What the person just chosen to lead the "Technical Advisory Group on Behavioural Insights and Sciences for Health" for WHO wrote on February 28 ("if you're worried about COVID, it's irrational panic") and what I wrote one day before ("We have to get ready so we can lessen risk"). pic.twitter.com/teGQv0XEvX
— zeynep tufekci (@zeynep) July 31, 2020
Zeynep should run everything. That dude should be demoted to assistant to the assistant feline butt-wiper.
A 1% drop in GDP is a recession. We called a 6.5% drop in GDP "The Great Recession". In 1929, we called a 15% drop in GDP "The Great Depression". What the fuck do we call a 33% drop in GDP?
— Richard Lionheart 🇺🇸 (@LionheartNYC) July 30, 2020
The “Mega-Depression of Doom?” The “Fall of Rome 2: Even Romier?” The “Mad Max: Max Depressed?” The “Dude, Where’s My Economy?” The “Hoover Do-Over?” The “Economy in a Coma, I know, I know, It’s Serious?” The “It’s Not a Depression If We All Die Depression?”
Ok, that’s some good satire.
So I have discovered that people are just like flying around in planes right now?
While I put on a WW2 gas mask just to take the subway and sit on the other end of the car from any living being?
— Abe “Abe Goldfarb” Goldfarb (@AbeGoldfarb) July 30, 2020
Planes are not particularly risky if everyone wears masks.
They have good ventilation and air filtration, far better than any commercial venue. There generally isn’t much talking, either. Wear a good mask and don’t touch your face and you’ll be fine. There’s precaution and there’s living in utter fear. I refuse to do the latter, ever.
Facebook Drives Q2 Revenue Up 11%, Tops Wall Street Estimates Despite COVID Uncertainty.
Good thing I bought a big lump of Facebook stock a week ago, huh? When it comes to the market, I have no morals. I make money because that’s how you have a good life.
Damn it feels good to be a gangsta.
Most Americans never travel overseas.
I think that’s why they don’t realize how terrible the food here is. If you’ve never experienced anything else, you think it’s the best available.
You'll never grasp voting patterns & political positions of millennials unless you recognize that a new graduate in about anything theoretical (Bachelor, Master even PhD) earns less than a slightly trained plumber, truck driver, or a carpenter.
Reflect & see why Univ. going bust.— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) July 30, 2020
He’s talking about the monetary aspect mostly I think, but there’s also a class-based resentment angle there. Think about it this way: you’re raised middle class or upper middle class, you take out student loans to go to college for four years, emerge $80,000 in debt, and then some “deplorable” who attended a trade school for a year is making twice what you make with little to no debt. You were inculcated with the idea that you were no one and nothing if you didn’t go to university, and now you can only find a job at the Starbucks part-time.
Feels bad, man.
A whole generation is realizing they’ve been lied to and exploited — and mostly by people who profess to love them. This combined with the pandemic, climate change, and ever-heightening inequality is going to make for some crazy times in the near future. Just wait. But you won’t have to wait long.
Whenever I see a company go bankrupt now, I search for two words: "Private," and "Equity."
"California Pizza Kitchen Latest Chain to File for Bankruptcy" https://t.co/bNanhbo3Le
Sorry, Robinwood traders – no symbol. pic.twitter.com/KXPiU3EVlQ
— Rudy Havenstein, reaching for yield. (@RudyHavenstein) July 30, 2020
Me too. California Pizza Kitchen was not bad. Better than Pizza Hut.
We’ll be seeing a lot more vulture capital-related failures in the near future. A lot more. It’s the modern equivalent of the Enclosure movement, and the results will be about the same.
Student debt is interesting. You pay a bunch of your cronies in the university administrations, and in return you get an army of debt slaves.
The students themselves pay four years to get some paper privileges that get them out of even worse subjection.
Devilish.
— Wolf Tivy (@wolftivy) July 30, 2020
In a society built now on scams, that is a pretty thorough and clever one. And it’s not dischargeable in bankruptcy!
Pure evil.
What’s funny about the anti-AC libs is they really do wanna kill Gramma as without AC, tons of old people always kick the bucket.
I need to start a blog about how no one in the north really needs heat, as that’s just as stupid as the anti-AC push.
I think it’s because AC feels like a luxury, as it’s newer (because technologically, it’s harder to do) so that’s most of it, yeah? Novelty of a new tech takes 200 or so years to get rid of the pushback.
BTW, heating produces way, way more emissions than AC. So I don’t think anyone in the north actually needs heating. Turn that shit off, weaklings, and suck it the fuck up, you pansies!
Anyone who doesn’t think we need AC, try living in Florida with four computers running, at 92 degrees outside with 90% humidity.
I literally cannot think without AC in those conditions, and I need those computers for my job.
If you take my AC, I will fuck you up. Same with my meat. Without AC, I literally could not work.
Firefox is so hobbled now it’s like using one of the weirdo browsers from 1996, when the web was still fairly new.
How do people live with such horseshit garbage? Droolers, be gone!
About motherfucking time. I think most of the alleged “agglomeration effect” of cities is actually fake, especially when you account for population density. We’ll see soon enough I guess. Unless society totally collapses, then we’ll see something else altogether.
If you aren’t using a mechanical keyboard, you’re just wrong.