There is no good way to withdraw from Afghanistan. Anyone dunking on Joe Biden for doing the right thing should be rightfully and proudly ignored.
— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) August 13, 2021
Fuck those people. Biden did the right thing for once.
Oh what the fuck. This hurt me.
The whole point of Firefox was that it was customizable. Now it’s not.
Why, then, would anyone use it? By the way, FF just continues to exist so Google can claim it does not have a browser monopoly. That’s all that’s left for it.
You call it a failure, I call it a rare and impressive overcoming of the sunk cost fallacy. https://t.co/MHj5QGVzEY
— Samuel Hammond 🌐🏛 (@hamandcheese) August 15, 2021
Every single veteran knows that Afghanistan was a mistake and that there was no way we could transform a society like that (or any society, really).
After 9/11, I considered signing back up to the military. Glad I didn’t make that mistake, deploying to endless, pointless wars.
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.)