Question my gender? I don’t care about or think about my gender at all. It’s completely irrelevant. It just doesn’t matter to me in any appreciable way and never has.
Month: September 2022
New Puritans
And dumbass shitheels tell me that “nothing has changed” and that the New Puritans don’t exist and things haven’t been trending more prudish.
WRONG.
So Long Covid
I’m surprised the Covidians don’t get more enraged at Zeynep Tufekci, but I believe that’s mostly because what she writes is simply too complex for them to understand. She debunks and contextualizes all the poor and poorly-framed Long Covid studies but does it in a nuanced manner.
They aren’t looking for nuance. They want religious fervor and something from a mind like hers is just too difficult to integrate one way or the other.
CCFIT
Civilizational controlled flight into terrain. https://t.co/XVXwVv2JrB
— Patrick Collison (@patrickc) September 23, 2022
Damn that’s powerful stupid.
Have Saved
Thread. Vaccination won't save you. The problem with COVID19 is that it mutates fast—and vaccination with non-sterilizing vaccines (what we have now) selects for vaccine-evading strains (which come roaring back). https://t.co/i96TRJM6OI
— Charlie Stross (@cstross) September 24, 2022
That’s not really how it works.
Scientists: The vaccines have saved 20 million lives.
Liberals: The vaccines won’t save you. They don’t even work. They’re pointless. Everyone will get Covid 900 times and 392 trillion people will have Long Covid.
Come on now. That’s not how any virus in the history of ever has worked. Why would Covid-19 — a fairly ordinary but novel coronavirus — be any different? Great claims require extraordinary evidence.
Decision Point
I have made pretty big, impactful moves in my short career simply because I was willing to make a decision on something and go with it. If you make an informed decision on something, 9/10 no one will challenge you. https://t.co/sCm6BcAOMC
— Jasper Wuff (@JazLehWolf) April 15, 2022
This is very true in my field. Most people are afraid of deciding. But I make myself the decider. That’s how I am in high leadership roles with no four-year-degree and have been for quite a few years now.
Zey Did
If you aren't going to read the supplements and ask a few people before reporting, at least look at the figures? Even among this unvaccinated old, male VA cohort, it's the hospitalized and the ICU that bear almost the entirety of the risk — loss of smell is a standout though. pic.twitter.com/WfuBlYtu9v
— zeynep tufekci (@zeynep) September 22, 2022
Zeynep making the Covidians cry again.
A Lot Like Losing
russia has only officially declared mobilization three times in its history – World War I, World War II, and a three-day special military operation
— Seva (@SevaUT) September 21, 2022
It’s Ian Welsh’s definition of “winning.”
Alone Time
You Won’t Be Alone review – a spellbinding horror movie from a great new talent.
Excellent film! Everyone should watch it.
Half My Family
Powerlessness Also Corrupts: Lower Power Increases Self-Promotional Lying.
As anyone who has ever met a North Florida layabout lying-ass grifter knows very fucking well!
Paq 10
— kiwa – the real SlimSCSI (@kiwapebretech) September 22, 2022
I used to love those Compaq laptops back in the day. Great keyboard feel and pretty good screens for back then.
Ursine
It’s too bad US liberals — after discarding it for a while — have re-adopted the Protestant “if it’s fun, it must be bad” ideology of their forebears. I wish them to be mauled by five bears.
Built
The story of Ministry’s “Jesus Built My Hotrod.”
Still like that song a lot. It’s just such a weird 90s artifact but somehow still works.
Wham
the best way to describe what is going on right now is that twenty-year-old kit from the US military in the hands of an army which started operating it seven months ago is absolutely wiping the floor with one of the US' closest peer competitors without the air support it presumes
— cocteau twins karaoke (@revhowardarson) September 21, 2022
I honestly feel bad for the poor Russian draftees being annihilated in this senseless war. But the Ukrainians are totally in the right to be doing what they are doing.
All Fall
Former Moscow Aviation Institute head Gerashchenko dies in fall.
Dang, if I were Russian I’d never get anywhere near heights, or a window, and would be wearing a rubber suit 24/7. They sure do seem to fall down a lot. 😉