When the civilization-killing strain mutates, we will shut down to save humanity. The problem is that we won't do it a moment sooner. https://t.co/ew5VUhyTRn
— Hugh Howey (@hughhowey) December 24, 2021
LOL. Look at these doomers.
With Omicron, the pandemic is effectively over. Clowns.
More than 90 percent of the people infected with omicron may never show symptoms.
That’s what I said earlier, though I can’t remember if I wrote it on this blog or not. But told it to my partner and a friend.
— Misha. Angel Investor, Photographer, Shitposter (@drethelin) December 24, 2021
I’m not an Elon Musk fanboy, but I mostly agree with this.
If 99.9999% of the Musk-hater’s parents had owned an emerald mine, they’d be the same sad pathetic lumps they are now, carping about people smarter and better than them doing useful projects. Musk was off in Russia buying gray-market rocket engines and shit, in an effort that absolutely everyone was sure was doomed to failure, to start SpaceX.
Without Tesla, EVs in the US would be 15 years behind where they are now.
Musk is also an utter prat, arrogant, and wrong about half of the things he says. No one should as rich as he is. But to claim that his projects just happen by accident — well, that’s just insane. It’s deranged, and it’s deranged in a way that only those who’ve never been part of a large, complex undertaking can possibly believe.
By the way, saying that “other people do the all the work at his companies” as some kind of insult. What the hell? Of fucking course. He’s the CEO. This isn’t Stark Industries; he’s not Tony Stark talking to some robot and building stuff all day by hand. Y’all watched too many movies. And are dumb as a box of rocks.
Slate story calls for getting rid of 2nd stairwell and even not enclosing stairs. As if these requirements weren’t learned in blood and fire. https://t.co/xq9A1mKFb2
— Elam Bend (@ElamBend) December 24, 2021
The people who work at Slate don’t know a fucking thing. They’re journalists. I saw that story yesterday and snorted and clicked off after the first paragraph as it was utter horseshit.
The “completely safe” mentality is one that is worshipful of death and decay, not an agent for its prevention. It prioritizes a dull torpor as some sort of life, and claims that’s good enough. For humans, though, stasis is death, or as good as, and there is no kind of life in being a recluse from the universe, cloaked in a black hole of wishful escapism.
We’re Locked Down Again in the Netherlands. Here’s a Warning.
The article is half nonsense, but it is anthropologically interesting in that it quite explicitly equates anything fun with spreading Covid. That’s the way to win people over to the lockdown cause!
James Webb Space Telescope lifts off on historic mission.
Surprisingly, that Ariane did not explode. Nice.
French zoo closed temporarily after pack of nine wolves escape.
Wolves also do not appreciate lockdown. Go wolves!
The pandemic has changed everyone. It’s changed me a lot, too.
I’m far more extroverted now, more than I’ve ever been in my life. I’m far less tolerant of people who are not kind. I’m avowedly anti-liberal now in a way that seemed only cosplay before. I trust science less because of how politicized it is, and trust experts hardly at all.
I’m just as grumpy as ever, though. Some things never change.
This Year’s Film to Fight Over: ‘Licorice Pizza.’
Liberals want to pretend that life isn’t as messy and as complex as it in fact is. Unfortunately, they want all of the rest of us to pretend that, too. Also, they want us to believe that the lifeways and the morals of right this very moment have always been true. Even worse, the PMC libs really like things that are easy to quantify, so they focus on that alone. That then conveniently allows them to excuse massive abuse elsewhere so they can concentrate on what’s easy to put in a spreadsheet. (That said, I think the age of consent is probably about right, though we should show more mercy and judge case by case, not the PMC method of spreadsheet jackassery.)
Another area where this applies is drinking age. My mom was a terrible and violent alcoholic. The drinking age for her should’ve been 150. I handle alcohol fine and it would’ve been ok for me to have a few drinks at 10 or 11.
Just idle thoughts. Life is messy. Ever will it be so.