Day: June 20, 2021, 3:11 PM

Locked Minds

Chill Regular-ass Post

I am now fully opposed to lockdowns. They only should’ve been done for the “flatten the curve” phase of the pandemic. They are not and should not be used as a permanent strategy. That way lies extreme harm and danger.

No further lockdowns. Those should be resisted, and hard.

Delta V

Chill Regular-ass Post

I still don’t expect the much-prophecied mega-surge of DOOOOOOOM, but due to the Delta variant, which is both more transmissible and more deadly than prior variants, I expect the unvaccinated to become infected with this at fairly high rates and the IFR rate to be about 50% higher. This will cause a relatively small blip in cases, and then a larger one in winter, nearly all among the unvaccinated.

Serves the deliberately-unvaccinated right. Being an adult is living with your dumbass choices.

Cruise Control

Chill Regular-ass Post

I’m fully vaccinated. I don’t give a fuck what rules the cruise ship enforces or does not.

Yes, I realize that vaccination doesn’t make me utterly invulnerable but it reduces my risk so much it’s pretty much back to baseline. People love to cry about tiny risks while ignoring humongous dangers. I will, as I say often, never understand.

Check Fraud

Chill Uncategorized

Right. I immediately laugh and hang up on these calls. None are ever legit. Why do people think they are?

The Quant Trap

Chill Uncategorized

I am opposed to Zero Covid and Covid eliminationism policies not (just) because I think in most places these strategies are effectively impossible, but because they lead to lockdown fanaticism and de facto soft fascism, have huge mental health harms, and will tend to reduce vaccine uptake and vaccination prioritization.

What sounds great on a screen is often not what works in the real world, no matter how many pretty graphs you got or how ideal it would be.

Inevit

Chill Uncategorized

Safari 15 on Mac OS, a user interface mess.

That looks completely unusable. But this matches what the rest of the industry is moving towards as well. The whole idea is to get rid of tabs, get rid of any options or configurability, and to foist search on people so then it’s easy to push on them exactly what you want them to see.

That Apple is also playing this game is sad but expected.

And of course all the wankers will tell you how it must be this way as it’s more secure, nothing else was possible, it’s inevitable, etc. Because they are able to do nothing but spew the approved propaganda.