When the C.D.C. loosened its mask guidelines three weeks ago, many people were anxious: Would it lead unvaccinated people to take off their masks and cause a surge of new cases?
So far, the answer is no. Cases keep falling. And vaccinations of 16+ have stopped falling. 🧵
— David Leonhardt (@DLeonhardt) June 2, 2021
That mega-surge you’ve all been promising and hoping for is (as I’ve said an absurdly large number times) nowhere to be seen.
Someone give me that fat pundit salary.
I’ve been looking, and I sure don’t see any signs of that promised mega-surge of DOOOOOOM!
Oh gods, they fucked up Firefox, WTF is happening, I can't tell one tab from another anymore
— Trishank Karthik Kuppusamy (@trishankkarthik) June 1, 2021
You used to be able to change how tabs look too, so they aren’t so obscured, but no longer. Fake security. The real reason has of course nothing to do with security, but rather to herd people in certain ad-friendly and control-friendly directions. Also, it’s to de-emphasize tabs, claim people “don’t use them anymore” and then force search only on everyone.
Mozilla has been pulling this trick for years, and it had worked. No reason for them to stop now.
I’m still a terrible French speaker because I practice with no one, but sometimes find myself thinking in French. I only notice because there’s some word I can’t quite retrieve and then I’m like, “Oh, I was thinking that in French…huh.” I think that’s because I’ve been watching loads of French TV shows with no subtitles, and reading a good amount of French books and such.
My main wish in how I should have been educated differently is that anything to do with useless math had been excised, and I’d been put in intensive language classes from the time I was five. I think I could’ve easily been highly fluent in 6-8 languages. Hell, I was creating my own languages from a young age.
But I had no support, and no one cared at all about my particular talents and proclivities. Everything was designed to standardize me (and everyone) and force me through the education sausage factory, all the while attempting to convince me even then that only STEM mattered, and that because I did not adore math and worship at the all-hallowed math shrine, that something was wrong with me.
Well, nothing was wrong with me. I knew that at the time but I can say that authoritatively now. I could’ve been really something in the language arena (and I’m still pretty darn good), but it was just never destined to be due to where I grew up and the absurd STEM worship that was already present and now has only worsened.