When you are doing a live interview and you ought to be professional but someone accidentally asks you about the science of “warm holes” instead of worm holes pic.twitter.com/0XwZnVOqSH

— Dr. Alfredo Carpineti 🏳️‍🌈 (@DrCarpineti) March 30, 2021

This reminds me of remotely supporting a guy who was known for viewing and having porn on his work computer. Very tolerant company, so not my business.

I needed to have him install the remote control software we used, which was TeamViewer. So I told him, “Ok, in your browser, go to teamviewer.com and download the file there.”

He said, “Teen Viewer?

And I said, “No, Ray, TEAM Viewer. We definitely do not want Teen Viewer.”

Hmm. I got him sorted. Glad I rarely had to touch his keyboard, though.

IFR of Covid-19 broken down by age:

From here.

This is also good.

I could not find anything for the IFR of influenza broken down by age, or I would’ve included it. Bottom line is if you’re under 30, the IFR of Covid-19 is very, very low, probably about matching influenza though strangely I cannot find good data on that as noted. But if you’re 70 and over, dang, you got problems if you get Covid.

Isn’t this weird, though, that the left is moving this way pretty strongly:

I admit that I don’t understand what they are aiming for. I think probably they don’t understand either.

Pathetic.

When I came back from Egypt, because high-quality gold and silver was very, very cheap there (yes, it was all real), I brought my female friends back as much jewelry as I could fit in my bags. It only cost me about $400, though in the States all that loot would have been around $10,000.

I did it because I liked ’em, not because I was putting coins in the sex dispenser. Strange, huh? Anyway, they all loved it and it was really fun. I am glad I did it. I got my friend Mary a really nice silver cuff similar to the one below which looked stupendous on her because she was tall and had very toned arms and olive skin. She wore it all the time and told me she got more compliments on that bit of jewelry than anything she’d ever owned, so it was well worth it.

My parents lost everything when they fled a revolution, immigrated 6,500 miles, with my mom giving birth to me in a stopover, without my dad. They had no bed, just a mattress. I slept in a pram, no crib.

They tell me this pandemic has been harder than that.

— Roxanne Khamsi (@rkhamsi) March 28, 2021

I think we’re hugely, hugely underestimating the mental health toll of the pandemic and associated lockdowns and social isolation. How do you compare that to lives lost? You can’t, really. They are incommensurate. However, the lockdown lovers and Covid absolutists should at least consider this. (Spoiler alert: they won’t.)

I’m amused by how much brain space Greenwald and Taibbi take up in the people who hate them.

— Ian Welsh (@iwelsh) March 27, 2021

Me too. It’s fascinating. The same with the (mostly) feminist obsession with mythical BernieBros. That actually got to be really amusing, the, “Oh, I WOULD post a screenshot from the BernieBro who sent me a mean DM, but then all the other BernieBros will also attack me, so I just can’t.” Or the classic, “My friend has a friend whose friend’s cat’s goldfish’s sister’s au pair said that a BernieBro was going to vote for Trump maybe.”

You don’t like someone, just don’t read them. It’s that simple. No one forces Greenwald and Taibbi on you. Just stop going to their sites, and it’ll be like they never existed. Trust me on this.

The first ten on today’s playlist: