I'm shutting down Google+ for the night and quite possibly for the weekend. Why? This stupid #gifwars thing people are so proud of. This Adam Black guy said he doesn't like gifs and now everyone is mass trolling him. Having been mass trolled like this I can relate to him easily enough. Have an opinion and the collective might of Google+'s lower class denizens jump on a bandwagon. I just saw a post where someone wanted to jump on board and had to get clarification she was tagging the proper Adam Black. She wasn't even connected to him ! Nor was she a part of the original discussion. She just wanted to follow the herd. When I called her out of it she claimed, "one gif doesn't make a troll." Perhaps not, but she's contributing to a larger troll effort. One straw doesn't break the camel's back, but thousands will. So, tonight, Google+ disgusts me. It probably will tomorrow as well. And possibly Sunday. I gave up Google+ for two months this spring
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We're 99.9% similar to other humans.
96% similar to chimps
90% similar to a cat
85% similar to a mouse
80% similar to a cow
61% similar to a fruit fly
60% similar to a chicken
yup, that's right, we look more like a fruit fly than a KFC
and last but not least
60% similar to a banana, ok, maybe these folks are like 98% similar to a banana, but they're more the exception than the norm.
businessinsider.com - Our DNA is 99.9% the same as the person sitting next to us — and we're surprisingly similar to a bunch of other living things