There are 200k Americans living in its biggest cities (housed) without access to piped running water! How is that possible? @StatistaCharts via @SoberLook pic.twitter.com/ClQB9X9MwU
— Adam Tooze (@adam_tooze) January 20, 2021
The answer is that this is a third-world country, and becoming more so all the time.
I expect severe travel restrictions, lockdowns and other controls to never go away now. Once “security” measures are put in place, they rarely reverse.
I hope I’m proved wrong. But I won’t be.
What the fuck. How can we fail so hard when we knew for months and months vaccines were on their way?
In the future, “America” will become synonomous with the word “failure.”
“Oh, damn, I just americaed that!”
As of right now, the United States has a Democratic president, a Democratic Senate, and a Democratic House. This is now a test for the Democrats. There is no excuse, none whatsoever, to not get things done. No reason not to pass laws and make history – other than maybe cowardice.
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) January 20, 2021
Democrats will do nothing substantive. I guarantee this. They are fully captured by corporate interests and the plutes and care about nothing else. Remember, Obama also had these conditions and barely did anything, and squandered all his political capital on a giveaway to health insurance companies.
Things will just get worse somewhat less quickly and they Dems will be less louche. But they will still stab you in the throat if they they think it’ll make Zuck or Bezos an extra billion or two.
Prove me wrong, Dems.
"scientists had hoped that the new vaccines would remain effective for years…Now some researchers fear the unchecked spread has given the virus nearly unfettered opportunities to reinvent itself, and may have hastened the appearance of escape mutations."https://t.co/93uEuaX8dF
— wsbgnl (@wsbgnl) January 21, 2021
This was almost inevitable; we didn’t get a handle on the pandemic early enough, so it has plenty of hosts now in which to mutate, and we didn’t start vaccinating as soon as we possibly could.
Now the virus will be endemic; with us forever. Expect to get vaccinated every year or two for its new variants. Our failures are vast and now we reap the consequences. Also, fuck anti-maskers.
I often tweet critically about the left more than the right, and I suspect this is because I see more bad leftist stuff closer in my social spheres, and only rarely bad right stuff. But I do think if I started hanging around more right wingers I would get more upset about it.
— Aella (@Aella_Girl) January 20, 2021
Same here. I don’t hang out or read righties (much). When I do, my skin crawls. Because I am on the left and read mostly left-wing stuff, that’s what I tend to be thinking about the most.
Georgia lawyer said he kicked in Pelosi’s door, she could’ve been ‘torn into little pieces.’
But it was just a few people touring the Capitol, you know, as people do wearing tactical gear and climbing up walls and breaking out windows and shit.
Who among us hasn’t been forced to discard a life-sized cardboard cutout of their celebrity ex?
What if you celebrity ex is is the cardboard cutout? She was ok, just seemed a little stiff.
Goldman Sachs, With Big Earnings Jump, Is Having a Profitable Pandemic.
The story could’ve also been titled “Why the Lockdowns Won’t End Soon.”
Does anyone really believe lockdowns anywhere have anything to do with containing the virus anymore? If so, what color is the sky on your planet?
The plutes realized how very much richer they could get this way and are going to milk that for all it’s worth. I expect lockdowns to go on for years as the next “threat” is found.
I’m not sure I’d rather die than use Facebook, but damn, that would be a hard decision.
Container networking is simple.
Lord, what a dipshit. “Simple,” then proceeds to write a 4,000 word guide about this “simple” thing.
I’m pretty good at networking, and I understand the entire article, but even in my own field I think only about 10% would. Anything involving containers is absurdly and needlessly complex and you can tell it was designed to be programmer-friendly as it has 50 layers of complexity when anything production-ready should have far less than that.
Anytime you have to manually set up IP masquerading to make something function correctly, you can no longer claim the mantle of simplicity. If anyone ever has to troubleshoot this, they just won’t be able to. I know the ethos of the container assclowns is just “destroy it all and rebuild” but that only gets you so far — and not very far at that.
Be glad when the containerization trend ends — which it will. It’s too complex for most who attempt to use it, and also very fragile. But it makes the cloud providers loads of money.
While we’re talking about such things, I can understand a lot of fetishes…but foot fetishists? It doesn’t gross me out or anything but why? What’s going on there? That’s one I can’t quite get.
Weird prudishness has increased like a million percent since the early 1990s.
Reminds me of one time when I was walking out to the river with a bunch of friends in my last year of high school. It was me, two male friends, and two sisters. When we got to our destination one of the girls decided she wanted to have a swim and that we should all join her.
But we were in street clothes so I said, “But none of us brought bathing suits. Just regular clothes.”
And she said, as she was already pulling off her top, “Well, take them off. DUH!”
And she proceeded to do just that and jumped in. We did the same and had a good afternoon skinny dipping.
Can’t imagine that happening today at all. It just would not.
The reason 1 hour workouts & short rest periods get pushed so hard is because Personal Trainers typically have only 1 hour with a client
They know the best way to enforce their value is to
A) make the client feel really tired
B) throw as many exercises at them as possible
— Alexander Cortes PhD, Fitness, Nutrition, Fat loss (@AJA_Cortes) January 18, 2021
Yes, completely true. My 20 minute workout will be better than most people’s one hour workout, because I know what I am doing and I attempt to achieve maximum results in minimum time.
However, most people wouldn’t want to do my 20-minute workout because it’s fucking hard.
But it works:
You’re mine, Hemsworth! Stupid sexy Hemsworth.