It is so wild to me how our fellow libs value masks over vaccines.

A dose of vaccine is worth about a million N95 masks in terms of lives saved, but you can't see someone wear a vaccine!

— 3x vax'd essen67350 (I was right, Omicron=milder) (@essen67350) January 28, 2022

It’s absolutely fucking insane. Liberals believe masks are superior to vaccination, when in fact it’s not even remotely close.

Horrific Observations Confirm That Orcas Feed on Blue Whales.

Confirm? I remember reading a book during the 1980s (that could have been written much earlier) that discussed orcas killing and feeding on blue whales.

That makes me wonder how much science is just a repeat of knowledge we already once possessed and have forgotten. There are millions of books written yearly, and as many papers if not more. I bet there’s so much in there lost and then rediscovered.

Here’s a study for MIS-C and vaccines. Very encouraging results.

Essentially, MIS-C continued for unvaccinated kids, but the hospitals had not one MIS-C case among vaccinated kids.

(Article notes that those vaccinated once likely had been infected before, as per timing.) https://t.co/VuEza1TFIj

— zeynep tufekci (@zeynep) January 29, 2022

I know the lockdown lifers don’t want to accept it, but it’s become increasingly clear that being vaccinated pretty much prevents MIS-C and Long Covid.

I can hear them crying, but the data be what it be. Cry away, babies.

I’m going to keep pushing this because I’ve seen over and over that “there’s no evidence vaccination protects from Long Covid” and there’s evidence just fucking stacking up about it.

im in a hotel watching twilight on the tv and wondering why i cant engage in erotic twilight fanfiction publicly on my timeline with my mutuals, why cant i casually throw random arousal at people

— Aella (@Aella_Girl) January 30, 2022

Because we live in the most prudish country in the Western world, by far, and even “liberals” here are absolutely shriekingly terrified of anything to do with sex.

The fashion industry is run by coked-out skeleton women and the world’s meanest, most misogynistic gay dudes.

Yes. And straight men get blamed for “beauty standards” that these fucking clowns promote and enforce. Not sure why, exactly, that we catch the blame for their BS but modern feminists seem incapable of examining that at all.

It’s nice that the linked article does go into the fact that the “vast majority of men” also reject those standards. That’s very rare.

When I think about how easily people believe absolute BS like anti-vax claptrap, or how that making your browser less capable is making it more “secure,” or that corporations have your best interest at heart, I kind of wish I’d used more of my powers for evil. Because I would’ve been good at it and it’s just easy.

Why, though? Why is it easy? I know libs and such will be upset about it, but I think it’s because there’s a large evolutionary mismatch between how we as humans evolved and the civilization we’ve built. We all live in it, but only about 10% of us can handle it cognitively. That’s a huge problem that only seems to be getting worse as we relentlessly increase the cognitive load required to live in our world.

I don’t know of any solutions, really. Just ideas is all I have.