I <3 mRNA

This isn't my area of expertise but this just seems like an enormous breakthrough for human well being.

— Angie Schmitt🚶‍♀️ (@schmangee) April 19, 2021

Agreed. It’s not perfect — nothing is — but that tech offers the possibility of vaccines for diseases that we could not previously plausibly create such things for, and it might even allow vaccination against many types of cancer (though by no means all).

mRNA tech could be on par with antibiotics in utility and life-saving capabilities over the long term. At the very least it’s already saved several hundred thousand lives, so what’s not to love?

Because I do what I do, I get pitches all the time via email from companies trying to get me to spend money with them. Some of them are rather…strange, even though they are from (relatively) legit companies. For instance, I got one today that was advertising in the subject line “pretty pretty killer California devs.”

Now, surely they aren’t actually saying that their devs are “pretty” as in “attractive” so I assume they are attempting to use “pretty” as an intensifier, but doing it so ineptly and in an unusual way that it’s actually not very clear. And if they are making some claim about the pulchritude of their developers, why would they think I’d care and how is this relevant at all?

I also assume they mean “killer” as in, you know, “killin’ it” but maybe the devs are also contract assassins? And also why would I care at all that they are from or in California?

The whole subject line is just beyond strange, like many of those emails I receive.

maybe I'm an idiot, but I really don't understand the sudden uproar over wearing masks outside? I also don't like wearing one, but it's not that burdensome

— Sarah Jones (@onesarahjones) April 19, 2021

Because it’s fucking pointless, and I am just generally against pointless things, especially if they are done just to make liberals feel virtuous. No thank you.

Part of is that I grew up with people telling me to do shit that was unnecessary, that I knew was unnecessary and that they also knew was unnecessary, but we still had to go through the charade. I can’t tolerate any more of that at all, ever, no matter how many liberals it makes cry. Won’t do it, can’t do it.

This is why America is 80% overweight https://t.co/wYH0D4HrBk

— Alexander Cortes PhD, Fitness, Nutrition, Fat loss (@AJA_Cortes) April 19, 2021

My pantry restock game does not involve eating absolute garbage so other than a few granola bars, no, it doesn’t include any of those items. Some of those things, even under a very broad definition, should not be considered food.

That’s the way to be fat and malnourished at the same time.

There is nothing more typical of a provincial bourgeois than to believe that their fancy local private day school has an iota of brand recognition or cachet outside their own city https://t.co/Re4kYvlJlV

— Nils Gilman (@nils_gilman) April 17, 2021

I like doing that to people who expect to impress me for having gone to fancy schools.

Things I’ve said in real life to such hoity-toity people:

• “Cornell? Is that an agricultural school? You know, ‘corn?'”
• “Brown? Where’s that community college at? I think my mom went there.”
• “Stanford? Haven’t heard of it.”

That can be really, really fun.

How Safe Are You From Covid When You Fly?

It was already fairly safe before. So if you’re fully vaccinated, get on the fucking plane! JFC people always searching for perfect safety. Just get on the fucking plane!

It’s About Time for Us to Stop Wearing Masks Outside. Briefly passing someone on the sidewalk just isn’t risky.

Tell that (please) to all the libs who throw fits when someone walks by outside their apartment without a mask. They are all “believe science” but have more superstitions than 4th Century Bagaudae.