IninewCrow

What? … what’s that? … wait … let me buy the ‘listening app’ for $3.99 monthly subscription first … oh yeah, now I hear you … yeah, feels shitty being a product … oh wait … now I have to buy the $5.99 one time payment app ‘thoughts and feelings’ … there, now I feel I can feel it … yeah … feels shitty

I had to do a double take a few times on my news feed as weird things like wild fires and air plane crashes were being reported in Ontario … California!

And if you had also ordered the ‘X-Ray Glasses’ … you’d be able to lie in bed at night and see right through your roof to keep on eye out for any falling meteorites

Yeah … I keep imagining this one for all of humanity.

One moment, we’re having our usual run of the mill day, everything is either going good or going bad, we’re all worried about the economy, billionaires flying around in their private jets, some poor kid is stealing oranges from the market, you’re scrolling through some social media feed … then BAMMMM!

Either one of two things happen to you.

You either get terribly unwell and die immediately or things fall apart around you, hurricane winds, things going crazy and then you die soon after.

Or

You’re online and the internet goes screwy … things aren’t working right, then in an hour, most of the internet is gone. You turn on cable tv but most of the channels are now gone. You see one or two emergency channels and they’re all talking about some ‘event’ that happened somewhere far away. Then most tv everywhere goes down too. There are rumours everywhere of Russians have launched nuclear weapons, world war three has started, aliens have landed, Jesus has come back, Armageddon has started … and then hurricane force winds start blowing everywhere … things are just tossed around and you either die in the mix or you are one of the lucky ones who happen to be underground … you won’t last a few days and then you die soon after anyway.

Random Gamma Ray Burst has directly hit the planet earth … it irradiates half the planet where it hit head on, vapourizing the atmosphere and causing violent weather changes and the radiation either immediately killing or slowly sickening every living thing until it all dies including all animals, most fish near the surface, plants and humans … the other half of the planet didn’t get hit by the radiation but now survives just a little longer as half the planet tries to equalize with the other destroyed half.

It’s theorized that this is one of the probable causes of several unexplained extinction events in earth’s geologic history. And if it ever happened now, we’d have no warning … and even if we did … we wouldn’t be able to do anything about it.

Also … the most valuable content I find or want online for my own uses is all text based … reading blogs, forums, news sites, articles, creative writing, wikipedia

I really don’t care about design or flashy lights and pictures … I just want to read the news

I often just toggle the read only view as soon as I find something I want to read and seldom care about what a site looks like … on the other side of that … if the site is so messed up or controlling that it refuses reader view … I skip it and move on

So it would be like taking out all the leaflets, ads, sales flyers and alert sheets from your local newspaper and throwing them in the trash without looking at any of them. In a small way, I always feel bad when I do that to my paper … such a huge waste of paper that only a small fraction of people actually look at.