Day: December 9, 2020, 3:44 PM

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Chill Regular-ass Post

So much of everything we use in this country was built by the WPA and CCC, those “useless” government programs, and we haven’t done anything like that since. We’re still coasting on the fumes of efforts from nearly 100 years ago. Meanwhile, dipshits abound claiming that government does nothing useful. Wild to think about.

Trisket

Chill Uncategorized

Same here. I know what I write seems the same — that is, vacillation between two poles. However, it’s all about risk and how best to manage it. Right now we are doing incredibly poorly on all axes, aided and abetted by the anti-maskers and (soon), the anti-vaxxers, with contributions as well by the stay-inside-forever libs.

We are appallingly terrible at understanding and managing risk, as a society and as individuals.

Counterfactuality

Chill Uncategorized

If everyone had worn masks from day one (when liberals were the ones saying they didn’t work and were racist) and we’d had a hard one-month lockdown, we could’ve avoided 270,000 deaths and most business would’ve been saved.

Not what happened, though, nor was it ever the likely outcome in the US with our frankly moronic notions of freedom. But it was not impossible. We just chose to not to do it and now are paying the price.

Masks work. Lockdowns work. But only if nearly all people use masks and follow the lockdown strictures, and do both when there’s no crisis already. We screwed it all up and now it’s too late. Such is life with dumbasses.

Oh DoH

Chill Regular-ass Post

DoH is just another user-hostile initiative designed to take control away from the actual person using the computer and give it to large corporations, all dressed up in the “security” excuse that you dipshits always fall for.

DoH means I lose control of my network; any telemetry can connect, and any corporate surveillance malware, with no possible way to control it. It’s an incredibly bad idea but it has been embraced because the security excuse-making and sophistry always wins.