well I suppose it was inevitable....

what saddens me is the way in which so many seem to fail completely to understand how things work in the real world

last night doing the [simple] crossword over tea [or if you prefer, dinner] one clue was the word 'fact' and the answer depressingly enough was 'data' - that encapsulates the whole problem: data is information and like conversation, amplified by today's social media, there may be some truth in it somewhere but a lot [most of it ?] is just noise

there are many siren calls in that noise, lots of pretty patterns that promise comfort and a sense of meaning, should you be in need of such... cavet lector so to speak