You cannot search in Russian on IMBD. Yet I want to search in Russian on IMDB.
Whyyyyyy.
Month: January 2021
Strict Press
I love deadlifting and am pretty good at it, but nothing beats the feeling of putting 120+ pounds above your head.
Lock Tight
World’s Richest Shake Off Crisis in Record Setback for Equality.
Exhibit number billion for why lockdowns will never end.
No Down Only Up
If Canada refuses to get the virus under control and let's it become chronic, I guess I'll have to see if I can move somewhere that has. Not living in various states of lockdown for the rest of my life if I can avoid it.
(May not, I'm old and poor, not an ideal emigrant.)
— Ian Welsh (@iwelsh) January 26, 2021
Oh, the plutes have figured out lockdown makes them vast fortunes and gives them unprecedented control, so we will never see the end of them.
Climate Free
Conspiracy theory type thinking is an attempt to reduce the complexity space of the world to something manageable. That doesn’t excuse the intellectual failures there, but I can understand why people feel compelled to attempt to reduce the absurd convolutions of the modern world to something they can hold in their mind.
However, combine that with America’s weird definition of freedom (I can do whatever I want no matter the harm to others), it’s particularly dangerous in times of pandemic — or even climate change.
Prodict
So much that for some reason people are surprised by is so very boringly predictable.
Pride of Songs
The first ten on today’s playlist:
Kaboom
gen x and boomers: ha ha, i set off a pipe bomb in my gym teacher's car, what a silly goose i was
millennials and gen z: i was suspended for a week because i picked up a pair of scissors in a way my teacher thought was "threatening" (this actually happened to me)
— Faine Greenwood (@faineg) January 27, 2021
Ayup. I literally went to high school with a guy whose hobby was making bombs. Everyone knew it, even many of the teachers. Other than to himself, he wasn’t dangerous. He didn’t want to hurt anyone. He just liked making things go boom.
He’d be in jail forever now.
Never Happen
Democrats Should Act Like They Won the Election.
Oh, they absolutely won’t. And they are going to lose big in 2022 and then again in 2024. And they will deserve it.
Unlock
Western countries failed to control COVID, then failed to mobilize their resources to produce enough vaccine, and now demand more and more from a youth that is losing critical years of life to unproven interventions. https://t.co/rAI120c4UZ
— Simon DeDeo (@SimonDeDeo) January 26, 2021
Cool. Good for them. People should be resisting lockdown like this everywhere.
Eternal Lockdown
Told you lockdowns were going to be forever. The plutes will not forego this opportunity, and people like the person who wrote this article are their handmaidens. They will be advocating for lockdowns in a decade. I guarantee it.
We do not yet know if the vaccines curb transmission, though it is reasonable to hope they might.
We do know this about at least one vaccine, and since most of the released ones are similar, they probably do as well.
These people don’t want the pandemic to end because it’s making them so much money.
Journo
This is not just misleading sensationalism; it’s literally incorrect as stated. “Effective” has a technical meaning w.r.t vaccines. The study assessed neutralization activity in vitro, not vaccine effectiveness in actual human beings. @NPRPolitics you *must* correct this headline https://t.co/qNplm1BR0y
— Dylan Morris (@dylanhmorris) January 25, 2021
Even from people/sites that aren’t anti-vax conspiracists, at least 80% of the headlines and stories I see about vaccine efficacy and even how vaccines work are completely wrong or highly misleading.
Vef
First tweet in thread, with 4000+ retweets and quote tweets. "Good and bad news." (What bad news? It was all-around excellent news). Finally, 22nd tweet with a clarification. Only 37 retweets and quote tweets. Don't do this people. Also don't get your information this way. pic.twitter.com/9jM4mOveYs
— zeynep tufekci (@zeynep) January 26, 2021
Yeah, what a dipshit. People like this clown aren’t helping at all. Even against the SA variant, vaccine efficacy appears very good.
Transposon
British evidence is building that the new VOC is not only more transmissible, but could be 30% deadlier. We need to plan for this.
"There is a realistic possibility that VOC B117 is associated with an increased risk of death compared to non-VOC viruses."https://t.co/wY7wl2mr3Z
— Kyle (@DrKyle) January 25, 2021
It’s a general rule in virology that as a virus becomes more transmissible it also become more deadly, so I was surprised to read that this was not the case with SARS-Cov-2.
Well, turns out it is the case. Great.
It Is To Laugh
LOL @ all ya’ll who thought the Dems were going to do anything significant.