For the last 14 months we have collectively accepted, without meaningful debate, the ideological belief that the 'greater good' can be equated with maximum COVID mitigation, without concern for or recognition of of the collateral harms caused by those mitigation efforts. 1/

— Samantha Godwin (@samanthaagodwin) June 3, 2021

Exactly. Why “Zero Covid” and “close the borders forever” and “infinite lockdown” are just terrible ideas for any country. There will be no end to it, and it causes vast harm so we can beat back a relatively low-risk disease. Yes, Long Covid, blah blah. Still does not matter.

She is really good and thoughtful. Glad someone is not afraid to say this.

I was at a friend’s house one time and her roommate came out and dumped a bunch of her just-washed clothes on the table in front of me, not really thinking about it. It was mostly a lot of panties and such.

When she realized that, she got a bit embarrassed and apologized. Of course I did not care. I’m the complete opposite of a prude and someone’s clean panties…I mean, who gives a crap? I certainly couldn’t care less and didn’t even really notice until she said something.

What she didn’t know is that she could’ve walked out there completely naked and I also wouldn’t have cared. My facial expression would not have even changed. I just do not care what other people do as long as it doesn’t harm me. I can’t even express the degree to which I don’t care and am not concerned.

But it’s hard to tell people things like this and make them realize how much you mean it.

When the C.D.C. loosened its mask guidelines three weeks ago, many people were anxious: Would it lead unvaccinated people to take off their masks and cause a surge of new cases?

So far, the answer is no. Cases keep falling. And vaccinations of 16+ have stopped falling. 🧵

— David Leonhardt (@DLeonhardt) June 2, 2021

That mega-surge you’ve all been promising and hoping for is (as I’ve said an absurdly large number times) nowhere to be seen.

Someone give me that fat pundit salary.

Oh gods, they fucked up Firefox, WTF is happening, I can't tell one tab from another anymore

— Trishank Karthik Kuppusamy (@trishankkarthik) June 1, 2021

You used to be able to change how tabs look too, so they aren’t so obscured, but no longer. Fake security. The real reason has of course nothing to do with security, but rather to herd people in certain ad-friendly and control-friendly directions. Also, it’s to de-emphasize tabs, claim people “don’t use them anymore” and then force search only on everyone.

Mozilla has been pulling this trick for years, and it had worked. No reason for them to stop now.

I’m still a terrible French speaker because I practice with no one, but sometimes find myself thinking in French. I only notice because there’s some word I can’t quite retrieve and then I’m like, “Oh, I was thinking that in French…huh.” I think that’s because I’ve been watching loads of French TV shows with no subtitles, and reading a good amount of French books and such.

My main wish in how I should have been educated differently is that anything to do with useless math had been excised, and I’d been put in intensive language classes from the time I was five. I think I could’ve easily been highly fluent in 6-8 languages. Hell, I was creating my own languages from a young age.

But I had no support, and no one cared at all about my particular talents and proclivities. Everything was designed to standardize me (and everyone) and force me through the education sausage factory, all the while attempting to convince me even then that only STEM mattered, and that because I did not adore math and worship at the all-hallowed math shrine, that something was wrong with me.

Well, nothing was wrong with me. I knew that at the time but I can say that authoritatively now. I could’ve been really something in the language arena (and I’m still pretty darn good), but it was just never destined to be due to where I grew up and the absurd STEM worship that was already present and now has only worsened.

Shortages loom as ransomware hamstrings the world’s biggest meat producer.

Something more effective than all the vegans and vegetarians in the world have ever done in all of history.

Dammit.

No UK Covid deaths announced for first time in 10 months.

Time to quit hiding inside crying. The lockdown lifers will always be there, wishing to go full Morlock. Just ignore them and they’ll stay in their crevices beneath the earth, missing all of life.