great timing by the operator, too: the stugna is laser-guided, so you can see the operator swing the targeting reticle wide of the helicopter until the missile is close enough that the pilot would have trouble dodging on alarm https://t.co/xTn9eFYDhs

— alexander (a normal boy) (@myrrlyn) April 5, 2022

He shot down a helicopter with an anti-tank missile. Damn.

I swear to god y'all stop underselling your skills theres people out here who just hit print to PDF https://t.co/CJ4jiUTYwR

— SwiftOnSecurity (@SwiftOnSecurity) April 6, 2022

Looks like I need to realign my career. I can print that PDF with the best of ’em. How do I find these companies?

What's going on here, I guess, is that the sacralized talismanic status of the mask has become such that the rationale for its use has become entirely incoherent among its adherents, who attribute all sorts of incompatible magical qualities and capacities to it.

— Geoff Shullenberger (@daily_barbarian) April 4, 2022

I’ve even seen this talismanic status explicitly stated quite often. There are tons of tweets and articles saying that the mask-wearer is donning a mask to “show they care.” Honey, hate to tell you, but the SARS-CoV-2 virus doesn’t give a rip that you care. It’s going to slide through your never-washed cloth mask like a Javelin through a T-72.

All wine tastes the same https://t.co/VtFvoitcYW

— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) April 6, 2022

I don’t think it all tastes the same but I can’t reliably tell the difference between any of it. I prefer sweeter and less bitter wines, for sure. But I’ve had $200 bottles of wine and $10 bottles and if you switched the labels, I wouldn’t be able to discern that at all.

The 30yr fixed mortgage rate just passed 5% for the 1st time since '11. Thus, w/ the avg. home price at $511K today, vs. $408K last yr, & the 30yr fixed mortage rate at 5.02% today vs. 3.32% a yr ago, the avg. cost of a mortage is $2,138/month now vs. $1,129a yr ago (+101%). WOW! pic.twitter.com/pbBfsvaQiS

— Gordon Johnson (@GordonJohnson19) April 5, 2022

With so many cash sales, it remains to be seen what effect this will actually have on the market. I don’t have a solid prediction here that I’d trust. Market is too chaotic and too many factors at play.

Lockdowns for libs are like communism used to be: they can’t fail, only be failed.

“RADIAL NEUROPATHY Common causes include sleeping with the arm slung over a park bench (“Saturday night palsy”), compression in the axilla by improper crutch use (“crutch palsy”), or fracture of the humerus damaging the nerve as it travels in the spiral groove.”

That’s from the neuroanatomy book. You know, if I were a doctor, it’d never occur to me to ask a patient if they came in with radial neuropathy, “Did you sleep with your arm slung over a park bench last night?”

I just would not think of that.

This neuroanatomy book is really good. One of the best textbooks I’ve ever read (and I’ve read a lot of textbooks).

Also, a whole fuckload of things can and does go wrong with human bodies. Diagnosis is hard.