A throwback. It’s one of my favorite 80s songs.

Parts of the 1980s were strange. Very weird stuff went mainstream in a way that it could not now, because there almost is no mainstream and we’re too prudish to admit the weird. Also, younger millennials and Gen Z think they invented gender play and bizarrely-colored hair but none of that is at all new.

A tedious and predictable diatribe against Emily Oster — banal left-wing discourse from two Ivy League epidemiologists — that, with great provincialism, ignored how (real) leftist social democrats across Northern Europe reopened schools in spring 2020.https://t.co/DaFopZ6Wh1

— Anthony LaMesa (@ajlamesa) March 22, 2022

Yeah, that article was terrible. Poorly-researched gutter trash. Indeed, schools were open in much of Europe throughout the pandemic. I guess libs are obsessed with keeping schools closed because the real PMC goal is eliminating publc schools altogether, in combination with pandemic-spurred religious feelings?

That article is embarrassingly bad. Its appalling intellectual failure is only exceeded by the lack of understanding of the fields it purports to cover and even basic scientific facts. Just what the fuck.

This is not the future.
Is it? pic.twitter.com/9p3jwCuan3

— Marc Simonetti (@kemar74) March 23, 2022

It could be. The future is what we make it; nothing more, nothing less.

Anything that does not violate the laws of physics is a possible future. And anything we can actually do, we can afford. The liberal future of slurping bug slurry in a concrete pod locked 23 hours a day “for your own good” is a possible one too, of course. Those are the versions we should resist unto death itself but aren’t doing a particularly good job of forestalling.

Something I’ve been thinking about recently, as Covid prevention has become a deeply held religion for many liberals, is how many they’d be willing to outright kill to stop Covid. I suspect for many it’d be way more than have actually died or will ever die of Covid; that’s what religion does to your brain if not constrained and contained.

After all, many of the methods they propose, such a worldwide, months-long lockdowns, would cause widespread famines in many parts of the world from which many places would never recover. Millions would die and would continue to perish for a very long time after.

But now it’s a holy cause for which no explanation nor justification is needed; as with a Crusade, it’s simply what must be done no matter the cost and no matter how little sense it makes.

If you don’t wear a mask 24/7 then you are implicitly agreeing with everyone that it is has some costs, right?

So stop acting like it’s fucking free

— Misha. Angel Investor, Photographer, Shitposter (@drethelin) March 24, 2022

Don’t make the liberals cry now. It’s too easy. They never stop and then it gets annoying. Just let them have their little religion. It’s kind of cute now that they can’t force it on the rest of us.

Whenever I watch something in a language I understand ok, but with english subtitles, I wonder at the seemingly pointless translation differences

— Misha. Angel Investor, Photographer, Shitposter (@drethelin) March 25, 2022

When I do that, I realize how poorly translated many subtitles are. Many are seemingly done in Google Translate, or worse. Often way worse, really.

I can’t understand Swedish at all well, but some movie I watched I could comprehend Swedish obviously better than the subtitler could. These were the official subtitles, by the way, not some internet pirate effort! I guess everything is done by the lowest bidder these days. And it shows.

Brigitte Helm, star of “Metropolis,” was born in Berlin on this day in 1906. pic.twitter.com/lFyWInz0YW

— Humanoid History (@HumanoidHistory) March 17, 2022

Wonder what she’s drinking? That’s definitely not water.

I predict 9% inflation in 2022 and 10-11% in 2023 in the US. That’s the official numbers.

I expect actual inflation for most people to be in the 12-15% range both years.