There’s something very special about catching up with a friend in person. I hope this whole ordeal helps up prioritize the people who matter, to put in the effort to keep long-anticipated plans.

— Milena Rodban (@MilenaRodban) October 21, 2020

Milena was never a proponent of this, but hot damn it sure is a long way from February/March when all the liberals were eager to tell us that Zoom was just as good as in-person get-togethers, and if you said anything else you wanted to kill gramma.

Watching the advocates of this view go completely fucking nuts over the subsequent few months was kind of satisfying, though still sad in its way.

Almost no one ever talks about the great covid realignment, completely forgotten to time pic.twitter.com/xUBjUv0gDm

— Ed West (@edwest) October 20, 2020

I have been thinking about that a lot lately. The liberals are always on the side of bien-pensant conventionality but do respond to evidence — kind of. But they are terrible at the precautionary principle and have little memory of the past.

Just putting this on the ol’ blog so it’s not completely forgotten only to become another “conspiracy theory.”

One of the disappointing results of lack of leadership on COVID has been fracturing of risk assessment to extremes. We don't need to be in locked cocoons with wax seal, but we also need to make fundamental adjustments to behavior so that's not needed. These aren't in conflict.

— SwiftOnSecurity (@SwiftOnSecurity) October 20, 2020

I’ve noticed this too and been raging about it on here, of course. I saw someone earlier (whom I’ve already picked on enough, so no link) who was like, “What is there to do other than have my kids stare at screens all day?”

GO. THE FUCK. OUTSIDE. The risks there are very, very minimal. FUCK. Most people have the risk assessment capabilities of a dimwitted diphtheria bacterium. Just be less of a dumbass. I know it’s hard. Just please try.

The largest rebellion possible these days is to be fit, to not be controlled by pervasive propaganda, to command you own body and to own your mind and its capabilities. This will make you an enemy of most but a friend to yourself.

If you think this sounds alt-rightish, there’s a reason. Not because I lean that way, even a little, but because they are correct to be rebelling — they just have the targets and methods wrong. And they are fucking Nazis in all but name.

Be fit, think for yourself, marshal yourself, and you automatically prevail over 90% of people with no other qualifications.

Something that is not explained adequately or at all by physicists is that there is absolutely no requirement that the so-called laws of the universe be unifiable. The idea of a “Grand Unified Theory” is extant because it’s beautiful (they think), not because such a thing is the only possible configuration.

It’s also possible that gravity and quantum mechanics (and other aspects of the universe) are incommensurate and can never be unified. There is no scientific problem with this if that’s the way the universe turns out to be.

I guess what proves I am not cynical enough and sociopathic enough is that if I were, I would’ve spent the last 15 years telling people it’s ok to be fat and unhealthy.

That’s where the real money was, and I couldn’t bring myself to go there.