Ah yes because what the world needs right now is police threatening university students for reading scientific studies https://t.co/7G6BndyNj9
— Evan Greer (@evan_greer) March 19, 2021
Thank fuck for Sci-Hub, or I’d be way dumber. And less informed.
I keep seeing pics of outdoor parties in Florida with confident predictions of superspreading/surge. Sure, let’s watch Florida but, here’s an *actual* problem—a real surge in Michigan, now, where older black people remain dramatically undervaccinated. https://t.co/LyFpuUHWAx pic.twitter.com/R5heezaKoC
— zeynep tufekci (@zeynep) March 20, 2021
Aye. Zeynep focuses on the real issues, not the fabricated media ones.
Liberals look at sex like a hostage negotiation, while conservatives see it as taking out the trash, with each other as the trash (especially the woman).
The pandemic unleashed the inner cop that a lot of otherwise liberal people were apparently barely containing. Now it's spilling out all over the place and into fat-shaming, as evidenced by this NY Times column by Jane Brody. https://t.co/381oZXgRhS pic.twitter.com/EU16vUKALs
— Amanda Marcotte (@AmandaMarcotte) March 17, 2021
Why, just why, must we pretend that obesity is a good thing? Again, how does this help? Of course, we know who it helps: the food conglomerates and their shareholders. But how have people allowed such toxic corporate propaganda so far into their brains?
Try this: “Treating cancer is your ‘inner cop’ coming out. We must just accept cancer. Chemotherapy and doxorubicin are cancer-shaming, and we should just acknowledge the natural beauty of cancer. Wanting to change the cancer, to fix the cancer, just shows that you haven’t accepted the natural variation of humanity.”
Sounds fucking ridiculous, doesn’t it? Yet that’s exactly what these nutty buddies say about the disease of obesity. And we should critique their claims just as harshly.
Teen Vogue Editor Resigns After Fury Over Racist Tweets.
Some more of that fake cancel culture being all fake again.
Damn, I am glad no one has a record of some of the shit I said when I was a teenager. I’d never hold a job anywhere again.
every guitar student btw would be a potential customer/audience for an album. teach 1000 students, build good relationships with them, and when you release your work it will have people excited to listen & share with their friends.
“But that takes years” yea,, all good things do
— visa is working on @introspectVV (@visakanv) March 18, 2021
That is true. People have said things like, “It’s cool that you are so naturally good with computers.”
No, I’m not. I just started when I was four years old. By the time I was sixteen, I therefore knew a whole lot. That’s a huge jump on most people. Getting good at something does indeed take a while, but it’s also not true that putting 10,000 hours into something will be enough. You also have to possess at least some natural inclination.
Don’t you mean “accurately refers?”
Number of youth in hospital after suicide attempt tripled over 4-month period under COVID-19.
But lockdowns are harmless, blah blah. This is about Canada, but probably just as bad in the US. Whole cadres of young people have been robbed of so much, in many cases for no real purpose. We have no better ideas, so just destroying young people is what’s going to happen, and we’re just like, cool, cool.
I guess many countries are going to go with eternal lockdowns, despite not being terribly effective, because they tried nothing else, and all the nothing they tried also failed.
Makes total sense. If I ever get the patience, I will write something about how the embrace of lockdown by so many is a symptom of the utter failure of societal and individual imagination on all levels, and how the erasure of the social commons is a recapitulation of the expunction of the ideas of civic duty and civic virtue.
Lockdown is the sledgehammer applied to the ant, the nose excised to spite the face. It does work, sort of, but it’s a destructive tool that harms more than even those who realize its harm can admit.
Fear is a message. But it isn’t always a useful one.
A lot of early feminist internet writing stressed fears, maybe most famously a now-offline piece called “Schrödinger’s Rapist” that was about the reluctance to talk to strange men in public. This was not a bad piece, but, like a lot of pieces from around that time, got steadily expected to do more and more work it couldn’t really do, and was never meant to. It was trying to explain to men why a woman might give them the cold shoulder and became, instead, a kind of total explanation of how women feel when men talk to them all the time.
It did; that piece became the excuse a lot of women used for why they treated men like garbage all the time. “Because every man might be a rapist, I am now going to treat them all horribly! It’s my right and duty as a feminist!”
I mean, terrible people of both genders are always going to find an excuse to treat others poorly, but that piece was the excuse for a whole lot of women to let their inner sociopath out. It was disappointing to see because I thought it was a good piece, for what it was. But misapplied, it was harmful.