This kind of left-progressive environmental horsecrap just grinds my gears.

Equating natural with healthy, organic with anything that might be useful in this context, and just the general SYNTHETIC == BAD approach. What a load of garbage.

Here, have some arsenic. Perfectly natural. Surely it won’t hurt a fly. When you realize how many myths, urban legends, pure wishful thinking, unadulterated obvious lies and propaganda even people on my side believe, you really begin to despair and want to live Ted Kaczynski-style, just without all the bombing.

I guess in the end I’m on no side because no side gives a damn about the truth or trying to find it.

Because Emma Dumont is in it, I watched the first episode of Bunheads. While not a great show (at least so far) it has some good lines. Unfortunately, Emma is not in Bunheads nearly enough and in some ways she’s discordant with the show.

Like a lot of Amy Sherman-Palladino’s work, it is like a stage play put on TV and Dumont’s style is very naturalistic and unforced so she’s mismatched stylistically with the feel of the show. Still, though, she’s great and amazing and enviably talented and makes it all better. Or, at times, makes the show seem worse because she is so damn good. Most of the other actors, it’s like they are listening only to hit the cue for the next line but she seems like she’s actually present in that reality.

I just wish she were in it more.

Kelly Bishop, who plays the older mother of one of the characters, is also really good. The others are meh at best.

FDR’s New Deal faced similar backlash as Green New Deal, historian says.

Aye. It was seen as equally impossible, crazy, misguided, etc., as the Green New Deal but it was one of the best things to ever happen to America.

All ya’ll motherfuckers need to read some damn history books. Shit.

How did so many of you learn assembly in high school? What kind of computer Hogwarts did you attend?

— bletchley punk (@alicegoldfuss) February 14, 2019

I was lucky to have a computer in the house, even though we were dirt poor and lived in a trailer with holes in the floor. Fortunately, my dad was completely obsessed with computers despite being a shade-tree mechanic for a living (along with other jobs, none that paid well), so I am not sure you’d really describe me as “privileged,” exactly. Certainly lucky, though.

Sometimes, there’d be nothing in the fridge (and I mean NOTHING), and the car would be repossessed, but the computer always stayed. At the time it made my mom supremely angry but I’m glad for it. Without that computer I likely wouldn’t have my current career and my life would be much different and worse.

I never did much with assembly, though. Played with it a little when I was 6-12, but mainly copied BASIC and programs in hex out of computer magazines, tediously and by hand, and wrote some of my own.

Just not sure how useful it is to scream “privileged” all the time as some kind of invalidation of experiences. Without actually changing the systems in place, I don’t think it helps much.

But I have actually been kidnapped. He asked who was expecting me & I called my friend & said I couldn’t come by that night; I would come by in a few days. She wasn’t expecting me & knew something was wrong so she spent the whole night looking for me. Wasn’t funny then or now. https://t.co/i0tSIfrqIy

— Lacy M. Johnson (@lacymjohnson) February 13, 2019

This is what I despise about leftist and so-called progressive discourse, the idea if that something bad happened to someone anywhere once, then it’s wrong to ever joke about it or even discuss it (in many cases) except in the most solemn and mournful tones.

Fuck. That. Noise.

I got my ass kicked on the daily in middle and early high school and you know what, I joke about it all the time. And other people can joke about it, too. I do not give a damn and I don’t think any TV shows or jokes or discussions of bullying should be banned because Blaine nearly knocked me out by hitting me with a tree branch from behind in seventh grade.

The only thing I hate more than progressives is conservatives. I’m not a natural misanthrope, all ya’ll just turn me into one.

You know what, life should be fun, not just a mournful procession to the grave were we not only sing our own pitiful monody but relish our chance to ruthlessly punish anyone else for having a laugh or two.

I don’t want to live like that, but many progressives truly do. Well, they can have their featureless concrete boxes, weeping listlessly while eating grass equivalents and moaning about everything that offends them (which is everything). I’ll be doing something, anything else, other than that horseshit.

40 million acres of lawns is about 1,041 times greater than the 38,400 acres of solar power needed to supply 100% of US *energy* needs. https://t.co/5MmEcjAKH6

— Commercial Solar Guy (@SolarInMASS) February 13, 2019

Much of what people confidently pronounce as impossible is easily possible, with the will. It wouldn’t even be that expensive. The reality is that if we don’t do something it’ll be done to us, and hard.

That’s why I classify nearly everyone as a climate change denier because if you “believe” it and think things are just going to be relatively normal in the future, you are absolutely 99% as delusional as some conservative doofus claiming that solar minima are responsible for altered climate. There is no important difference.

It’s now imperative if you live in the US to get as fit and as healthy as one possibly can because health care and pharmaceuticals are moving to a completely extractive model and soon only the top 1% will really be able to afford it. Oh yeah, it’s happening.

1. Some great reporting on the CVS-Aetna merger by the Capitol Forum. Documents the aggressive ‘squeeze and buy’ strategy by CVS to drive independent pharmacies out of business.

— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) January 12, 2018

I’m not saying it’s your fault if you get sick or injured, but really it’s worth doing just about anything to keep yourself out of the clutches of these thieves.

Going to go home tonight and work out like a madman again. Fuck those people stealing my money.