Just wow. Watching this on repeat all day. @TeamRojas45 goes 15.74m to crush her own world record in the triple jump + win #WorldIndoorChamps 🥇 pic.twitter.com/S0eMB03mEG

— Chris Chavez (@ChrisChavez) March 20, 2022

God that’s impressive. 15.74m in real measurements is 51 feet and 7.7 inches. That’s Yulimar Rojas, by the way. She’s all legs and all amazing.

Women reported a greater readiness to engage in conception-risking sexual behaviors when they had more physically attractive partners. https://t.co/GsVXxyGivS pic.twitter.com/wUEtL9PIZU

— Rolf Degen (@DegenRolf) March 21, 2022

You ain’t need science to tell you that; you just need to get hotter and then compare and contrast.

LOL.

Why do people find covid theater so impressive? https://t.co/fzYFZZe60D pic.twitter.com/oSI4iD86Cr

— Nick Foy (@TheNickFoy) March 19, 2022

A lot of it is this thinking: “This works under ideal conditions and in special circumstances, so it MUST work here too.” That it, to the extent that any thinking is happening at all. And it makes people feel safe whether it has any effect or not.

The Rawlsian veil does not react well with deontological meliorism.

There's nothing "very liberal" about constant lockdowns/closures in the first place. Not only did the "very liberal" hurt society, they've invented a faux ideological lane of progressivism that increased inequities. They've betrayed their own cause & damaged the Democratic Party.

— Josh (@Bagsy_J) March 18, 2022

Indeed. I was surprised to see us import a strategy from an authoritarian country and implement it widely as the only and obvious solution the pandemic, while other countries that fared fine did not do lockdowns at all.

I’m not being dramatic; it really did surprise me. We’re lucky that in America that lockdowns didn’t really last long. People resisted and they were right to do so. However, we also didn’t do much else that would’ve really helped, like ventilation and air quality improvements. That’s not so good because those were easy wins we just blithely left on the table and which would’ve helped with numerous other illnesses, not just Covid.

I’m getting sidetracked here, though. Lockdowns are evil, despite any benefit they might bring about. Not because they originated in an authoritarian country, but because of the harm they cause and will continue to cause long after they are well in the past.

Despite their mask mandate, Scotland continues to report significantly higher case rates than mask-free England

In response, Scotland announced they are extending the mandate at least 2 weeks, because the first rule of COVID policy is that the less it works, the more we need it pic.twitter.com/cXTDA2bL8s

— Ian Miller (@ianmSC) March 16, 2022

That does sum up our Covid policies pretty well. A lot of libs have magical thinking about what’s possible and what’s likely to work.

The global economy is not a machine that you can just turn off, then just reboot it. You don't just turn it all off (as we did in 2020) & then turn it right back on & a year or 2 later you're back to normal. I guess only economists are that dumb? https://t.co/BUCV2IcpYs

— jonstokes.(com|eth) (@jonst0kes) March 17, 2022

I said that at the time. Another obvious thing experts could not see that was very damn plain to see.

A hard six-week lockdown* of 7.9 billion people across 195 nations?

(*in which basic food, supply, and medical services still continue to operate)

— Jeremy Wilcox (@jwilcox79) March 16, 2022

Well, no one dies of Covid if they die of famine, thirst, and loneliness. Solved!

Not just failed energy policy:

– Demographic implosion.
– Deindustrialization.
– Economic competition from China and the US.
– Geopolitical instability.

Europe might become much much poorer in the not too distant future.

— Samo Burja (@SamoBurja) March 15, 2022

I think this looks distinctly possible. Much of Europe is making terrible decisions which are likely to make its future worse. Reducing energy use and de-growth won’t lead anywhere good. Progress can and often does reverse, and Europe is doing many things to make sure this happens.

One good thing about the Covid pandemic is that it starkly revealed just how hostile to human life and human flourishing a lot of the so-called progressive left is. Many of them would still have us cowering inside, waiting until the “end” of the pandemic for any normal human activity, despite the consequences and the vast harm this causes.

Many of those very same people advocating an eternal lockdown are the same ones who believe we should antagonize Russia into a nuclear war.

Figure that out, because I fucking can’t.

We need to talk about #Westplaining.
It’s a term coined by the Eastern European left to describe a tendency of certain Western leftists to ascribe everything that happens east of Germany to Western policy.
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— George Monbiot (@GeorgeMonbiot) March 15, 2022

Good thread about how Westerners believe they are the cause of and the reason for anything that happens anywhere in the world.

“Kashmir” is an underrated song.

But how, just fucking how, do you ever learn to play drums like that? Most don’t, is the answer.

Passed by Unanimous Consent, S.623: Sunshine Protection Act, as amended (to make Daylight Saving Time permanent) @SenRubioPress / @SenWhitehouse / others

— Senate Cloakroom (@SenateCloakroom) March 15, 2022

HELL YES!