Tag: stupid

Savage

This idiotic individual, Teressa Groenwald-Hagerman, is the first woman to kill an elephant with a bow and arrow. She reportedly spent 8 months working out to handle a bow big enough to take down an elephant in Zimbabwe.

someone needs to be trampled to death

Might as well panic

If you don’t know what to do, and you’re frightened, might as well panic. That seems to be the first rule of being a member of the human race. Apparently, panicking is an acceptable substitute for forethought, contingency planning or actually taking productive action. We almost want to blame the thing we’re anxious about on the person who isn’t panicking. “Don’t you care! Can’t you see that we’re all gonna die! That we’re going to go bankrupt? That the world as we know it is going to end?” More people are killed by deer than sharks, but you don’t see park rangers running around like nutcases.

Against Twitter

I finally figured out why I hate Twitter and its ilk so much: they primarily amplify the voices of the stupid, resulting in a net negative for society, feel good bs like “Arab Spring”, or whatever marginally employed journalist types tell themselves notwithstanding. Contrast that with delicious or wikipedia, where the stupid can only do limited damage, and the spoils go to the thoughtful. It seems that you’d want to make curation easier relative to creation to get a virtuous cycle of intelligence enhancement instead of a vicious cycle of appeal to the dumbest.

That’s the grand irony of Twitter: Even the real people on the service are fake.

As if you needed another reason to detest twitter. SpaghettiOs’ Dubious Tweet to Remember Pearl Harbor

If your job as a social media douchebag is to run an account for a can of pasta, how else are you going to go “viral”? working as intended. It is also all spam:

it takes a mere 458 followers to land in the top 10% of all Twitter users. It takes 2991 followers to crack the top 1%

Wow, that’s so ghetto. no wonder they won’t go anywhere.
The author argues that the advent of Twitter heralds the destruction of the nation state over the coming century. It is far more likely that the nation state will cause the destruction of Twitter, for having done more to lower the quality of discourse than any technology that came before.
Twitter is fundamentally not viable, and changing leads doesn’t change the drain-circling. TWTR to 0 in 2015

Racist Trump twitter has come up with a new coded way to share racial slurs w/ each other and avoid account suspension. Here’s the ugly list of words and their “true” meanings among white supremacists.

So who is going to buy Twitter and shut it down, doing us all a favor?

By every common metric, falsehood consistently dominates the truth on Twitter. Fake news and false rumors reach more people, penetrate deeper into the social network, and spread much faster than accurate stories.

The dumb Twitter audience is the problem.

Cop self-own

Officer Ettienne was being held to the words that he wrote in cyberspace. Besides the “devious” mood setting, the jurors learned that a few weeks before the trial, the officer posted this status on his Facebook page: “Vaughan is watching ‘Training Day’ to brush up on proper police procedure.”

hello, nyt? it is 2009. you are writing an article about something that happened online, yet you don’t link to it?

End of Farmers Markets?

kickbacks for big farming under the always popular safety fetish banner.

What this will do is force anyone who produces food of any kind, and then transports it to a different location for sale, to register with a new federal agency called the “Food Safety Administration.” Even growers who sell just fruit and/or vegetables at farmers markets would not only have to register, but they would be subject inspections by federal agents of their property and all records related to food production.