Goodbye big brother. Anti lockdown riots in the Netherlands are escalating. pic.twitter.com/GRyx06yNeI
— Evelyn Rae (@_evelynrae) January 24, 2021
Nice. Lockdown should be resisted everywhere.
Goodbye big brother. Anti lockdown riots in the Netherlands are escalating. pic.twitter.com/GRyx06yNeI
— Evelyn Rae (@_evelynrae) January 24, 2021
Nice. Lockdown should be resisted everywhere.
Surge of Student Suicides Pushes Las Vegas Schools to Reopen.
Who could’ve ever predicted that people just can’t spend a fucking year locked up at home without dire consequences to self and psyche?
Nearly half (49%) of minority small business owners and a third (33%) of all small business owners were unable to pay their rent this month. https://t.co/Y88gpZwH3B
— Axios (@axios) January 21, 2021
Lockdowns are working as expected to achieve their intended purpose.
In America, there are only two genders: dumbass and dipshit.
I think the only famous person I have any sort of parasocial relationship with is the singer Sigrid. It’s mainly because she seems extremely intelligent and she reminds me so much of a dead friend from long ago, personality- and mannerism-wise.
I feel like I know her even though of course I don’t at all.
we should really reiterate to Republicans more often that a lot of us *personally blame and despise them* for trapping us in our homes without our families as *they* spread a deadly virus.
my hatred for these anti-maskers is not even a little bit abstract.
— Faine Greenwood (@faineg) January 24, 2021
I feel the same. If we’d had universal masking, effective quarantine, and contact tracing, like Taiwan, this would’ve been mostly over in a month.
I will never not hate anti-maskers as they made it so much worse than it could’ve been.
This is literally the same issue as refusing to call PhD or EdD “Dr”. Tom Cotton = Jill Biden. There are two sorts of Rangers in Army, those who serve in Ranger regiment & Ranger School graduates. Cotton is latter & entitled to wear word Ranger on uniform. https://t.co/SyPNPl24ie
— Carlos Mucha (@mucha_carlos) January 23, 2021
Wrong. That’s not how it works at all.
Tom Cotton is Ranger-qualified. He was never an Army Ranger. Definitionally, an Army Ranger is someone who is in or who has served in the 75th Ranger Regiment in Fort Benning, Ga. That’s all.
In fact, you can be in the 75th Ranger Regiment and not go to Ranger school (though you are expected to) and still be called, you guessed it, a Ranger.
See here for more info.
Alleged Capitol Rioter Gave Himself Away By Repeatedly Yelling ‘Trump 2020’ On Plane.
Those people are…not smart.
One of the main reasons I knew what was going to happen with the pandemic before everyone else, other than my sparkling brilliance, is because I was reading Zeynep Tufekci long before the disease struck. And I like that she’s calling coup now that she was proven completely correct:
In large part thanks to her wisdom, I was buying supplies and readying for bad times when the people in my office were literally making fun of me for preparing.
Later, they asked me, “But how did you know?” How do you answer such a question? As a rule, people don’t get smarter, and if they do it’s very very slowly. Trying to explain the precautionary principle, risk assessment in dynamic stochastic systems, how exponentials work and all that is going to be impossible. Even 1/10 of that is far beyond the capabilities of most people due to our poor education system and terrible information environment.