I can’t even tell you how great Margo Martindale was in Season 2 of Justified. She is the reason to watch that season of the show and this isn’t even nearly the best scene with her in it — the church monologue she gives is beyond amazing, but it’s not on YouTube and I don’t have time to rip it right now.
Day: November 16, 2021, 4:44 PM
Masking Tape
Seoul has one of the largest public transportation systems in the world, so they did an enormous study to see the impact of mandatory wearing of masks + social distancing on public transport during peak hours.
Guess what they found?https://t.co/GfLN0QQYH9
— Barry Ritholtz (@ritholtz) November 16, 2021
Masks work, particularly in crowded and not well-ventilated environs. No surprise because I read the studies almost two years ago now. And now we have even better evidence. Too bad, because I really fucking hate masks. Hate them so much.
She Said Destroy
You can't just cancel services for children for two years and then pick back up again like nothing happened. A lot of these things (children's theater, for eg) are not coming back.
— Angie Schmitt🚶♀️ (@schmangee) November 16, 2021
I think destroying these programs and forcing the permanent shuttering of small/medium business was actually the point of most pandemic restrictions; all were a path to the elimination of social services and allowing oligopoly to further colonize the world, aided and abetted by “completely safe, believe science” liberals willingly.
Way W
Which in the first place was not very welcome. What this means is a lot of women become more isolated also. https://t.co/lan6TfTQgA
— Angie Schmitt🚶♀️ (@schmangee) November 16, 2021
Pandemic overreach, prudishness, anti-communitarianism and capitalism making some bad times way worse.
Forum Up
Forums were far superior to modern social media, combining the best aspects of BBSes, IRC and the web, but were not corporate-friendly and not easily-monetizable. Which is why they had to go. Forums were intolerable to MBA types who “needed” stats, homogeneity, and the ability to control discussions. Related to that, they were also not propaganda-friendly.
I’m not surprised forums were killed off; I’m more surprised they lasted as long as they did. From 1995-2005 or so, you could find a vibrant, interesting forum for anything you wanted. Now they’re almost all defunct and the ones that persist do so in a much-reduced state.
Milk Sop
Was just thinking about this scene & how that's actually not much for a milkshake now. https://t.co/ByIF4LrtGK
— jonstokes.com (@jonst0kes) November 15, 2021
Same. It seemed absurd in 1994 that anyone would pay $5 for a milkshake. I was buying them for about $1.25 at the time from an ice cream shop in Lake City, Florida.
Inflation made that scene not as effective as it was back then. I’d add a caveat that it’s not much for a good milshake now. You can still get mediocre to ok milkshakes for less than $5, though.
Carban
Remember, we will NOT ban cars (except in a few small areas of downtowns).
Electric cars are our only hope for decarbonization of transportation, and that is just a fact. https://t.co/0jyBnLVftG
— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) November 15, 2021
Banning cars, except in a very few cities, will never happen. It’s akin to the Zero Covid fantasy you hear little about anymore.
Doing What’s Smart
When the man is right, he's right https://t.co/So30pGfE2v
— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) November 16, 2021
Musk is mostly right here, agreed. Not all taxes are created equal. We should do what’s smart, not what’s punitive.