Well, at least the libs have moved on from screeching about killing Gramma to “the Delta variant is the mostest scariest thing ever since nuclear weapons and why aren’t you all crying under your beds like me OMG Delta is tunneling under the foundation.”

Ok, I am not sure that really is better. But it’s at least a change?

Just look how fucking dumb and clueless people are, even the “smart” ones:

Only a few viruses mutate quickly. People have heard of HIV the most so that’s what they always cite, but it’s rare in the viral kingdom in that it does have a high mutation rate. This is why it’s very difficult to create a vaccine to combat it reliably. (And that it works differently than most other viruses matters.)

Coronaviruses do *not* mutate quickly and Covid is demonstrative of that. No matter the scaremongering you hear about those terrifying variants, the mutation rate is quite low, especially considering the amount of hosts SARS2 has in which to modify itself. This is exactly why we have effective vaccines and why people in Asia infected with bat coronaviruses decades ago still have some immunity against Covid right fucking now.

“Smart” people are often terrifyingly wrong and stupid

Unvaccinated people are driving the pandemic now — and in the US, if you’re unvaccinated it’s by choice. So fuck you.

Unvaccinated people are getting the wrong message, experts said.

“They think it’s safe to take off the mask. It’s not,” said Lynn Goldman, dean of the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University. “It looks like fewer numbers, looks like it’s getting better, but it’s not necessarily better for those who aren’t vaccinated.”

I do not care even a little bit about what happens to a person who chooses not to get vaccinated. I know that makes me cold-hearted. But I have little empathy, and must spare it for people who deserve it. The unvaccinated-by-choice do not deserve a single drop of it.

You made your choice. Die drowning, motherfuckers.

This guy is a bit annoying and you can skip the first pointless minute or so, but he also understands the film, why it works and what it’s getting at. That is rare these days, so I had at least to acknowledge that.

Decent analysis. A thousand people watch a film, maybe one of them understands it. Such is life.

Here’s a really great example of the accent that was quite prevalent from the 1970s until the mid-1990s.

I could write a lot about exactly what distinguishes that very peculiar (yet extremely common at the time) accent, but listen to the very distinct consonant enunciation and the flat, very wide, almost-monotonal vowels with the syllable stresses nearly rounded off. The first and last word of a phrase is almost always emphasized as well, which is part of what makes it very distinctive.

So glad I was able to find such a clear, short example of that (so far as I know) unnamed accent that has completely disappeared now.

Trans issues are a great distraction for both sides: it’s a small population that hardly has any effect on anything, each side has some really very wacky ideologues who seem to dominate the debate from time to time, and nothing anyone does here will matter very much in the end but it stirs people up a whole lot.

Also, the conservatives can pretend they are defending children to get out votes, and the libs can pretend that biological facts aren’t real so they can promote neoliberalistic goals.

It’s a win for everyone. Well, almost.