The Fat Acceptance nutty buddies truly do believe that losing weight and working out is “hurting your body.” Damn, if I were the food company marketing teams I’d be patting myself so hard on the back when I saw this I’d give myself heart arrhythmia — which is exactly what the FA goofuses are gonna get all on their own.
I am still kinda sad that Ian Welsh became such an idiot putz. He was really good once. I hope someone takes me aside and talks to me if I start going that route and that I don’t just degenerate like that.
Give it up, Covidians. No one gives a shit anymore and most know you’re lying about Long Covid, etc. It’s done, it’s over, you lost.
What Amy is talking about below is also a lot of what doomed Firefox to failure. They did not care what the users wanted; they had a goal of aping Chrome, removing features and capabilities, and didn’t give a shit at all what the users wanted or needed. And it doomed them (as it should have).
Maiming and killing pregnant patients is not an unfortunate side effect of abortion bans. It's the point of them. Anti-choice sites are awash in sites romanticizing women who are crippled or killed by pregnancy. pic.twitter.com/HTNvAodJYC
— Amanda Marcotte (@AmandaMarcotte) July 27, 2022
Both Amanda and I grew up among fundies and evangelicals. She’s completely correct.
An interesting paper that just came out on long COVID in non-hospitalized people – the incidence of any long COVID symptoms was 5.4% in people with COVID-19 vs 4.4% in an uninfected control https://t.co/C0kNyDFyYc
— Health Nerd (@GidMK) July 26, 2022
LOL. So, Long Covid matches about what I thought it’d be, and is roughly about what it is for all other similar viruses (predictably).
Oh, also worth noting that the rates of symptoms that we might consider seriously impacting daily life were really quite low in this cohort. For example, fatigue was reported in 0.46% of COVID-19 patients vs 0.24% of controls, brain fog was 0.06% vs 0.04%
— Health Nerd (@GidMK) July 26, 2022
That’s just what I expected to see.
this thing we do in the 2020s, where our first priority in the face of present crisis is to urgently discuss its name, will in later generations come to define this entire clown car chapter of american history https://t.co/zgZiEBvehI
— Mike Solana (@micsolana) July 26, 2022
This tendency is what lost the Left the culture wars and even Roe, because as the Right was organizing around real political power and getting shit done, the Left was making sure that no one used the wrong huwty-woity words and that no one was appropriating (read: learning from) anyone else’s culture — all the while insisting that biology isn’t real and that women aren’t either.
This is how you lose. And we sure did. It’s only going to get worse.
Hold your hand up 12 inches from your face: you’re seeing your hand as it was a nanosecond ago. Everything you look at is, to one degree or another, in the past. The farther away in space, the more ancient in time.
— Katie Mack (@AstroKatie) November 25, 2018
Given the latency of the human nervous system and the variability thereof, you’re really seeing your hand as it was 10-30ms ago.
In shocking news, the Chinese state prioritises the global financial and trade interests of Chinese exporters over bailing out the Russian statehttps://t.co/ibw1lYwhPm
— Alexander Clarkson (@APHClarkson) July 25, 2022
I know, SHOCKING, right? WHO COULD HAVE KNOWN?
I have a LEAF (love it) + an eBike. There're so many people who will not try a bike, ever, so EVs = FTW for those people and the collective effort of reducing emissions!!!
Perfect will not happen. MUCH better CAN happen. eBikes + EVs
— Andrea Learned #ClimateInfluence 🌱 Ⓥ 🚲 (@AndreaLearned) July 25, 2022
I’d never ride any form of bicycle or motorcycle on any road in the US ever. Every single person I know who bikes regularly has been hit by a car, some multiples times. Every single one.