Corporate Socialism: The Government is Bailing Out Investors & Managers Not You.
Indeed. I bet that way, and I was right. But sometimes, I hate being right. I’m good at it but I still hate it.
Day: March 25, 2020, 11:53 PM
Lines
This graph of the sciences shows the fragmentation of academia, as measured by co-citations.
A kingdom of epiphanies is waiting for people in the middle who can find new ways to connect the dots. pic.twitter.com/WK4UHizFSe
— แด แดแด ษชแด แดแดสแดสส ✌ (@david_perell) March 23, 2020
In academia, though, generally you are punished for strongly cross-discipline research. It’s a career negative and sometimes a career killer. And outside of academia if you pursue any line of inquiry without the right pieces of paper, you’re just ignored.
Break this impasse, and a better world might result.
What We Have
The media totally fell down on #coronavirus. This was a full system failure. https://t.co/Uqzpdkm3VZ
— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) March 25, 2020
The media, and more than half of “experts.” This meager fare is what we have to work with.
Say My Name
โPlease list name of security assessor.โ
MeโPlease list name of project sponsorโ
MeโPlease list name of implementation teamโ
Me— TODO: Security (@SwiftOnSecurity) March 25, 2020
That looks like my IT projects, which are often like:
Name of project manager: Mike
Name of solutions architect: Mike
Name of infrastructure designer: Mike
New of network designer: Mike
Name of network implementer: Mike
Level 1 support: Mike
Level 2 support: Mike
Level 3 support: Mike
Name of DBA: Mike
Name of application designer: Mike
Configuration manager: Mike
Name of infrastructure implementer: Mike
Hope to get away from that kind of thing soon, but that’s been my whole IT career so not sure if that’ll actually happen.
Uses of Pandemics
I *like* seeing my friends in person and attending events and some things are just better in-person
conferences, concerts, parties, I don't want my life to be one long video call
— bletchley punk is keeping her distance (@alicegoldfuss) March 24, 2020
Some “progressives” are already using this pandemic to get to their ideal world of no travel, no leaving the house except to apologize to a tree, and banishment of most the things that make life worth living. Soon they’ll be mandating insect consumption and IV drips of fake meat. Ok, I’m being flip and mean to be funny. But they are indeed using this opportunity to push their preferred diminished ascetic future of licking algae out of glass bottles while performing recompensatory cunnilingus on Gaia on demand.
Why did our choices have to be reduced to predatory neoliberal capitalism and algae-slurping Benedictine monks?
Fragile
Cardiac disease and obesity are huge factors determining death rate on covid19 infected.
So much so that patients with a BMI over 35 and people over 65 are not intubated in some Spanish hospitals.
I hope society stops celebrating obesity and calling it โbeautifulโ now.
— Q 😷 #staythefuckhome (@AltsQ) March 23, 2020
Right the fuck on. Obesity makes you fragile. That’s not beautiful — it’s just tragic. It should not be celebrated or shamed, but it should be prevented.
Seeing It
The gourmet supermarket in Thailand trumps any Whole Foods in America. The food here actually looks wholesome.
Plus, it is like 10x cleaner, nothing is left out in the open, and everyone is wearing a mask. pic.twitter.com/5BTAOLEFsB
— Preethi Kasireddy (@iam_preethi) March 24, 2020
The supermarkets in literally every country I’ve been to — save Egypt — have been better than the US. The very best grocery store in the US (think Wegman’s) is roughly the “average” to “OK” supermarket in most of Europe and China.
Cono
I’m very frustrated by how poor an understanding liberals have of the economy, what makes it run and their vast misperception of how easily it can be restarted after a protracted complete shutdown.
This utter failure of comprehension almost makes me want to write more about how complex dynamic systems function and fail, but that would take 100 pages of dense writing before I could even start making my main point. It’s just not worth it and I don’t care enough. Most liberals wouldn’t understand even 10% of it and the rest would complain that it’s not intersectional enough or that I wrote a prohibited word.
What I’ve only discovered as an adult, other than that propaganda is devastatingly effective, is that most people aren’t curious and don’t want to learn anything at all.