Just witnessed the perfect encapsulation of trying to get through to end users.
Most people just do not think much, about anything. It’s just a general fact. We people who actually think are called “overthinkers” and demonized. That is, until we’re needed.
There’s nothing that the Fat Acceptance movement hates more than someone who manages to lose weight and keep it off for a long time — they prove the “impossible” is in fact possible.
My sister in law ruined my life – drugged me and had her husband SAed me.
Meanwhile: “Oh, some dude glanced at me at the gym for a picosecond! I’m being oppressed!”
BREAKING: Singapore steps down the remaining COVID-19 measures from Monday. No masks needed on public transport and most healthcare settings. COVID-19 will be treated as endemic. TraceTogether data has already been deleted. The task force will also stand down.
The end of an era.— Gwyneth Teo (@GwynethTeoCNA) February 9, 2023
Covidians gonna cry a lot, but the pandemic phase of Covid is over. It is now endemic. Has been for a while, but is now being recognized as such.
When you think about it, it’s an exceptionally oddball idea that men should not have any standards in dating — and in fact it’s misogynistic for them to have any — while women should have extremely high standards that no real man can meet.
How did that happen? (It certainly shows who actually controls dating itself and the narrative around it. Hint: it ain’t men.)
According to Ian Welsh and the Covidians (sounds like a horrible cover band), Long Covid was supposed to have ended civilization by now. Seems it’s still here. Don’t get me wrong: Long Covid is terrible. But the idea that it even had the fucking ghost of a chance of ending civilization is laughable.
And so I am in fact laughing at those goofuses.
It's jUsT A wEaTHER bALLoon https://t.co/hEmxYZgsrx
— Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 (@Noahpinion) February 10, 2023
Propaganda works, and works very well.
This article is pretty good and far more accurate than most, but this is just wrong:
They really fucking do need it, but dumbass clowns took it away because it doesn’t work well on phones and tablets and that’s all most companies care about now. Text looks very much worse even on a 5K iMac now without subpixel AA. The difference is large and extremely noticeable.
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.
When you start analyzing the origins of ancient and timeless traditions you quickly start realizing that a lot of them were invented more or less from scratch a few decades ago. Very enlightening benefit of studying history.
— Murtaza Hussain (@MazMHussain) February 7, 2023
Most “ancient” traditions are ~70 years old. Some are from the 1980s or even newer. Really, really ancient ones might be 100 or so years old. Culture changes a lot. Yet another reason the “cultural appropriation” concern is mostly garbage.
Men were more inclined than women to remain friends with suitors from whom they had received a brush-off. https://t.co/KZpU5mNoqs pic.twitter.com/VnQCGvGLw6
— Rolf Degen (@DegenRolf) February 8, 2023
Not surprising. The common story is that men do not handle rejection well. Some small percentage don’t. But most men do because we get rejected ALL THE TIME. At least 70% of being male is learning to handle rejection because it is the story of most of our lives. If you can’t handle constant rejection as a male you should probably go ahead and kill yourself because it is just the thing that happens to you all the time.
Women, however, are the ones generally who cannot handle rejection because they do not experience it nearly as much (some basically never) and it’s completely shocking and devastating to many of them when it does. It breaks them.
It definitely gets much more attention. I had no idea just how much. This is alas also true:
I mean the part about how men are not allowed to have standards but women are. I’ve observed that repeatedly and it’s just bizarre. But I think there are two things going on here:
1) Men are assumed by women to be sex-crazed beasts who will tolerate anything in exchange for sex, so of course they (men) don’t have standards, duh.
2) Women often go into a relationship as a way to escape from societal/social pressures, so are resentful and resistant when their partner has actual standards such as not to abuse him, not weigh 400 pounds, and be a decent person generally. And don’t tell me this is not the case — I’ve seen it tons of times and it’s not pretty any time it occurs.
That this was such a focus of our pandemic response and the evidentiary basis still this murky is really just 🤯
This is the gold standard randomized controlled trial showing no real effect on virus suppression 🥴 https://t.co/HA40BFOyoe
— Angie Schmitt🚶♀️ (@schmangee) February 7, 2023
I suspect face masks do work a bit, and worked a lot better against less-transmissible variants of Covid. However, they are not the 10,000m of lead shielding the mask-obsessed imagine them to be — and poorly-worn and/or cloth masks are nearly useless against Omicron.
Under ideal conditions, with a great fit and worn properly, N95 masks probably provide significant protection. But how often does that happen? Not that frequently. Thus, the real answer is not masking but air sanitation. We don’t seem much interested in that, though.