Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for August 05, 2024

Ooh … Hold on … I know I have witty comment … Dang, lost it.

Dain bramage. :-)

At least the higher reasoning functions.

Guy in the 2nd row is on Facebook.

At my gym, school kids come in free during summer break. I love that most of them desert their phones. In fact more older people stare at them in the gym!

I went to the comment section but forgot what I wanted to say.

And Fox ‘news’ and Sinclair owned AM radio.

This seems to be SO true.

Try electronic advertising, that’s been the real culprit for a century.

It used to be that every village had an idiot. Now thanks to socially media they’ve organized and are now able to concentrate their activities.

Don’t tell everyone, they’ll all want to have a go .

Not if you use your Media Oblongata…

…social media is just like rush hour…

Anti-social Media is a more appropriate term for all of it.

So.. we’re on vacation, then.??

A recent study blames overuse of social media on phones and PCs for the first drop in IQ in many generations.

.There should’ve a representative from the Flat Head Society to offer a counter point

If it’s on the internet it has to be true, right? Right?

And it doesn’t take long and there is no charge plug.

I have become…comfortably numb

The top cross-section shows media-baked brain pizza.

What’s that book with a cherry on the cover? (1st published in the 70s)

I signed up for instagram about 3 weeks ago. I did it because I joined a gym and the owner is constantly videoing the training and I wanted access to anything that I am in. It’s funny, I actually do technology for a living and am very good at it but I don’t understand social media and still confused on how to use instagram.

Truer words were never spoken!!!

Isn’t that where Cofeefe comes from? I saw the TV ad.

“Many fine people are at risk for Cofeefe. Symptoms include but are not limited to: Ill-advised hairstyling, horrific application of tanning makeup, rambling on about sharks and batteries, and excessive lying. Ask your doctor about treatment for Cofeefe. Five to ten in the joint is a really good way to start.

Prolonged & early exposure.

Never trust something that you can’t see where it keeps its brain.

This cartoon captures with a few words what’s documented at great length (yes, facts and charts and trend lines and academic studies and all) in Jonathan Haidt’s new book The Anxious Generation. He says that the widespread replacement of play-based childhood by disembodied, asynchronous phone-based childhood is leading to a massive rewiring of the adolescent brain, causing them to be more fearful, socially awkward, and prone to depression, self-harm, and suicide. And it’s worse for girls than for boys. A sobering read, partially palliated by his prescription for what to do about it. Which of course we aren’t going to do, because look at all the money people are making with those phones in kids’ hands.

and by social media you mean what

… and constant use of cellphone texting. Leaving people not knowing how to have an in-person conversation.

Modern style lead crockery

Why yes,yes it is‼️

Too close to reality to be truly funny.

Political ads are worse and every four years there’s an outbreak.

High brain function was limited to the wealthy until the printing press came along, and the the industrial age expanded it more. There was the same sort of opposition then, too.

It’s a good thing I don’t have time for that nonsense

I know I have more free time since ThereWent Comics disabled comments on editorial cartoons…..

I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.

Aw. Mr. Miller went to all that effort for low-hanging fruit.

I’m afraid the idiocy started much earlier than the presence of cell phones and other media outlets.

Wrong classroom; Try Psychology and Behavioral Sciences…and Parenting 101!

Which I why I’m using a whiteboard for my class.

Where are the Sober Brain functions?

As if they are listening……

I have Type 2 diabetes and I manage it well

But my singing voice will always be an off-key Hell….

One of the earliest social media forms was Usenet. It’s still around, but greatly dimished from its heyday. It is divided into various “newsgroups” or discussion forums with various broad topics. It is also largely unmoderated. I enjoyed it back in the day.

It can also be short circuited by falling in love.

Parents can teach their children about researching and verifying and common sense… unless those parents already have problems with researching and verifying and common sense…

Nuff Said.

We two sons used to tease out mother that “You can’t carry a tune in a basket with handles.”

She’d look at us with a sadness in her eyes. Then she shut up … forever … a suicide from depression.

I’d give anything to hear her happy voice singing once again – even if it was off key.

Yeah, yeah….feeling lazy today, weren’t we, so here’s a cheap shot.