If the willfully unvaxxed think people are being too mean to them *now*, just wait until more vaxxed and masked people’s family members and children die of preventable issues.

— Faine Greenwood (@faineg) August 28, 2021

There is going to be a reckoning, as there should be. The deliberately unvaccinated should all be charged with murder ASAP.

people guzzling horse antibiotics to treat a virus when vaccines are available is a failure of many things, of scientific education, media culture and literacy, individualist vs collective attitudes to health, of online content moderation. but also at some point like, c'mon man

— michael wave (@SzMarsupial) August 27, 2021

At this point I’m just content to let these dumbasses do whatever they want. Looks like between being unvaccinated and chugging horse antibiotics they might all just off themselves.

Good riddance. If there is a hell, hope they end up there. They certainly deserve it.

For me, this is absolutely bullshit. This is just weak and pedestrian protest against epistemic trespass. Alan is just angry others might get it right and undermine his authority.

Obviously, I am often correct contra the “experts,” even in fields where I am not one. Why? It’s because I can sniff out bullshit from a mile away, and can usually determine when folks like Alan are attempting to con me “for my own good.” That entire thread is disingenuous and is just a yawp of anger against unwelcome intellectual interlopers. (Anyway, the mistakes in studies usually aren’t hard-to-detect statistical errors. They are typically far more fundamental and easier to discover than that.)

Remember, Alan, how in February and March of 2020 that the experts said masks don’t work and would do more harm than good? Forgotten that, have we? I knew better because I did my own fucking research.

What a fucking dipshit.

I think liberal prudishness has to do with the algorithmic capture of the mind more than I’d given credit for previously.

I need to think about this more. But there’s definitely a there there.

Has anyone written how the modern focus on emotional health has been perverted into a valorization of defense mechanisms, distrust, and avoidant attachment style?

— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) August 28, 2021

I write about that topic on this blog from time to time. But as for books, there is Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair by Sarah Schulman.

There might be others, but that’s the only one I am aware of. I wish someone would write something long-form in this vein that also encompassed the pandemic and prudishness, though.

pretty frustrating that we have a technology that allows real-time programming of vaccines to match arbitrary virus variants, and we are just choosing not to use it

— \u221e (@hdevalence) August 27, 2021

It is. Our “experts” and institutions are useless. We could easily be releasing tailored vaccines every month. Anyone who says that is impossible is (of course probably a liberal) fucking lying to you.

We could and should be doing this. But we won’t, because all is broken.

CPC delivering on my entire political platform today: "Stop worshipping celebrities and get to work building kilometer-scale, ultra-large spaceships." https://t.co/rVKUlxIs3s

— scientism (@mr_scientism) August 27, 2021

This is the sort of thing we should be doing, as much as it makes the milquetoast libs cry. Hell, it’s not a reason to do it but it’s certainly an added benefit.

Charles Koch funded eviction push while investing in real estate companies.

That’s just what I expected to see. In other news, 1 in 7 homes are now purchased by hedge funds and/or Wall Street. This is already bad and will not end well at all. Home prices are influenced on the margins, so even 1 in 7 means much, much higher prices for all — which is the point here.

Makes homes unaffordable by mass purchases, rent them out at obscene prices, hoover up money and productive capacity. Perfect evil for evil times.