Personally I think we've gone too far against sexual jokes but this isn't really a fair comparison because you have to spend money on clothing, and it varies in price and comfort and practicality, and you have to wear it, whereas you can just not bring up sex in conversation https://t.co/IvOujBKGky

— Macro Misha (@drethelin) December 12, 2020

I think the campaign against sexual jokes was mostly positive at first (as many things are) but harms women now because it paints them as fragile flowers. And who wants a wilting delicate little blossom in the workplace who might melt down on hearing the world “dongle?”

However, fair comparison or not, which is more acceptable (revealing clothing or a sex joke) is mostly just cultural convention. It’d be perfectly possible to have a culture where everyone recounted ribald sexual jokes but dressed conservatively and conversely a culture where sexual jokes were verboten but all were literal nudists. Of course, liberals are the ones who say everything is relative and culture is not fixed but then completely cannot see how what I’ve mentioned is possible.

Funny old world.

This is amazing. December 2020. As late as this April, people—including Dr. Fauci—thought 18 months was probably too optimistic a timeline for vaccines. And we’d have been thrilled with ones much less efficacious than these. And multiple ones are in the pipeline. It is a triumph. https://t.co/g8y10YwFkN

— zeynep tufekci (@zeynep) December 12, 2020

Yeah, that is amazing. Remember, not that long ago many experts said that a vaccine for a coronavirus was impossible. I saw that “wisdom” as recently as four months ago. Once, it was a fairly common take and only abated (and tweets got deleted) when it was clear not just one but many vaccines would be available.

That’s real tech there. Facebook is not.

The Democratic Party is a coalition of lifestyle brand promoters and HR compliance specialists.

— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) December 10, 2020

And the Republicans are just conmen and women grifting aligned with some also-grifty bible-thumpers.

Woe to all of us.

Look, no one wants a zoom holiday party. Send everyone on staff a pizza or cookie gift basket or something and they’ll be much happier. Everyone is tired of pretending these teleconference events are effective or fun.

— Milena Rodban (@MilenaRodban) December 10, 2020

Hey everyone, remember when the lib line was that Zoom meetings were just as good as being in person? That was only a few months ago, though it seems like years. How times and minds have changed. Was that just a cope or did they really believe that rubbish?

Anyway, it’s kind of sad yet fun to watch them go nuts now. (Milena was not one of those who was claiming this absolute hogwash, but she made me think of it.)