This was EXACTLY the missing chunk of information in my brain to understand why you can still be a vector for COVID post-vaccination but are very unlikely to get it yourself; so simple!!!!!!!! https://t.co/6wrdyuMtuK pic.twitter.com/ipi2mm39TR
— Anne Helen Petersen (@annehelen) February 24, 2021
Nope:
Preventing infection means no spread. The Pfizer vaccine (and very, very, very likely the other vaccines) prevents actual infection. Yet more disinformation being thrown around by the uninformed.
Exercise is not a good way to lose weight. Known in weightlifting circles since forever, like most real-world functional nutrition and diet advice.
What a world, where the liberals want to reimplement segregation.
In the months to come they announced a raft of anti-bias training for all staff, a revamped and more sensitive campus police force and the creation of dormitories — as demanded by Ms. Kanoute and her A.C.L.U. lawyer — set aside for Black students and other students of color.
Also see this in the “cross-race dating is racism” that’s been around a lot lately. We had it right in the 1990s, where we attempted to make society more inclusive for everyone. Re-segregation is not the way to go and will lead to nothing good.
Let’s see if I get DMCAed. Really good song and video, but age-gated on YouTube, so I grabbed it. NSFW as the singer spends 20%+ of the video topless/naked.
ZeroCovid is a totalitarian aim, best delivered by a totalitarian state.
Exactly this. It’s an absurd pipe dream that’d mean huge mass surviellance, international borders locked down for a decade, and all for a goal that would never be achieved. It’s becoming a religious movement now, and that makes it all the scarier.
I just read an article that said more than 25% of people in NYC qualify for the vaccine based on ~BMI.~ I urge everyone who qualifies to go get it, not because BMI means anything, but because medical fatphobia is real. 3/4
— Reina Sultan (@SultanReina) February 23, 2021
BMI means something, you just don’t want it to mean what it means. Most people live in self-delusion most of the time. Perhaps it is the only way to live.
One of the areas where I strongly agree with the anti-space exploration dipshits is that we should not begin to even consider terraforming another planet while we are sedulously involved in un-terraforming this one.
The very idea of “the” economy is a scam. https://t.co/1OZW6YdLyu
— Nils Gilman (@nils_gilman) February 24, 2021
The very idea of an “idea” is a scam.
Look at that, 14 days after second jab, the Pfizer vaccination prevents 95.8% of infection:
More than one expert said this was impossible a few months ago, even though many vaccines do this.
Dangerous Conspiracy Theorist Doesn’t Believe Vaccines Work.
A dangerous conspiracy theorist based in Washington doesn’t believe vaccines work, concerned sources reported Tuesday. He spouted his deadly rhetoric in a speech today, going on about how even if Americans get two doses of the vaccine they should keep triple-masking, avoid going outside, and stay in their homes and die alone.
Love this one, too. It gets right in there on the reason that there is and going to be a lot of vaccine skepticism. I feel that, too. Why bother being vaccinated if there is no obvious benefit? Yes, I am going to get vaccinated ASAP, but I wish I could convince liberals just how terribly destructive the whole, “Even after you get vaccinated, you must be swathed in PPE, hiding inside, crying into a Level 5 suit” shtick is. But like most people, they never learn and never will.
Hybrid school might have made sense six months ago. But with vaccinated teachers and the virus in free fall, and more and more data pointing out the relative safety of schools — it just doesn't anymore.
It's like we as a society are stuck in 8 months ago.
— Angie Schmitt🚶♀️ (@schmangee) February 24, 2021
Oh, just wait till the lockdown lifers are crying about how we must lock down again in 2022, 2023, 2024….well, you get the picture. It’ll happen and I hope we have the spine to laugh at them.
This is the ideal mail body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like. https://t.co/kbYEOjkqiM
— Eric Geller (@ericgeller) February 24, 2021
People are poisoned by SUV thinking, but this is actually a really good design for the intended purpose:
1) High front and side visibility. Less likely to hit anyone. Hopefully it, being modern, has backup cameras and such.
2) Boxy shape maximizes cargo area for size, and accessibility.
3) Low grille and bumper means fewer pedestrians are harmed if struck.
4) Tall side window makes it easier to deliver to mailboxes at varying heights.
5) Relatively small size makes it easier to maneuver and to park.
6) Relatively small wheels and tires increases fuel efficiency (including electric).
7) Low ride height makes it more stable and less likely to harm someone in another vehicle if an accident occurs.
8) And of course, right-hand drive for I hope obvious reasons.
[MEDIUM THREAD] On the topic of covid becoming an endemic virus. You hear this a lot; sometimes in response to critiques against strategies of elimination, sometimes just as a statement in its on right. Statements such as “Covid will inevitally become endemic.” 1/n https://t.co/Isjm1ENnMj
— Aris Katzourakis 💙 (for UCU NEC) (@ArisKatzourakis) February 11, 2021
No chance of Covid not going endemic, even if you use this strict definition (which is not what every epidemiologist uses, btw) or a less strict one. Some do consider AIDS endemic, too.
CEOs of big tech companies: You almost certainly have incels as employees. What are you going to do about it?
— Ellen K. Pao (@ekp) May 2, 2018
To think this was a real tweet that someone made on purpose. Someone who is respected. Fuck me (not in the incel sense, already well taken care of, thanks).
Scientists screaming at philosophers is like grown up kids screaming at their parents.
Virtually every science was done by philosophers first, when they made it relatively reliable (read: easy), it became a separate discipline.
— Ian Welsh (@iwelsh) February 23, 2021
I wouldn’t say “easy.” That’s not fair in many ways, though there is something to that idea. However, I think philosophy and philosophers make a problem space tractable, something that can be thought about coordinatedly at all, and then scientists take over. Of course this is only one branch of philosophy, and there are others that are just as vital.
There is also the output side. Once scientists “know” something, philosophers are needed for contextualizing what is known, why it is known, how society can deal with this knowledge, and how it relates to the rest of knowledge. This is called epistemology, and is as crucial as (for lack of a better term) speculative philosophy.
So, no, I wouldn’t say science is ever “easy,” but without philosophy it’s not much at all nonetheless.