This looks badass. Megan Fox got a bad rap because Michael Bay is a creep but Jennifer's Body was such an underrated gem https://t.co/yxVgHDjCjq
— Bran the Unbroken (@PrettyBadLefty) July 23, 2020
Agreed. Jennifer’s Body is one of my favorite movies. So fun, funny, and sharp.
More Than Half of US Covid Lockdown Business Closures Permanent.
Damn, we are so very fucked.
Wednesday open question: What is the most ominous-sounding song or piece of music that you know of?
— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) July 22, 2020
Hillary Clinton alternate history series “Rodham” in development at Hulu.
Oh please god no. Spare us all.
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!”
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.
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:”
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.
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.
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.
windows 10: you want to launch a terminal with a HOTKEY?! I don't know, that seems kinda complicated, I don't think we can support that…
windows 95: oh yeah that's like 3 clicks. pic.twitter.com/RsXVDuzyLR
— foone (@Foone) July 21, 2020
As with Firefox, so much has been removed from Windows 10 I find it nearly unusable. Most of the features I depend on no longer exist, with no replacement.
It’s what happens when corporate monopoly meets droolers, assclowns and incompetents.
I’ve already gotten “there’s not gonna be a vaccine!!!” from friends.
Here’s an important thread. https://t.co/NGgaJ7sFmk
— Diane Patterson (@DianePatterson) July 20, 2020
Same. I’ve had three people tell me that. And I don’t have many friends! They rely on “experts,” I rely on the science more diffusely.
Hint: the experts mostly don’t know a fucking thing due to the way we make experts in the world now.
For MONTHS after it became apparent that masks worked, there was this weird thing where people would hop into my mentions and say "Masks only protect other people, not the wearer."
Well guess what. Those people were wrong. Surprise surprise.https://t.co/tPLdWequ8Y
— "Rabbit = good friend" Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) July 21, 2020
It’s only a surprise if YOU ARE A FUCKING IDIOT.
People believe things about sex and gender that they wish were true, and in some ways by wishing they make them so.
But not in as many ways and areas as they think, and thus there will ever be disappointment and self-gaslighting.
I would totally fail that cognitive test that Trump passed (the MOCA).
I can’t draw a clock face. I can’t do anything visual like that at all. I also can’t do serial subtraction. I also cannot copy a cube or do any of the visuospatial tasks reliably.
You’re supposed to score 26/30 on that to be graded as not cognitively impaired. I think I’d score 20/30.
Am I cognitively impaired? In some ways, obviously yes. I am completely missing math and visual modules that most people seem to have. But in language and reading comprehension, I am superpowered so that helps make up for it.
