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38. Idiocy Saturation:
Online, people who don't think before they post are able to post more often than people who do. As a result, the average social media post is stupider than the average social media user. Worth remembering whenever Twitter dumbassery drives you to despair.
My Friends, a New MEGATH...
@G_S_Bhogal on Twitter
Improv masters learn like babies: dive in and imitate and improvise first, learn the formal rules later. “At the beginning, your mom didn’t give you a book and say, ‘This is a noun, this is a pronoun, this is a dangling participle,’” Cecchini told me. “You acquired the sound first. And then you acquire the grammar later.”
Some simply become “senescent”—useless, but alive enough that they aren’t scooped up and removed as dead. They serve no other purpose except to cause trouble, a little like the zombies of The Walking Dead. And over time, they accumulate. Unlike cells that kill themselves, senescent cells can lead to cancer, which is one theory that explains why cancer increases with age. And if they don’t cause cancer, then their misfiring DNA can produce proteins and enzymes the body doesn’t need or want: loose cannons that begin ransacking the body’s good cells, burdening an already battered body as it ages. In the end, hearing and eyes falter, major organs—including the brain—fail, strength diminishes, the heart stops, and we die.
Immortality, Inc.
Chip Walter
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