The first ten on today’s playlist:
Month: June 2022
Co
I don’t really care about Covid at all anymore. 🤷
TMNT
People think I am joking when I say that I could easily eat pizza every meal of the day.
But I ain’t.
Sut
The crew of Apollo 11. https://t.co/6zF871kYVi
— Charlie Stross (@cstross) June 23, 2022
Sutton Foster and a bunch of dancers.
Staffed Down
And at the places that do have staff, the staff are new, unmotivated, poorly trained, and just generally muddling through this job they clearly don't plan to keep for much longer. https://t.co/TyLWYFxgjs
— jonstokes.(eth|com) (@jonst0kes) June 23, 2022
I often go to places now where I know more about the selection and products than the actual staff. Rarely happened before the pandemic, unless it was tech-related. Very strange time.
Sonic Produce
The first ten on today’s playlist:
Home Gym
Went to the gym today for the first time since March 2020. Oh, how I've missed the simple pleasure of stair climber machines AND weight machines in the same location.
I salute people who can stick to a rigorous home workout routine.
But I don't understand them.
— Faine Greenwood (@faineg) June 22, 2022
It’s soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much easier to work out at home! Everything you need is just right there, and no excuses. Even if you’re doing bodyweight stuff, just do it (insert Nike swish here). No wasting 45+ minutes getting ready, driving/walking to the gym, etc. It’s so easy compared to the alternative.
People who can only work out in a gym mystify me completely. That’s so much harder.
Scenes
I like the behind the scenes stuff, and Emma Dumont is at 7:16 if anyone is interested. Sutton Foster is so charming, though.
Breath
I know I’ve embedded this before but Koffee’s performance is just so iconic:
One of the best live performances of all time, in any genre.
Relations
It says a lot about the barrenness and lack of imagination of our age that megaton-level putzes like Yglesias think things like the Moon landing were pointless wastes of time while they also claim efforts like Medicare for All are impossible.
These two facts are extremely related.
Whole Religion
Holy fuck, this thread is deeply stupid and ahistorical. No disease save smallpox has ever been eliminated in humans, and that only occurred because its only host is humans.
But ZeroCovid is a religion that never had any basis in reality or the world at all. Like all religions, it has a doctrine, zealots, rituals, etc. And like a lot of religions, hurts tons of people for no real reason.
Des
I think the very worst feature of humanity is that when someone is lonely and seems desperate, that makes everyone less likely to interact with them, not more.
Yes, sure, it relates to our evolutionary history (though libs will never admit this), but that doesn’t make it right or acceptable.
Bedding
What's the evolutionary psychology behind kids not wanting to go to bed at the same time as their parents want them to?
— Misha Gurevich, Futurist (@drethelin) June 22, 2022
For me it was simply: not being fucking sleepy. If I had been sleepy, I would’ve been fine with going to bed.
Coldvid
A lot of this is just anger that societal alterations that the Covidians thought would occur didn’t, so they have to make up bogus stats about Long Covid being civilization-ending. And most “Long” Covid will be “Medium” or “Short” Covid, just like other similar viruses.
ZC
Every bit of energy was put into trying to get everyone to wear masks. It's amazing how much we gave up just for that one stupid fight. https://t.co/PLcNs4Qa6K
— Nicky Frank (@NickyFrank30) June 22, 2022
This is all really on the ZeroCovid clowns whose dogmatism and singular push toward something impossible torpedoed the chances of anything else being done.