My brain seems to want to have sound going whenever I'm working, and for some reason music often doesn't do it, so I stream stuff that I don't really need to pay attention to.

I did like old #NCIS episodes for a while, until I realized the extent to which it's #copaganda.

So now I've been listening to lots of people responding to #FlatEarth and #MLM and #Creationist and #Apologist claims, which is relatively benign.

But now and then it does strike me pretty forcefully how much energy goes into responding to basically-ludicrous views, and how many of such views are surprisingly widespread.

Is this a price that we necessarily pay for openness and diversity of at least slightly useful views? Is the activity of responding to ludicrous views a good way to keep one's neurons young? I dunno.

It just seems like a pity sometimes.

THE EARTH IS SPHERICAL, DARN IT!

And there isn't an all-good being sending people to eternal torment, either.