“turns out I’m not a bitch I was just cold lol”
TOO TRUE. dead. https://t.co/N1Xq2AHQgx
— Amy Hoy (@amyhoy) March 30, 2022
I am also 100x grumpier when I am forced to live in a terrible cold climate. Fuck that noise.
Day: March 30, 2022, 4:37 PM
Dr.
the part of this that's the funniest to me is the grocery store
Imagine berating a poor check-out clerk for not calling you doctor https://t.co/r6AXdxXq3s
— Misha. Angel Investor, Photographer, Shitposter (@drethelin) March 30, 2022
Yeah. These people make no sense to me.
Osfast
I’m in Oslo where there are no masks and it’s both amazing and terrifying.
— Runa Sandvik (@runasand) March 29, 2022
I rarely see anyone in Florida wearing a mask and I do not wear one. I got vaccinated for reason. Oslo doin’ it right.
Externalities
According to recent research, if a gallon of gasoline was taxed to fund offsetting the harm that burning it does to other people, each gallon would cost about $10
— Louis Mirante (@louismirante) March 29, 2022
That’s what I calculated a few years ago too.
Mend
I appreciate recent COVID-19 coverage from @nytimes and @washingtonpost. Nevertheless, corrections, clarifications, retractions and updates about previous COVID-19 reporting (and omissions) could fill each paper's A1-A20 section for a week.
Some non-exhaustive examples:
1/42 🧵
— John W. DeFeo (@johndefeo) March 29, 2022
Good thread. The difference beween the libs and conservatives matters because too many conservatives are anti-vax, and being anti-vax leads directly to far more deaths.
But about Covid, the libs were 90% lying and the conservatives 95% lying. Both not great. And the libs are moving into a more mendacious mode now and becoming increasingly anti-vax themselves de facto.
GMA Again
At the time: The consequences either don’t exist or must not be talked about. Discussion of balancing harms means you are not taking the pandemic seriously.
Afterwards: Of course there were consequences. They were unintended. Obviously. https://t.co/Z93L9KqQLd
— Kidsneedschoollikefishneedwater (@Kidsneedschool1) March 30, 2022
Funny how after the libs have already committed the massive harm, only then is it acceptable to talk about it. If you attempted to discuss at the time it was all, “Why do you wanna kill grammmmmaaaaaaaa?”
Point
'NATO expansion' is a misleading framing of something countries do. https://t.co/d9whj8a42k
— David Deutsch (@DavidDeutschOxf) March 24, 2022
That is a very good point.
Super Pissed
A lot of libs wish Covid had been worse than it is, and are lying about vaccines, reinfections, etc., to make it appear that it is. Yes, Covid is not a hoax and Long Covid is real, but also tons of libs are super fucking pissed that Covid didn’t lead to the various abridgments and reformations of society that they’d prefer.
Now they’re taking that rage out on the rest of us, and hurting society, women and particularly children in the process. And vax efforts, too.
FFD
Anyone who believes that the Russians completely getting their asses handed to them in Ukraine is what they intended to do is a full fucking dumbass.
I will call you that to your face if I meet you. Not that I’d want to meet you. Because see above; why would I want to consort with dumbasses?
ProP
First Battle of Kyiv looks to be truly over. That is actually momentous. Whatever happens now we are talking about a limited war time and geography-wise–unless we think Russia has the will and resources to conscript, train and arm an entirely new army. https://t.co/1KMKm9hNsd https://t.co/69ti6ipM1q
— Phillips P. OBrien (@PhillipsPOBrien) March 29, 2022
I’m surprised and pleased the Ukrainians were able to defend Kyiv; the Ukrainian forces are better than I thought, and the Russians much worse.
Pro-Putin libs like Welsh are crying big tears now and I fucking love it.
The Trend
Oh, the attack on Kyiv was just a feint, was it?
If you lose 20% of your whole invasion force on a feint, what's that called?
— Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 (@Noahpinion) March 30, 2022
Yeah. Never expected Ian Welsh to become a Putin bro, but he’d been trending dumbass since the pandemic began. The Russian effort is something that definitely starts with an “f,” but “feint” would not be the correct term. More like a fuck-up, farce or flame-out.
Russia's *confirmed* tank losses are now approximately 1 out of 8 of its total usable tank force from before the war.
In one month.https://t.co/xPqgX3ir4x
— Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 (@Noahpinion) March 30, 2022
For those not that knowledgeable about anything to do with the military, this is Very Bad. Especially considering the Russians aren’t gonna be getting any parts any time soon for the tanks that are still kicking.
Imaging you’re fighting a single person. It’s just you and the other individual in single combat. You’re a big bear of a man, so you swing at him so hard, with every ounce of your force, that you fall over and hit your head on the sidewalk. You land a glancing blow on the dude you’re fighting but that’s about all. Meanwhile, you’re bleeding on the ground as he comes up behind you and kicks you in the ribs repeatedly while you grab for his legs futilely.
This is about where Russia is regarding Ukraine, spent, bleeding on the ground. Sure, Russia is still a big scary bear with weapons aplenty. But see that whole “bleeding on the ground” part after expending maximum effort and having achieved little.
Search
Somewhere, someone mocked funding research on the wings of cicadas https://t.co/uuWD0ZoXV0
— SydneyPadua (@sydneypadua) March 29, 2022
The problem with criticizing “useless” research is that you don’t know what’s useful or useless until you fuckin’ do it.
Note to libs: this includes research on space travel and technology around that, very much so.