Month: June 2021

Sex Effects

Chill Regular-ass Post

This thread is all true, but it’s not the whole story. US liberals are deeply, deeply terrified of sex and are almost all horrible prudes. This has just as much to do with the war on sex workers and what’s driving it as right-wingers attempting to impose their idea of morality on the rest of us.

When I post anything about sex on my blog, my readership drops for weeks after. It’s one of the reasons I do it, to prune those people! And it’s most pronounced among US visitors by far.

Outside of a few LGBTQ-adjacent areas, most US liberals have sexual attitudes that would’ve been considered hyper-conservative in 1984.

Reversing a Bit

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I can believe this. I follow this, mostly, and I look significantly younger than I did three years ago — and I already looked younger than my actual age. I’d say working out + more protein reduced my apparent age by about 4-6 years and probably had the same effect at a cellular level.

Max Vax or Whacks

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Covid vaccination should be absolutely mandatory.

The main reason is that it’s somewhat likely (around 10% I’d say) that a variant does emerge that exhibits significant vaccine escape and is both more transmissible and a lot more deadly. Even though 10% chance is not that high, the devastation this would cause is enough to significantly insure against this possibility.

Say there is a variant that emerges that is 50% more deadly. I estimate this would lead to another $15 trillion knocked off world GDP over five years and 20 million excess deaths.

This is why vaccination should be 100% mandatory with huge fines or jail time if you are not jabbed, unless you cannot be for very-strictly-controlled medical reasons.

Creeping In

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“My nighttime people.” Dang. That kid is going places. Most likely hell, but places.

Jab Jibberjabber

Chill Uncategorized

Do liberals really not understand that vaccination protects them? Surely they must, right? But the way they write about life after being vaccinated, it doesn’t appear that this idea has made any impression at all.

I know it’s because they now see masks as a moral signifier, as a totemic emblem of righteousness, but wow does it ever sound insane when you haven’t made Covid into some sort of neo-religious moral judgment and instead see it as what it is: just a non-sentient virus that comes with various risk levels.

And here’s the news: if you’re vaccinated your chance of being infected is very low, and furthermore you’re chance of experiencing severe illness is almost non-existent. And if you still want to be safer wear an N95 mask yourself (though it’ll hardly change your absolute risk level now at all). No one is stopping you and they are plentiful at the moment.

Keep your religious feelings in church, liberals. Out here in the real world, we got shit to do.

BMIoan

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Oh, not this shit again. How do smart people’s minds fail so spectacularly? I just can’t understand.

Something I’ve realized, though, is that most people can only really comprehend or be at all competent in 1-2 fields. Sometimes only one. I’m very, very lucky because I can get up to decent speed (not true expertise) in a few dozen fields. Most people can be good at one and ok at one other…and that’s just it. For 99.99% of people, that’s the hard limit.

Excessive BMI is not a predictor or diagnosis, but it’s an indicator in the medical sense. And it’s a population-level statistic in the same way that Covid infection rates are as well — but you still don’t want Covid just as you still shouldn’t want to be obese. That’s because, “Excess BMI is associated with substantially shorter healthy and chronic disease-free life expectancy.”

In the medical community, by the way, this is not controversial in the least. There it’s like saying, “Pain hurts.” It is only outside of that where the food conglomerates and their Fat Acceptance allies have muddied the debate (similar to what Big Tobacco did earlier) where there is any doubt.

Just sad to see someone who should know better spouting propaganda like this.

And by the way, my friend Mary from long ago was 5’9″ and she had a baby while never exceeding normal BMI. The kid was eight pounds something and perfectly healthy. Not advisable for most, but perfectly possible for someone already naturally thin. She went from 120 pounds to 140 pounds during the pregnancy.

No Comp

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It’s psychotic to say and believe that the company you keep matters and has a real effect on your life?

I think that’s just common sense that literally everyone knows. But to liberals, it’s “psychotic.” Alrighty then. Jesus fucking Christ, if the conservatives weren’t such apeshit donkeybrain assclowns, I’d abandon common cause with these losers. But alas….