Apr 27

Housed

We’ve turned housing into a luxury good and this is a huge mistake. We seem to want to do nothing about it, either.

Apr 27

Bad Times

One of the main things to know about Covid is that if you’re obese and over 50, you gonna have a bad time.

Apr 26

Engage

Exactly. I am not on Twitter, but if I were I’d hope to make it onto that “hate speech” list as it would demonstrate that I am at least engaging my own brain occasionally.

Apr 26

Bios

I knew the trans movement was going to experience a severe backlash when they started screaming about biological sex not being real. I don’t want anyone to be hurt or killed but when they did that, they really fucked themselves over.

No movement is immune to shooting itself in the foot; in fact, many do it frequently (Dems).

Apr 26

No Win

I think there is a lot of truth to this. Liberalism has no hopeful future to promise: just the avoidance of something bad and a litany of what they must take away from you “for your own good.” This is not a winning proposition.

Apr 26

PZ

One of the reasons I knew the pandemic was going to be a big thing by February 2020 — other than not being a dumbass — was that I already read Zeynep. Finding people that can keep you from being a dumbass is key in life.

Discarding people who go down bad paths such as Ian Welsh, who were once ok but will turn you into a clown, is also very important.

Apr 26

Charades

I am not autistic, but this is indeed a lot of life. Used to get me in trouble constantly as I do not play along well. I learned.

Apr 25

Nowhere Good

Technologically-mediated centralized hypercapitalistic discourse leads nowhere good.

Apr 25

WFC

Elon Musk buying Twitter: who fucking cares? How is one unaccountable billionaire better or worse than three or four unaccountable hedge funds controlling that site?

PMC libs only care about what is easy to name and easy to quantify. They cannot understand anything else.