It’s midnight and I want to get to bed and, as usual, I am fishing for a topic. I do not want to write about Ferguson or Gaza because I’ve written about both topics before, they are totally depressing and it seems like everybody’s decided what side they’re on. I could, I suppose, write about the two things that could happen in the next week which might be big enough to end life on Earth as we know it -the Icelandic supervolcano, bangerbonker or something like that, and the looming Russian invasion of Ukraine.
In the case of the supervolcano, there’s little we can do. Stock up on bottled water and surgical masks, I guess. But, if it’s going to happen, nobody can stop it happening.
Russia invading Ukraine would be Russia saying to the world “Fuck you, world, we’re back.” This is not what the world wants to hear. It could wind up being disastrous. Certainly for the Ukrainians who are, for the most part, harmless folk.
I wrote last night about the Russian discovery of microscopic organismss (sea plankton) growing on the outside of the space station, and nothing can really top that.
So tonight I’m just going to comment on this, a study in which one person just ‘liked’ everything on their facebook page and another just ignored the like button totally. Unsurprisingly, the one who didn’t ‘like’ anything was much happier with the results.
Myself, I use it sparingly, family pictures, sometimes a vacation pic if it’s a particularly beautiful spot, some art stuff, but with most posts I’m either moved to comment or not interested enough to do anything at all.
Besides, as long as that’s your only choice, it’s rather meaningless. They should also have a ‘dislike’ button. While they’re at it, they should have a ‘grossed out’ button, and a ‘please seek psychiatric help button.’ There should be a ‘mildly aroused but feeling guilty about it’ button and ‘WTF did I just watch?’ button.
But none of them are necessary. You can just type your feelings into the comments, like this: I like this.
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