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There is an account on Twitter Hedonometer that measures quantitatively

the real-time online measurement of happiness.

And not surprisingly, I think this was Fry. the real-time online measurement of happiness.

And not surprisingly, I think this was Friday.

This account posted a chart.

Yesterday was the saddest day in the history of Twitter.

That's probably a good way to describe the last week or so. It was just it was sad and obviously over the weekend it just got worse and I don't know any other way to say it. It just kind of makes you feel sad and I'm sure anger was probably right up there too but yeah there's not much that we can really add to this

That hasn't already been said but it's

2020 is just quickly devolving into just an awful awful year. There's really no positive spin to that.

I wonder if this chart was Facebook what that would look like. Imagine how

vile that place was. I think that's probably one of the best decisions I've ever made is just

staying away from Facebook and not even getting into it I can't even imagine.

Ben you wrote a post over the weekend bad or strong and the good.

You wrote things are pretty bleak in the world right now.

2020 feels like some combination of 1918, 1929, and 1968 all wrapped into one.

I thought that was a pretty good description.

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