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May
29
Business Reasons
This is like a disciplinary Rorschach test, I’d say I’m 90% interested in the answer. pic.twitter.com/0qR1ZcF6lr
— Greg Shill (@greg_shill) May 29, 2021
Two things: money laundering and hobby businesses.
If I needed to launder a buncha money there are two easy ways to do it, and those two are small cash businesses and real estate.
There are also a lot of hobby businesses that barely break even or don’t at all, that people run for many years just because they like it.
May
29
Hi Neighbor
Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors.
Ha, what kind of dispshit assclown would want this? Also, this sort of thing should be hugely illegal but, well, here we are.
May
29
No Apple
Most people who believe they are strong, independent thinkers have never actually thought about anything in their lives. They swallow all the bien pensant opinions and ideas and regurgitate them like a 9-month-old spitting up her applesauce.
When you move past living like that it becomes startlingly obvious but also weirdly entrancing. There is a danger, though. If you don’t have a really good mind, it’s easy to tip over into conspiracizing and all that entails: anti-vaxx, aliens, etc. But fortunately I do have a quality mind and so that’s not a problem. And I’m also very humble too, obviously.
May
29
Why Wor
Here's the real talk: all pandemics end. For this one, we have a choice of how it ends, for billions: infection or vaccination. It's that simple, unfortunately. The idea we can slooooooowly get to vaccinating people while they all somehow avoid infection for years is not tenable.
— zeynep tufekci (@zeynep) May 28, 2021
I am so fucking glad Zeynep is not a “lockdown for years” liberal crybaby. She knows what the right answer is and how it should be done.
Why the lockdown worship in so many? I have never understood.
May
29
About It
Things not looking positive on #COVID19, unfortunately. The 7-day UK figures published at 4pm show 24% growth in cases, 25% growth in hospital admissions, and 38% rise in deaths. pic.twitter.com/O8S2JUknv6
— Dr Gabriel Scally (@GabrielScally) May 28, 2021
AZ vax is not that effective againt the Indian variant with only one dose, and only 48% of the UK has had two doses (and most people there got the AZ vax). Additionally, it’s more transmissible.
So…this is about what I’d expect to see with the AZ vax?
Damn, people just want to panic. I canot understand it. Get to the second dose. You’ll be ok.
May
28
Nasties
To our post-journalistic media, Covid meant Trump, and any other villain to the story was a distraction.
Holding China and its regime responsible thus became taboo.
Remarkable…https://t.co/KZbKp4tnwI
— Martin Gurri (@mgurri) May 28, 2021
Not blaming Trump is racist!
To be fair to China, it’s just as likely some ill-advised GOF research could’ve released some nasties here. It just was by chance in China. The next one very well might be here.
May
28
Good Changes
I lost 50 pounds in under 5 months, WHILE putting on muscle
Here’s the story of how I did it, and what I learned along the way 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
1/18 pic.twitter.com/nndEj0gWmq— Joseph Brown (@heresyfinancial) May 26, 2021
According to Fat Acceptance types this is impossible. But in reality, it’s not all that hard.
May
28
GOF
The dangers associated with gain-of-function research have been widely discussed for a long time. Here is an article in @ScienceMagazine from January 2013, warning of the dangers of GOF research, and accusing NIH and Fauci of complacency in the face of the risks. pic.twitter.com/20pTE5BRZd
— Nils Gilman (@nils_gilman) May 28, 2021
Yep. I remember reading articles about this in the late 1990s. It’s not like that GOF research being very risky is some novel and crazy idea.
May
28
Uncivil
Got to make sure we are out of the country for the 2024 election. I don’t mean as immigrants, necessarily, but we at least have to make sure we’re abroad while the election and whatever aftermath occurs.
Has the real possibility of turning into a bloodbath, and I don’t mean that metaphorically. Fortunately, we have enough $ to live anywhere for quite a while even with no jobs. I feel sad for others who do not have that luxury.
There is a really good chance Dems will lose 2024 completely legitimately, as they are terrible at doing what it takes to win, but if not they will not be allowed to take office at the presidential level and probably in other offices, too. Things could go very bad from there.
I know almost none of you understand risk, but think of it like insurance: if nothing unpleasant happens, then we get a nice vacation. If something does occur, then we’re already elsewhere.