Doesn’t this pretty much kill all streaming, like Twitch et al. as well? Especially if Visa follows along. Of course in reality, though, big businesses won’t be affected by this. After all this sort of action is designed to kill small operators. That’s the whole purpose and it will work.
DA CZ
I agree, Charlize Theron was very good indeed in The Devil’s Advocate.
Left to her own devices in big, scary Manhattan, a neglected Theron begins to succumb to demonic visions. As her character spirals into madness and desperation, the actress conjures a tempest of raw emotion completely out of sync with the otherwise tongue-in-cheek nature of the proceedings
She redeemed the movie for me and made me watch parts of it twice (uh, specifically, the parts with her in it). I’d already seen her in 2 Days in the Valley, but at the time — because I was younger and shallower — I wrote her off as too pretty to be serious. (Yeah, that’s the kind of stupid shit I thought then).
Anyway, she was almost unrecognizable between the two films. 2 Days in the Valley:
Devil’s Advocate:
Infinite Ignorance
Because of all those campground super spreader events? Please, let’s limit govt solutions to actual problems. @zeynep https://t.co/hTqLkeExRG
— Greg Bryson, MD, FRCPC (@glbryson) April 16, 2021
Pure dumbassery knows no bounds.
How Long
How long before the liberals define any sex as “trafficking?” Doesn’t seem that far off, really.
Banned Aid
Wind generation capacity increased three times faster than optimistic expert projections 5 years ago. A large part of the reason was underestimation of how fast technology & manufacturing capability would grow. A good source of hope for the future! https://t.co/IXovaWhjsU
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) April 16, 2021
I remember about 25 years ago when “experts” confidently predicted we’d never have the solar and wind generation capacity that we had…a decade ago (It’s way more now).
Got banned from forums for disagreeing with those mooks.
Karen Rampage
Woman Goes On Punching And Biting Spree After Being Asked To Wear a Mask.
And they wonder why people don’t want to work for $8 an hour. It’s a huge mystery for sure.
The Real Risk
An Astra Zeneca first shot was made available a few weeks ago to a very close family relative who declined, wanting to wait for another brand, and who came down with COVID afterwards. The funeral is tomorrow. Misinformation kills. Get vaccinated.
— Ian C Davies (@iancdavieseval) April 15, 2021
The real risk (for most). Preventable tragedy, and we’ve had so many of these this past year.
WSY
(1/3) Study of real-world effectiveness of the Pfizer-BNT vaccine in Israel in over 1.1 million people.
Any infection: 92% (88-95%)
Symptomatic: 94% (87-98%)
Hospitalisation: 87% (55-100%)
Severe disease 92%% (75-100%)The second dose was crucial.https://t.co/Rvd93hw8Mq pic.twitter.com/r6K6svoGed
— Dr Zoë Hyde (@DrZoeHyde) April 15, 2021
What say ye, doomers?
Havoc
Breakthrough infections are basically just not happening at any sort of scale that could inform public policy or behavior in the long run.
Vaccines = life goes back to normal.https://t.co/4SGfpo3pli
— Alan Cole (@AlanMCole) April 15, 2021
But DOOM! Variants! More doom! Stay inside forever and ever!
The truth is the pandemic would’ve ended even without vaccines — we just sped it up by a year or two. Luckily.
I’m so done with the doomers.
Optim
The press gets clicks and makes money from doom-mongering, and liberals are more than happy to sing the same tune. It’s sad to see but this constant focus on doom has little to do with reality.
It can be quite easy, reading the press, to believe that the pandemic will never end. Even when good news about vaccines started to arrive in the autumn, this grim narrative managed to harden. In the past month, you could read “five reasons that herd immunity is probably impossible”, even with mass vaccination; breathless reports about yet-uncharacterised but potentially ruinous variants, such as the “double mutant” variant in India, or two concerning variants potentially swapping mutations and teaming up in a “nightmare scenario” in California; get ready, some analysts said, for the “permanent pandemic”.
The contention that “herd immunity is probably impossible, even with vaccines” was conventional expert wisdom a few months ago, though it was obviously wrong and delusional. So it doesn’t get forgotten I’ve taken a few screenshots of that and other clearly unsound prognostications so I can rub it in their faces later on — because of course it’ll be memory-holed and then become a “conspiracy theory,” as is the way of things now.