Herb and Jamaal, 3/13/25

Ha, no, see, Herb's mother-in-law, "doomscrolling" just means when you keep going through your social media feeds on your phone, hoping for a little glimmer of something positive but instead only finding bad news that makes you increasingly gloomy. It does not mean the thing where you're on your phone and you suddenly get a vivid and detailed vision of your own future death, but then just as quickly that awful omen vanishes from sight. I mean, I can see why you'd think that's what doomscrolling might mean, what with it offering you premonitions of your own doom and all! But it doesn't really happen often enough for people to give it a name, I don't think. Does it, uh, often happen to you?

Mary Worth, 3/13/25