The pandemic unleashed the inner cop that a lot of otherwise liberal people were apparently barely containing. Now it's spilling out all over the place and into fat-shaming, as evidenced by this NY Times column by Jane Brody. https://t.co/381oZXgRhS pic.twitter.com/EU16vUKALs

— Amanda Marcotte (@AmandaMarcotte) March 17, 2021

Why, just why, must we pretend that obesity is a good thing? Again, how does this help? Of course, we know who it helps: the food conglomerates and their shareholders. But how have people allowed such toxic corporate propaganda so far into their brains?

Try this: “Treating cancer is your ‘inner cop’ coming out. We must just accept cancer. Chemotherapy and doxorubicin are cancer-shaming, and we should just acknowledge the natural beauty of cancer. Wanting to change the cancer, to fix the cancer, just shows that you haven’t accepted the natural variation of humanity.”

Sounds fucking ridiculous, doesn’t it? Yet that’s exactly what these nutty buddies say about the disease of obesity. And we should critique their claims just as harshly.

Teen Vogue Editor Resigns After Fury Over Racist Tweets.

Some more of that fake cancel culture being all fake again.

Damn, I am glad no one has a record of some of the shit I said when I was a teenager. I’d never hold a job anywhere again.

Don’t you mean “accurately refers?”

I guess many countries are going to go with eternal lockdowns, despite not being terribly effective, because they tried nothing else, and all the nothing they tried also failed.

Makes total sense. If I ever get the patience, I will write something about how the embrace of lockdown by so many is a symptom of the utter failure of societal and individual imagination on all levels, and how the erasure of the social commons is a recapitulation of the expunction of the ideas of civic duty and civic virtue.

Lockdown is the sledgehammer applied to the ant, the nose excised to spite the face. It does work, sort of, but it’s a destructive tool that harms more than even those who realize its harm can admit.

What a fun song! It’s a few years old now, but glad the liberal fear of sex and their absurd prudishness hasn’t take over everything everywhere.

Don’t have time to write an entire exegesis on how this differs from the performative sexuality of “WAP,” and even though I think the lyrics of WAP are funny, that song leaves all sensuality behind for a catalog of fetishes and a list of “what I will do for various fees on my OnlyFans site.” It’s not celebratory or lustful — it’s more of a consumer wishlist.

“La dalle,” however, is about lust and is far more sensual and interesting and feels like sex actually works. “Ravenous” is a better elucidation of that craving, that hunger, of pure lust. In reality, no woman (nearly) sits around thinking about her wet-ass pussy, especially in the act, in the moment — just as no man in the moment thinks about his hard cock. That’s all for the page, for show, for a silly song that’s neutralizing of desire while ostentatiously aspiring to be its exponent. “La dalle” uses the metaphor of food for sex, and though that’s common in songs it’s also quite apropos because unlike what modern liberals believe, sex is just as vital for human flourishing and its own way is just as essential as food. I don’t think that link of sustenance to sex is at all a mistake on L.E.J.’s part. They know what they are playing at.

“WAP” is the algorithmic obverse of prudishness, another aspect of that disconnected and alienating future of screen sex, combined with terror of the real fleshy sweaty act, while “La dalle” is playful and in its controlled choreography of strings and waiters (in the video) and uses this antonymic juxtaposition to further highlight the strength of those unconstrained urges and how they function in non-algorithmically-contaminated human psyches.

I like listening to radio people in French! They speak so clearly compared to others that I don’t have to rewind constantly to catch something.

All the little things that add up to make iPadOS productivity a pain.

The problem is — as with the iPhone — that they are more interested in controlling you and what you can do than allowing you to achieve what you want to how you wish to do so. This is the case with nearly all computing now, even Linux.

There is no escape from the petty thugs of the world anywhere.