I pretty easily did 50 push-ups tonight without stopping or being all that tired at the end. Still getting stronger.
Nice.
Apr
07
Author Archives: quoderat
Apr
07
DWave
It’s not going to be as bad as we expected because we did a bunch of things to help make it less bad than expected, so we shouldn’t have done the things that helped… is some super galaxy brain thinking
— Milena Rodban (@MilenaRodban) April 6, 2020
Too many motherfuckers are just wicked dumb. Like, they take an IQ test and the paper catches fire from the dimwit-waves.
Apr
07
Biden’s Special Touch With Voters
Apr
06
Not Bad
Since the start of this crisis, in the market account that I trade in and look at more than once a year, I’ve lost only 2%. Meanwhile the S&P 500 has lost about 17%. And they say you can’t time the market.
So, not bad. Not bad at all. Someone should pay me for this shit.
Apr
06
Vax
Fuck that. We need a vaccine. Since SARS2 doesn’t mutate much and doesn’t do large-scale genetic material swapping, this should be easier and more effective than the regular flu vaccine.
Apr
06
No Grace
The main thing the pandemic reveals is how deeply disgraceful our society is. Yes, the US is a failed state, and a particularly absurd one given its vast wealth, but it has failed in a debased and degraded way so aburd that it’d be funny if it didn’t harm and kill so many people.
It’s like watching a clown car go off a cliff while playing the soundtrack to Cats. It’s a fucking ludicrous tragedy that was utterly preventable and yet no one had enough will and foresight to lift a single finger to put a halt to it — with of course centrists screaming that anything else was impossible as they frantically snip the brake lines, put a brick on the accelerator pedal and remove all the guardrails.
Apr
06
Illusive
Odd things about neo-liberals is watching them advocate for diversity, while pushing policies that erode differences & makes everyone & everyplace the exact same: A resumed rat race in a cookie cutter landscape of Starbucks, Strip malls, jeans, Nikes, & awful IPAs.
— Chris Arnade (@Chris_arnade) March 8, 2020
That’s because diversity to liberals/neoliberals (now the same) is a panoply of different skin colors of people who otherwise act, look, and think exactly the same. Like all neoliberal projects, it’s an illusion of choice — like 25 different brands of toothpaste all peddled by the same company.
And if you object to this pretend “diversity,” you are racist and cancelled.
Apr
06
No Cuomo
Centrists: Bernie, with 914 delegates and 27 more states to vote, can’t win and must drop out.
Also Centrists: We need to replace Biden with Cuomo, who has exactly zero delegates.
Fucking private country club is all the Dem party is today.
— Lenka4Bernie (@lkpscs) April 5, 2020
That is a bit odd, isn’t it?
Apr
06
Just Chute Me
Oh, this is great and lovely satire. Perfect for showing how the scientific establishment goes so wrong so often and very relevant to the current crisis.
Apr
06
Excess
Something to keep in mind as joblessness surges, as we debate how aggressively the U.S. should try to get companies to maintain payrolls:
People are incredibly resilient to negative life events, like widowhood. But they are uniquely "un-resilient" to long-term unemployment. pic.twitter.com/FpF3hF1kpO
— Derek Thompson (@DKThomp) April 5, 2020
This is why I say 20-40 million excess deaths in 2-7 years if we don’t make fixing unemployment a huge priority. This is a known extremely negative life event that causes enormous identity crises even apart from poverty and the like.