Administrator here – I once authorized the purchase of a chair with arms (it was cheaper), not knowing in that department only certain rank had chairs with arms. The meetings and memos that ensued…At the end, the chair was returned & the more expensive armless chair was bought.
— Benita Lee 🌺 (@Benita_Lee) August 12, 2021
People in academia do not realize it, but academia and the military have so very much in common.
Almost everyone who pontificates on the historical injustices of colonialism actively supports the practice in the modern day https://t.co/maNtKzRz73
— Auron MacIntyre (@AuronMacintyre) August 15, 2021
That is a bit strange. But also true.
AstraZeneca lead scientist says Delta makes mass testing pointless in UK.
Finally, some (mostly) sanity here. Let the Zero Covid fantasy go because that’s all it ever was.
“We need to move away from reporting infections to actually reporting the number of people who are ill. Otherwise we are going to be frightening ourselves with very high numbers that don’t translate into disease burden.”
SARS-Cov-2 is already de facto endemic, no matter what the nearly-useless technical definition of “endemic” is. It’s time to live with reality rather than fantasy.
These are Delta numbers. And the graph makes the protection the vaccines offer crystal clear. https://t.co/gIxONeDAq1
— James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) August 15, 2021
The vaccines work.
Looks like Covid is going to be the excuse to make it much, much harder for regular non-wealthy people to travel internationally in perpetuity, all fully backed by the deluded and delusional “completely safe” lib contingent.
So it’ll be extremely easy for the very rich to go where they want, but nearly impossible for anyone else. Be a nice lead-in to ecofascism.
With Celsius I feel like the difference between freezing and boiling is like two numbers and it’s hard for me to grok the vast jumps in temperatures between degrees. It’s like how I prefer grams to ounces when I measure flour.
— Janie Larson (@RedQueenCoder) August 15, 2021
That is the whole problem with Celsius exactly. The discrete units are too large. It’s an inhuman system (and was explcititly designed to be so). For the same reason as Janie, I prefer grams as well because the units are more appropriate.
Yes, you can say 27.5 Celsius or whatever but then you go from unit problems to sounding-like-a-robot problems.
Fahrenheit is a more human-friendly scale. Only goofuses and dipshits would argue against this.
If we take these five steps now, we can ward off a climate disaster.
Not a single mention of nuclear power. Can’t believe we are going to not even explore that option, though it is the best one we have available now.
This is all a joke.
I don’t really care much what Jodie Comer says (though she seems like a cool person), but I sure like listening to her accent. Glad the libs haven’t taken away liking different accents from us (yet).
Wonderful performance. Recorded about 1987 I believe.
— Faine Greenwood (@faineg) August 15, 2021
Ventilation should be the keystone of everything in preventing Covid spread. Instead, we did basically nothing.
We are not smart.
These days, you are branded an incel if you believe biology is real and you are branded a harasser if you don’t pledge complete obeisance to the algorithm.
Nice to see people can still think for themselves. (That was sarcasm.)
Cities like Paris may be optimal urban form for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
High-rise buildings are bad and not the paragons of efficiency most have been led to believe. Just terrible all round, for a whole host of reasons.
America was founded by the simultaneously horniest and most repressed people in history: puritans https://t.co/4O7JeF2OrX
— Misha Gurevich. Angel Investor, Photographer. (@drethelin) August 14, 2021
I think both of these explain Americans’ very bizarre attitudes towards sex and the strange ideas about “sexualization” even so-called liberals have.
Though we have a Puritan background (yes, even non-white people as it’s the overarching cultural milieu), in one area sex has been commodified and treated as yet another market transaction. At the same time in another context, the very existence of sex and human feeling at all many people are attempting to deny altogether and punish others for even acknowledging. Such cultural derangement is not healthy and in no way will result in good things.
Of course, puritanism and prudishness does not just encompass sex but that is the sole lens that many examine it through, when in reality this hesitance to engage in any normal messiness of life extends to every sensual realm there is — every relation, every interaction, every passion and every impression. Like an insidious sickness, it reduces the quality of every experience where one must engage with the world but this self-defilement only truly makes people panic and hyperventilate in an organized manner when sex qua sex is the putative subject.
So then we have a large percentage of people who spend most of their time thinking about sex because it is a commoditized marketing tool shoved in their faces while at the same time they are told they should concentrate on not thinking about sex at all where it’s inappropriate — which is becoming anywhere they are not being sold something using sex as a sales and marketing tool. Unfortunately for them and for us, concentrating on not thinking about something is the same as thinking about a thing (quick, don’t think about a pink elephant!).
Thus, the prudes and puritan types spend most of their time obsessed with sex, able to think of little else, with no normal relation possible with their own sensorium or with others because all of it is filtered through a despoiled lens that denies any possibility of a real human connection or exploration of possibilities either individually or collectively.
It’s the reprehensible Nordic model, except applied to all reality, all of the time.