Everyone is focusing on the fact that she was partying until 4 am, but I'm over here in awe of a country where their political leaders aren't a bunch of geriatrics still hashing out the grievance politics of the 1970s. https://t.co/SvbtIgNh6f

— Stan Oklobdzija (@stan_okl) December 9, 2021

I know, right?

Anyway, the “4AM” thing I think throws a lot of Americans because we have weird laws and such about when bars and clubs close. In most countries, you take a nap after work then hit the bars/clubs at midnight, and party until 4 or 5am. I found this out in Israel when I was trying to make plans with people and I said, “So, meet you at the bar at like 8PM?” Everyone laughed and one said, “Not 8PM. No one will be there. We all get there about midnight.”

Cultural differences….

French nude postcard, 1910s-1920s:

Wish that stupid watermark weren’t on it, but oh well.

the pandemic rendered useless a whole level of management whose entire job was to physically monitor the employees and the bosses are MAD

— Molly Priddy (@mollypriddy) December 26, 2021

I think this is basically it. The pandemic made it obvious that a whole MBA layer or two was completely redundant and they know it, their bosses (don’t want to but do) know it, and it’s causing huge bureaucratic stress in corporations. It’s amusing to see.

This might be my frustration coming out so please excuse me, but if we are expecting vaccines to prevent every mild infection, I fear we have truly lost the plot.

— Chise 🧬🧫🦠💉 (@sailorrooscout) December 23, 2021

Like a lot of the messaging, we totally fucked that up. What people heard: “The vaccines mean you never get sick EVER. You’re totally protected from Covid in all ways.”

The reality: vaccination reduces greatly the likelihood that if you catch Covid, you are hospitalized and/or die.

The vaccines are working just as designed. Yes, they do often grant sterilizing immunity. But that was not their purpose nor their goal. So liberals in particular see any infection post-vaccination as the vaccines “failing,” not realizing that a lot of them would be dead without that jab.

The difference decades of progress can make.

Only kind of. The machine on the left is a Colby Walkmac, which was a rare beast even back in the day and only sold in the thousands. And it wasn’t really a laptop; it was a luggable (though it kind of straddled the line because it was in fact battery powered).

Laptops from 1987 looked more like this:

1987 mass market laptops didn’t have so many ports as that, either. Usually 3-4, which is still far better than the one pitiful USB-C port many have now. (USB-C sucks.)

I told the libs crying for censorship it was going to bite them, and of course it did. You can’t post the word “pipe” on Tumblr anymore, if you want to see the post on iOS that is. No “pipe” and you can never see this photo of a lit boob:

I like the photo but it’s also to drive away the prudes. And it fit the theme of the post.

A lot of people are going to be permanently scarred by Covid just as people were forever traumatized by the Great Depression. A crucial difference, though, is a lot of those people who will have the hardest time letting go of the pandemic I think will be the PMC who experienced the least direct negative consequences.

I believe that’s because many of them are hugely risk-averse already and are vastly damaged by even the relatively-small amount of risk they’ve had to take on. Meanwhile, there is nary a thought for frontline and essential workers and the much greater burden they’ve been laboring under.

Yes, the PMC trauma is real but it’s also pitiful. Well, some of it is performative but I do believe people like Alice Goldfuss and her ilk and legitimately harmed by the effects of the pandemic, but only because they have the resilience of a twig. It’s sad to see. And not satirically sad; just plain ol’ sad.

Why We All Need to Have More Fun.

Now you’re just right out there murdering grammas, Catherine. The libs won’t stand for this.