I miss my old cheap Sears jacket that no longer fit because I got so swole.
It was such a nice jacket for the $$ and had perfect pockets. The price one pays for becoming glorious….
Day: December 13, 2022, 9:38 AM
Paid Leave
Don’t hear much advocacy for paid sick leave. Yet a low value intervention like masking kids has become the proverbial hill to die on.
We have lost our way.
COVID like we knew it is over for now. Surges and blips will likely happen.
Want to advocate for paid sick leave ???— Karim Ali (@NHBugBusterDoc) December 11, 2022
My hypothesis about this is that because masking has an obvious visual signifier it’s far easier to have identity formation around this. Also, because it’s “easy” and low-cost that makes it much more likely to get wrapped up in culture-warring. On the other hand, paid sick leave is a difficult political fight that confers no status benefits, has no conspicuous identifier that signals one’s virtue, and does not often directly benefit PMC libs — so most of them don’t give a rip about it.
Chicken
These well off professional men without kids who are like: "what pandemic restrictions?"
I'm just like man it must be nice to have that kind of privilege. Last year at this time I had to take close to a month off work unpaid because of random, unpredictable school closures.
— Angie Schmitt🚶♀️ (@schmangee) December 12, 2022
People saying “there were no real lockdowns” anywhere when I had a friend in the UK having suicidal thoughts because she spent 9 months cooped up inside and then almost got arrested the one time she went out.
And then Angie’s experience, too, was common in the US. PMC libs have no idea.
Fly Harder
So I agree with this but I also think people who live in an expensive walkable city and then fly six times a year should be less smug
— Angie Schmitt🚶♀️ (@schmangee) December 13, 2022
Six times a year? That few? 😉
Gw
I just cannot bring myself to care about Elon Musk as much as either his haters or his worshippers do. What a waste of time.
Gwynne Shotwell, though. That’s another story. She’s awesomesauce all day long.
On Whose Side
Extremely accurate drone strike with a grenade. Pretty impressive delivery mechanism for tight seemingly impenetrable/austere conditions. https://t.co/pYKmpedPdR
— Robert Hansen (@RSnake) December 11, 2022
Even though I’d do the same damn thing were I a Ukrainian being genocided, that’s pretty scary.
Dumblebore
If you only do what others tell you is possible, you’ll be boring and bored.
Do what you wanna do. You’re dying eventually anyway. Make it count.