I wonder what’s going to become of the PMC liberal ideology that it’s harassment to be attracted to someone, and that dating anyone you know in real life is immoral? Can it get worse?
I think it can. I expect chaperoned dates and much more restrictive clothing norms for women in the near future. And probably the age of majority for women (but not men) to be upped to ~30 eventually. It’ll be to the PMC libs “feminist.”
this cannot be shouted about too much https://t.co/yNFUukXYkK
— Faine Greenwood (@faineg) August 27, 2022
What’s even odder is a lot of people shouting about we can’t afford to have people not be in lifelong punishing debt simply for the crime of going to cllege themselves went to college for free or nearly free — like Kevin Drum and many, many others.
They’re counting on people not remembering even very recent history. And it’s working.
Damn that’s great.
The first ten on today’s playlist:
Most high-IQ people are not competent systems thinkers. The vast, vast majority in fact. It’s dispiriting. I believe IQ is measuring something real (at least as it’s relevant to our society) but it mostly does not measure that, which is the one fucking thing I care about. (It’s why high-IQ societies are useless to me. They are not my people. And are chock full of libertarian idiots.)
Would it be possible to make a “systems thinker” test? Interesting design problem if it’s even possible at all.
fucking insane that the US doesn’t have this rule but we do a lot of insane things https://t.co/LIXhqOEaIM
— Faine Greenwood (@faineg) August 22, 2022
Agreed. Any truck that weighs more than 4,000 pounds should require a commercial license and a fairly high yearly tax rate.
Gigantic pickup trucks driven by psychopaths are in fact not the norm in most places globally, and we in the US could choose not to put up with them
— Faine Greenwood (@faineg) August 22, 2022
There really is something psychologically wrong with people who think they need a truck with a 55-inch-tall grille. They should be put somewhere for treatment, or just to keep them away from the rest of us.
Coverage of Ron DeSantis shows the media has learned nothing from Trump.
Sure they did. They learned that kind of coverage of an unhinged authoritarian makes them loads of $$. So they will do it until a competent one emerges and shuts them all down.
My Wife has become a militant vegan and I can’t stand it any more.
Genuinely sounds like a mental illess (I think this is true of many if not most vegans).
Welcome to Texas. Today abortion, a medical procedure, is now a felony. Punishable with up to life in prison. No exceptions for rape or incest. If you don’t think this will seriously impact medical care, you are wrong.
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— Natalie Crawford, MD (@ncrawfordmd) August 25, 2022
Many people are eternally wrong, even in the face of massive evidence. I hate pro-lifers so, so much. What they really are is women-killers.
Oh, you can sense it in many of the US liberal elites too. A whole shitload of them are fucking aching to take away nutritious food, air conditioning, indoor plumbing, and refrigeration. They want nothing more and are absolutely gleeful about it happening.
Teen Lives, Interrupted by COVID.
Hey, remember when the libs were like, we have studies! The kids are totally healthy! They love being cooped up, doing nothing, going nowhere, having no friends, all so they can save the olds with harebrained and barely-working restrictions. Well, that was a lie; their studies were 100% utter clown shit.
Dang:
Poor kid. Can’t believe this is what we did to them, and for such a long time — all for basically no point at all.
Here's an attribution table for 2021 (ignore the younger ages — their mortality barely increased)
Homicide — 29% of the increase
Drug ODs — 20%
Motor vehicle accidents — 20%
COVID — 12%Did you hear much about those top 3 for teen deaths? pic.twitter.com/E4PzTPvVGj
— Mary Pat Campbell (@meepbobeep) August 26, 2022
That’s just what I expected to see.
The COVID lab leak theory is dead. Here’s how we know the virus came from a Wuhan market.
I still have my doubts. There’s just enormous political pressure for it not to have been a lab leak. This would’ve been the conclusion even if it had been a lab leak, so it’s extremely hard to believe it.
And besides that, that the leak hypothesis was seen as some crazy conspiracy theory is doubly harmful because lab leaks are a real and substantial risk and this means we’ll do absolutely nothing about them. I give it 50/50 odds the next pandemic is actually the result of a lab leak no matter what caused Covid-19.
Covidians, watching a baby be born in the delivery room: Why is that infant not in a mask?
