9/11 changed air travel forever — will COVID-19 do the same?

Of course it will. The libs are going to eventually use the pandemic to largely prevent or make it prohibitively difficult and expensive for all but the wealthy to travel by air, greatly harming millions to billions of people.

Of course they argue that the cessation of easy travel doesn’t harm anyone. But remember these are the same mooks who claim that sex isn’t and (sometimes) even affection isn’t a basic human need — so draw your conclusions as to the veracity of their statements from there.

Wild how low quality of life is in the US compared with the rest of the OECD and beyond tbh

— Kate Aronoff (@KateAronoff) September 9, 2021

Was just talking about this with my partner yesterday. Supposedly, America is very rich. But if you live or visit anywhere else in the Western or developed world, the US doesn’t feel rich at all. It feels like a shithole country.

The food here is far worse. The housing options are atrocious and expensive unless you are wealthy. The transportation options are horrendous and if available, also expensive. There are hostile, racist and angry right-wing assclowns just everywhere. Everyone is fat and obviously unhealthy. Relatedly, the US health care “system” is laughable and even most of the developing (much less developed) world has far better and cheaper options. Corruption is rampant and we can’t build anything or maintain most of what we build.

It only takes a few weeks outside the US to realize this place really fucking sucks. The “greatest country on earth.” We’re not even the greatest country in North America.

There’s a great deal of ruin in a nation, to borrow from Adam Smith, and we seem content to explore every bit of that dissolution.

Wow. Breeda Wool is fucking fantastic in this. Goddamn.

That is well-done. Great acting from the two leads.

She’s like Olivia Rodrigo filtered through Motown and Kesey (as far as absurd levels of talent). Love her too.

She does that really well and has a pretty good knowledge of music for someone so young. Not too surprising since she writes her own songs and someone who isn’t interested in music won’t be much good without that.

She calls herself a “country pumpkin” at 5:34! Now that’s a damn cute solecism as much as I usually dislike those. After all, where else do we use the word “bumpkin?” Nowhere. And we often call those we love some variation of “pumpkin.”

Now every time I see her I will probably think of her dressed as a pumpkin, though.

Speaking of:

This never happens when I go to the farmer’s market, dammit.

Enough anti-vax people are dying of Covid in purple counties to swing close elections.

Now that’s funny.