And at the places that do have staff, the staff are new, unmotivated, poorly trained, and just generally muddling through this job they clearly don't plan to keep for much longer. https://t.co/TyLWYFxgjs

— jonstokes.(eth|com) (@jonst0kes) June 23, 2022

I often go to places now where I know more about the selection and products than the actual staff. Rarely happened before the pandemic, unless it was tech-related. Very strange time.

The first ten on today’s playlist:

I like the behind the scenes stuff, and Emma Dumont is at 7:16 if anyone is interested. Sutton Foster is so charming, though.

I know I’ve embedded this before but Koffee’s performance is just so iconic:

One of the best live performances of all time, in any genre.

It says a lot about the barrenness and lack of imagination of our age that megaton-level putzes like Yglesias think things like the Moon landing were pointless wastes of time while they also claim efforts like Medicare for All are impossible.

These two facts are extremely related.

Holy fuck, this thread is deeply stupid and ahistorical. No disease save smallpox has ever been eliminated in humans, and that only occurred because its only host is humans.

But ZeroCovid is a religion that never had any basis in reality or the world at all. Like all religions, it has a doctrine, zealots, rituals, etc. And like a lot of religions, hurts tons of people for no real reason.