I don’t know why because I haven’t done anything unusual or started shooting up ‘roids or anything like that, but in the last few months my muscles have gotten quite a lot larger and more defined after a good bit of not many noticeable changes.
Have just been doing my normal workout routines that I’ve basically been doing for years now. Maybe it’s a little more protein in my diet or something. Whatever the cause, I’ll take it.
Made the mistake of using the new Firefox on a work computer. The UI/UX people who designed that must’ve had an IQ of “turnip.”
It’s just abominable. There aren’t even words for it. They don’t even really want users anymore, do they? They’ve just given the fuck up.
The mRNA Vaccines Are Extraordinary, but Novavax Is Even Better.
Cannot find any data on efficacy against Delta variant in this article or elsewhere. But that’s great. No reason at all to hide inside crying now.
Nearly every new Covid-19 death is now entirely preventable, CDC director says.
To the people who refuse to get vaccinated, I have no sympathy when you bite it. You made your choice. Now die drowning.
Think I’m brutal, find me on a grumpy day.
I love how joyous this @JonBatiste song is and I am thrilled its video matches its exuberance level https://t.co/fIFEcQwi3M
— Barry Ritholtz (@ritholtz) June 25, 2021
Me too! It’s a great one. And I like how it’s an implicit pushback and refutation of the “hide inside forever” ethos that has been developing lately. I don’t think that’s accidental. There’s a reason all the scenes are outdoors! And no masks, bright colors, people seeming happy to be alive.
That Hammond organ really makes the song, too. Love that he included that in there. More of this, less lockdown lifer pishposh.
“I’m totally screwed.” WD My Book Live users wake up to find their data deleted.
This is what anyone who depends on consumer-aimed cloud-connected crap…well, I won’t say “deserves,” but it is a predictable and expected outcome. Hope you have good backups!
"When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong."https://t.co/KzTOrEJ6xY
— mutual (@mutual_ayyde) June 20, 2021
Yeah, bullshit. I don’t alas expect it to happen before I kick the bucket, but I suspect aging is easier to halt and reverse than other common depredations and diseases. I don’t have a firm reason to think this, so take with a grain of salt.
That we do not yet know how to do it means nothing. All the things we know how to do now we once had no idea how to achieve. This is not proof of anything. If we survive climate change, I’d expect aging to be eliminated and also be capable of being turned back in the next 200 years.
Lost memoir paints revered philosopher John Locke as ‘vain, lazy and pompous.’
This usually makes the best kind of philosopher, IMO.
It makes me angry that there is no longer a single fucking OS or browser that is not a total piece of user-hostile data-thievin’ crap. And with shitty developers and MBAs gaslighting you about “security” the whole time to make you believe it has to be this way.
We must hate ourselves to allow this.
It’s A Post-Covid Miracle Summer. Enjoy It.
Right on. It’s great to see some pushback in mainstream outlets against the “hide inside forever” double-maskin’ lockdown lifer losers.
Suddenly, everything feels like a blessing. Hugging casual acquaintances, grocery shopping without fear and planning a trip all feel so decadent that I often wonder if I’m worthy of any of it. Forget water into wine; in less than a year, scientists developed a lifesaving medical marvel that sent death rates plummeting. We’re living through a modern miracle.
Oh, I’m worthy. I’m so worthy. And I am making the best of it while strongly resisting the lockdown lifers who wish to shove us all back indoors. Fuck them. Get your life going. It’s the only one you’ll have. Make the best of it.
Allow me to quote my own bad self from November 20, 2020:
A lot of liberals are going to emerge from this pandemic extremely psychologically scarred. I see all the people who have only left their homes like three times since March and are terrified of even going outdoors.
I don’t know what went wrong with them, but it’s only going to get worse as the pandemic intensifies during the winter months.
This is going to have a noticeable and long-term effect on culture — probably a quite bad one.
Who put that crystal ball in my brain? Thank you for that. Now if it could just see some damn lottery numbers.
Nice shot of Spanish gymnast Natalia Garcia Timofeeva and her boyfriend:
It was pretty great when computers and browsers used to work right for 7-8 years there.
It couldn’t and didn’t last but damn I miss it.
How to Have the Hard Vaccination Conversations.
Demonstration. Watch and learn:
Me: “Are you a fucking idiot, or have you gotten your vaccination?”
Them: “Oh, no, I’m against the Bill Gates nanobot 5G poison juice.”
Me: “I see that you are indeed a fucking idiot.”
This, in a nutshell, is exactly why degrowth is a terrible idea. https://t.co/ZQpV3kMpHZ
— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) June 23, 2021
Agreed. I used to be a degrowther!
But I was convinced otherwise by the weight of evidence. I was wrong. I know, it’s rare, but it does happen. Anyway, degrowth in any form is a terrible idea and philosophy and would inevitably result in billions of early deaths.