Oh, thought of something else funny. One of my sister’s friends took one half-second look at my nose and said, “I can tell you used to be a scrapper.”
She was not wrong.
Month: June 2020
TBC
To be clear, I’m not insecure about my broken nose at all. If I could get it made perfect instantly and with no pain or cost, I absolutely would not.
It’s my badge of where I came from and what I endured to be where I am and who I am.
Accept Death
I wonder if this fact will dampen the Fat Acceptance movement any?
And I might add to the obesity piece, which is something very near to the hearts of your readers here โ healthy lifestyles are so important in reducing your risk for severe disease. Right now, among those people who we see having severe disease under age 55, obesity is the number one risk factor for [COVID-19].
Probably not, but one can hope.
QFY
Mask wearing is by far the most successful anti-COVID intervention in a closed environment (Navy ship). Avoiding common areas and social distance are moderately effective, everything else (handwashing, hand sanitizing, cleaning) is statistically indistinguishable from nothing. https://t.co/235uyhNGnC
— Quantian (@quantian1) June 9, 2020
Here in Florida, mark-wearing rate observed in public is about 30%.
We’re quite fucked, yeah?
Flate
The government says thereโs no inflation โ except for the things people are actually buying.
Inflation numbers have been bogus for a few decades, for various reasons — especially for those who make under 50K a year.
Wanting To Know
The other day I was questioned as to why i was studying a particular course since it's not in my field of work. it threw me off entirely. As if the only reason I could have to learn something new was some preordained utilitarian goal as opposed to simply personal enjoyment https://t.co/J8izNAG7L7
— เคเฅเคชเคพเคฒเฅ (@punkarelly) June 10, 2020
This is why I read books about nuclear reactor design, cladistics, aircraft flight manuals, etc. I don’t do it to impress anyone — I’d read this stuff if everyone but me died. I read it because I want to know!
When someone asks me, “Why are you reading that?” I want to ask them why they are not.
Wish List
Ladies, Iโm specifically calling you. We tend to read all job postings as mandatory requirements. They are wish lists, not requirements. Even when they say โrequirementsโ. https://t.co/362iTaYs0s
โ Karen Lรณpez (@datachick) June 9, 2020
Worth reiterating. I don’t have a college degree and don’t lie about it on my resume, yet have had no problem getting many jobs where a college degree was a “requirement” and “mandatory.” True of many other areas, too.
Saturn
No shade but most americans walk around in a literal fog unable to understand even the most basic things that are happening around them
โ Chad ”Don’t Trust Deray” Vigorous (@PrettyBadLefty) June 9, 2020
This is pretty much true. Just try to talk to people about most things. It’s impossible. They don’t know anything, and what they do know is an utterly bizarre mix of wrong information that their mother’s neighbor’s dog’s goldfish told them.
It’s mystifying. How did humans ever make something like a Saturn V rocket? Just how?
Scarface
With all the crazy shit I’ve done in my life, people are surprised by my lack of scars. But I’ve both been lucky and I heal well.
My nose is and always will be broken, though, so that’s not a scar as most people mean but it’s just right out there and it’s not subtle.
Not Petty
What celebrity death, in your lifetime, hit you the hardest?
— Adina Howard 💋 (@B_oySix) June 9, 2020
Tom Petty.
North Florida weirdo who made it, like me. Just felt a lot in common with him.
Sequester
Risk of total economic catastrophe has decreased significantly since we seem not to be going with the moronic liberal plan of staying inside forever.
That’s some good news at least, right?
Benching Up
Finally, finally got to 200 pounds on the bench press. That was a long time coming, though I wasn’t really concentrating on it that much recently.
Still, though, that’s pretty nice.
Cases
I think a lot of people try to attract too broad an audience while dating. From my experience, if you are 60% attractive to 50% of potential partners that’s going to result in a lot fewer dates than being 80% attractive to 20% of people, because it’s a winner takes all game.
โ mrobbyg (@bobbygforlib) June 8, 2020
Agreed completely.
I’m not attractive to most women. The vast majority, actually — though I think it has increased a good deal recently because of my high level of physical fitness now.
Anyway, I think I’m only attractive to any extent to about 10% of women, and to a subset of those 10% I’m very attractive indeed. Attempting to go after that other 90% would’ve been a huge mistake, because there are millions of women in that 10% who really dig me potentially.
I think that’s where a lot of people go really wrong in dating, being mildly appealing to everyone instead of attempting to be desirable to the people most likely to get you on a deep level.
Obviousness
Why do you need studies to tell you something so obvious?
Can’t you see that successful countries wore masks?
Why do you need studies when practicing doctors successfully treated patients with HCQ?
Something very defective with modern intellectualshttps://t.co/nzt2hMaaoA
โ Trishank Karthik Kuppusamy (@trishankkarthik) June 5, 2020
Sometimes, things that are “obvious” are just wrong, but these days our intellectual class has proceeded greatly too far along the quantification path, ignoring all else including the precautionary principle, common sense, and all signs that they are wrong as long as the spreadsheet numbers look fine.
Part of that is the laundering of political views through “expertise” and part of it is just that it’s a way of directly asserting power. But all of it makes me angry.
Domiciled
A virus is not actually like โoh, youโre bored with me? Iโm sorry, Iโll go away nowโ.
— Dr. Sunny Moraine PhD in *ENDLESS SCREAMING* (@dynamicsymmetry) June 7, 2020
I know the liberals have this weird obsession with staying inside for five years for some reason, but that was never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever going to work. The lockdown was supposed to be only for a few months as that’s about all that people (and the economy) can tolerate.
That we fucked it up doesn’t mean we can just stay inside, hiding from the world, longer. It means we have to — for sociological and economic reasons — do something else.
What the fuck is wrong with liberals? How do they think so poorly, yet in a completely different way than the conservatives?