Great advice for dealing with cancel culture:
Here are my 10 rules, on how to deal with cancel culture! I'm in no way a mental health professional, but i feel that these are solid & foundational rules, in how to deal with a crisis, or outrage mobs.
Cancel culture needs to end NOW! It starts, with these rules! pic.twitter.com/NQiruD4Gm0
— BlackSageD Sony Still Censors Japanese Video Games (@BlackDGamer1) June 28, 2020
Very similar to what I deduced myself.
Twitter Bros told me to eat meat, lift weights, and get sun.
My doc told me none of these things.
I was sick then. I'm healthy now.
— andrew (@apdonovan1990) June 28, 2020
Doctors and their advice have been co-opted by various industries, so most of their general advice is wrong to only accidentally correct. Their specific advice (which is not usually doled out to civilians) is typically correct. So, they can tell you the merits of using fibrin and cyanoacrylate adhesive to seal arterial sutures, but for diet and nutrition advice they are actively harmful.
One of the most valuable twenty-first century skills is knowing enough to know when to depend on experts and when to ignore them completely.
My wife grew up thinking that having water/ice dispensers IN THE FRIDGE DOOR was a life goal.
I grew up thinking if you had a basketball hoop with a clear/plexiglass backboard, you were rich.
What are some things you thought were indicators of wealth when you were a kid?
— connectpoliticditto (@cpoliticditto) June 27, 2020
Having matching plates and silverware and owning knives without rotting wooden handles from the 1940s.
I think there’s some merit to this idea, though it’s more a matter of seizing an existing opportunity.
I’m starting to get the idea that some governments (okay, just about all of them) are instrumentalizing Coronavirus (however dangerous it is) to reinforce and strengthen austerity. This isn’t the end of austerity but its final victory as most societies are ruthlessly third-worlded.
The plutes will never fail to take the opportunity to hoover up more wealth if they can. In the US, Fed “stimulus” combined with de facto austerity for states and municipalities will mean that more and more of the nation is owned by the super-wealthy. This wasn’t a necessary outcome but it’s the one that occurred and is occurring. I don’t see anything standing in the way of this trend; in fact, I expect it to worsen as we’re only in the first year of the two- to four-year long Pandemic Depression.
There is not likely to be a New New Deal.
So: bad times ahead, most likely.
It’s a sign that feminism has won a bit that we are making romantic disappointment into a near crime. So, in a way, it’s hopeful. Those who have power inevitably misapply it, and this is no exception.
Women I think experience more romantic disappointment than men while men experience far more upfront rejection. Which letdown is seen as worse mirrors who wields power. It makes a lot of sense in that light.
imo:
* all businesses reopen
* no customers inside
* masks when inside/interacting
* pickup/personal shopper/outdoor service
* businesses can use sidewalk and/or parking however
* make part/all the street itself for pedestrians— alice maz (@alicemazzy) June 26, 2020
I think this is ok, but probably most of the super-spreader events occur at non-business gathering places such as private parties, church services and the like. This would help with restaurant spread, though, which is not nothing. But I bet these days not a lot of spreading is happening in restaurants so I’m only guessing a 10% case reduction or so.
When you think about it, it’s really fucking weird that we’re making romantic disappointment into a near crime.
There's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for pic.twitter.com/NwzOyETlue
— City Jeans (@jhermann) June 28, 2020
Uh…and my axe!
What is this VGA-to-Ethernet abomination?? pic.twitter.com/cjkcaz5nid
— Lady Lakdawalla of Baltis Vallis (@elakdawalla) June 26, 2020
That’s not VGA! That’s a serial (DB9) to console (RJ45) adapter, usually used to connect to routers and switches. Quite useful! I have several and used to carry them around all the time to connect to Cisco gear and such. Not as useful anymore now that laptops don’t have serial ports. Different pinout than Ethernet, too.
I would say that the coronavirus period in the US has been characterized by the pathological refusal to prioritize anything over anything else, in accordance with the larger neoliberal tendency to pretend all social outcomes are exclusively the product of autonomous market action https://t.co/bvmSPlt67S
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) June 27, 2020
This is why we’re also supposed to pretend there’s no such thing as biological sex, that the fact that something is “just a construct” matters that much, and that all outcomes of algorithmically-mediated “choice” are equally valid.