I’ve noticed that every time we adopt a new tool at work, an admin function that could be handled by a single employee often gets offloaded to everyone.
Sexist ideas about what the role entailed in the past aside, we’d all be better off if firms employed secretary pools. https://t.co/oIrbwme1uo
— D. Scarnecchia (@mountainherder) May 19, 2021
Indeed. I was several times more productive when I had a personal assistant. Ah, those were good times.
Ok, now you’re just showing off. Goddamn is she good. (Those grace notes!)
Wow, look at this commercial from 1981. People would lose their fucking minds if something like this aired now.
These days, we’re supposed to pretend it’s honorable and beautiful to weigh 400 pounds and be barely capable of walking. And when I say that prudishness has increased and it’s denied — well, the evidence is everywhere. Can you imagine a commercial like this airing anywhere now, where that’s literally the first shot?
Indirect Protection by Reducing Transmission: Ending the Pandemic with SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination.
Hey, remember when “experts” were claiming this was impossible?
I do!
Face masks effectively limit the probability of SARS-CoV-2 transmission.
They work, but I sure do hate wearing them.
I spoke to someone once who was enthusiastic about their "blockchain firewall" which would somehow sign packets on the network and totally eliminate spoofing 🙄
— 💉💉🎉 One Matt among many (@0xMatt) May 19, 2021
A…blockchain firewall? That might be one of the most harebrained ideas I’ve ever heard, and I grew up in rural North Florida.
How absurdly slow that would is hard to even think about.
The chance an asymptomatic kid infects another kid that results in them being hospitalized from COVID is 1 in 42 million.
This is *thousands of times* lower than their risk from bicycles, school buses and swimming pools.
Parents take far greater risks with their kids every day.
— Eric (@IAmTheActualET) May 19, 2021
Doubt it’s quite that low, but it’s pretty low (think this is an example of a common statistical mistake of attempting to multiply probabilities, and it doesn’t really work that way). Anywway, anti-vaxxers driving like mad but refusing to get the jab, etc. Makes no sense.
Don’t want a life of hiding inside crying due to minor and easily-ameliorated risks, but a lot of people sure seem to want that very much.
I’m guessing what we’re likely to end up with out of Covid in many places (mostly Europe, but others too) is that only the rich have an easy time traveling anywhere outside their home country. For the rest, it becomes very difficult to travel internationally.
It’s been quite a whipsaw experience watching (mostly) liberals clamoring for open borders to ever-tighter restrictions. And sad.
I would love to be told I had beautiful eyes by a stranger on the street. Or by anyone really. https://t.co/1rYGw7plX5
— Iona Italia, PhD (@IonaItalia) May 17, 2021
I told a woman in a grocery store a few days ago that she was wearing a cute dress. She obviously enjoyed the compliment and I’d do it again, despite all the liberal tears falling.
Reject asceticism and disconnection; reject hiding inside crying. Engage with the world and be more than a vampire, draining energy from everyone else. Better is possible.
Covid still a threat to Europe – travel should be avoided, says WHO.
WHO cares? Covid will always be a threat now. Zero Covid and other failed ideologies just means perpetual lockdowns and never traveling.
I know many libs would love that, but that’s no way to live.
Just a casual tour of the capitol, typical day, a light tourist stroll through the seat of our nation’s power…with tactical batons and some brass knuckles.
As you do, you know, as a typical everyday tourist.
I find it unlikely any government will allow a “freedom day” outside the US if they don’t have to. How does it benefit them?
It turns out prison country is pretty popular because it makes a lot of people rich.
I regret to inform you that America thought canned tuna with Miracle Whip and crispy “chow mein noodles” was Cantonese food in the midcentury pic.twitter.com/MQ6IeGQ2RI
— Faine Greenwood (@faineg) May 19, 2021
The profane and the even more profane.
The CDC’s critics are wrong. The agency was right to relax indoor masking.
Indeed it was, and I am not saying that just because I dislike masks. Vaccines are available to all, except kids, who don’t tend to get severely ill (or barely even ill at all) from Covid. Unless you are in a high-risk group now, if you don’t get vaccinated it’s on you. (And as a cruel aside, at least the Trumpist anti-vaxxers are only going to be killing themselves and each other soon. That’s some justice there.)
Cases are in freefall. It’s time to ease up, ya’ll. You don’t have to cower inside crying. I mean, you can if you want to, but I’d rather not. And I’m not gonna.