What was the last mainstream show with a compelling duo? X-files?
— Misha. Angel Investor, Photographer, Shitposter (@drethelin) February 15, 2022
Nora and Kevin on The Leftovers.
Month: February 2022
Bash Shell
The axe existed for 1 million years before anyone thought to put a handle on it, lol.
— Kanyi Maqubela (@km) February 15, 2022
I think about that almost every day. “Obvious” ideas aren’t. We’ve not nearly discovered everything yet, despite what you’ve been told, nor have we made use of the things we have discovered well or correctly.
In many, many ways we’re still those paleolithic hominins bashing things with a rock for a near-eternity, not even considering that we could tie a stick to that rock and have a far superior tool.
General Adbication
Is fascism the wave of the future? How climate change benefits the extreme right.
Only because the left became obsessed with identity bullshittery and believing there are 900 genders, instead of engaging with the actual world in a substantive way.
Numbers Up
The first ten on today’s playlist:
Pompeii and Circumstance
What are the costs of the megadrought in the Southwest?
I sometimes like Tyler, but this is absurd economist thinking.
As riposte, did the price of real estate suffer in Pompeii before Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD?
Alt Left
I’m enjoying watching the Covid panickers bawling like little babies about people returning to normal lives. Most of them don’t really give a crap about hospital capacity or anything else; they just want to take things away from you.
Me, I’m gonna watch Aden kill it singing “What I Am” again. And then I’m gonna travel where I want to and do what I wanna do.
“What I Am” by Edie Brickell
Those kids are all really good, but that singer is fantastic. She’s really got something there.
Sershen & Zaritskaya – Rebel Yell
Only cover of this song I’ve ever seen that I’ve liked. They don’t take the sex out of the song. I mean, the song is about sex so it’s absurd to do that. But they aren’t Americans so aren’t as constrained by prudishness.
Daria’s voice is great for this song.
10 Ton Truck
so many of these anti-vax protestors look like they’ve smoked every cigarette.
— Ally Maynard (@allymayn) February 12, 2022
And weigh as much as their trucks. Those people look rough, and not in the “imposing, threatening” way but more in the “about to keel over and die very soon” way.
Funny, the people most likely to require vaccination and to benefit it from it are the least likely to get it. Perverse justice.
More Believin’ Science
Most of the healthiest countries in the world also have high meat consumption. The idea of "blue zones" where unusually long-lived people in the world resided turned out not to be because of vegetarianism, but because those areas were poor and prone to massive pension fraud. pic.twitter.com/0GbAqZg0jL
— Simon Sarris (@simonsarris) February 9, 2022
I’d wondered about that in the past. LOL. That’s good to know.
Tark
Also, the Soderbergh Solaris >> the Tarkovsky Solaris, the latter of which is incredibly overrated
Don’t @ me pic.twitter.com/FjTjFKmvVD
— Trishank Karthik Kuppusamy (@trishankkarthik) February 14, 2022
Agreed. Soderbergh’s Solaris is far superior. Tarkovsky’s is turgid and tonally muddled.
Risk Ski
We need to see more tools like this: pic.twitter.com/dt8gBg3PLS
— Kwadwo Kyeremanteng (@kwadwo777) February 12, 2022
Great data presentation there.
Eft
The Left had a generational opportunity during COVID to demonstrate its worth.
Instead its priorities were safetyism for affluent hysterics with personality disorders, soc jus cosplay, lux communist lifestyle branding, and reification of strange, esoteric identity tableaux.
— Mediocre 1%er (@Academic_midwit) February 11, 2022
Yep. They screwed it up with utter bullshit, and are now very fucking bitter about it.
Hibernia
Still mystified that people live in places like Buffalo and Toronto and Winnipeg on purpose.
Some Dents
People in Asian countries don't wear masks continuously year after year with no defined endpoint!
Why are people so obsessed with masks?! https://t.co/0krRz7TTM7
— throw spaghetti at the fridge (@thinkdensely) February 13, 2022
Masks became a team identity marker and a way of showing you are committed to doing something about the pandemic — even if in many situations a mask is nearly useless and became much less important after vaccines were available. Flying the team colors is really important to a lot of people. And some people legitimately are terrified because of liberal anti-vax propaganda out there.
I’ve seen many, many libs advocating wearing masks forever. Yes it’s insane but it’s hard to give up identity-defining items and practices.