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.
Month: April 2022
Party Power
Agreed. Yes, we should be trumpeting high employment levels. No, we shouldn't be surprised that people care more about the fact that they're getting poorer. https://t.co/EXcWmL4qUK
— Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 (@Noahpinion) April 5, 2022
People actively getting poorer, and that accelerating, is going to be very bad for the party in power.
Mah
Pears are bad! https://t.co/zbO9NYMeFP
— Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 (@Noahpinion) April 5, 2022
Ham is the devil’s meat.
Chucky Larms
People Are Getting Sick After Eating Lucky Charms.
Well, it is Lucky Charms. Isn’t that the expected result? Pop Tarts does the same thing. So…the usual?
A Little Bit
"Many women in the worldโs richer countries appear to seek Mr. Perfect, while their male counterparts are more willing to accept Ms. Goodenough." https://t.co/O2lVhZb7XI And the trend may be increasing. pic.twitter.com/F9q2iFJpWG
— Rolf Degen (@DegenRolf) April 5, 2022
Trend is definitely increasing. Women are looking for millionaires above six feet tall who will be perfect fathers with model looks.
Men are looking for a woman who might be nice to them sometimes.
I wonder what’s driving women to be so hugely selective, more so than at any time in my lifetime certainly? It’s an interesting problem because it means a few win but most lose, because the pool of men that 80% of women are looking for is only enough for about 1 out of 50 or maybe even 1 out of 100 of them to find their “perfect” match.
Any way out of that bind?
Belief System
America is so psychologically 'over' COVID at this point that it's escaping attention (plus there's a land war going on in Europe), but what is currently happening in Shanghai right now is insane, and underdiscussed. "Zero COVID" is never going to work.
— Jeff B. is *BOX OFFICE POISON* (@EsotericCD) April 5, 2022
Believing in a thing does not make it real. Zero Covid and the Easter Bunny are both still totally make-believe.
Equate
Larry Summers and the rest of the economists who think trade liberalization will affect inflation simply donโt think about the physical movement of stuff. https://t.co/7RdYxWWUZ5
— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) April 5, 2022
All they know are equations. Looking at what’s happening in the real world is what allows you to see some of the future.
Statements
The correct pronunciation is Flor-DUH, am I wrong?
— Angie Schmitt🚶♀️ (@schmangee) April 5, 2022
Depends on what part of Florida you’re from. If North Florida, it’s something like that, but more like “Flo(uhr)-Duh.” If you’re Latin(a)(o), it’s more like it sounds in Spanish. If you’re not from the Southern part of the state, which is in the north in Florida, it’s closer to the Spanish pronunciation but not quite the same.
And if you’re a Northern snowbird, it’s all over the place, but it usually gets on my nerves because most snowbirds here are from New York and Pennsylvania and such, so it sounds like you’re grating cheese with your mouth.
Consistency
I thought the Russian invasion of Ukraine would tamp down some of the Covid panic. Instead, a lot of those mooks are still yammering on about “complete safety” while advocating starting a nuclear war with Russia.
Which, cool, I guess.
Alleged
“Alleged.” Great job, NBC News. The atrocities aren’t “alleged,” no matter who you believe committed them. I mean, obviously the Russians did but nothing here is “alleged.” There’s overwhelming documentary evidence already.
Our journalism is terrible.
Truly Did
I was thinking about this post of mine about lockdown.
I don’t think deontologically, so this didn’t occur to me until now — but the libs who claim that nowhere “really” did lockdown are reasoning this way: Covid wasn’t eliminated, ergo [insert place here] didn’t truly do a lockdown.
Ah that makes so much sense now. I simply cannot think that way easily, so it takes me a while to reason ass backwards like that.
Massacre
Very straightforward and simple proof: satellite images captured during the Russian occupation show the same bodies in the same position as photographed when Ukraine retook the town.https://t.co/AofUcK4DCa
— Aric Toler (@AricToler) April 4, 2022
Putinoid tankies go to hell.
They Gonna
New, from BioNTech co-founders ลahin and Tรผreci:
โWe report here that Omicron breakthrough infection in BNT162b2 vaccinated individuals results in strong neutralizing activity not only against Omicron, but also broadly against previous SARS-CoV-2 VOCs and against SARS-CoV-1." https://t.co/uamh8h7CMf
— zeynep tufekci (@zeynep) April 4, 2022
Very good news. Covid panickers gonna panic no matter what, but still nice to see.
Maybe Me
Do the tankies not realize that, “Well, the US troops did bad things in Iraq and Afghanistan, so the Russian troops are justified in doing the same” is not the slam dunk argument they think it is?
Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t think any nation’s troops should be doing war crimes. Perhaps I’m just old fashioned or something.
Ass of Dumb
For those of us that have studied Russia's actions in Chechnya + Syria, Russia's actions are standard operating procedure in our experience – but there's plenty of people who think that this brutality is somehow foreign/invented for this conflict because they don't know jackshit. https://t.co/yZi5VBrTiS
— Sharon thinks Sohrab should go to confession (@Sharon_Kuruvila) April 4, 2022
It was always likely Russia was going to do exactly what they are in fact doing. That people believe this is “staged” or somehow a Ukrainian PR thing shows just how fucking ignorant and clueless they are. I’m surprised there wasn’t more carnage, honestly. If they’d reached Kyiv proper there would’ve been.