Month: February 2021
Tap In
She really does sound like Eddie. As close as anyone I’ve heard anyway. That finger-tapping is really hard.
The main difference is that it always seemed Eddie was about to break into a classical piece and no one else I’ve seen really can make the guitar sound like that. That’s why he was Eddie Van Halen and everyone else…is not.
Fut Up
Yes!
I know I dwell on this way too much, but with all the focus on Twitter misinformation, it's remarkable how much phone gets a pass.
Of my Twitter mentions 98%+ of them are points at least reasonably intended to be correct.
Half my incoming phone calls are felonies. https://t.co/qQBHiJANOW
— Alan Cole (@AlanMCole) January 31, 2021
Again:
Traderous
Well thanks to 2020 and COVID, this is probably the earliest I've ever completed my taxes. No complex tax situations for 2020.
— Alyssa Miller – 🌈Rainbow Teamer🌈 (@AlyssaM_InfoSec) February 5, 2021
Lucky. I did more trades in 2020 than I’ve done since 1999, I think.
Fuck me.
AKG Rec
Bodybuilding supplement promotes healthy aging and extends life span, at least in mice.
I take AKG. It works. I didn’t take it to bulk up or to reverse aging; I took it because it was supposed to help with joint and tendon strain and stress, which anyone who works out as much and as hard as I do is bound to experience.
I know, sample size of one, anecdote, all the usual spreadsheet jockey bullshit, but within the week I started taking AKG, tendon and joint discomfort I’d been experiencing for months went away completely. It departed and has stayed that way.
It had to be the AKG because that’s the only thing I changed. It worked nearly overnight.
Note that I only take supplements that are deemed safe and don’t have any steroidal effects or after-effects. But if you have any joint or tendon pain, give it a shot. It worked amazingly well for me and I noticed no other effects.
Lechatelierite
I am better than your experts. This is what I said on April 10, 2020. (The pandemic here really began in March.)
Iโm guessing the eventual Covid-19 death toll from the beginning and up to the next eight months will be 300,000 in the US. The real one, figured out with statistics, not the fake reported one.
Here’s the death toll up until Dec 10, 2020, when we hit 300K officially. Note that because many Covid deaths are unreported or miscategorized, in actuality there are more Covid deaths that appear here, making my prediction even closer — and it was already nearly right on.
One of the reasons I write this blog is so I have receipts. I told you what was going to happen, and now here we are. What a terrible thing to have been right about.
No, I don’t have a crystal ball. I just read a lot and think about things a lot. It works.
Un Champignon
The first ten on today’s playlist:
Locking In
โMy personal lockdown has been much longerโ: on chronic illness, before and after Covid.
I appreciate this woman telling her story, but publishing this is all in service of foaming the runway in preparation for permanent lockdowns in many places.
Wait; you’ll see.
Serfdom Beckons
Very high chance that in many places, coronavirus restrictions will never be eased. Plutes and governments are chuffed at how easy it is to control the populace, how well it works, and how much richer it makes the right people. Why would they want to reverse that?
Flute
Tweaking COVID vaccines to fight variants wonโt require big trials, FDA says.
Why would it? We do this with the flu every single year.
All You Need To Know
The Lousy Tippers of the Trump Administration.
I love this bit:
Trump couldnโt pull off a coup, but he had inspired thousands of regular-ass Americans to roam the streets of their own country like Blackwater mercenaries screaming obscenities to $12-an-hour retail workers and restaurant hostesses for having the audacity to ask them to don masks during a pandemic that was killing more than 100 fellow citizens every hour.
That really says a lot about who they are, doesn’t it?
Robot Dance
i just did the VR tutorial and danced with a robot and when the tutorial was over i said โgoodbye, i love you….โ to the robot and i took the headset off and pic.twitter.com/7a115oDgbK
— rp (@sleepydisease) February 5, 2021
That cat knows someone has been up to some shenanigans, jiggery-pokery, and hijinks.
And it is not amused.
Offishal Statement
Fish would like you to shut up, please.
I concur with the fish. Please everyone shut up forever.
Aster
This description of the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs is probably the best piece of writing I've read in a while. That was beautiful. pic.twitter.com/13iLrLrMe2
— Matt Austin (@BitsHammer) January 2, 2019
That’s from the book The Ends of the World by Peter Brannen. Good book.