"2022 is the year to get our groove back," @AmandaMarcotte writes. "The right has opened the door, by inviting us to debate whether sex should be fun and reading should be pleasurable. That's a fight that the left can win, easily." https://t.co/v9IRRqCaNq
— Salon (@Salon) February 4, 2022
The problem is that most of the left actually does not think sex should be fun or that reading should be pleasurable. So that won’t work at all as a strategy.
For the first time ever, did 3×15 on dips. My triceps are feelin’ it. But they are also getting strong and looking nice. Dips are a great exercise and work quite a few muscles.
I respond by laughing my ass off and saying good riddance. https://t.co/gc3b2lutYM
— Bruce Bartlett (@BruceBartlett) January 30, 2022
Same. Good fucking riddance. Die choking, motherfucker.
Pre-covid, did we realize there are so many people amongst us who are so stupid and/or crazy that they would rather die than get a safe, effective vaccination against a deadly disease? I had a very low opinion of humans and I am shocked. Pollyannas must be despondent.
— Bruce Bartlett (@BruceBartlett) January 31, 2022
Between the anti-vaxxers and the liberal “eternal lockdown is the way to do it” fanatics, my evaluation of humanity was drastically downgraded as a result of the pandemic. It was already very low, but now an alien invasion would be welcomed.
Liberals believe that if we dream smaller — if we renounce space, discard technology and basic research — that we’ll be forced to concentrate on our immediate earthside problems. In fact, the opposite will occur. Dreaming small means that not only do you not achieve the goals you think will you achieve, but that you backslide and worsen your situation.
But the joy of taking things away is one too many people will not relinquish. And that fact is driving a lot of these discussions.
this is praxis https://t.co/Iv0qveqhjD
— Faine Greenwood (@faineg) February 5, 2022
I know how to make a mortar with a few hundred meter range with $200 of parts and a few afternoons. Not sure it could sink a ship that big, but the incendiary version would certainly fuck it up right good.
My mortar tube would only last a few shots before it became unusable. But that’s enough.
The first ten on today’s playlist:
900,000 COVID deaths.
It is not going away. The end of the omicron wave is not the end of covid. It’s a breathing space to plan for the next wave. And the one after that. And all the ones after that.
— Dr Ellie Murray, ScD 🇨🇦 (@EpiEllie) February 5, 2022
Very wrong. Omicron will be the last major wave. There will be a wave in fall/winter 2022-2023 but it won’t be like the current Omicron one.
More “fear porn,” as some other person on Twitter put it. This fear porn is extremely popular with liberals for some reason. They fucking eat it up.
The liberal “there is no evidence” for something or other is really a preference statement about policy choices. Sometimes, though, it’s a statement of faith cloaked in the “believe science” dogma.
I’m a Little Bummed That Adele Lost Weight.
Good for her. She’ll be vastly healthier and feel better, too. And she looks great. Everyone should do it if they can. I love people crying about it.
Wallow in your loserdom, losers! It’s the only thing you’re good at, might as well keep it up.
What the fuck! Why has no one told me about gymwheel!?! Why have you all been keeping this from me?
That looks like so much fun, but I know if I tried it I’d break all my fingers by rolling over them with the wheel and most of my limbs too.
I will never get over the fact that the modern definition of “eating disorder” has become “not weighing 300+ pounds.”
Total food corporation propaganda win there. I do admire, actually. Hate but admire.
Human behavior and tendencies are so strange in a lot of ways. For example, when you don’t need or want something, people are more likely to attempt to give you more of it: love, money, sex, friendship, praise.
Desperation or neediness is like kryptonite to most people, so the less your need for a thing the more likely you are to receive it.
That’s really deeply just fucked up when you think about it.