Maybe I’m wrong, but the argument that purchasing any beef at all, no matter from whence it came or how it was raised, is driving deforestation on another continent is difficult for me to take seriously, even when smart people keep repeating it. https://t.co/LW5ErA4zYC

— Ariel Greenwood (@greenwoodae) January 23, 2022

Eh, those people aren’t actually smart, they’re “smart,” which is a wholly different thing.

Actual smarts is weighing trade-offs and determining what would help under what circumstances, while deeply comprehending the dynamics of the system and its feedback mechanisms, and making decisions from there. “Smart,” though, is parroting what bien pensant pseudoliberal neo-ascetics claim would help, which is in reality merely a renascence of religious monasticism just sans the hermitage.

All of this is exploited by corporations to skirt and forestall regulation — framing decisive action as being dependent wholly on individual choice — thus reinforcing (and in some cases, creating) these religious tendencies among the “saving the planet” crowd. Meanwhile, nothing substantive is changed, people are shamed needlessly, and libs can feel smug and happy they got the joy of taking away something from someone.

Reminder: people who say viruses inevitably evolve to become mild or equate "endemic" with "mildly inconvenient" do not understand viruses, or evolution, or endemicity.

— T. Ryan Gregory (@TRyanGregory) January 22, 2022

Problem: coronaviruses aren’t Marburg or smallpox or polio or fucking malaria (which isn’t even caused by a virus). Invalid comparisons all, no matter what the “experts” tell you.

But wait and see. “Experts” will be wrong and I’ll be right.

Apparently Word used to come in a really big box pic.twitter.com/wc0ky1igzI

— foone (@Foone) January 24, 2022

Indeed it did. With a really big price to match. Always made me say, “My word!” 😉

"When you need to know"? HOW DO THEY NOT ALREADY FUCKING KNOW pic.twitter.com/oLnzDr21U4

— Now I am become Dan, destroyer of crisps (@GrumpyGreyhead) January 24, 2022

Could be a chestburster?

Is it just me or did we just spend two years pretending mental health isn’t important? We should never do that again.

— Angie Schmitt🚶‍♀️ (@schmangee) January 21, 2022

We did. And we had fake “studies” copiously cited by pseudo-liberals showing kids (and others) weren’t vastly harmed by absurd pandemic policies. Meanwhile, overdoses skyrocketed, homicide went through the roof, society further broke down, and scads of well-compensated “completely safe” fanatics told us that human interaction was, like, wayyyy overrated, dude.

Good times.

Our public health policies over the past two years: mediocre at preventing covid, pretty good at producing agoraphobic six year olds.

— Angie Schmitt🚶‍♀️ (@schmangee) January 22, 2022

Angie out here killing all the grammas. It’s amazing how much we’ve harmed kids to not help anything very much. Totally normal country.

How long will this site continue to be dominated by delusional anti-vax fear-mongering?
How long will people keep enabling the safety zealots?
When can we shut them down for misinformation, just as you would a covid denialist?

— Rebecca Bodenheimer (@rmbodenheimer) January 24, 2022

Probably never? The “completely safe” liberal delusion is the dominant ideological position and that will be hard to unseat. Despite the fact that it’s becoming clear that Long Covid is prevented by being vaxxed and thus Covid is no more than a cold for most people now, they insist we must be in panic mode 24/7.

And I really like how she also concludes that the “completely safe” nonsense is also anti-vax.

Idea for a fun sport that’d please the prudes: ice volleyball.

This is where you’d play in at least -10 weather and be in a full parka, gloves, goggles, with only a bit of your lower face visible.* And you’d play on ice, of course (in regular shoes). The rest of the game would be the same, except I imagine there’d be very little spiking.

*The prudes would probably still want to ban this as “sexualized.”

‘Your great-great-great-grandchildren will still be getting immunized against coronavirus’: This Mayo Clinic doctor says it’s too late to eradicate COVID-19.

Eradication was absolutely 100% never possible.

do married people watch gen z dating and feel like they caught the last chopper out of Nam

— Amy (@lolennui) January 21, 2022

Not married, but close enough — and yes. A bunch of prudes and woke fakesters pretending only their perspective and weird preferences have any merit, while what anyone else likes or wants is obviously ridiculous.

By the way I blame the Fat Acceptance movement for a lot of this, with their rapey, “You must be attracted to me even though I can put Jabba the Hutt in an armbar” absurdity.

The causality in many cases probably goes both ways of course, but it’s instructive that many people who have health problems and mobility issues are also obese or extremely obese. Obesity makes you fragile and exacerbates (or causes) many health problems.

I look at all these people who are younger than me talking about how being old is hard, and how your body just mysteriously starts falling apart. And I have no idea what they are going on about because I am 45 and in great shape and I do not experience any of that.

Spurs me on to keep doing what I am doing, seeing 40-year-olds allowing themselves to degrade as if they are 80. Effectively, they are — and it’s sad to see.

“But there’s no way I can not weigh 400 pounds!” Sure, bud, keep believing that right until your early grave.