See Humans.

Thats not stupidity, thats ignorance. BIG difference.

Now it can attributed to too much misinformation.

Innocence and ignorance seem to be similar. One is willful.

Some of the people in Congress today make the ’60s LSD-addled hippies look like cognoscenti.

but the weird wacky wonderful world wide web gives us stuff like this…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpSbRo9KpTU

She’s more than 40 if she remembers back before the Internet.

It’s due to people’s ability to totally Misunderstand information and twist it into a Pretzel.