Wednesday open question: What is the most ominous-sounding song or piece of music that you know of?
— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) July 22, 2020
Day: July 22, 2020, 10:35 PM
Clintno
Hillary Clinton alternate history series “Rodham” in development at Hulu.
Oh please god no. Spare us all.
Marsipan
You are the first to set foot on Mars. What are your first words? pic.twitter.com/6fM4TOtwEp
— Georgia Knight (@Hadrians_Gate) June 25, 2020
“This place is pretty Marstastic!”
Anyone I Disagree With Is a Nazi
Another very weird liberal idea I am seeing lately pretty frequently is the notion that anyone who says “traditional architecture is good” or “we should build better buildings that last without all the shiny tech that breaks down” is a secret closet racist and Nazi.
It’s similar I guess to the idea that it’s racist to not want to outsource all manufacturing to China. It emerges from the same crumbling set of interlinking ideologies. Part of it is just cognitive dissonance and intellectual laziness, too. It’s easier not to think and just call everyone with a different idea “racist” and so-called woke capital supports this utterly.
Another part is the neoliberal mindset has truly infected everything, so these people deeply believe that anything from the past at all is racist, no matter what it is — meanwhile, they are content to ignore actual racism.
I Remember
Also I think it’s important to remember that in the late 70s and early 80s my and my friends would be LITERALLY beat up for being nerds. Like hospital visit beat up. It wasn’t like now. Nerds were the lowest. Useless. It’s hard to remeber that.
— Seamus Blackley (@SeamusBlackley) July 21, 2020
Exactly. It’s weird when women like Amanda Marcotte (who really, really hates nerds and geek culture) say things like, “Oh, you weren’t really oppressed, some people made fun of you in school, that’s nothing” and the other garbage they spew.
In school, these are the things that happened to me that were “nothing:”
- Routinely was sucker punched so hard that I had persistent headaches.
- Had my belongings stolen frequently.
- One time was hit so hard in the head by a bully with a large tree branch that I had trouble walking after.
- Had my nose severely broken.
- From roughly fifth to ninth grade was in a fight or punched nearly every day.
- Still have a small scar on my chin from some kid with a ring punching me in the face.
Of course in school, it would’ve been Amanda Marcotte perpetrating or cheering on this shit, so of course she and those of her ilk believe that what people like me faced in the 80s is just small potatoes.
I’m somewhat convinced my migraines were caused by these persistent beatings, too.
Woke Down
Wokeness again helps management kick labor in the teeth. But it's good. Keep up the good work, freaks. You didnt mean for it to be coopted by cynical capitalists. Your intentions were pure. The solution, surely, is even more wokeness. https://t.co/wMvcbPZdUp
— larks tongues in aspies (@htmlmencken) July 21, 2020
Seems these people never learn.
Quantification
I’ve spent 2 weeks vacationing above 6500 feet (~2000 meters) elevation. I still constantly feel like I’m not getting enough air. We actually have an oximeter with us and I’m consistently at 98%. Brain still thinks I’m oxygen-deprived. Brains are stupid.
— Lady Lakdawalla of Baltis Vallis (@elakdawalla) July 21, 2020
It’s wiser in these situations — by far — to trust how you feel. An oximeter isn’t the truth. It’s just some numbers on a screen. Plenty of people have been fine on paper and passed out/died at high elevation.
Quantification is a scam, in many ways. Especially as we use it. Your body is a far more accurate indicator of distress than some tech that has no nuance.