The level of idiocy on X is off scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Last fall, we had the “$140,000\/year salary is poverty level income in the United States” idiocy take over X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By spring time, we had the “Gen Z must spend $28 per day on lunch” nonsense – making your own lunch is eating prison food and living like a peasant, they said. And oh, we should be able to buy a modern 2400 sq ft home for the price of a 1200 sq ft home in 1960!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then we had some Gen Z actually claim that today is worse than the Great Depression and those who lived through The Great Depression had it easy! I am not kidding! The level of stupidity on X is remarkable!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The nonsense went on from there … how and why did I get caught up in this giant waste of time?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The final straw was someone posting about physicians and nurse practitioners. I thought I was being nice by giving an example of two cases where NPs had helped us. I was being NICE. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I was attacked by an MD – who knew nothing about the cases – saying both NPs were incompetent (they were not) – and therefore, I was an idiot for saying something NICE about their having solved a couple of serious health problems. (In one of those, my wife was urgently sent to the local ER and hospitalized overnight, due to a life threatening issue.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Another health care person piled on, saying more nasty things – all because I said something nice about 2 people.<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n Obviously, these two health care practitioners have a deep hatred of nurse practitioners. Being NICE branded me an idiot deserving of a public flogging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I encountered numerous people who insist real world data is wrong – and their absurd ideas are the truth! No amount of data, facts or logic can correct their errors – X really is a platform for the frictionless spread of misinformation and propaganda nonsense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Today I deleted almost all of my posts made since last November. Will delete more another day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I have made my account “Private”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Am in process of deleting Replies as well – I might need to subscribe to a 3rd party API service to do that – X has no bulk deletion or editing tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the past month, I spent too much time on X due to sitting a lot – because of a hip injury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I regret having wasted so much time on X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I’ll keep the account so I can follow some topics like economics, finance and hobbies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But I’m done posting or replying to others. X is a giant waste of time<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Because the platform is filled with idiots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20748,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20741\/revisions\/20748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}