More doofy dipshits using the pandemic to push their preferred societal alterations.
I will never give up eating meat because I don’t enjoy feeling like garbage and being malnourished all the time. There is nothing that could make me give up eating meat.
That said, we should improve the labor and animal welfare situation. I am all for this.
I thought about 50 percent, so he’s not far from my estimates. A lot of small businesses will never come back. Many of those that do will be nuked in the fall as the virus resurges.
Been a long time since a depression. Most people have no idea what’s ahead.
someone in my DMs asked who my biggest influence is, and they were surprised when I said Hayley Williams
so… time for a Hayley thread pic.twitter.com/9k425gY1Lu
— Visakan Veerasamy (@visakanv) August 17, 2019
I don’t know much if anything about Hayley Williams, though I like a few of Paramore’s songs. But I like this thread just because of how genuine it is. I felt this way about Tanya Donelly for many years, for much the same reasons.
The first ten on today’s playlist:
I’m a bad programmer because I don’t and probably never will understand deeply why anything works. I try things until they function and that’s all.
I really hate programming.
I guess what has surprised me the most during this pandemic is how comfortable Americans have gotten with a huge death toll of their fellow citizens.
— Lulu Garcia-Navarro (@lourdesgnavarro) May 18, 2020
We’ve been at war for almost 20 years. Most Americans have been fine with that — both all our troops dying and killing hundreds of thousands of others, mostly civilians.
Why wouldn’t they be fine with thousands more dying a little closer to home?
"I don't need to wear a mask to feel safe," he says, while carrying his AK-47 to get a sandwich from Subway. pic.twitter.com/GxCqlg9jej
— John Cole (@Johngcole) May 19, 2020
That’s an AK-102 clone of some sort, but yeah, total coward loser.
Also, the safety is off and the fire selector is set to “fire” (meaning that if the trigger gets snagged on something or that the kid it’s pointed out reaches out to touch it, it’d fire). And it’s pointed right at someone, as mentioned. About what I’d expect to to see with these types.
One that happened years ago for example and I’ll mention now. I was working at an abusive job where yelling was normal. People crying was normal. I looked for other jobs and interviewed at a consultancy. Someone there reported me to my boss and I got screamed at.
— Melissa McEwen (@melissamcewen) May 20, 2020
This kind of shit is why I love having some money.
Not at a job but a job interview one time. It was going terribly wrong. The interviewer was a jerk and I was done with it all. I said, “Well, I’m leaving. This isn’t going to work out.”
He said, shocked, “Wait, you can’t just leave!”
I stood up, looked at him and said, “Yes I can” and walked right on out of there onto the street, smiling. Can’t pull that kind of crap unless you have funds enough that you aren’t desperate for a job. I’m incredibly lucky and I appreciate my good fortune and I will and do use it to put schmucks like that in their place.
A reminder: three months ago or so, our “experts” were telling us that masks were useless, not wanting to shake hands was racist, and restricting travel was too.
Now think about that the next time those experts tell you something.
Why You Should Think of Risk as a Spectrum.
Finally, some sense.
But there’s no simple equivalent for our current problem, which is avoiding getting sick with COVID-19 and trying not to be a stepping stone for the virus to spread from one person to another. If you can’t abide by strict stay-at-home rules (which were only ever supposed to be a short term fix, and are certainly not an easy way to live one’s whole life), it’s time to start thinking of risk as a spectrum.
But the libs say if you don’t want to stay at home for years, you wanna kill GRAMMMMAAAAA. And why do you want to kill gramma, you gramma-killer?
More seriously, she’s right. The lockdowns were only supposed to be a temporary fix. At most, society can sustain those for 2-3 months before the economy flies apart like a washing machine that you throw a brick into when it’s on spin cycle.
I don’t really give a fuck about the deontological fantasies of the liberals. They have no clue about anything. I’ve seen many of them advocating two-year-long lockdowns. Ok, then. Hope they enjoy feasting on the leather from their own shoes at that point.