“In education, where our rivals from their very cradles by a painful discipline seek after manliness, in Athens we live exactly as we please, and yet are just as ready to encounter every legitimate danger.”
–Pericles
Day: February 19, 2021, 1:02 PM
Com
Old enough to remember when only the most beyond-the-pale heterodox people — me, for example, — said things like this. pic.twitter.com/fQ3XFnIhyD
— Jo Michell (@JoMicheII) February 18, 2021
Same. I remember being called a “commie” and other choice epithets for writing things like that in the early 2000s.
Fizz
COVID-19 is on the run — expect the pandemic to be under control by Memorial Day.
I agree. Though I don’t have a good firmly-grounded empirical reason for thinking this, I believe the variants will mostly fizzle out in the Western hemisphere due to seasonality, vaccination, and other unknown factors.
Mostly, I believe they will amount to about nothing — and I am no optimist, as I am sure most of you know already.
Enemies Spur Action
Anyone who believes we should huddle on this planet, hoping all goes well, never learning or exploring anything beyond our tiny sphere, is my sworn enemy. I don’t care if they are “left” or “right” or in the middle. No different than the lockdown lifers and the lockdown looters, they are my foe and I want nothing to do with them if possible, and if I am forced to deal with them, I wish to defeat and humiliate them.
To Boldly Go
You may be asking "Why send robots to Mars when there are so many problems here on Earth we could be spending our money on?"
So a short thread on that.
— Gwen C. Katz (@gwenckatz) February 18, 2021
Great thread. Dipshits who ask that question understand nothing about anything and are terrible humans almost always.
Cry Gravy
For the past several days I have felt like I needed to cry but have been incapable of doing so, and it is really, really annoying
— bletchley punk (@alicegoldfuss) February 19, 2021
Cry? I think I’ve heard of that. How does one “cry,” exactly?
I never feel more like a robot than when people talk about crying. I just don’t have that module and I suspect I never did, beyond an infant’s instinct. I don’t think it has anything to do with my acculturation as masculine, either.