Why did so many libs think we’d just, like, stay inside forever? What the hell?
Month: March 2022
Carrier
Foreign airlines are dropping mask mandates. Are U.S. carriers next?
God, I fucking hope so. Makes flying so unpleasant. Can’t happen soon enough. That said, it’a rule at the federal level so airlines don’t have a lot of choice until that rule is eased.
Mass Grammacide
I’m in a hotel room for the first time since 2019. It’s terribly bland and generic, and I love it.
ALSO, I have an unlimited buffet breakfast in the morning and I am absolutely going to fill my boots
— Tits McGee (@Scientits) March 25, 2022
An incalculable number of grammas just died. Expressing any joy about doing normal things again increases the gramma kill rate 10x, by the way.
Infinilife
Stronger hands lengthen your life.
Nice. My grip strength now is ridiculous. That means I will live forever, right?
Hypocrisy and Contradictions
The left on women and gender is so bizarre.
“Gender doesn’t exist and biology doesn’t exist but trans women are real women (which isn’t real) and biology means that women are very different than men, though it doesn’t exist, and claiming it’s hypocritical when we say that biology exists only when we want it to exist is sexist and racist, and also imperialist. Also, gender is so real while not being real that anyone can change gender at any time and it becomes a real fake real gender. Animals that have very different biologies and chromosomes prove somehow that human biology doesn’t have a generally heterogametic and homogametic pattern, even though biology isn’t real of course. Also, women should be treated as super-special snowflakes despite biology and gender being fake while they are also treated completely equally.
And if you don’t believe/disbelieve any and all of that exactly when I want you to believe it/not believe it, then you are canceled.”
Makes total sense. They think.
Counter Counter
Goddamn, why is the Ukrainian army considering any counteroffensive now? That’s also bad strategy. They shouldn’t go making similar mistakes to the Russians. They’ve been in combat for a month. There will not be significant relief. Those fighting are exhausted and need a break.* A counteroffensive starts playing into the Russian capabilities and totally against what the Ukrainians can currently be good at.
The Ukrainians should continue their harassing and supply line attacks, fight opportunistically, using mainly guerrilla methods, and let the Russians continue to fight poorly and exhaust themselves. A counteroffensive might sound macho and cool on paper, but it’s a total mistake, especially now.
*Pretty good studies show a soldier’s combat effectiveness starts going sharply downhill after about a month in. This is why I was laughing at the Russian Army due to their near-100% personnel commitment. Totally unsustainable.
Mission
The fact that I have strong convictions about the outcome — I want to see humanity reproduce & spread to the stars — & am merely opinionated + flexible on the process, increasingly puts me at odds with liberalism, which is the inverse. Well, so be it. Bye, Felicia.
— jonstokes.(com|eth) (@jonst0kes) March 24, 2022
Same. I’m not on a team. Fuck your team. I’m on a mission. What Jon talks about is also why I am completely opposed to liberalism in most forms, and any currently-practiced form. (The whole thread is good, by the way.)
There is not yet a viable replacement is the problem I am having, as there are many good things that liberalism developed but then abandoned or perverted to useless causes utilizing worthless methods. It is already in failure mode and can’t be saved, however. That is the larger problem.
Who Is
It’s kind of already happening, but I guess it’s only a matter of time before who is “white” is defined primarily by their political beliefs.
Improvement?
Small Tac
In the last week, I’ve suddenly seen a lot of “well, the use tactical nuclear weapons wouldn’t be THAT bad” takes. And this comes even from “defense experts” in countries without nuclear weapons. Let me tell you why it would be that bad. 🧵
— Beatrice Fihn (@BeaFihn) March 22, 2022
Come on, what’s a few nukes here and there ya big babies. 😉
Chrono
Above the age of majority, age matters less than most people imagines it does. Proclivities, personality and intelligence matter far more. But because we assign age such high value against all evidence, it thus matters far more than it otherwise would. We create the meaning by thinking it has meaning in a self-reinforcing loop.
I’ve met 20-year-olds with the maturity and wisdom of those forty years their elder. And I’ve met people like my mom who acted like a six-year-old her entire life.
Things that are easy to quantify we’ll assign much higher importance to than they otherwise would have, and ignore all else. (And it doesn’t help that very many older women generally absolutely despise younger ones and will treat them like trash at every opportunity; but that is a whole ‘nother topic.)
Proper Response
discussion made difficult bc the critics in these cases are generally people who haven’t read the book and are just upset by what they imagine it contains, even though the word “readers” as used here would ordinarily imply the opposite pic.twitter.com/uHemDj7BZk
— Kat Rosenfield (@katrosenfield) March 22, 2022
When readers (who haven’t actually read the work 99% of the time) tell you something is flawed, here is the proper response: “Fuck you. Read something else then. Get the fuck out of here and I hope the door hits you on the ass on the way out and you fall on your stupid fucking clown face.”
Never explain, never apologize. Just do.
Litany
starting to suspect that the irritating covid-driven changes to medical, dental, and veterinary care are going to be the one set of pandemic restrictions that just never goes away
— Kat Rosenfield (@katrosenfield) March 22, 2022
But, Kat, everything is OPEN. It’s just the SAME as it was before. That’s what all the good little libs tell me.
Of course, it’s complete lies, but that’s what they do these days.
Hand Off
I REFUSE TO BE CENSORED BY CANCEL CULTURE, and I'M HERE TO SAY:
I loathe writing by hand and organize my life in such a way that I do it as little as possible
— Faine Greenwood (@faineg) March 25, 2022
Same. I hate writing by hand and see no reason to do it. It’s difficult to use anywhere else, my handwriting is terrible, and it is inevitably lost quickly. It’s just an enormous waste of time.
I haven’t written by hand much since the 1980s, and even then I avoided it as much as possible.
Danger Time
This is my assessment too. It’s 1914 again, except this time with thermobaric bombs and nuclear weapons. It’s an extremely dangerous time.
Out the Main
The main problem I have with PMC libs is that they are just incredibly, relentlessly fucking boring. The PMC future is terrible and no one should want to live there.