This is your unscheduled reminder that you can just buy pull-up bars and put them in your house
— Misha Gurevich, Futurist (@drethelin) May 22, 2022
Done and done.
Day: May 22, 2022, 10:07 PM
Right Focus
Why should I value the lives of the immunocompromised more than they value their own lives? Why are they in a supermarket not wearing a p100? https://t.co/ghSBoDhhb6
— Misha Gurevich, Futurist (@drethelin) May 22, 2022
I’ve wondered the same damn thing. It also seems like they should be lobbying hard for better ventilation everywhere, instead of asking people who never masked in the first place to do something they obviously are never gonna do anyway.
Ain’t Really
People always complain about how hard it is to be skinny. (Which it ain’t, really.)
No one complains about how hard it is to be fat. Which it is — because I’ve been minorly fat and it fucking sucked.
Nearly Theft
It’s fucking bonkers that a lot of lib types believe that my body as it is now is less “real” than someone 400 pounds because I spent years shaping it in my (home) gym. They — particularly many women — see it as leveling up undeservedly, almost like you’re stealing from them, or cheating somehow.
But having haters means you are doing something rather than what most people do, which is wallow in loserdom. I’ll take it!
Peace Out
Russian troops hijacked 1,377,925 Ukrainians to Russia. It's the population of Philadelphia, Munich, or Milan.
Ombudsman's office has evidences of forced and pre-planned deportation.
Video from an adviser to the mayor of Mariupol shows forced deportations from the ruined city. pic.twitter.com/lC0p40LoRZ— Alexander Khrebet/ะะปะตะบัะฐะฝะดั ะฅัะตะฑะตั (@AlexKhrebet) May 21, 2022
Peace! People who buy Russan propaganda wholesale…what is wrong with them?
Sore Trial
The concept was invented so attractive people could brag about being seen as attractive without comming off as boastful.
Instead, they get to loudly state that they are seen as attractive as *a complaint* and thereby simultaneously brag and garner sympathy.
— mike burns (@rhaegar227) May 22, 2022
I think humblebragging is about 80% of “objectification” complaints. That’s just human nature.
Concessions
Ukraine is not just fighting for territories, it's fighting for people. Those under Russian occupation suffer from terrible human rights abuse: kidnappings, torture, rape, extrajudicial killings. Ukraine needs to liberate occupied territories to protect them. The West must help pic.twitter.com/9HjVYjpgmz
— Olga Tokariuk (@olgatokariuk) May 20, 2022
I think Olga is right; if we allow Putin to take Ukraine, or even part of Ukraine, Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia are likely up next. Not to mention the genocide that absolutely will occur in Ukraine (is already occurring).
Those arguing for peace are hoping concessions to Putin will work. These will not.
Taylor
managerialists desperately need to believe this, because if there is actually such a thing as an irreplaceable person, it derails the whole managerial project that demands that all individuals be helpless in the face of managerial institutions
it is, of course, false https://t.co/hYoKTXg6DX
— Dedicating Ruckus (@ded_ruckus) May 21, 2022
It is false. Some institutions and organizations just would not exist, or not amount to much, without a few key people. PMC libs fucking hate that idea, but it is nevertheless true.
Crabbing
The beauty of America is he could be flat broke in two years if he comes down with the wrong kind of cancer https://t.co/meppV6xm5C
— your himbo boyfriend (@swolecialism) May 21, 2022
Yep. I don’t consider anyone truly wealthy in the US until they could get cancer and not be bankrupt at the end of it all. That’s usually around $10 million.
Vade
Would fail. The level of coordination needed could not be achieved. Military might is useless with no viable way to wield it cohesively. This is assuming no nuclear weapons are used by either side.
At most, Alaska and Hawaii could be taken and held by a determined foe. But the mainland? No.