Wait, “warlord” is now racist? That’s fucking funny, because when I think “warlord,” I think some blue-eyed Germanic dude cloaked in bearskins, fighting Roman centurions. Or a Viking.
Declaring every word “racist” isn’t very useful, really.
Oh, thought of something else funny. One of my sister’s friends took one half-second look at my nose and said, “I can tell you used to be a scrapper.”
She was not wrong.
To be clear, I’m not insecure about my broken nose at all. If I could get it made perfect instantly and with no pain or cost, I absolutely would not.
It’s my badge of where I came from and what I endured to be where I am and who I am.
I wonder if this fact will dampen the Fat Acceptance movement any?
And I might add to the obesity piece, which is something very near to the hearts of your readers here — healthy lifestyles are so important in reducing your risk for severe disease. Right now, among those people who we see having severe disease under age 55, obesity is the number one risk factor for [COVID-19].
Probably not, but one can hope.
Mask wearing is by far the most successful anti-COVID intervention in a closed environment (Navy ship). Avoiding common areas and social distance are moderately effective, everything else (handwashing, hand sanitizing, cleaning) is statistically indistinguishable from nothing. https://t.co/235uyhNGnC
— Quantian (@quantian1) June 9, 2020
Here in Florida, mark-wearing rate observed in public is about 30%.
We’re quite fucked, yeah?
The government says there’s no inflation — except for the things people are actually buying.
Inflation numbers have been bogus for a few decades, for various reasons — especially for those who make under 50K a year.
The other day I was questioned as to why i was studying a particular course since it's not in my field of work. it threw me off entirely. As if the only reason I could have to learn something new was some preordained utilitarian goal as opposed to simply personal enjoyment https://t.co/J8izNAG7L7
— कृपाली (@punkarelly) June 10, 2020
This is why I read books about nuclear reactor design, cladistics, aircraft flight manuals, etc. I don’t do it to impress anyone — I’d read this stuff if everyone but me died. I read it because I want to know!
When someone asks me, “Why are you reading that?” I want to ask them why they are not.
Ladies, I’m specifically calling you. We tend to read all job postings as mandatory requirements. They are wish lists, not requirements. Even when they say “requirements”. https://t.co/362iTaYs0s
— Karen López (@datachick) June 9, 2020
Worth reiterating. I don’t have a college degree and don’t lie about it on my resume, yet have had no problem getting many jobs where a college degree was a “requirement” and “mandatory.” True of many other areas, too.
No shade but most americans walk around in a literal fog unable to understand even the most basic things that are happening around them
— Chad ”Don’t Trust Deray” Vigorous (@PrettyBadLefty) June 9, 2020
This is pretty much true. Just try to talk to people about most things. It’s impossible. They don’t know anything, and what they do know is an utterly bizarre mix of wrong information that their mother’s neighbor’s dog’s goldfish told them.
It’s mystifying. How did humans ever make something like a Saturn V rocket? Just how?
With all the crazy shit I’ve done in my life, people are surprised by my lack of scars. But I’ve both been lucky and I heal well.
My nose is and always will be broken, though, so that’s not a scar as most people mean but it’s just right out there and it’s not subtle.