And how half of them were like these trust funder Ivy Leaguers who spent the whole time being like "8 year olds don't need math instruction, or supervision, or socialization, YOU MONSTER."

And Twitter (took sociology in grad school) was like "yes! 10,000 hearts."

— Angie Schmitt🚶‍♀️ (@schmangee) April 7, 2023

Yeah, that was some fucking weird shit there. I still can’t understand it. And there were so many of those people! According to them, anyone from two years old on up was just fine in solitary confinement, and needed no education or other normal stimulation. And if you didn’t believe that you were KILLING GRAMMA.

What a bizarre time and what an oddball set of ideas and practices that developed around Zero Covid nonsense.

It’s not just in my head that I get treated vastly different by women now, and vastly differently than my partner gets treated. Here’s the proof. A few weeks ago I went to an optometrist to get my eyes checked. She was young (28ish?) and cute and was obviously attracted to me. During the course of the exam, completely unnecessarily, she touched me 6-8 times. My arms, shoulders, my leg. I have very nice muscles so I understand — even though as a man, I could never get away with that.

My partner (a woman, to be clear) went to the same optometrist and the doc did not touch her even once during the course of the exam. My partner and and I do not share the same last name so the optometrist would not have had a way of knowing we were associated (I doubt she’d be checking addresses).

Also to be clear, I did not feel harassed or even bothered by the optometrist’s casual touches. She was fun and cute so could pull it off. But that never would have happened to me a few years ago and didn’t happen to my partner.

Interesting how we have double standards on male/female behavior that no one can admit, though.

If we lose the Internet Archive, we’re screwed.

Yes we are. But large companies and politicians want it to be destroyed because it threatens existing power — there is little more dangerous than having an accurate and unbiased record of the past that also prevents the corporate “steal all culture, rent it back to you” approach.

I’ve always thought its days were numbered and I’m surprised it’s lasted as long as it has.