The mental health & developmental sequelae to the Covid pandemic have been vastly underplayed. Anyone teaching college freshmen right now feels it: many of these kids effectively missed high school

Kids born 2003-10 will be forever behind. It’s a disaster https://t.co/sh6F5vFOAp

— Nils Gilman (@nils_gilman) February 9, 2023

Covidians: Nuh-huh! *covers ears and eyes*

Reality: Yeah-huh *bes reality*

I've always said that covid countermeasures were sacrificing kids to keep a few more sick and old people alive, and I was unfortunately correct.

— RoadSweeper108 (@sweeper108) February 9, 2023

That is exactly what we did.

Everyone lives in a completely different reality now, all backed by authoritative studies, science, and the confirmation of numerous — and contradictory — experts.

It’s always been that way to some extent. Now, though, it’s the common case and getting worse.

There’s a weird trend lately of women filming men “harassing” them at the gym, where the harassment seems to consist of a dude casually glancing in the woman’s direction or needing a weight that happens to be near her. These social media clout chasers makes me angry for two reasons: the first is that they make real harassment that occurs be discounted.

The second is that it seems pretty unethical to me to film people who are just attempting to work out for social media mojo.

Lady, people look around. Sometimes even in your direction. It happens. Should men all be wearing blinders or blindfolds in the gym? None of the women I’ve seen who are discussing how men just won’t stop looking at them, dammit, are hot enough to even warrant a first glance much less a second one. And that — I think — is a hint of what this is really about.

What they’re doing is a version of humblebragging: “Oh, I’m just so hot, no one can keep their eyes off me. Look at this dude who glanced at me for 0.0000001 of a second, he’s harassing me because I’m so extremely hot. Tee-hee.”

That is all that’s going on here.