I wish this weren’t true.

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— Aimee Terese (@aimeeterese) June 16, 2021

I wanted to clarify the reason I described this behavior as self-aggrandizing bullshit, since I realized I didn’t spell it out in the post. And it is because by making the power imbalance appear vast and unbridgeable, these mooks attempt to increase their own stature in other people’s judgment.

It’s yet another example of a deranged and dishonorable attempt to reduce other people to make yourself appear more puissant, more important, more influential. By taking away other people’s inherent power, you elevate your own.

It’s despicable and detestable. And hugely anti-feminist, though it affects more than women. These self-important swollen-headed vainglorious little Malvolios would have us all vying for their affections, and their approval, but in reality most people, as with Olivia, barely know they exist.

11 Dirty Movies On Netflix That Actually Tell A Good Story.

Despite the Netflix focus, this is a good list. Someone who actually knows movies. I have no idea what’s on Netflix or what’s not, but I’d add these too:

Une liaison pornographique
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Young People Fucking
Swimming Pool
The Dreamers
In the Realm of the Senses
Professor Marston & The Wonder Women
Bound
La chambre bleue
Secretary
Crash
Sex and Lucia
Room in Rome
Stranger by the Lake
Y tu mamá también
Henry and June

Watch these movies, and become less of a fucking prude!

This video was filmed in Paris yesterday, after terraces were allowed to reopen for the first time in 7 months. Heavily armed policemen evacuate people at 9pm to enforce the curfew. For Americans this is what lockdowns have been like in Europe. pic.twitter.com/jia2Jn1r0e

— Philippe Lemoine (@phl43) May 20, 2021

That’s pretty horrifying. But it’s the liberal dream for many.

Even now, there's a remarkable amount of magical thinking attached to wearing/not wearing masks… https://t.co/Siupj0vHRy

— Martin Gurri (@mgurri) June 14, 2021

Yes. They have become religious symbols of sorts rather than what they are, which is a tool to reduce risk somewhat in some situations.

Strange to see, but most human behavior seems strange to me.

NY Lifts Most Coronavirus Restrictions.

Nice. Time to stop hiding inside. I know many people will have trouble with this.

Fuck them.

I don’t understand what people get out of prudery. What’s the payoff? It seems all downside to me.

Luckily, most of my friends are not prudes. A close friend of mine, we were asking each other “Would you…” questions as friends do. And she asked me, “Would you go to a nude beach?” And I said, “Of course I would” because, well, that’s self-evident.

So I asked her the same question and she said, “When you taking me?” Heh.

The key: she’s not an American and has no buy-in nor reason to partake of the liberal American prude-fest that is occurring now, for reasons ever-unfathomable to me.

There’s a significant portion of the population (probably 20% or so) that will never recover from the psychological torture they inflicted on themselves over the past year

Just completely lost forever. Honestly really sad to watch

— Callicrates (@callicrates_) June 15, 2021

I’d say it’s more likely around 10%, but the Covid-insane are very loud and extremely obnoxious, so their numbers seem greater. It could certainly be up to 20%, though. There are a lot of very, very damaged people who leapt right off the deep end because of Covid.

I know one personally and watching her spiral down was indeed a very grim thing to witness. She lost her job, her mind, and much else besides.

More of what I’ve observed online after the onslaught of Covid has convinced me that many people simply cannot read. They can obviously get something out of text, but whatever it is it’s not true literacy. It’s more like disconnected and fleeting imagery from a dream to most, I think.

This is true of most academics as well, by the way, so don’t think I’m merely besmirching the less-educated.

Virtually all hospitalized Covid patients have one thing in common: They’re unvaccinated.

Well, ain’t that shocking. Who could’ve ever guessed that would happen?

The Very Scary Variants are only Very Scary if you don’t get vaccinated. If you have a choice and you haven’t been vaccinated, and you get sick and die, I have no sympathy at all. You dug your own grave basically.

A lot of liberals whose lives now revolve around scolding, castigating and admonishing others are going to be really sad when Covid is gone.

Ya’ll really need some kind of religion.

Programming is actually a LOT harder than it once was. Basic on Apple II+ or Commodore. Visual Basic in the early 2000's–far easier. https://t.co/IXdpANkRUA

— Ian Welsh (@iwelsh) June 14, 2021

Indeed it is much harder now. Getting a development environment set up takes days, often even if you know what you are doing. If you don’t, well, forget it.

Back in the old days, you booted up the compy, just started programming. It really was that easy. No one can plausibly argue to me that what we have now is an improvement.

This is subtle, but important. Vaccination patterns changes conditional probabilities. In the UK, the people most prone to succumb to COVID, even if vaccinated, or even to common cold—yes, common colds can be fatal to the elderly—are the very people most likely to be vaccinated. https://t.co/YW0cKJRtEt

— zeynep tufekci (@zeynep) June 14, 2021

As usual, one should pay attention to Zeynep, not the putz panickers. The lockdown lifers are the very worst to listen to as they have no clue what’s happening or why, and don’t care.

⚠️90-96% of all #COVID19 in 🇬🇧 caused by #DeltaVariant.🧵

📍32% of all Delta cases visiting the hospital emergency room are at least 1 dose vaccinated

📍33% who are then hospitalized vaccinated

📍45% of all deaths got at least 1 shot—➡️ 29% got 2 shots.https://t.co/RViq5NiioQ pic.twitter.com/v2OYV2GM09

— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) June 14, 2021

Translation: the AstraZeneca vaccine is working roughly as expected against this variant.

But let’s run around with our hair on fire, sure.

If AIDS marked the Thermidor for the sexual revolution, will the pandemic enable the Restoration of the ancien regime of prudery? This seems definitely like a “Ils n'ont rien appris, ni rien oublié” type of fact: https://t.co/1sde3djvT7

— Nils Gilman (@nils_gilman) June 13, 2021

Looks like prudery is going to keep ramping up. It seems to be what people want.

Why, I do not understand at all. What a bunch of loser cowards.