Today on The Internet is Stupid: people are convinced my screenshots are fake because the date says November 5 when it's November 4 in America.
Reader: it is November 5 in Australia.
May I introduce you to the concept of timezones
"I'm self-aware about my biases" is itself a bias. Thinking you're less biased than average means you're exactly average. Welcome to humanity, population: everyone.
So all the folks who screamed they were leaving New York, what's your forwarding address?
Good ideas spread slower than bad ideas because bad ideas are simpler. "It's complicated" loses to "they're evil" every single time.
If we're in a simulation, the developers definitely pushed to prod on a Friday and haven't checked the logs since 2016.
Everyone thinks they're the reasonable moderate and everyone else went insane. Statistically improbable. More likely: we all went a little insane together.
Twitter (etc) makes everyone think society is way more extreme than it is because the 2% who are actually passionate about [issue] tweet 40 times a day while the 98% who don't care tweet zero times. Democracy by retweet is just the tyranny of whoever has the most free time.
In 2010: "The internet isn't real life"
In 2020: "The internet IS real life"
In 2025: "Please can the internet stop being real life"
I am declaring discourse bankruptcy.
I no longer want to know whatβs trending. I donβt want to know who said what absolute nonsense. I have no opinion on the viral fuckery of the day.
If anyone needs me Iβll be buying an actual newspaper.
IF MAMDANI WINS NEW YORK THE STATUE OF LIBERTY WILL LITERALLY MELT, all the rats will form a council, pizza will be banned, & somehow this affects YOU personally in Oklahoma. im not crazy. Youβre crazy
