Not sure what kind bird this is but it was very loud pic.twitter.com/ufYH1w1Sf5

— Misha Gurevich, Futurist (@drethelin) April 22, 2022

F-22 Raptor.

Most of the effect of "Ukraine"/"Putin"/"Russia" on inflation is actually the effect of sanctions, which were chosen by the West, not by Russia.

— Ian Welsh (@iwelsh) April 20, 2022

Ian, can you bring to mind any reason these sanctions occurred? Some possible thing that spurred them? I know it’s hard for you, being a front for the Russian propaganda machine, but think for a minute about it.

Anyway, that’s not a valid point as it mostly isn’t true. According to Welsh, Ukraine is a Nazi-infested backwater that deserves what Russia does to it. I really don’t understand what happened with that dude.

THIS, FOLKS!
What will America be like with
30 million of us with Long Covid?
50 million?
The @CDCDirector and @WHCOS have started the experiment.
On you. On all of us.
Have you consented to be a subject?
Have your kids? Your parents? https://t.co/PJw9GXvKCY

— Kirk Murphy 🇺🇦 (@kirkmurphy) April 21, 2022

LOL. These people are hilarious. And I think they really believe this crap, too.

Absolutely trash journalism. We knew there would be lots of fraud in the PPP, but did it anyway because otherwise millions of small businesses would have gone under and the unemployment rate would have hit 15-20%. Just utter garbage from NBC. https://t.co/OjT6HdQ6fH

— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) April 18, 2022

PPP made a lot of pseudo-capitalists angry because it protected businesses they were hoping to use pandemic restrictions and disruptions to destroy. That’s why you’re seeing journalism like this now. Those folks want to make sure something like PPP never happens again.

Been saying this for awhile, but will repeat for emphasis: The next few weeks will be a battle of logistics. Ukraine will win it.

— Mark Hertling (@MarkHertling) April 19, 2022

I agree. What Russia is attempting now will make their logistics position worse, not better. They are already doing a terrible job and with sanctions biting, I see no way they can improve it.

The most important part of the progressive agenda was lockdowns and forcing children to wear masks and then screaming you were a murderer if you didn’t agree. This was an unpopular and unwise agenda.

— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) April 19, 2022

Interesting that they went apeshit over the most insane, useless and harmful parts of their agenda, and the least effective. That tells you it’s about identity and not efficacy.

Since people don't understand why there are mass cancellations, neither COVID waves nor weather are the real culprit, the lack of redundancy is. Airlines laid off staff instead of retaining them, even though they got bailout money so this wouldn't happen. https://t.co/wA8czt7Vc2 pic.twitter.com/IYjTmP0CJU

— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) April 19, 2022

Yeah, it’s not Covid. That’s what the Covidians point to for everything bad that occurs now. It has no explanatory power for most of what they blame on the disease. “It’s because of Covid” is like how the conservatives used to blame everything bad that occurred on Obama.

Note to media: stop calling this a “war crime.” Forcibly taking 500,000 Ukrainians hostage and placing them in concentration camps where they are banned from leaving for two years is not a war crime. It’s an unfolding genocide. https://t.co/jSpd3zs12R

— Dr. Ayesha Ray (@DrAyeshaRay) April 20, 2022

Ian Welsh says it’s “necessary re-education.” And voluntary. 😉

The US ZeroCovid people have gone all in on exaggerated LongCovid fearmongering because, despite cases having been rising slowly for a month, the previous metrics we tied restrictions/concerns around– hospitalizations & deaths– continue a steady, national decline. pic.twitter.com/wsX6rGKZYj

— Jeremy Wilcox (@jwilcox79) April 18, 2022

Covid became a huge part of their identity. In some ways, they can’t help it. Once you integrate something into your identity so deeply, it’s very hard to extirpate it. Sometimes even if you want to, you cannot.

There is literally just 1 person in the hospital at SFGH with COVID19https://t.co/CiRvZgwjdX

— Anil Makam (@AnilMakam) April 19, 2022

Ha. Vaccination works. I know the liberals hate the idea, but it does.

Kn95 one way masking works. Cloth mask mandates sort of don’t. Why are we still arguing about this? Everyone who wants the protection of an effective medical grade mask has that option.

— Angie Schmitt🚶‍♀️ (@schmangee) April 20, 2022

Exactly. Protect yourself and your identity at the same time.

Hellenistic science and engineering were much more advanced than we assumed.

We're going to keep finding new discoveries like the Antiykythera mechanism.

Further, the economy of the early Roman Empire was closer to a full industrial revolution than is usually posited! https://t.co/nqRpL5NfVm

— Samo Burja (@SamoBurja) January 2, 2022

Indeed. The Industrial Revolution could’ve occurred in Rome 2,000 years ago. It did not for sociopolitical reasons, not technological ones. (Yes, I know Archimedes was Greek, not Roman.)

Muscularity is the strongest predictor of mating success for men.

I absolutely believe this, having seen the drastic difference of how many women are interested in me randomly in public now that I am pretty jacked. Noticed this when I was in the army, too.

In three years, it went from basically no women looking at me or making eyes at me in public to it happening every time I go out. The only difference is that I gained 20+ pounds of muscle on a 5’8″ frame (and replaced some fat with muscle).

On rarity of re-infections within 60 days even with variant shifts.

Out of 56,831 cases, only 91 re-infections in shift from Delta to Omicron. So, 0.16%.

Out of 48,829 cases, only 5 re-infections from BA1 to BA2. Even less: 0.01%.

Mostly unvaccinated kids. Vaccinate the kids. https://t.co/m22ZvskTLI

— zeynep tufekci (@zeynep) April 18, 2022

I’ve seen claims of frequent and rapid re-infection. That does not seem supported by the evidence.

They used to doxx literally everyone in the whole city and then deliver the Dox Book to everyone’s house. At the library you could get free access to the Dox Books for other cities. Also if you called (area code) 555-1212 the phone company would dox anyone you asked for.

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) April 19, 2022

I don’t think much of Yglesias, but this is absolutely true. And you had to pay a fee to not be entered into the Doxx Book that was delivered to everyone (almost no one did this).