Grammy Nominations 2022 Announcement: Updating List.
I don’t care about the Grammies at all, but that’s a very cute outfit Olivia is wearing in the accompanying photo. It’s butch and femme at the same time without being overbearing. Wish I could see her shoes.
Ok, I found the performance that was from. Why only 720p? But you can see the rest of the outfit. (Damn she’s so good.)
This is the only decent still of it I could find:
Big platform shoes, maybe Doc Martens. Not sure.
Is your Christmas present spying on you? How to assess gifts’ privacy risks.
I miss the old days, when only schizophrenics suspected that inanimate objects were listening to them and/or sending them secret messages. Now it’s real.
EU calls for calm amid violent COVID protests across Europe.
Why are so many European countries doing this to themselves? They are breaking their own compact with their citizens and it’ll long-term result in reduced vaccine and booster uptake and more deaths. And when the next pandemic hits, it’ll be so much worse.
Much of the discontent, however, is targeted at politicians who had promised that vaccinations would bring freedom. With the Delta variant making sure contagion remains rampant, EU governments are being forced to reimpose constraints and — in some countries — slap tougher restrictions on the nonvaccinated.
Notice that language: “forced,” as it’s not a choice.
So as everyone is acknowledging, the problem is with the unvaccinated, but restrictions are being placed on the entire populace in most places. What sort of sense does this make? This tells you it’s not really about the pandemic at all.
Resist lockdown now or you won’t have a chance later. It was a very, very bad idea to emulate something innovated by an authoritarian government (China) in a panic as a permanent “pandemic” solution. Very bad indeed.
Liberal ideology: it’s wrong to be attracted to anyone unless they are fat, and then you’re required to be attracted to them/have sex with them.
More than a little rapey.
Germany making a terrible mistake.
The renewed restrictions mark a painful turn for Europe’s governments that had pledged not to restrict freedoms for the vaccinated as an incentive for residents to get vaccines.
The vaccinated death rate is, what, around 0.02% or so? And that’s all ages and if you get infected, which is far less likely if you’re vaxxed. If you restrict this analysis to the under 50s, it’s like 0.001% or something absurd like that. Is it worth destroying so much? If so, can someone explain why? Why can libs not think about this sanely?
Time to end all lockdowns and restrictions now on the vaccinated everywhere. Else, what was the fucking point?
CDC now reports zero weekly Covid deaths in people under age 30
The vast majority of deaths today are in non-vaccinated, non-naturally immune adults with a comorbidity, like obesity. That's been the case throughout. https://t.co/Fgwr1etsHx
— Marty Makary MD, MPH (@MartyMakary) November 22, 2021
But we must panic and lockdown and hurt those who are least affected. Makes total sense.
Was FaceTiming with a Turkish friend of mine I’ve never met in person the other day. She warned me that she was really “huggy” and a “hanger on” of her friends, and asked if that was ok when we visit in person.
I said something like: “I don’t know how I could possibly withstand an attractive, intelligent and affectionate 25-year-old woman hugging and hanging on me. Oh, the horror. How will I ever deal with the terrible trauma of this?”
She got the message that I was good with it, I think. At least she laughed a lot.
From the FRED Blog: A Thanksgiving dinner serving of poultry costs $1.42. A soybean-based dinner serving with the same amount of calories costs 66 cents and provides almost twice as much protein https://t.co/qmyjwZd7aU pic.twitter.com/pHv3ZR9o6u
— St. Louis Fed (@stlouisfed) November 20, 2021
Let them eat soybeans.
Or poison pea slurry.
Boeing Built an Unsafe Plane, and Blamed the Pilots When It Crashed.
Pilots are always blamed when shitty airframes meet the dirt; it’s just how that industry works. That the 737 Max was ever allowed to fly again is a tragedy and a mistake. It’s fundamentally broken.
Across Europe, protests swell against pandemic restrictions.
As there should be, especially over lockdowns. We have vaccines now. They work. Lockdown is a mental-health-destroying blunt tool of last resort. This is now all about social control and has little to do with the pandemic.
Lockdown theater to ensure compliance. Resistance to this is the right answer; the only answer.
He’s correct. The US Navy has been safely operating nuclear powered vessels for 65 years. It’s time to get past the anti-nuke gaslighting and get real about commercial nuclear power in the US. Small modular reactors is a promising path forward. https://t.co/wm2gQXZ9Gl
— Jerry Hendrix (@JerryHendrixII) November 21, 2021
Agreed. Time to get over the whiny baby fear of this. It’s the answer to many problems, with not as many downsides as the other solutions.
Edward VII`s love chair (he's the one with the top hat). pic.twitter.com/99gkmiFDiR
— Simon Templar (@fridryk) November 21, 2021
That could work, if it were specifically designed for the people involved. Or adjustable.
(My goal lately is to drive as many Americans away from my blog as I can. Which is easy enough to do by posting what I am already interested in.)
Aella is going to get into Big Trouble with this. She’s writing in areas that are or are close to dangerous knowledge that most liberals wish to suppress.
I’m too old to care who this makes angry anymore, but I do suspect there are salient genetic-level intelligence potential differences between ethnic groups, but those divides are probably not as neat as wished, nor present only in the places we’d suspect.
For instance, since groups in Africa are so varied genetically, I’d guess that if you removed disease/parasite load and poverty, some African groupings would land well above the white average and some below. Humanity has way, way more natural variation than the racists and the anti-racists believe.
I understand why research on this and knowledge about it is suppressed. Historically, it had only led to bad outcomes and rarely anything good. The real problem with this prohibition, though, is that once you do so, you’ve ceded all the ground here to racists and eugenicists and you have no valid defense, and in fact can’t even think about the topic anymore.
That is in a nutshell the whole problem with Dangerous Knowledge.
OKAY *cracks knuckles* i’ve got a glass of austrian rosè that’s making me sweat like i’m literally dying & my husband went to sleep at 9:30 with a migraine so LET’S DO THIS
1 like, 1 design opinion https://t.co/vAzmh2Bq8u
— Amy Hoy (@amyhoy) December 25, 2019
This is a really great thread. Every UI/UX designer should read it but they won’t because the field has fully failed now.
She doesn’t mention Firefox at all, but the designers thereof did every absurd and wrong thing she mentions in this thread, and a few more besides. I don’t think people realize how much software could achieve if anyone allowed it to do so. Give me a few billion dollars and I could fairly easily build things that no one would believe possible now. We have the technology. We have the knowledge. But as with many things in our present moment of “nothing is possible” catastrophism, we just do not have the will.
I feel like an unnerving percentage of the American population would have no problem bringing back the Hayes Code.
— Anything & Everything (@Any_And_Every) November 20, 2021
I think like 80% of liberals and 60% of conservatives would be perfectly amenable to bringing back the Hayes Code — but an even more restrictive version. The lib au courant thinking is that no work should have any “problematic” characters or situations in it.
So many prudes. So much fail.