When recording the experience becomes more important than having the experience:
I remember another world. I’m no Bon Jovi fan, but you can get a sense of that from this video:
How people related to one another and to the world was just very different then. No matter if you think it’s better now or was better then, there have been major changes that few really recognize.
It’s too bad that so much of the pandemic response had to be taken over by the scoldy fun police. This made it so much worse and more traumatic for everyone. The pandemic response rightly shuttered many places while the SFP made sure others that would’ve been sustaining were also not available: parks, beaches, safe outdoor visits with relatives, etc.
We did basically nothing right and just got lucky Covid wasn’t a worse virus.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
So, not to pick on John, but this take is actually wrong and OP is right. Because something catastrophic *did* happen to Gen X and the Xennial's music: the Telecommunication Act of 1996.
It's story time, kids… 1/ https://t.co/IINSCysmHG
— Patchen Mortimer (@patchdj) November 15, 2021
A rare person who actually knows what he is talking about. There was indeed an unusual burst of creativity and just weirdness from 1989-1997 or so, but it was quickly squelched.
Interesting how corporate takeovers always result in the disappearance and diminishment of women, innit? I don’t quite understand why that is the case, but seems to be the inevitable result. Are men just more predictable in corporate eyes or what?
One of the things I like the most about Ada Palmer’s Terra Ignota series is that it’s science fiction from a plausible future that does not involve taking shit away from everyone.
People are different but if I have 3 drinks in an hour I am 100% shitfaced. Will struggle to walk.
— Angie Schmitt🚶♀️ (@schmangee) November 13, 2021
I’m not a heavy or frequent drinker, but if I have three drinks in an hour, I’m only very slightly tipsy and can walk fine, and have very few noticeable effects. No one would even know unless I told them. I weigh 165 pounds, but am apparently pretty alcohol-tolerant (no, I would not drive after drinking).
It might be genetic? My dad could drink an entire six pack of beer and no one could even tell. He just basically did not get noticeably drunk.
I don't know when it happened, but at some point in the last few years I stopped believing in democracy as an ideal form of governance. It likely was a vital step in social evolution, but now it feels broken and outdated.
— Aella (@Aella_Girl) November 12, 2021
Same. I no longer am an adherent of liberalism or supportive of democracy — but take both leanings with a huge grain of salt as I have no idea what better system might replace them. All I know is that they are in a probably-permanent irresolvable failure state now as our technology and culture has exceeded what they are capable of handling ideologically and systemically.
What will replace them? Something absolutely will, either of our deliberate making or not.
We have like poisoned the word science by using to it mean VERY STRICT ABOUT COVID even if the particular intervention wasn't particularly well supported by scientific research. That is going to haunt us as we try to address climate issues.
— Angie Schmitt🚶♀️ (@schmangee) November 15, 2021
BELIEVE SCIENCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*
*Where science means my weird prudish moralizing, my paranoia that’s justified by something I read on a Facebook page set up by the CCP, while defining “science” as “anything that’s the harshest possible, and takes away the most from the most people, particularly women and children.”