Month: March 2021

Gun Comp

Chill Regular-ass Post

I wonder if one of the reasons guns became the go-to badass weapon in the minds of insecure American (mostly) men is that you can be obese and out of shape and still fire a gun? Guns as a sort of Fat Acceptance weapon for inadequate men.

Being a real badass would involve practicing an actual martial art, or archery, or even learning how to build something. Guns are easy; even a 400 pound complete uncoordinated moron can fire a Glock. (Usually not well, but the thing will go “bang bang” for anyone.) I bet that’s a huge part of their appeal — they allow the mediocre to have some cachet of their power.

Reminds me, as soon as I am vaccinated, I am going to try my hand at archery. Should be fun if nothing else.

No Pan

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I’m so tired of articles like, “Electric cars won’t solve climate change” or “Wind power won’t solve climate change,” etc.

YA FUCKIN’ THINK?

None of those things alone will solve climate change. There is no magic bullet, no singular miracle cure, for climate change or its ills. It will take concerted effort across all sectors of industry and society to deal with such a global-scale problem. Of course we should concentrate on both the easiest and most high-impacts areas and efforts, but even with that it’ll take hundreds or thousands of tweaks and alterations to all parts of how we do things.

Why the press insists on writing articles about how one thing or some other thing will not solve climate change, I haven’t a clue. But it’s a complete waste of space and of brain cycles.

Be Very

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That just means we are even closer to the super-surge of DOOOOOOM! See, decreasing numbers indicate that the virus is hiding in a back alley behind a Denny’s, injecting steroids, so it can come back all pumped up and ready to jump out of the bushes and start a new terror barrage. Be afraid, be very afraid!

Human Truth

Chill Uncategorized

People in general despise things that are true but are unflattering (and that require work), especially if the food corps have spent billions and billions on propaganda making you hate yourself, too.

I really struggle to understand why people think we should just…be ok with everyone being the size of a walrus? How that help anything? Does it make the world better? Anyone’s lives better? Pointing out that obesity is highly correlated (and almost certainly responsible) for being much more likely to experience negative outcomes of Covid and every other ailment isn’t shaming anyone or stating anything that is untrue.

Why must we lie about reality to avoid hurting others, when that reality has a direct effect on our own as well? We should handle obesity as the eating disorder it is, and work on treating it both at a systemic (ultra-processed foods, food corp propaganda) and at a personal level.

Fuck the Fat Acceptance movement. They’ve done so much to harm the world, all funded by General Mills and Nestlé et al. And people are just ok with that.

Bad Times

Chill Uncategorized

A lot of people at their core — on the conservative and alas on the liberal side too — are just pretty evil. They are irredeemable and just garbage humans. But unfortunately ethically we cannot just throw them in the bin.

As crises do, the pandemic revealed the true colors of all too many. And those colors were not pleasant to behold at all.

Gen X

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I’m Gen X, and can confirm. My mom was literally snorting coke during the 1980s, and I was dressing myself and getting myself ready for kindergarten at age 5. This is partly because of where I grew up, but also the generation I am from. It was common for kids to be left alone at home then starting around age 10, to go places alone, and to not be constantly surveilled.

Also, yes, I was harvesting pecans for money by age 9.

Heaven’s Gate

Chill Uncategorized

I’ve written about this transformation in me before before, but this is what changed me from being frustratedly amused by my fellow Americans to actively detesting all too many of them.

If you are a person who thinks that you have a right not to wear a mask, that philosophy cascades: I couldn’t give a darn about the cashier in the supermarket or the train driver because I don’t care about anyone. I will go into the bar, and I will do what I will do.

This pandemic has shown us who we are, at a level of clarity that is shocking to most people

Masks work and despite my hatred for them, they aren’t hard to wear. They save lives and they prevent others from infection and thus long Covid. And, they protect the wearer, too. It’s a net win for everyone. Yet many of the people of this country have such a fucked-up idea of freedom that they’d stoop to harming others and even themselves to express it. Before, I thought it was exaggeration, but now I know it’s not: this is a death cult of sorts, that worships such a perverse and contorted conception of freedom that it’s indistinguishable from the exaltation of annihilation itself.

This is not a sane country; this is not a sane society.

Rows Garden

Chill Regular-ass Post

Polarization and sowing division is how social media makes money. Rancor and rows drive its success completely. Remove that, it’d not be nearly as profitable.

How To Be Wrong

Chill Regular-ass Post

Nope. Wrong. In the US, that’s not gonna happen. Here’s how to be wrong: don’t deal with the information as it is. Instead, keep parroting old broken shit from doom-mongering know-nothing assclowns.

Result: failing.

Spry

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This is only humoral immunity, which means antibody-based. Cell-based immunity does not seem to be assayed at all, and is equally important in immune response. This is not a flaw of the study. It determined exactly what it was attempting to determine. It is, however, a flaw in interpretation that I see over and over again.

Also, this study used pseudoviruses, and says nearly nothing at all about actual clinical response. It can’t; it wasn’t conducted on real infections of the actual SARV-Cov-2 virus.

Can people, like, not read? What is the issue here? I know I am smarter than the average bear, but come the fuck on. This isn’t that hard. Do the work or say nothing.

Raisin

Chill Uncategorized

With a low background rate, doesn’t take much of anything to skew results. People have a lot of trouble reasoning about things like this.