Weekend lockdown in Paris would be ‘inhumane’, says mayor.

Agreed. This is just absurd. People will just gather inside, anyway, negating the entire idea of lockdown. Nice to see more people resisting this utter insanity.

A white author writing books to white people arguing they can never be on equal social footing with nonwhites and that all social relations should be based on skin color does indeed make me uncomfortable! https://t.co/V5fzKddCoY

— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) February 27, 2021

Yeah, I never in my life thought I’d see the left/libs advocating hard for resegregation. Now that’s just mystifying but is becoming more and more common.

I’ve read a lot of textbooks over the years. Far more scientific papers. Loads of books, articles, and other errata.

I remember maybe 1%. But even better than remembering, ingesting that much material gets you a sense of things. And having a sense of things means you can read some “expert” or other claim and fairly reliably think, “Huh, that sounds like complete bullshit” and be right pretty often. Then you can do the research.

There’s no way I’d have this BS detector if I hadn’t done the prep work — even if technically I remember almost nothing of what I’ve read in specific detail.

When Will Life Be ‘Normal’ Again, Post-Pandemic?

I see this as a fairly realistic timeline if the lockdown lifers and lockdown looters don’t manage to gain the upper hand. I hope they do not, but it’s possible they could.

The next stage of the pandemic won’t directly really be about the pandemic at all: it’ll be an extended pitched battle between the terrified lockdown lifers and those who want to reclaim some measure of freedom as cases fall through the floor due to seasonality and vaccination.

The lockdown lifers will take the position that we must never relax restrictions because of variants, or even because of a new potential pandemic. The more normal people will assert, correctly, that there is always risk to any activity and it’s not feasible to stay inside forever.

Prepare for much scolding from the lockdown lifers. We’ll have to learn how to ignore these people. Mental illness of this type only escalates if it’s rewarded.

Linux Mint Developers Will Force Updates on Users Like Microsoft Does with Windows 10.

So I will never use that distro again anywhere. Idiots.

The disconnect between data and public mood is the largest I can remember since a year ago, fwiw (except now the data is about vaccine delivery, and it’s very good!).

— Robinson Meyer (@yayitsrob) March 1, 2021

Yeah, it’s really fucking bizare. I think pandemic exhaustion combined with liberal social media doom-mongering explains most of it.