4 potential consequences of wearing masks.
This article is utter, utter bullshit. Does not match the science or at all, or even the precautionary principle. It is total and unrestricted garbage and those who wrote it should be fired.
This is a perfect example of fake quantification, misuse of science, and just unabated pure assclownery of the worst kind.
Jesus Christ, I am glad I figured out the below. That was puzzling me, and thus bothering me.
Now, I will go “groom” my seven-years-younger partner by giving her a nice kiss.
Things like this have started to convince me that “progressives” see pretty much all relationships as one of predator/prey:
If you examine all the “any age gap is evil” and “dating outside your race is racism” and such in that light, it starts to make more sense — and this predator/prey belief also matches up perfectly with the neoliberalistic mindset. Contextualized this way, applying as a lens this assumed adversarial nature of relationships, and the boring contract negotiation aspect that progressives seem to adore, it all begins to resolve into some sort of legible but fucked-up ideology.
When you apply this ideology, that every relationships is by nature adversarial, predator/prey, a contest to get the best de facto contract, the panic over someone not being exactly like someone else makes a whole lot more sense.
Progressive “morals” are some wacky bullshit.
Lyman estimates true Coronavirus death toll, based on excess mortality of at least 200,000 in the US https://t.co/f40nSaPXOV
— Arpit Gupta (@arpitrage) June 22, 2020
This is about my guess, too. I thought 180,000 based on some numbers I was casually playing with. They did a real analysis, so 200,000 seems reasonable.
Rules for Enduring Internet Hate
1. Be invulnerable. Have a job you can’t get fired from, a house you’re not afraid to move out of, friends who know your worst.
2. Do not show fear, ever. Do not hide, be defensive, show signs of self protection or retreat. Extremely important.— Aella (@Aella_Girl) June 22, 2020
Exactly. I’ll never endure much Internet hate because motherfuckers know for a fact that I will find them and be standing over their bed with a knife at 3AM, smiling.
This prevents a lot of that! And I have money. Hate all you want, IDGAF.
According to liberals, anyone they disagree with is a bot.
Every time I think about it, it mystifies me that progressives do really seem to think that women are these agency-less children (talking about those over 18 here) who can be trained like not-particularly-bright dogs.
Where, just where, did this come from and what the fuck happened to feminism?
I follow a couple average working class Finns and Swedes – bartenders, barbers, personal trainers – on Instagram and honestly, watching how often they go on vacation is enough to radicalize you. https://t.co/oJyqVNCsRB
— Communists for Commander Amy McGrath (@lodgepolepines) June 22, 2020
An ex-girlfriend’s father used to rent an apartment in the Washington D.C. area in the mid to late 1960s by working part time at a grocery store. No roommates — that’s just how cheap it used to be then.
Try that now.
Bluetooth headsets introduce 150-300ms of latency.
FUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK THAT!
Yet another reason to utterly disdain and despise wireless bullshit. That’s a lot of latency. Enough for every conversation to be 2-3 (more) words behind.
For whoever needs to hear this:
You don't lose bodyfat, and then start lifting weights
You lift weights, and then start working on losing bodyfat
The number of people who yo-yo diet and make themselves skinnyfat by doing the former is innumerable
— Alexander "Chadicus Rex" Cortes (@AJA_Cortes) June 22, 2020
This is 100% true. I didn’t start attempting to lose weight until nearly two years into my weightlifting.
All of the other time, I was attempting to gain weight so I could add muscle. This is how you do it.
I’ve been very slowly losing weight (to avoid losing much muscle at the same time), and my abs are starting to show now.
A few weeks, I will look cut, and will take some photos. Nice.
It’s such a great feeling, being in control of your body.
Conservative hell is patriarchal misogynistic perdition of masculine testosterone poisoning.
Liberal hell is a bureaucratic never-ending contract negotiation with HR where you’re always wrong.
What % of the people who recently embraced police abolition were salivating over Mueller 2 yrs ago?
— Geoff Shullenberger (@daily_barbarian) June 14, 2020
I’d say 80%. Most people have zero ideological consistency because they are only cheering for a team.
Another way to put this is: all your relations are belong to HR https://t.co/aV0W2xdoqN
— Geoff Shullenberger (@daily_barbarian) June 20, 2020
I’ve been goofing on it a lot lately, but I have been seriously pondering the desire of many “progressives” to eliminate the idea of consent from those 18+ to attempt to understand it.
In prog circles, it’s starting to move towards the idea that women can only consent if they are 30+ or even older, and anything more than a two year age gap — no matter how old the relationship participants might be — is de facto rape. How does one go about understanding this? It’s senseless and frankly utterly insane from most perspectives, so I haven’t yet fully found the ideological lens that sharpens it for me into any sort of focus.
What Geoff is talking about, where everything is politicized, is part of it, but I don’t think that captures the entire panoply of reasons that progressives want to remove the ability of people to decide what is best in their own lives. The conservatives make too much of the nanny state plaint, but they are not entirely wrong about this and examining it from that perspective provides a few insights.
Another important component is the dominance of neoliberalism. If everyone can be herded away from any natural relationships developing, any actual connection, into algorithmically-approved predictable liaisons, then selling to these people and prognosticating their future actions becomes vastly easier. Apart from politicization, this is a large portion of it I think.
And another aspect that’s not insubstantial is that as women have gained more power, they have of course tended to be older, and thus they have a nice lever to eliminate dating market competition by making larger age gap relationships immoral or illegal.
I suspect in the future that any relationship with more than a three or four year age gap will be made outright illegal, and all relationships will go through some sort of “social review” where they are either approved or denied based on a variety of factors, sociological and educational.
This is the progressive “utopia” (really a dystopia). Now get in the pod and eat your bugs.
The media is telling us to eat bugs again. Nature is healing. https://t.co/ruJgUasxTo
— marquis de posade (@acczibit) June 18, 2020
I will not eat bugs and I will not live in the pod.