Just thinking about how when I joined the Army, I had $100 in cash that my grandmother gave me and that was it.

Life is so much better now.

Letting dipshits hurt themselves is something I am all for, if it were just the vocal anti-vaxxers who were harming themselves only. How my enemy chooses to be defeated and humiliated — well, I don’t have much preference about the way that transpires. If they do it to their own fool self is even better than me having to waste effort on losers.

But the problem is the anti-vaxxers harm others: those who can’t be vaccinated and the disabled particularly, but also potentially me, if I get Covid and then get stuck with the long version of it. This is why I 100% support vaccine mandates and more. That is, I support house arrest and even prosecution if you refuse vaccination. And forced vaccination, too. Round ’em up, lock ’em up, jab ’em up. The time to reverse your de facto brain damage and be smarter than a turnip is now.

Was talking with my partner earlier about the “progressive” desire to take away air travel, or any sort of travel, and the ability to see faraway friends and the like. She said it was “anti-human” and I think that’s a very good description of it that I’d not arrived at myself.

I agree, though: it is anti-human and that’s why I oppose it despite the (mostly fake) benefits it’ll supposedly bring for the planet. In fact, I am against all anti-human ideologies, on the right or on the left. They are proliferating lately as the world experiences interlocking crises, but no matter the nominal side from which they originate, all such anti-human beliefs and practices should be resisted and destroyed.

People are scared, and they should be. We have some difficult decades coming up. But I will never get on board with the progressive pod life dreams, nor should anyone. They are just as anti-human as the right’s white majority authoritarian fantasias.

When global just-in-time supply logistics fall over we are all going to be completely fucked forever.

— 🆘 (@SwiftOnSecurity) February 16, 2019

Good call. I have said similar things but not published them on this blog (but did on an older one that no longer exists). That’s a not a great achievement on my part or anything, because it doesn’t take great feats of prescience to realize this, but these days even mundane and obvious things seem magical to most people, so….

Japan puzzles over its sudden coronavirus-control success.

Hey, here’s another one of those articles that treats it like some sort of grand mystery that vaccination is working. It also contains a large lie (and links to an article that discusses a study that’s been fairly well been debunked IIRC).

He cautioned, however, that breakthrough infections in the U.S., Britain and other places where inoculations began months earlier than in Japan show that vaccines alone are not perfect and efficacy gradually wears off.

Sterilizing immunity wears off a bit. This is not the fucking same as efficacy waning, which the very article this goofus links to states quite clearly. Why just lie? How does that help anything? The Pfizer vaccine retains 90% of its ability to prevent hospitalization as expected.

Even as the Delta variant became the predominant strain across the Southland, the vaccine’s effectiveness at preventing COVID-19 hospitalizations held steady at close to 90% for as long as six months.

Note again, again, again for the hard of reading, that “as long as six months” DOES NOT MEAN “only six months,” but that six months was the resolution of the study.

When I say that libs lie about vaccine efficacy (“the vaccines don’t work”) this is exactly what I mean. So why do they do it? Just desire for continued lockdown life? Simple malice? I have no reasons that make sense. But I know I despise them, and that’s enough for me.

I know a lot of people hated this intro, but that’s just such a bang-on performance from Virginia Madsen. And the hair and makeup are great. I am glad they didn’t give her any unusual body mods or even have her speaking another language in this scene because as it is, when she begins the monologue she just seems unutterably strange. It’s like she only learned to speak English 30 minutes ago and is having thoughts of cosmic horror the entire time. She just seems not really like us at all, and the effect is only enhanced because she looks normal. If they’d had her speaking another tongue or made her look too odd, the just unspeakable foreignness of her affect would have been much reduced.

The way she says “fold space.” What. The. Fuck. That accent…Madsen is an American, and she somehow came up with an accent that sounds like nothing any human has ever spoken before or since. Just such a great weirdo fucking showing from her.

I love that intro so much.

Lucy’s solar panel hasn’t latched—a problem for a mission powered by the Sun.

All deep space missions should be nuclear-powered. Solar power for this kind of craft is insane and a terrible idea. We let people’s terror of anything nuclear ruin so much.

I’m a generic Twitter user and I tested positive for COVID. I am utterly furious at you for giving it to me and I am going to vent in this thread.

And vent I will, as I am the innocent victim of your reckless behaviour that led you to contract COVID.

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— Julian (@julianlewis2012) October 15, 2021

Great thread.

Something that was really reinforced for me by Covid: people highly overvalue their own priorities, and literally cannot imagine anyone else would have any different ones, or that there are real tradeoffs involved in any choice, unavoidable ones.

Not everything is zero sum, but some things are. And during a pandemic, many things are.