Day: February 11, 2021, 11:10 PM

Still Will Whine

Chill Regular-ass Post

Oh, what are the infinite lockdown crybabies going to do then? Probably focus on the variants even as the case rate falls through the floor.

By August, US daily new case rate will be ~400 per diem. And they’ll still be hiding under their bed, wailing, and imploring all of us to do the same.

Doublers

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Double standard much? If a man did this, he be considered by many a terrible predator.

Personally, I think most people should date non-minors all over the age range. Makes you more experienced and is just better all around.

Quant Weirdness

Chill Uncategorized

It’s crazy the kind of stuff the quant types get up to. I won’t make fun of her again because I like her, but one Twitter user I read was feeling the effects of altitude sickness but denied her own experience because her cheap-ass pulse oximeter showed some number on a screen that to her meant she was fine.

That’s taking the denial of one’s own reality very damn far in service of quantification — but it’s not uncommon for certain “smart kids” brought up in our poor education system.

But when you see it, from the outside, it just looks so bizarre. “Oh, I’m good, the knife only penetrated 10 centimeters and Wikipedia says my heart is at least 30 centimeters beneath the chest wall, no reason to rush an ambulance here.”

We’ve Created

Chill Uncategorized

It has been interesting to watch so much that actually happened or is just a point of disagreement labeled as “conspiracy theory.” What a weird and bad world we’ve created.

Loving Lock

Chill Uncategorized

Nah. They are going to keep scolding. Many of them will be pushing for continued lockdowns next year, and the year after that too. Will probably get their wish. They are absolutely loving this. It’s their dream, presaging us encased in pods, not emitting carbon, subsisting on bugs and cockroach milk while they merrily scold those of us who don’t like it as “gramma-killers.”

So no, this will be a strain of thought and being for a while. They will argue that while any Covid (or whatever excuse they find next) exists in the world, we must remain at home, terrified, for everyone else’s good.

No thanks. We must resist and shame these people and resist lockdowns in general.

No Team

Chill Uncategorized

I cannot emphasize enough how fucking detrimental the liberal “even after the vaccine, everyone still must hide away from the world forever” doomsaying is to vaccine uptake.

It’s not even true. But it sure sounds good to prove your “hide inside forever” bona fides.

Most people want the vaccine so the world can return to some semblance of normal. Absent that, why fucking bother?

Fuel

Chill Regular-ass Post

Though I haven’t engaged much with Robin Hanson’s ideas about alien expansion, it mirrors something I’ve said before: if we encounter extraterrestrials we’re probably fucked because the only two reasons for expanding out into the universe for most would be religious nuttery or colonization.

Therefore: fucked. Because we know what happens when religious nuts with superior tech encounter those who don’t have those things. And it is not pretty. You’re living atop the wreckage of that now.

Tradeoff On

Chill Regular-ass Post

This is technically true, but it’s much, much, much harder to do. Use weights if you can access them. Less risk of injury if used correctly and you can achieve much better results in far less time.

In Locke

Chill Regular-ass Post

Lockdowns are pure evil and should be resisted hard. They don’t even help that much against the pandemic versus other measures.