The first ten on today’s playlist:
Day: April 7, 2021, 11:33 PM
The Rules
Seeing more and more of what she’s talking about here lately:
Those people are sad and we should pity them, but ignore them. Also, make fun of them behind their backs.
What the Haul
Friend with Covid became a long hauler, suffered with shortness of breath, uneven heartbeat, lost sense of smell since last March.
Just got vaccinated + it helped substantially: long-haul symptoms improved: Energy returned, aches vanished, even sense of smell returned.
— Barry Ritholtz (@ritholtz) April 7, 2021
I know, this is all anecdotal, believe science, all that shit, but I’m seeing more and more reports of long-haul Covid being pretty much knocked out by vaccination.
If that holds, that is really good news for a lot of people.
MBA Or No?
Absolute horseshit by cultural incinerators https://t.co/4Pndvg32NQ
— SwiftOnSecurity (@SwiftOnSecurity) April 5, 2021
That can’t cost much to host these days. I am beginning to believe this cultural incineration (good word for it) is deliberate. If we can be compelled to live in an ever-present now, with no past and no future, it’s much easier to herd us, and market to us.
Of course, it could be just an MBA with a spreadsheet thinking he can save $5. But I am betting it’s a bit more than that.
A Bil Here and There
"If you can borrow $100 billion at 3 and 30, and go for broke, you can make billions and billions for yourself, and if you lose, so what? It's on the banks' books." – Cohodes pic.twitter.com/sZmC2wldo8
— Rudy Havenstein. Few Understand This. (@RudyHavenstein) April 6, 2021
I made a relative lot of money on Facebook stock recently. But if someone had loaned me a few billion, I could’ve made a few billion on it for myself and given the money back (minus the 3 and 30 vig) a few weeks later.
Why is it fair that a bank can do that and I can’t? I’m a better trader than most banks, yet I can’t socialize my losses — I must just take them.
Anyway, no one should be doing anything like this in a sane world. But this isn’t a sane world. So who is going to loan me a few billion?
Not Prof
McDonald’s, Other CEOs Tell Investors $15 Minimum Wage Won’t Hurt Business.
Of course it won’t. That’s been easy to figure out for years. It might make prices go up 5-10% in some places, though I doubt even that in the real world.
The truth is not raising minimum wage is about preserving hierarchy and has nothing at all to do with profits.
Unflu
Massive Oxford study of more than 235,000 #COVID19 survivors finds a third suffer neurological or mental health issues 6 months after recovery.https://t.co/nizTSYnmxE
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) April 6, 2021
Not. The. Flu.
Footprinted Out
Here's your reminder that the whole idea of a personal carbon footprint was a targeted BP media campaign in 2005 and it worked so well that it seems like we've all forgotten this https://t.co/XQAPoABQHy pic.twitter.com/qb87fQegeO
— Ryan Orbuch (@orbuch) April 5, 2021
Oh, shit. I didn’t know this but I should’ve suspected. Makes perfect sense.
Interior Monologue
I stand by this! But I also think 'deciding that the pain was worth it' is a pretty hard and long journey, and it's maybe phrased better as a 'integrating the pain to the point where it becomes a dearly loved experience' rather than 'deciding it was worth it.' https://t.co/c44XgcsiLb
— Aella (@Aella_Girl) April 6, 2021
I don’t think the pain I lived through was worth it so when people say things like, “I wish my life could be like yours!” or “I wish I could do the things you do!” I usually just smile and say nothing. But what I am thinking is, You would have had to walk the path I walked to be where I am, and you really don’t want that, so be happy how you are, because how I am is a result of things people shouldn’t have to go through.
I repurposed my suffering to metamorphose myself into a knife to slice reality into the shapes I wished it to be, but I was lucky and just happened to be resilient enough. Many weren’t, where I grew up, and they are now all gone, in the grave.