Day: July 29, 2020, 12:47 PM

Transact

Chill Uncategorized

It’s interesting how dating (“courting”) used to be explicitly transactional, but for a while — maybe 80 years or so — moved to a different model based on love and affinity, and is now back to explicitly transactional, at least among the top 20%.

This is a big change, even if it’s unrecognized. Because, most likely, no one wants to admit it’s back to transactional now.

Putrescence

Chill Uncategorized

These tactics and worse were used at Standing Rock under Obama. People have such shockingly short memories; this didn’t start with Trump nor will it end with him — even if a Democratic prez (especially Biden) is in office.

The system is rotten. Trump is only a minor symptom, not the cause. Yeah, he is escalating a bit, but so did Obama.

Not So QED

Chill Uncategorized

I’ve seen this. It’s bizarre. Many people approximately 40+ ask weirdo questions like this about random crap on the internet. Explaining Reddit to them is like discussing quantum electrodynamics.

Bad Ideas

Chill Regular-ass Post

Yep. People had this stupid fucking idea for some reason I can’t fathom that when societal relations are disrupted that things just “return to normal” as if by magic. I even heard (and linked to) some saying that the “economy was on pause” or other such crap.

Once again, to paraphrase Chuck Babbage, I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a conclusion. The economy does not pause, especially how we mismanaged the crisis, nor can it resume in any meaningful way.

Again, as I said months ago, when those relations are destroyed they don’t just come back. They are gone forever. Will never return. Bad models lead to bad thinking. Or perhaps the reverse. I don’t really give a shit. What I do know is that many people had and still continue to have fantasy thinking going on about the economy.

Also, to reiterate, if we’d managed the crisis properly and had an effective 1-2 month lockdown with proper stimulus and business preservation measures, more of this would’ve been realistic. But we did not do those things and here we are.