that reminds me, i need to buy one of the rebooted versions of these awful windbreakers because i have ALWAYS loved them https://t.co/svokmhnwUt
— Faine Greenwood (@faineg) April 19, 2021
The Arnault family wasn’t sure they’d survive the paint factory explosion, but they somehow managed to emerge unharmed.
Mostly.
I <3 mRNA
This isn't my area of expertise but this just seems like an enormous breakthrough for human well being.
— Angie Schmitt🚶♀️ (@schmangee) April 19, 2021
Agreed. It’s not perfect — nothing is — but that tech offers the possibility of vaccines for diseases that we could not previously plausibly create such things for, and it might even allow vaccination against many types of cancer (though by no means all).
mRNA tech could be on par with antibiotics in utility and life-saving capabilities over the long term. At the very least it’s already saved several hundred thousand lives, so what’s not to love?
Because I do what I do, I get pitches all the time via email from companies trying to get me to spend money with them. Some of them are rather…strange, even though they are from (relatively) legit companies. For instance, I got one today that was advertising in the subject line “pretty pretty killer California devs.”
Now, surely they aren’t actually saying that their devs are “pretty” as in “attractive” so I assume they are attempting to use “pretty” as an intensifier, but doing it so ineptly and in an unusual way that it’s actually not very clear. And if they are making some claim about the pulchritude of their developers, why would they think I’d care and how is this relevant at all?
I also assume they mean “killer” as in, you know, “killin’ it” but maybe the devs are also contract assassins? And also why would I care at all that they are from or in California?
The whole subject line is just beyond strange, like many of those emails I receive.
maybe I'm an idiot, but I really don't understand the sudden uproar over wearing masks outside? I also don't like wearing one, but it's not that burdensome
— Sarah Jones (@onesarahjones) April 19, 2021
Because it’s fucking pointless, and I am just generally against pointless things, especially if they are done just to make liberals feel virtuous. No thank you.
Part of is that I grew up with people telling me to do shit that was unnecessary, that I knew was unnecessary and that they also knew was unnecessary, but we still had to go through the charade. I can’t tolerate any more of that at all, ever, no matter how many liberals it makes cry. Won’t do it, can’t do it.