Prediction: there will never be a Covid variant that drops the effectiveness of the mRNA vaccines below 70%.
Prediction two: people will still be running around in a frenzy in two years attempting to get us to lock down and stay in our prison countries until it is “completely safe.”
Sigh. We are ruled by medical illiterates who are also economically illiterate. https://t.co/JB9sT9oE8O
— Charlie Stross (@cstross) July 3, 2021
What’s the alternative, Charlie? Staying inside for years? How will that fucking work, exactly? Do you know how destructive that is to people’s pysches, how many people do not want to and simply cannot live that way?
It’s easy enough for some dipshit writer who already stays inside all the time to attempt to require the rest of us to do so, but it’s a completely different story for anyone who is not already a de facto lockdown lifer. These death cult pseudo-libs pretend to care about human flourishing, to want open borders, to desire the best for people, but when it comes down to it they are just as parochial and fearful as the insular conservative pea-brains they denigrate.
They just needed something friendly to their delusions to let it out publicly.
Why Doesn’t Windows 11 Support My CPU?
The real answer is because OEM licensing $$ for Windows and PC sales have been lagging lately as computers last longer, so Microsoft and the OEMs needed a way to prod their marks to upgrade. The ever-useful specter of “security” was a great way to do that. It’s the lie that usually works.
There is a backlash this time and the decision might not stand, but Mozilla got away with something similar with Firefox by very successfully conning their willing marks and then banning all discussion about the topic on official and semi-official forums. Microsoft in cahoots with PC sellers here was hoping to do the same thing.
That’s the real answer. The rest is just spreading corporate-approved propaganda.
Why are people so willing to do that so often? Thinking be hard, I guess.
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.
Remember this gem of a 4th of July tweet? pic.twitter.com/4NPfri7Lmr
— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) July 3, 2021
I can’t even begin to imagine what that tweet was attempting to express. All it ended up conveying was, “Damn, I’m an unprecedentedly-large dumbass.”
i get so mad when ppl criticize my surveys as not having a random enough sample, wtf do you think most actual academic studies are based on
— Aella (@Aella_Girl) July 1, 2021
True. Many if not most academic studies are of college students between the age of 18 and 25, because they are what’s readily available. Aella’s are probably more “random” along several dimensions than this, though self-selection bias is a legitimate problem of course. But that’s also true of the studies I just mentioned….
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.
I wonder what living in fear feels like? Even when I was being beat on nearly every day, I still did what I wanted to do, went where I wanted to go. I lived my life.
Never mind, I don’t really want to know what living in fear is like. Y’all can have that. Just keep it to yourselves, please.
The amount of people that I previously liked that Covid has made me just have an absolute seething hatred for…this can’t be healthy.
But seeing people like Charles Stross, who should just know better, give in to fear and to even begin fear-mongering themselves is just too much. I don’t understand why so many are perfectly willing to harm millions and millions, and want to keep doing so, all for some delusion of safety that will never be realized.
Especially in the service of lockdowns and terror-based interventions that now especially harm vastly more people than they help. It’s time right now to stand fast against these chowder-brained numpties. Haven’t the plutes gotten rich enough? Haven’t we been sealed inside our homes for long enough?
Of course lockdowns were never all that effective in the first place. Who believes now that they have even a little to do with the pandemic? How could you possibly give any credence to that, given the evidence?
People want to serve. And be governed, their lives and will removed. They yearn for it in ways I will never understand. They will enter the pod willingly, proud to be chattel.
Time to stay home again, UK people… This curve is seriously bad news. pic.twitter.com/Ep9PW99nmy
— Rodney Orpheus 🇪🇺🎤🎲🎮💻 (@rodneyorpheus) July 1, 2021
Told you Delta was going to be the cattle prod to make half the world hide inside again pointlessly.
The plutes aren’t rich enough yet. Time for more lockdowns and induced terror.
People are shockingly willing to participate in their own diminishment and oppression to make sure all is “completely safe.”
Intellectually, I knew that before. But seeing it on this level…I really had no idea.
For me, the most stressful thing about the current media climate is the interminable gaslighting by headline and soundbite. No, we are *not* past COVID19 yet, things are *not* getting better, wishful thinking doesn’t help, and being surrounded by misguided optimists sucks.
— Charlie Stross (@cstross) July 1, 2021
What the fuck is wrong with people?
UK deaths by day:
Looks a damn sight better to me.