People who think Covid is going to collapse society: LOL
The fucking Black Death didn’t even collapse society though it did change it immensely. To be perfectly frank, a relatively-mild virus that mainly kills old, fat people ain’t collapsin’ shit.
I’ve started taking screenshots of things like this (and wish I’d started earlier) because even a few friends have told me stuff like this doesn’t/didn’t happen:
When it’s pretty common among the Covid panickers. Just wish I had screenshots of the people talking about how it was racist to social distance, etc., at the beginning of the pandemic. Strangely, these are now the ZeroCovid/Covidian people.
I'm old enough to remember two months ago when saying this was a cancellable third rail. https://t.co/eQFA1v4dWT
— Angie Schmitt🚶♀️ (@schmangee) May 31, 2022
It is extremely interesting how quickly the narrative shifts, and how head-snappingly rapidly the old one is erased — and if you bring it up afterward, it becomes a “conspiracy theory.”
PostScript is 40 this year; PDF turns 30: HTML is 29.
We’ve had these document formats for long enough that we can reasonably call them long-term document retention formats, right?
Physical media decay is more of a problem than reading old files at this point.
— Charlie Stross (@cstross) May 2, 2022
File types that will probably still work in 100 years:
She’s long.
I think Velina here is one of the few who understands what Putin is attempting to do in Ukraine and his larger strategy:
Not all realists share #Mearsheimer views on Russia's war against Ukraine. I am positioned in the #realpolitik corner while using #geopolitics and #geoeconomics as the main pillars of #foresight.This is my assessment since Dec 2021 (see pinned tweet) on Russia's plan.
Thread🧵👇— Velina Tchakarova (@vtchakarova) May 29, 2022
Putin has very successfully conned most of the PMC libs into believing some wildly incorrect things (or, they have conned themselves) and they are very reluctant to let go of those ideas. But Velina knows what the hell is up.
This is what I don’t get about those calling for the Ukrainians publicly to cede lots of territory. At best that land will see brutal ethnic cleansing, and possibly mass murder on an epic scale. The Ukrainians on that territory will be wiped out. They are calling for this. https://t.co/FqFO9LXFBZ
— Phillips P. OBrien (@PhillipsPOBrien) May 30, 2022
Turns out a whole lot of “liberals” are totally fine with ethnic cleansing and genocide as long as it’s against people who look white.
Huh. Fancy that.
I am a gay man, and I sense danger coming.
Agreed. There is likely to be a rollback of rights not seen in a developed country since…well, ever. It’s on the way.
I know it’s minor but if you look at screenshots, you can see the scars and scrapes of being a stuntman on Pitt and it helped sell the character for me. https://t.co/IXDqrRmZm1
— Jason Scott (@textfiles) May 29, 2022
The whole cast was just great in that film. Say what you want about Tarantino, but he always gets the fucking most out of his actors. I don’t know how he does it, but damn he does. Actors that are mediocre in other films are always outstanding in his works.
My “I have not yet authorized a nuclear strike” shirt is gonna raise a lot of questions that are already answered by my “I have not yet authorized a nuclear strike” shirt.