The Ridiculous Lies After Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Death

When you clicked on this, you probably assumed I was going to talk about some lies the republican party is spreading after the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Or maybe you assumed it was about some outlandish QAnon theory. But it’s not about either of those things. Today, we’re going to discuss the fascinating subject of lying as a means of social signaling in the age of Twitter.

But real quick, around the current debate of whether or not Trump can elect a conservative SCOTUS during the last year of his term, how ridiculous is it that the SCOTUS term lasts until death or resignation?

To give you some framing of why I find this subject so fascinating, I’ll start by stating that I personally believe that human behavior is one of the most interesting aspects of life out there. While we spend billions of dollars researching the universe, I personally think we should invest more in understanding the human mind right here on earth because we’re such strange creatures.

Over the last year or so, I’ve taken interest in why people tweet the things they tweet or post what they post on Facebook. While we all know someone who has posted on Facebook that their newborn’s first words were something like “nuclear fission” or how their 9-year old begged his parents to donate his heart to starving children around the…