Not exactly NEWs.

Yes. It’s also true for 99% of all commercial ships as well.

I believe you mean richer version.

Is this the rich version of registering your car in Montana?

It pains me that people are seemingly so happy to attack a reporter for just doing their job and reporting a story with the known facts on hand. This reporter didn’t do anything wrong, but a dimwitted famous person has brought a lot of heartache. I hope she is doing well despite all of it.

IMHO, the media should NEVER be “fomenting outrage” - they should just report the facts. Which as near as I can see here, she did. At the time of incident, nobody knew it was anything but an unfortunate accident, so that is what was reported. When the truth came to light, she reported that the police were now…

They’re narcissists. Narcissists lack empathy, are self important, entitled, the list goes on. They are trying to be famous for being famous. Anyone who desires to spend their life in front of a camera being adored by many is likely a classic narcissist. Donald Trump is like the king of narcissists, so just use him as…

I think we’ve been celebrating stupidity since the day “news” broadcasts thought it was reasonable to just stick a camera into the face of whatever unprepared passerby happened to be nearby and then put their stream-of-consciousness opinions out into the world with the same weight as actual facts and experts.

Influencers have taken over from Starbucks as the 11th biblical plague.

They are self-involved to the nth degree.

I was just up in VT a couple months ago. I really like it up there. Was weird though. Middle of summer, middle of the week, even the weekend, and no traffic on the interstates. You and maybe one or 2 cars on either side of the road at the same time. I wouldn’t mind going up and seeing the leaves, but I would just get…

It’s because social media has created an influx of people who think they are more important than they are because they have thousands of strangers stalking them. Then in return, those same strangers also want to get in that lime light in their quest for validation and end up being a bunch of non playable characters…

Yeah, it basically gave the village idiot a bullhorn.

A then-GF and I did the ‘dying leaves’ tour through upstate NY, VT and NH sometime around 1988. After two days, I was bored out of my skull and ready to go home, or at least go to Boston for some proper pub food and maybe a Red Sox game.

That is a wonderful way of putting pre-social media life. Our bubbles often contained a few local crazies and maybe one uncle with racist dog whistles that just ignored. Then social media told us what everyone thinks all the time... 

I also wonder what the fuck is their deal.

Stupidity was less celebrated...

Are you implying that America was “smarter” before those things existed?

Influencers and Tiktok. The dumbing of America.

It is pretty looking, but it ain’t that pretty.