No one believes my husband is my husband. Is that because he’s younger and prettier than me?

Why worry about it? I’ve consistently been with women considered (and considerably) more attractive than I am, and I’ve gotten similar questions many times. I just let it flow. Here’s a few:

“Are you related? Is that your sister?”

Suggested response: “Yes, and we’re trying for a baby.”

“Uhhh…she’s with you?”

Suggested answer: “I know! I’m just doing her a favor!”

“How’d you swing that?”

Suggested response: “They don’t call me Big Mike for my height.”

Some of those only work for a man, but you get the idea. It throws people off and it makes them feel guilty for being so judgmental and nosy.

Here’s the network connection details from one of my Windows VMs:

Notice no default gateway and no DNS servers. Yet I can still get to the internet with multiple browsers, and no I am not using IPv6. This is one of the fun things you can do when your networking game is strong. 😉

One of the most valuable features of older, correctly-functioning versions of Firefox was the capability to right-click and rename tabs.

This was invaluable to me. Now I am forced to use older Firefox in secure VMs to be able to have access to this feature as I cannot easily do without it. Having this capability meant that if I opened a tab intended only for search, I could rename this tab to “Search: blah site” and I’d know always what I was using it for.

When you have hundreds of tabs open, this is really very useful and I am robbed of hours every week where I do not have this functionality to rename tabs.

All told, losing this and all the features to the new pseudo-secure Firefox means that I now need to spend 2-3x as long to do the same things I used to do.

I love when I run across a book and I can’t tell if it is just absolute hogwash or has something incisive to say.

How does one decide to write such a thing as that book?

Ventilation improvements are more effective than even universal masking, yet people are just fully and creepily obsessed with masks. However, there are almost no calls for a program of massive ventilation improvements, a program which would make far more sense and help everyone in society.

Because there will be another pandemic and we should be preparing for that. We should not merely be obsessing over mitigations that do in fact help, but only in the neoliberal sense of “helping” (which isn’t much and foists all responsibility onto the individual).

What’s odd about the people below is the constant goalpost shifting that hardly anyone has seemed to call them on.

First it was “flatten the curve.” Ok, I can get behind that one. Lock down for a month, assess, see where we are and make sure the hospitals aren’t overwhelmed. Reasonable in the face of an unknown threat and right in line with the precautionary principle.

Then it was hide inside until the case rate is below a certain number. Ok, seems like that could be a long time, can’t we think of some better ideas? But apparently not.

Then it was lock down until the vaccines are released. Seems iffy, as that timeline is not really clear (in summer 2020).

Then the vaccines arrived and it was lockdown until a certain vaccination rate is reached. A little more reasonable but not really fair to the vaccinated or to anyone who has been cooped up inside for more than a year in general. And especially considering in most countries, nothing else was ever really tried.

Then it became “we can’t end lockdown due to variants” and we must stay inside until some mysterious time in the future under the terrible “Zero Covid” pseudo-plan death cult lib wishful thinking.

Now it’s becoming that lockdown can’t end because there might be unknown threats in the future, some other pandemic, some other grave danger that we could avoid if we just stay sequestered from the world, go full-on Morlock and never emerge again into the light.

It will never end. But it’s up to us to end it, and if we don’t then we deserve what we get.

We ended lockdown too early last yr and sent kids back to school in Sept and then had the 2nd wave. We're now on cusp of a 3rd wave thanks to Delta variant (95% of UK cases) but still reopening 19 July. People will die all over again because this govt keeps putting profits first.

— Afroze (on hiatus from life) (@afrozefz) July 4, 2021

Many people in the UK spent over a year in lockdown. Do you think that’s healthy, you fucking absurd wanker? Do you think that’s good for anyone?

All of these people know is lockdown. It’s all they can think of, because they deeply desire to have control over people; they want them to suffer, all under the guise of “caring” for them. Don’t trust these people at all. They’re the same ones who will be herding you into the camps “for your own good” as soon as they get the chance.

And the lying about the efficacy of vacines? That’s just a blatant fucking untruth and that will actually harm tons of people.

Lots of people who have never had Covid have gotten severe brain damage due to Covid.

What a clown world.

I was looking for an image of the painting “Breton Brother and Sister” by William Bouguereau because it’s one I really like. I found it:

The detail and expression on the sister’s face is wonderful. I also discovered a reproduction. However, it’s not a reproduction, it’s a murder:

Just no. Put the brush down and jump into a creek. One with no water. From at least a hundred feet up. “Museum quality.” Sure, if the museum is in hell.