What Amy is talking about below is also a lot of what doomed Firefox to failure. They did not care what the users wanted; they had a goal of aping Chrome, removing features and capabilities, and didn’t give a shit at all what the users wanted or needed. And it doomed them (as it should have).
Maiming and killing pregnant patients is not an unfortunate side effect of abortion bans. It's the point of them. Anti-choice sites are awash in sites romanticizing women who are crippled or killed by pregnancy. pic.twitter.com/HTNvAodJYC
— Amanda Marcotte (@AmandaMarcotte) July 27, 2022
Both Amanda and I grew up among fundies and evangelicals. She’s completely correct.
An interesting paper that just came out on long COVID in non-hospitalized people – the incidence of any long COVID symptoms was 5.4% in people with COVID-19 vs 4.4% in an uninfected control https://t.co/C0kNyDFyYc
— Health Nerd (@GidMK) July 26, 2022
LOL. So, Long Covid matches about what I thought it’d be, and is roughly about what it is for all other similar viruses (predictably).
Oh, also worth noting that the rates of symptoms that we might consider seriously impacting daily life were really quite low in this cohort. For example, fatigue was reported in 0.46% of COVID-19 patients vs 0.24% of controls, brain fog was 0.06% vs 0.04%
— Health Nerd (@GidMK) July 26, 2022
That’s just what I expected to see.
this thing we do in the 2020s, where our first priority in the face of present crisis is to urgently discuss its name, will in later generations come to define this entire clown car chapter of american history https://t.co/zgZiEBvehI
— Mike Solana (@micsolana) July 26, 2022
This tendency is what lost the Left the culture wars and even Roe, because as the Right was organizing around real political power and getting shit done, the Left was making sure that no one used the wrong huwty-woity words and that no one was appropriating (read: learning from) anyone else’s culture — all the while insisting that biology isn’t real and that women aren’t either.
This is how you lose. And we sure did. It’s only going to get worse.