Why You Should Think of Risk as a Spectrum.

Finally, some sense.

But there’s no simple equivalent for our current problem, which is avoiding getting sick with COVID-19 and trying not to be a stepping stone for the virus to spread from one person to another. If you can’t abide by strict stay-at-home rules (which were only ever supposed to be a short term fix, and are certainly not an easy way to live one’s whole life), it’s time to start thinking of risk as a spectrum.

But the libs say if you don’t want to stay at home for years, you wanna kill GRAMMMMAAAAA. And why do you want to kill gramma, you gramma-killer?

More seriously, she’s right. The lockdowns were only supposed to be a temporary fix. At most, society can sustain those for 2-3 months before the economy flies apart like a washing machine that you throw a brick into when it’s on spin cycle.

I don’t really give a fuck about the deontological fantasies of the liberals. They have no clue about anything. I’ve seen many of them advocating two-year-long lockdowns. Ok, then. Hope they enjoy feasting on the leather from their own shoes at that point.

Will Mandatory Face Masks End the Burqa Bans?

Let’s hope not, because one is a symbol of a patriarchal religion destructive of human potential, and the other prevents the spread of a deadly pandemic.

Keep the burqa bans. But the liberals must pretend that symbols don’t matter, after they’ve spent so long telling us that symbols matter.

Feminists Who Now Claim They Never Meant ‘Believe All Women’ Are Gaslighting Us. The central tenet of the #MeToo movement is being memory-holed.

They meant “believe women who are thin, not louche, with Ivy League degrees, who make at least $100,000 a year or have a husband who does.”

I mean, duh, those are the ones worthy of belief, right? They are credible Karens unlike those terrible Taras.

Ronan Farrow: master #MeToo reporter hit by surprise New York Times takedown.

Like many things whirring behing the scenes now, this is about Joe Biden. #metoo is now harmful to the Democrat establishment, so it’s going to be dismantled.

That is what this is all about.

Whether or not you have a "six pack" is entirely based on body fat.

It's a sign of skinniness, not health, and only womewhat fitness. It has nothing to do with how muscular you are: I always had one when I ran long distance seriously, which rips off upper body muscle.

— Ian Welsh (@iwelsh) May 18, 2020

Yep. You can kinda see my abs now, but if I wanted a six-pack I could have one in two weeks if I just did some fasting.

Having a six-pack is not any sign of fitness. It just means you have low bodyfat (for a man, usually 10% or below). Here’s the thing, though: I am still attempting to gain muscle, not look ripped shirtless. That means I don’t want really low bodyfat. That is inimical to my goals.

What's interesting about being alive right now is the knowledge that we will only really understand what was really happening many years from now — that clouds nearly any confident assertion of anything

— Tim Wu (@superwuster) May 18, 2020

And yet as with climate change, that does not prevent a person or a society from acting correctly now, even with imperfect knowledge.

I don’t like this framing because it implies that without the complete picture, we can do nothing. But that is just not the case. We knew the right actions to undertake to break the pandemic and ameliorate its effects, we just did not do them.

Simple as that.

What's the most insane, conspiracy-ish, unlikely, or bizarre belief you have over 80% confidence is true? Tell us what it is and make your case to support it.

— Aella (@Aella_Girl) May 17, 2020

We’ve seen evidence of large-scale galactic-level alien engineering projects but have not known what we are looking at.

Watch This Black Hawk Helicopter Go Straight Up.

They can do this but usually don’t because a maneuver like that uses just a massive amount of fuel.

im tryin to film stuff for my onlyfans but it keeps degrading into goofy dancing pic.twitter.com/49RweitBIH

— Aella (@Aella_Girl) May 17, 2020

I’ve only glanced at the stuff on Onlyfans by way of Reddit a few times and it’s not for me, but this is 1000x cuter and sexier than anything I’ve seen emerging from there.

Still would not pay for it unless it were an actual friend of mine, but at least it looks like she’s actually having fun!

It really is incredible how debasing the coming catastrophic downward mobility will be

you think status anxiety among young professionals is bad now? wait till you can’t even be a barista. wait for the daughters on OnlyFans and the sons living in gig work group pods

— Isaac Wilks 🎤🐢 (@wilks_isaac) May 14, 2020

This is the future. Will be here soon enough.

To be clear, I think living in the pod and drinking cockroach milk is debasing while doing the Onlyfans thing is not — but what is debasing in the meta sense about either path is that for many, those will be the only choices if they want to survive.

Welcome to the new economy.

Well, fuck, Lynn Shelton died. She was only 54, and one of the most underrated directors out there.

I thought she’d be making movies for at least 20 more years. I recommend her entire oeuvre.

Covid-19 hurts the most vulnerable – but so does lockdown. We need more nuanced debate.

But you wanna kill Grammmmmmmmmmmmmaaaaaaaaa!