Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for November 18, 2016

And then there’s the Darwin Awards.

I believe the wisdom arrives at about the half-way point of the trip down.

Maybe it’s the reverse Darwin Award?

This brings up two questions: 1) Was there a time that twitter dialogue wasn’t stupid and 2) why didn’t he just tweet the question to #guru?

It’s easy to be stupid in 140 characters but it’s difficult to be wise.

It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.

Before Twitter (and social media), if you were going to be stupid, it would be face to face with people, they’d let you know how stupid you were, and the stupidity would quietly die.

Now, you let the whole world know just how dumb you really are, and several billion people can repeat and ridicule you endlessly.

Years from now, people will still say, “Hey, remember the rapper who complained that we’d all been lied to – the Earth isn’t round?”

Before Twitter, stupid people would hire writers to pen books under their name.

you want to see stupid? want to see darwin? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/nov/17/yellowstone-oregon-man-body-dissolved-hot-spring?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+main+NEW+H+categories&utm_term=200233&subid=15786347&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2

check this out. there are signs everywhere.

One small step for a man….

The first step towards enlightenment.

“ninety percent of everything is crap”— Theodore Sturgeon.applies to social media too. Ya gotta find the 10% and ignore the other 90.

Yeah, and then there are the people who spend their time making and responding to comments on comics pages . . .

If he’d paid attention in math, he could have worked this out for himself. Almost exactly one half the population is below average intelligence. You can spot the upper end, because they ask, “What’s this twitter thing?”

And one more time: How do these comments differ from Twitter?

Speaking of the Darwin Awards, did you see the piece about the guy who boiled himself in a hot spring in Yellowstone?

I don’t twit.

Why is it that if we can have artificial intelligence that stupidity is always so real?

Twitter is for twits.

About da litter twitter. . .

DutchUncle

No, I spend my time waiting for the color wheel to stop spinning. I keep a magazine on the table to read during those times and sometimes finish it first.

It’s Both!

NIght Gaunt: there were many springs in Yellowstone when I worked there 53 years ago that were plenty hot, and acidic enough to boil you down to nothing as happened to this guy when he was attempting to check the temperature, and fell in. We were MUCH more careful when checking for suitable hot pots, even when they’d been reported as at “safe” temperatures, as that can change drastically, even overnight!

Also saw a girl playing a video game as she walked out a ridge trail to a lighthouse in New Zealand, it was 200 feet down on either side to the beach below, and she was oblivious to the danger.

Darwin noted that species that don’t adapt, OR if environments change to quickly for species to adapt, extinction is the result. Our planet is now on the cusp of that for many species, even potentially homo Sapiens.

The circle is completed!!

dtroutma <-0>Good points, but genus has the initial capital and species lc.

It was a flash of brilliance… his very last one.

egg came first it’s mother wasn’t a chicken according to evolution