Sunlight destroys coronavirus quickly, say US scientists.

Which is pretty much true of all viruses. Outside of the body, anyway.

People think they have decades until their lifestyles catch up to them. It’s more like months. Years if they are lucky. I know people with chronic diseases and conditions in their early 30s who were athletes in college. Act now. Especially now.

— Russ Greene (@GreenPlusAnE) April 24, 2020

Yeah, sometimes I’ll find current pictures of jocks from high school and I’m amazed at how terrible they look now. And it’s not just the depredations of North Florida — many of them came from families with money.

I’m 43 and I look 30 or so. They’re 43 and they look 60. And a fat, unhealthy 60. It’s shocking to see. Like, they ran the school in 1993 and now they look like a dump truck ran over them. How does that happen?

I identify as galactic overlord. My pronouns are “your lordship” and “awe-inspiring vision of wonderment.”

I think this thread is interesting, and has some good points, but a lot of the complaints have to do with when and where it’s expensive to film and what is difficult to do on a budget — or would be too hard or unsanitary for the actors. For instance, this:

Why…why… why can't the characters on TV actually eat their damned food for real instead of poking it and shifting it about like they do in every Big Bang Theory episode. Arrrgh! @vansharma

— Arun Baindur (@FenderBaindur) April 25, 2020

They can’t eat the food because many shoots often involve 10-40 takes. Also, the set-up itself can take hours. Even if you bring the food in at the last minute (a bad idea for other reasons), you still have to fiddle with lighting and other factors before the shooting can begin. And it’s usually really hot on set.

How long does the food last in those conditions, and do you really want your actors consuming thousands of calories of food during a shoot? No, you do not.

If you do even 10 takes of a long scene, that food can sit there for 5-6 hours. So you either have the choice of refreshing it (expensive and perhaps unreliable) or having your actors consume likely-spoiled food (remember, it’s very hot on set so food goes bad fast).

That’s why the food is just shuffled around the plate.

John Gruber on Marc Andreesen’s “It’s Time To Build” essay.

I find this essay inspiring, and I’m baffled — but unsurprised — that anyone considers it controversial.

Building is not cool, John. At least 80% of the hatred for Elon Musk — despite there being plenty of other things to hate him for — is because he runs companies that build objects in the physical world. If he ran companies that turned liberal Twitter streams into cat-based fonts or some shit like that, they’d be lining up to sing hosannas to his name.

This contempt is indeed mostly from “liberals,” by the way. As I’ve noted before, those who swim in a sea of words generally despise any deplorables who dare to manipulate dirty physical matter to produce anything. It’s just so louche and filthy, dontcha know. I mean, ugh, touching dirty things is what the noble “undocumented” slave labor liberal mascots lawn workers do.

My second-favorite music video of all time, after Lorde’s “Tennis Court:”

Really needs an HD transfer, which should be easy to do because it was obviously shot on film (not actual video) and has no CGI.

All one take! And the variable speed while the lip sync remains the same is brilliant (this is very fucking hard to do, btw). It’s like live-action Hieronymus Bosch mixed with Nosferatu, and a side of Freddie Krueger.

The extent to which mainstream health advice is contradictory to health is hard to grasp when you look at it in its entirety

Fat Acceptance and health at any size
Meat is bad
Eggs are bad
Artificial oils are good
the Sun gives you cancer
Too much protein hurts your kidneys

— Alexander J.A Cortes (@AJA_Cortes) April 25, 2020

Indeed. A very good heuristic is just to do exactly the opposite of what Fat Acceptance advocates say. This won’t get you everything, but it’s just so quick, easy and correct that it’ll work better than 90% of fitness and diet plans out there.