For those of you keeping score at home
26 million Americans are known to have had COVID
420K of them died from COVID29 million Americans have gotten COVID vaccines
0 have died from COVID vaccinesWhen it comes to generating immunity
vaccine > infection
Easier, way way safer
— Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH (@ashishkjha) January 30, 2021
Get the fucking vaccine, ya numpties.
women will literally create a media career based on projecting their worst ex- boyfriends onto vermont senator bernard sanders instead of going to therapy
— rachel (@bugposting) January 29, 2021
Where is the lie? At least half a dozen women have made a career out of just this. It’s easier than really reporting, I guess.
I'll never get over the fact that william carlos williams named his son william eric williams. william ERIC williams. will never stop being funny to me
— Patricia Lockwood (@TriciaLockwood) January 22, 2021
Should’ve named him Carlo Williams Carlos. Because that’s way more fun.
sure the overton window shifted pretty fast but if media has to invite this as a question then it becomes something that can be argued– i mean, jesus christ https://t.co/U8nRKmXg9r
— emily b (@eudaemaniacal) January 31, 2021
So the media is now…both-sidesing executions? Great. We are so, so fucked.
Lessons from A Pandemic Anniversary.
Like with Zeynep, the moment I knew we were likely fucked is when China locked down Wuhan. Why did more people not realize this? And why do so many people still think the pandemic is some kind of hoax?
Humans are not wired for the scale of the societies we’ve constructed.
Now do it taking externalities into account. Then it’s a huge, huge bargain.
That’s what’s so weird about the doofuses complaining how expensive it’ll be to do this necessary energy transition. Fighting climate change would be an enormous societal win even if climate change were completely false.
It shows they don’t care about evidence at all — just want things to stay exactly as they are until they die (and so the right rich can stay rich).
I never invested one dime in the market, and I lost everything in 2008. Lost my savings, my house, my business, my car, everything. And so did many of my friends and family members simply because we work construction.
We did nothing wrong, got no bailout, and never recovered. https://t.co/Hbsenv4bn4
— Loot Every Walmart (@BethLynch2020) January 30, 2021
Thanks, Obama!
Rereading all these Didion pieces + profiles around Let Me Tell You What I Mean makes it hard to write. Like I could just never so why bother trying at all
— Emily Ratajkowski (@emrata) January 30, 2021
Eh, Didion is ok. Like eating a dry cracker with lots of flavor but no real reason to consume another.
Emily’s writing is quite good. I’d read it even if I did not know who she was. It’s clear, non-meandering, and not spoiled with too many weird metaphors. That beats 99%+ of writers right there.
This is Didion on her own writing:
In short I had no past, and, every Monday-Wednesday-Friday at noon in Dwinelle Hall, it seemed increasingly clear to me that I had no future. I ransacked my closet for clothes in which I might appear invisible in class, and came up with only a dirty raincoat. I sat in this raincoat and I listened to other people’s stories read aloud and I despaired of ever knowing what they knew. I attended every meeting of this class and never spoke once. I managed to write only three of the required five stories. I received—only, I think now, because Mr. Schorer, a man of infinite kindness to and acuity about his students, divined intuitively that my failing performance was a function of adolescent paralysis, of a yearning to be good and a fright that I never would be, of terror that any sentence I committed to paper would expose me as not good enough—a course grade of B. I wrote no more stories for exactly ten years.
That’s from Let Me Tell You What I Mean. She’s no different than Emily, or any good writer; just in the right place at the right time.
People saying they are non-binary is just an absurd attempt to somehow sidestep the gender constrictions that aren’t going anywhere and probably never will. The declaration of non-binariness highlights these differences all the the more, accentuates them. How is this not obvious?
I’m ternary, I’m quaternary, who gives a fuck-ary, gender is coming for you whether you want it to or not.
Why I don’t want to list my pronouns.
I don’t want to put down he/him because people look at me and see a woman and that would cause cognitive dissonance and problems I don’t want to deal with, even though I would prefer to be treated as if I were male.
Ahahahaha! Trust me, no you do fucking not want to be treated as if you were male. You just think you do because you’ve never witnessed any of the downsides, only the advantages. Because that’s all women get to see, and they in general understand men’s lives far less than they think they do.
Grass always looks greener on the other side. It ain’t.
also this…why regulation is so crucial https://t.co/ygjdOxpZWx
— Emily Ratajkowski (@emrata) January 25, 2021
Emily, most people won’t have a kajillion dollars like you to be able to read that, but below because I’m feeling generous I’ll show everyone how to read it anyway — no special extensions required.
I agree that regulation is crucial but it is not enough. If you mean “regulation” in the sense of the Sherman Antitrust Act (which the article mentions), then regulation could include break-ups, which would be a pretty good outcome. But in many cases I think we need to go much further than regulation can encompass — that in fact, many of those entities should be nationalized as they are vital public services that can’t be left in the hands of the “free” market. That can’t work and it obviously does not — the evidence is everywhere.
Now, I will tell the hoi polloi how to access this article.
First, go to Google and search for the headline, “The Big Tech Extortion Racket.” When you locate the right link, find the tiny down arrow on the upper right and choose “Cached.”
The cached version will then open. Then click “Text-only version” to, shockingly, get a version that is only text.
Then use the “Reader” feature of your browser to format it for improved readability.
Fin.
this is extremely disappointing. is google going to start banning email clients now? https://t.co/v4z1awJiV0
— bob poekert (@bobpoekert) January 30, 2021
Oh, I expect any medium where anyone can talk to anyone else directly or semi-directly will become very heavily regulated, filtered and monitored soon, where only a bland neoliberal centrism is allowed to persist and anything else is exiled into the outer darkness.
All of this in the guise of oh-so-woke capital and with the proper pronouns.
Pump and dumps are illegal, but Jim Cramer’s whole business model was just that, and he evaded all punishment by simply agreeing to shutter his fund, moving to TV where he could pump and dump more by just saying buy Bear Stearns IN MINECRAFT.
The rules are written to fuck you.
— Monsieur le Baron (@Mssr_le_Baron) January 27, 2021
Much can become legal if you have enough cash to pay off the so-called regulators and buy the government. Supposedly, Robinhood was getting calls from the White House about GameStop et al. “Counterparty risk” and “capital requirements” are just excuses no different than if you say you don’t want to go to lunch with someone because you need to run errands.
The only opinions that matter are those of billionaires. We’re just gladiators in their arena.
No, WallStreetBets isn’t robbing Wall Street to help the little guy.
I’m always amazed at how smart people can be so stupid.
The doofus who wrote this article misunderstands why these events happened, why it was perpetuated for so long, and what the effect and meaning was intended to be. Yes, there were opportunists and probably a lot of the money will go to the rich in this (it always does).
However, that was not the point, nor the meaning, and there were real consequences: at least one hedge fund (Melvin Capital) went bankrupt and had to be bailed out, and another very nearly met the same fate.
This was a protest, for many — a cri de coeur that wasn’t intended to make money, but to point out the hollowness and the feculent corruption of a system stacked against them. That was the animus of the raid, and a sense of Merry Pranksterism, that was the drive behind the whole thing.
How can you write about this and not understand that? Bet some Condé Nast MBA was hand-editing this article to make it have the right plute-friendly spin.
The degree to which we fucked up here is staggering.