The problem now is that social media facilitate far wider and less controlled spreading of bs, and enable echo chambers where like minded idiots can feed on the same bs all day and night. It used to be harder to find the other idiots, and it cost money to get information to and from them. Not any more.
Actually got to explain how and why FB allows all those fake posts, fake friend messages and why FB won't shut them down to a couple that was complaining about it today.....they just using the same exploits FB uses to garner info and if FB shut them down FB wouldn't be able to use them to gather and sell your info.The problem now is that social media facilitate far wider and less controlled spreading of bs, and enable echo chambers where like minded idiots can feed on the same bs all day and night. It used to be harder to find the other idiots, and it cost money to get information to and from them. Not any more.
The older I get, the sooner I need to shut up. Some days now it is maybe a couple hours after I wake up. Before breakfast that is.This is precisely why I shut up later in the day
*spooky voice* oooor is he?!?!
There is no way that those things fooled the kids. They know the difference between showing up and winning whether the adults want to admit it or not. Probably not a bad thing because after school is done, the real world includes consequences for failure. Some early exposure to this fact of life might not be a bad thing.
Yeah most of the hurricanes veer away or die down without a direct hit on FL. The occasional big one can be devastating though. The greatest hurricane mortality in FL was one that went up the middle of the state in 1928. It blew all the water in Lake Okechobe up to the north end of the lake, and then the water surged back to the south end of the lake in a 20 foot tidal wave that wiped out the towns south of the lake, killing 2,500. That's why the Army corps of engineers build that 20 foot dike around the lake.
