It’s weird seeing Covid simultaneously be a real disease with real symptoms that nearly indisputably show up in the numbers and also be a global morgellons situation

— Misha Gurevich, Photographer, Venture Capitalist (@drethelin) May 16, 2023

That has been odd indeed. Not sure what to make of it exactly. Large collective traumas do weird psychological shit to people that also inevitably affects their bodies.

In that sense, Long Covid is completely real — but it’ll also have very nebulous and ever-changing physical etiologies identified. I’ve been seeing that already really frequently.

We live in strange times. And they are getting stranger.

A haircut that a few years ago used to cost $12.95 is now $22. Yes, I get cheap haircuts because to me it just doesn’t matter. But still — that’s 1.7x more in just a few years.

And that doesn’t include tip (I always tip very large).

Something that sounds made up to me but I know is not is that so many people seem to require a pitch black environment to sleep.

I don’t prefer it being super bright, but if it is so be it. I can still sleep just fine. I had a friend that argued with me that it was “impossible” that I could sleep in bright light. Yet I’ve done it quite often in my life, and in fact I used to sleep with the lights on all the time (was too lazy and/or too cold when living in an unheated place to get up and turn them off).

This is what “degrowth” actually looks like in practice:

Economic immiseration amid an energy crisis. pic.twitter.com/oheH38SWqN

— Alec Stapp (@AlecStapp) May 15, 2023

Yep. Degrowth is a numbnuts shit-for-brains assclown dooftastic idea. Just utter gutter trash thinking.

once in a while i get utterly stunlocked by the existence of modern tankies. i can track the radicalization of jihadis or white supremacists, i can see the footsteps there. but you guys are just fucking inexplicable weirdos

— jabuttee – luxurious memes and takes (@jabuttee) May 15, 2023

And there are so many of them! Who would’ve thought? I never would’ve started reading Ian Welsh’s dumb ass in the first place if I’d realized he was a tankie. It’s just not worth it.