When I grow up, I want to be a professional crisis actor. 😉
Month: February 2022
Call 911 for the 911
BREAKING: A giant cargo ship "Felicity Ace" is on fire in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
It's carrying a cargo of Porsche and VW automobiles.
The crew safely abandoned ship in lifeboats. Under maritime law the ship is now "finders keepers." pic.twitter.com/gHLqHncrOi
— Retro Tech Noir (@RetroTechNoir) February 17, 2022
Anyone want some Porsches? (The person is correct about the law, though expect to be sued if you attempt to claim the loot in most jurisdictions.)
Watt Now
How long before the “progressives” start advocating taking away electricity and indoor plumbing from everyone?
Probably soon.
Fatuity
See: Denmark's Statistical Institute tries to address some of the misinformation proliferating about the country.
And again: a highly-vaccinated, high-trust, high-testing, small, competent county that can switch back-and-forth is not a good US comparator!https://t.co/RK2xTvsowU pic.twitter.com/VFcdxUz31l— zeynep tufekci (@zeynep) February 15, 2022
Strangely — or perhaps not so strangely — it’s been mostly “progressives” that I’ve seen purveying utter trash lies about Denmark and Covid. The bed-hiders are gonna attempt to get us all to bed-hide no matter what.
Melod
The first ten on today’s playlist:
Mostly a Con
Exercise doesn’t help you burn more energy on average.
Ha. Bullshit. I eat about 500 more calories per day than I did before I started intense weightlifting, and have for years. I track what I eat pretty assiduously so I’m not far off here.
But when adjusted for nonfat body mass, Hadza men and women burned the same amount of energy per day on average as men and women in the United States, as well as those in Europe, Russia, and Japan, he reported….
There’s where the con comes, that “nonfat body mass.” If you think about what the means for a second, you see that’s the usual scientist trick of adjusting things that should not be altered so the results than fit the narrative. And the narrative of course is whatever aligns with Fat Acceptance talking points.
That said, some of the research appears to be worthwhile, though it’s just so befouled with the FA ideology, who’s to say? I do agree 100% with the idea that you can’t exercise your way to losing weight; diet is what matters. Still, I think this research is mostly worthless — it’s designed explicitly to allow people to justify wallowing in their loserdom and is mostly a carefully-orchestrated con that, like the best cons, uses kernels of truth to appear to have veracity.
Sense? Not In My America
❌Universal restrictions
✅ effective interventions targeted at high risk folks❌focus on masks
✅focus on vaccines/boosters❌Minimizing trade offs
✅Honestly contending with drawbacks of specific interventions❌ laser like focus on single health risk
✅ whole health focus— Angie Schmitt🚶♀️ (@schmangee) February 17, 2022
Now Angie, that’s just crazy talk. Can’t have anything sensible around here. It’s lockdown or nothing!
Better
Department of Education to cancel $415 million in student loan debt.
Better headline: Department of Education to cancel 0.02% of student loan debt.
Because there is $1.86 trillion of student loan debt in the US, and $415 million of that is 0.02%.
Well Damn
India: 13 women and girls die after falling down well during marriage celebrations.
That’s the horrifying and completely terrible thing I didn’t need to read this morning. Life is always fatal, sometimes in really dreadful ways.
Self-abuse
Lockdown as the ideal solution to every pandemic problem is a great example of the self-oppression that we’ve learned to cultivate internally. It’s a destructive approach imported from an authoritarian country that had never been tried before in human history on a large scale and that traumatized millions upon millions while in most places having only negligible benefit.
But it feels like doing something, and that feeling is what matters now more than what it actually achieves. In other words, the more it hurts, the better. And that it harms the most vulnerable the very most (kids and young adults) is a feature, not a bug, of the lockdown mentality.
Liberals need some sort of religion to blunt this kind of crap. They really, really do.
Dusties
Yup. My daughter never got to have her senior year of dance competitions that she worked so hard for. No senior ball. No closure. Online classes at college. It has taken its toll on her. These kids can never get that time in their lives back.
— lisa clarke (@lclarke_lisa) February 16, 2022
But the libs said they had STUDIES that prove kids were SO HAPPY to have been locked inside for so long, with nothing to do, missing all the milestones and joys of life.
They had STUDIES I tell you. STUDIES!
LOL.
Reversed
A modern feminist is someone who believes sex is demeaning but getting told what to do by an HR department is empowering and life-affirming.
Whitecoat
A 435-mile Walking Route Opened in Canada With Beautiful Views.
Sounds cold. When I become a polar bear, I will go on this trail.
Out From Under
Our playbook to fight covid-19 is outdated. Here are 10 updates for 2022.
Oh this is going to make bed-hiding libs cry so big. But all eminently sensible and correct.