every now and then i just think about the CL-1201 pic.twitter.com/wucBuYwer2
— Antimatter Cazalyzed Microfusion (@cyberpupk) February 15, 2021
WTF. Over a thousand foot wingspan? We used to dream big. Totally pants-on-head crazy, but big.
Day: February 16, 2021, 1:38 PM
Base Belonged
Today is an important anniversary in pop culture history.
It will be overlooked, because it's not the anniversary of an important movie or an important video game. No, it's the anniversary of an important meme. Maybe THE most important meme. The meme that changed everything. pic.twitter.com/7dxYGinhzP
— "Critical Kate" Willært 🤘🏻 (@katewillaert) February 16, 2021
Oh no. That means a close friend of mine would’ve been only five years old when this meme hit. She might not even have heard of it.
I think today I shall grace her with its, uh, majesty. Yeah, majesty. That’s it.
Monitoring
nice keyboard, nice tower, but that’s not a monitor, it’s a TV.
Monitors don’t have RCA jacks on the front pic.twitter.com/mKVnePecpr— foone (@Foone) February 16, 2021
The Commodore 1702 monitor did. I used that monitor for many years, from roughly 1985-1992. The RCA jacks are on the lower right in this photo:
But they’re right, most monitors did not have front RCA jacks. That 1702 was a great monitor — so much better than using a TV. At the time, I loved it.
Flavors of Lockdown
What are we going to call the forever lockdown people? The problem is that there are going to be two classes of them: those who remain ever-afraid of the virus, who will only leave their homes very infrequently for years, and who are acting out of genuine fear (warranted or not).
And the other class will be the plutes/politicos pushing lockdown agit-prop at more normal people who aren’t actually afraid but who attempt to follow societal rules and social norms — and of course these plutes/politicos won’t actually be following these rules themselves, but will be spouting this nonsense because it makes them vastly richer.
Those who are truly embracing the pod lifestyle could be called “lockdown lifers” while the plute lockdown plotters could be called the “lockdown looters.” Best I can come up with right now.
Why Trust
Not trusting the public is a mistake.
Underestimating the importance of social connectedness is a mistake.
Not giving people better tools is a mistake.
We can't keep repeating these mistakes in our epidemic response. #covid19 @bmj_latest https://t.co/Pz81un4AcV
— Abraar Karan (@AbraarKaran) February 15, 2021
Why should anyone trust the “masks don’t work” and “eternal lockdown” scammers?
Optim
11/But perhaps most importantly, the mRNA vaccines can be modified much more quickly to address resistant strains.
That's going to be VERY important if a strain escapes the vaccines, and it's going to be helpful for fighting the South Africa variant.https://t.co/E7zFWnUetO
— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) February 15, 2021
Ayup. The situation is actually a whole lot better than the lockdown scammers are portraying it to be now. For the first time, I am optimistic.
Oh, Covid is endemic now. It’s going to be with us forever. Covid Zero is not a thing that will ever happen in reality. But we have the tools and the tech to reduce it to very low levels, and slap the shit out of variants as they occur with fast vax ramp-ups and boosters.
We’re not out of the woods yet, but we can see the edge of the forest from the hilltop. Now we just need to get the vaccinating done and suppress the lockdown scammer pod-yearners and by summer, things will be much improved.
Aug 1
When lockdown is getting me down, I like to look at Israeli hospital data pic.twitter.com/XzOpVzm1aH
— John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch) February 15, 2021
By August 1, the lockdown scammers will be looking for reasons to keep us all locked away, despite daily case rates falling to extremely low levels.
That’s my prediction, and I’ll be right. Again.
Cloud Forecast
Gonna laugh when I read articles about owning your own servers on racks being the new rage in a few years.
— james_roe (@james_roe) February 15, 2021
Oh you know it’s going to happen. Cloud computing is very expensive and extremely complex. It’s only going to get worse as the cloud providers push Kubernetes and containerization that just mint money for them.
There will be a rebound to sense after a while.
Done
— gaming disorder pawg (@roun_sa_ville) February 15, 2021
The problem is, most people are cheering for a team. I’m not on your fucking team, this fucking team, that fucking team. I’m not a rationalist, empiricist, mysticism-believer or a scientist.
I’m a getting-shit-done-ist. And most people want no part of that.