Sexuality is weird because there are people absolutely 100% convinced that the thing that many people really, really like could not be liked by anyone. The people who do not enjoy an activity just cannot understand it’s possible that someone enjoys whatever sexual practice — and to me that’s so odd. Perhaps it’s because I’ve been with more women than most men, and more partners than most women have? So I’ve just seen a lot.

Not that my count is absurdly high, but I’ll use one example that doesn’t identify anyone. Stop reading if you’re American, because this will be too much for you. Your prudish nature is just not gonna like this.

I had a girlfriend that really, really liked it when I came on her face. She loved it in fact. I have absolutely no attraction to this and it doesn’t turn me on but I did it because it made her happy. She very much wanted this and asked for it often.

And I’ve heard many women say that absolutely no women like this, it’s degrading, etc. But that’s bullshit because she’s not the only woman that told me she enjoys it, but she’s the only one I’ve done that particular activity with. (And yes, I did ask her if she was doing it for me, letting her know that I didn’t care about it but was glad to do it for her. And she was not doing because she thought I liked it. She truly did love it.)

So be very, very, very, very (very! very!) skeptical of any claims that “no one could possibly like that” because you are almost certainly wrong every time.

1/OK, let’s talk about inflation.

Telling people not to worry about inflation is a bad move right now.https://t.co/jIOIUzWn4j

— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) November 17, 2021

Good pushback against “inflation is just babies whining” narrative the Dems have been promulgating, Dems who are going to lose so, so big in 2022 and 2024.People’s real wages are falling and they are quite aware of this.

Also, the below is hilarious, and I have noticed the same thing:

The last, inevitable, step as I’ve already pointed out is: it’s “conspiracy theory” to believe we ever said anything else.

Snopes is full time debunking “empty store shelves” photos as dating from 2020 and/or from foreign countries.

— Gobble up your booster 🦃💉 (@cactusinsurance) November 17, 2021

Oh, so that’s supposed to be fake now, too, huh? Man, the libs have gone fucking nuts. I’ve seen empty shelves all over the place. This photo was taken September 6, 2021 and I was standing beside my partner as she took it:

Debunk that, you dipshit motherfucker.

#1. Moralizing
#2. Singular focus on low risk children
#3. Inability to weigh tradeoffs seriously
#4. Unhelpful culture war bullshit

— Angie Schmitt🚶‍♀️ (@schmangee) November 17, 2021

Trade-offs and the philosophy thereof is something I’ve been thinking about lately. In their justified disdain for the trolley problem, liberals are almost completely incapable of dealing with the idea of real-world trade-offs. Not every choice is one that will inevitably harm someone(s), but in some situations this is in fact the case. In a pandemic and its response, many choices do in fact involve real, ineluctable harms to help and help to harm. Deny it all you want, but it’s like gravity: still present; the trade-offs still persist.

For instance: how many children is it worth harming so that older people might be protected from Covid? Or alternately, how many grandparents must be prevented from seeing their grandkids for years to protect the grandparents from Covid?

How long must kids remain out of school to prevent community spread, and how much future quality of life and earnings are we willing to sacrifice for that? How long should we wear masks and in what situations? How many businesses must we destroy to save how many people? How many women must we drive from the workplace permanently to save how many? You get the idea.

There are further second-order failure modes and consequences from these trade-offs, too. But the main lib strategy has been lying and denying rather than dealing with them honestly (and there are many more I could list easily). This has harmed the fight against the pandemic immensely and will continue to do so since trade-offs aren’t an idea many libs seems able to even understand, much less account for in their moral models of the world.

A lot of covid spread takes place at home. Among family. None of our "just mask at the grocery store!" sort of one-off approach really prepares people very well for that, imo.

— Angie Schmitt🚶‍♀️ (@schmangee) November 17, 2021

Don’t have time to look it up today, but I think the stats I’ve seen indicate that about 70-90% of Covid spread occurs at home. That’s why lockdowns have to be incredibly, ridiculously draconian to have a more-than-negligible effect.

Great performance. Look at her eyes, though. Surely those are colored contacts? I’ve never seen anyone with eyes that color before. Either way, they’re beautiful, especially lit like that (there’s an interview that follows where it’s easier to see).

The first ten on today’s playlist: