This vaccine is miracle of science and we do the public a disservice by not explaining that. Of course we are in a dark period. Of course masks and physical distance and ventilation remain the main thing. But this vaccine works, and the more people understand that, the better. https://t.co/JCbFGlYix2
— Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) January 25, 2021
Nice efficacy rate. Can’t wait to get the vaccine.
Can someone smarter than me explain why Democrats can't get things done because of the filibuster but Republicans did whatever they wanted for years?
— Ally Maynard (@allymayn) January 25, 2021
Ally, the Democrats don’t actually want to get anything done. That’s the crucial difference. They have no interest in governing and simply won’t do it.
And they are going to lose so, so catastrophically in 2022 and 2024 that the Repubs won’t even need a coup.
Early days of the Biden presidency & so far the NY Times has written a piece about his peleton bike, watch, & fired an editor at the behest of a right wing outrage machine for expressing emotion at a peaceful transition of power after an insurrection.
Make of it what you will.
— Dr. Peter Jacobs (@past_is_future) January 24, 2021
So…things are going as expected? The plutes and most of the libs don’t actually like or want Dems in power. Then you have to do something, and everyone knows the Dems aren’t going to do that.
It's time for my latest keyboard! Introducing the FLOPKEY.
A stand-alone USB keyboard, which you type on by inserting specially labeled floppy disks!
This is a partial clip, as the full "Hello world!" typing session is TOO LONG FOR TWITTER. And there's sound this time! pic.twitter.com/fdKa3DP2ft— foone (@Foone) May 11, 2020
Oh my god.
This is an abomination. This is against nature and all that is sacred.
I love it.
Is there a word for this post-capitalism phenomenon where companies like Uber and Tesla never have to turn a profit they just have to create an earnings bonanza in the stock market and enrich a bunch of people anyway based totally on hype?
— Angie Schmitt🚶♀️ (@schmangee) January 25, 2021
Tesla and Uber are fundamentally different entities. One is a scam and one is an actual company. Tesla’s stock is very severely overvalued though.
Also, Tesla has turned a profit for the past five straight quarters, though not purely on car sales. It should get there, though.
She’s not totally wrong, but it really helps to get one’s facts straight to make a better point. Intellectual rigor is important. Or at least, it should be. Also, she doesn’t understand at all how car companies are run. Then again, neither do most people, because they’ve never thought about how an extremely capital-dependent big-ticket-item business must be run and managed.
And it shows.
Moderna Is Working on Vaccine Booster for New Variant.
I suspect this will be just how things are for the next few decades.
Too bad half the fucking country has gone crazy, believing in stolen elections, that masks don’t work, and that the pandemic is a hoax. It’s cruel of me, but I hope most of those people get it and they suffer a lot. Most of them probably will, with the new variants out there.
No one deserves that, but they’ve sure earned it.
The true extent of our elite institutional rot really becomes evident once you realize that we are now approaching a year since the pandemic started, and we have done zero institutional reforms, built zero new infrastructure, added zero new productive capacity. Nothing.
— Isaac Wilks 🎤🐢 (@wilks_isaac) January 17, 2021
Yeah, that’s shocking, isn’t it? Even knowing that we are complete failures, we still blunder in ways that are so incompetent they cross the border into parody.
We are a real-world nation-level Mr. Bean.
If ya’ll dumbass mooks think this has anything at all to do with trafficking or “helping” women, you’re stupider than a box of very stupid rocks.
Huh. If this holds up, the basic bro advice for being healthy is the key: stay fit, eat quality food, spend time in the sun, and don’t be fat.
Why is it that bro science — at least in the nutrition and fitness realm — is better than actual science?
Goodbye big brother. Anti lockdown riots in the Netherlands are escalating. pic.twitter.com/GRyx06yNeI
— Evelyn Rae (@_evelynrae) January 24, 2021
Nice. Lockdown should be resisted everywhere.
Surge of Student Suicides Pushes Las Vegas Schools to Reopen.
Who could’ve ever predicted that people just can’t spend a fucking year locked up at home without dire consequences to self and psyche?
Nearly half (49%) of minority small business owners and a third (33%) of all small business owners were unable to pay their rent this month. https://t.co/Y88gpZwH3B
— Axios (@axios) January 21, 2021
Lockdowns are working as expected to achieve their intended purpose.
In America, there are only two genders: dumbass and dipshit.
I think the only famous person I have any sort of parasocial relationship with is the singer Sigrid. It’s mainly because she seems extremely intelligent and she reminds me so much of a dead friend from long ago, personality- and mannerism-wise.
I feel like I know her even though of course I don’t at all.
we should really reiterate to Republicans more often that a lot of us *personally blame and despise them* for trapping us in our homes without our families as *they* spread a deadly virus.
my hatred for these anti-maskers is not even a little bit abstract.
— Faine Greenwood (@faineg) January 24, 2021
I feel the same. If we’d had universal masking, effective quarantine, and contact tracing, like Taiwan, this would’ve been mostly over in a month.
I will never not hate anti-maskers as they made it so much worse than it could’ve been.