Truly, fuck the anti-vaxxers. Should all be under house arrest or in prison.
Any real society would make their lives hell.
Day: September 28, 2021, 12:19 PM
Munch Much
When I see how much the average American eats, I am fucking shocked. That’s why I am skeptical of the hypothesis that obesity is chemical-caused. Many people eat 2-3x as much as I do in a day.
People I used to work with ate as much just for breakfast as I ate all day, for instance.
Shorted
Wild that most definitions of impossible are based on only <70 years of concerted effort.
When humans start living Ionger shit is gonna get BONKERS
— Wendell Britt ๅ้ป้ (16/100 youtube vidz) (@wendell_britt) September 26, 2021
Yeah, the pedestrian Nils Gilman definition of “impossible.” And to be fair, most people’s definition of impossible.
Really Flagging
Redesigning America’s Flag: Six New Takes on Old Glory.
These are all terrible. That said, I don’t have any better ideas.
Suscitet Deos
Occasional reminder that geoengineering is mandatory if you want to maintain billions of people on earth for the long term.
— Misha Gurevich. Angel Investor, Photographer. (@drethelin) November 29, 2019
Yes it is. We must become the gods until now we’ve only pretended to be.
Baggage
I don’t like most people that I used to like, post-Covid.
If I’m still talking to you, the above doesn’t include you. If I’m not, well, yeah….
Prudent
What if the โsex trafficking maniaโ thatโs sort of taken suburban social media by storm is a form of secular Evangelical eschatology, analogous to wokeismโs Congregationalist revivalism?
— nft animal avatar duplicator (@tekashi996) September 27, 2021
I think it’s another facet of prudishness. They’ve expanded the definition of “sex trafficking” to include nearly anything. One woman was claiming in a Twitter thread the other day that she was “nearly sex trafficked” when some guy in a parking lot spoke to her briefly and courteously.
For suburban white libs/feminists, an obsession with fake sex trafficking is a way of expressing their prudishness and adding some fake drama to their lives. Unfortunately, it harms real women but they don’t care about that at all.
Diss the Cog
In the UK, 90% of everyone over 16 has had at least one dose of a COVID vaccine and they had a Delta wave catching many of the unvaccinated. Trying to squint to understand why โitโs a mysteryโ for hospitalizations to go down even without huge restrictions. https://t.co/yX2n3S4B4v
— zeynep tufekci (@zeynep) September 27, 2021
Because many liberals — probably the majority — see the virus not as a natural phenomenon, but rather as a moral judgment. You only resist the virus by taking away things from people and enforced asceticism. This shows your moral rectitude and thus defends against Covid.
Of course since libs lack religion, they don’t quite put it in these terms but this is what it amounts to. It has been really funny watching the libs attempt to hold two things in their head at once, though: that the vaccines don’t work and that everyone should get vaccinated because they are effective.
This cognitive dissonance results in deeply bizarre articles like the one Zeynep is discussing, where it’s treated as some grand mystery that a very effective vaccine is working quite well, like just no one could possibly figure out why the expected results are occurring. I’ve seen more than a dozen of these types of articles now.
Very Big
One informed dissent to my "likely"โthough I'll keep the original point: pandemics end and viruses don't stand outside of all known biology or history. We're facing a coronavirus (not the first time), and there are already vaccines. https://t.co/Nx7sOUcXrC
— zeynep tufekci (@zeynep) September 27, 2021
Ooh, Zeynep is making some liberals Big Mad right now. I love it.
Pandend
If you go up the thread, you'll see people with a lot of knowledge/expertise disagree on the strength of the evidence of what it was. (Pulling this part out of that thread because some want to debate something else: do pandemics end? I don't think that is controversial: they do).
— zeynep tufekci (@zeynep) September 27, 2021
I’ve heard a lot of dipshit mooks claiming pandemics don’t end. But of course they do, especially when they are something like coronavirus. The “pandemics don’t end” people are just doomsters and lockdown lifers.