trump wanted the pfizer vaccine authorised earlier than nov 3; fda eventually authorised it on dec 11– this is considered a "political win" pic.twitter.com/MI8f7XyTOA
— sol (@fire__exit) March 11, 2021
In this case, Trump was right. A calculated risk, but a correct one (and no, not in retrospect). That would have saved 50,000+ lives.
What’s particularly annoying about Scalzi and nearly all the others who have been “debating” about copyright is not one of them discusses any tradeoffs, any benefits or drawbacks of the current system. There is no understanding of the system as is, how it developed, or the part corporations played. All they argue is:
1) Others are grabbing as much as they can, so I should be able to as well.
2) It’s impossible to change because of treaties or something. So we shouldn’t even try.
3) People who believe in the public domain or shorter copyright terms hate authors and want them and their families starving in the streets.
I know that the quality of discourse is no better elsewhere, but these are people who profess to know something about it. And they know nothing! They know nothing at all. They can’t even be bothered to think about it. I realize part of it is that their incomes depend on it, but that’s not all of it. Not even the majority, I think.
They are just completely incurious and because of American propaganda and our atrocious education system, they are literally incapable of any sort of complex thought. They simply cannot do it. They can spout off slogans and propaganda snippets; sound bites and semi-memorized spiels. But nothing else.
It’s just not possible to do anything with people like this other than defeat them. And alas, there are so, so many of them.
I’m going to open an Onlyfans clone that’s more for men performers, and I shall it…Bonelyfans.
If *no one* is meeting in person, then it’s fine to try to close deals via Zoom. But the first time you lose a deal that you tried to close by Zoom, but where your competitor went in person, and you’ll be back on planes again. https://t.co/yQiMV8yHqp
— Nils Gilman (@nils_gilman) March 10, 2021
Exactly. Zoom and video calls aren’t doomed, but it’ll never be more than 20% of anything post-pandemic, even with all the newly-minted lockdown lifers and hikikomori types.
I’m glad we all spent international women’s day being mad about Burger King’s bad Tweet and not the current reality of millions of women being forced out of the workforce this year.
— Angie Schmitt🚶♀️ (@schmangee) March 10, 2021
In a way we’ve returned to an earlier time, one where people worshipped words and their power above all else, and eschewed natural or systems explanations.
This is not a good thing.
It also shows a very poor understanding of male sexuality. It assumes male sexuality is driven primarily by seeking physical pleasure. This is what it appears to be on the surface (including to men), but it is more driven by ego validation.
— SkyDancer (@SkyDancer90) March 9, 2021
That is true in immature men, and it’s why incel-dom (in all its variants) isn’t really about sex.
And I can understand the power of that! When I was 17, I went to a school dance with a very beautiful friend of mine I’ve written about previously. More than one dance, but that first one is where I saw how much more respect I got even being with a beautiful girl — from both men and even more so, women. Even teachers treated me better after that! This doesn’t just end in high school, by the way. I was happy to go with her (her idea), but I had no clue that people would treat me so much better after until it actually happened. Literally I just walked into the auditorium with a beautiful girl, everyone saw, and I was treated twice as well ever after. Who wouldn’t want that, even if it’s not really fair to anyone, including the woman?
The incel fantasy is really about being with a devastatingly beautiful and charming woman that everyone knows you’re with. And the reason is because you do get treated better after that. Don’t want it to be true, whatever. It still is.
You don’t need to watch Charlie’s Angels, because nearly all of the best parts had Kristen Stewart in them, and they’re all here:
Saved you just loads of time, I did.
One seldom discussed consequence of divorce is the intersectional trauma it causes.
My aunt left my uncle for his buddy when I was 9.
I didn't yet understand 'relatives-by-marriage' — he was just my uncle. Until one day when he wasn't.
Still fucks me up sometimes
— Lo-fi Republican (@LoFiRepublican) May 4, 2020
Been there. Some of the relatives who treated me the best wisely divorced out of my terrible family. Never saw them again.
Jessica Biel destroyed a $300,000 camera by shooting it with an arrow on the set of Blade: Trinity.
Look at her muscles. Damn, it’s hard for a woman to get that big naturally (and she did). If you don’t watch the video, she was supposed to shoot the camera. She just shot it a little too well.
One thing I've learned from this pandemic is that very few people understand how to assess risk.
— Molly (@mollyfleck) March 1, 2021
The way people assess risk, to me they just seem mentally ill. Like, I mean that not in some metaphorical sense. Actually mentally ill.
Fuck, fuck, fuck, what a great cover.
She’s the only non-Irish woman who should be allowed to cover that song because she earned it.