Our study does not support an increased susceptibility to non-COVID-19 infectious disease hospitalization following SARS-CoV-2 infection.

You mean the Ian Welsh (et al.) clown shit about Covid destroying your immune system was all lies? (Of course it was.)

Could Ozempic Derail the Body-Positivity Movement?

This is bullshit several different ways. The “body positivity” movement hasn’t really existed for 15-20 years. Instead, it was consumed by the Fat Celebration movement and any true body positivity focus was kicked to the curb. Now the movement spends half its time in fact not moving and the other half making fun of and disparaging anyone of normal weight.

Anything that fucks their shit up I’m all for. That food-conglomerate-backed corporate shill terrorist organization deserves everything bad that happens to it.

Group-Chat Culture Is Out of Control.

I’m in zero group chats, never want to be in one, and want to have absolutely nothing to do with anything like that fucking ever ever. Add me to a group chat and see what happens. All y’all gettin’ blocked.

Why do men enjoy playing as women in video games?

Women’s characters usually have better and more clothing choices, and more interesting costumes in general (as in real life). Also, I’m already a man every day. Why not be something different?

Also, in general, the voice acting and character animations are better for female characters. Not sure why but it’s 100% true.

Viewed one way (that many people do seem to now), any particular feature that you find attractive on someone is a fetish and is objectifying them — and therefore bad.

This is not the civilization I signed up for. Where’s those damn other planets. I really need them.

Can’t afford California housing? Try living in a pod.

I will not live in the pod and I will not eat bugs.

More seriously, the rent on these crappy little pods at the high end is very nearly what we were paying for an entire house not that long ago. No matter what Noah Smith claims, rent has been increasing beyond income and inflation for quite a while now. This shows no signs of abating.

We are moving fully back into the serfdom model now that lasted for several thousand years, just modified a bit with modern tech; history is reverting to mean.

You hate smartphones because watching your little TV shows on them doesn’t work right.

I hate smartphones because they are a cognitohazard inhibiting our ability to create a galaxy-spanning empire.

We are not the same.

The first ten on today’s playlist:

I like the Red Hot Chili Peppers, but this is accurate and fuckin’ hilarious:

As befits the piece, that performance was saucier than the Prego factory. Great in all aspects.

When I think about stuff like this, I realize that most people want to be hoodwinked, bamboozled and controlled.

Perhaps “want” is not quite the right word. But it’s close enough, because how else would you describe people who appear to do nothing at all to resist what’s happening to them? There must be some degree of desire — of want — present for it to occur at all. Otherwise it obviously would not.

To be fair, people are fairly easy to control. Spout a bit of propaganda, and generate a little fear, and you’ve got ’em. It happens all the time.

People tell me that cloud bullshit such as streaming is “more convenient.” Then I watch them spend hours and hours doing something that I can do in minutes. Or just witness them attempt to do something that’s no longer even possible as that song is gone, that movie is not available anymore, the cloud service they were using shuts down forever, taking all their data with it. Meanwhile all is still present and working for me because I possess it. Please explain to me how this is “more convenient.” I just cannot see it.

And that’s because it’s clown crap.

Propaganda works and most people are not only believers in it but spouters of it. So we must return to this: most want to be told what to do, and how to do it; most will believe something 10 times harder and 100 times worse is “more convenient” if they have it hammered into their heads over and over again. Human minds are inherently weak and the older I get, the more this is proved true.

I Keep Getting Dress Coded, and it’s Pissing Me Off.

I had a girlfriend with a voluptuous figure like this and she also constantly got in trouble at work for wearing completely normal clothes.

Her work: You can’t wear clothes that show any cleavage at all! It’s too distracting.

So she switches to turtlenecks and shirts with zero cleavage.

Her work: You can’t wear shirts like that! They just emphasize how large your chest is and are too distracting!

Eventually she just went off on a few people and explained loud enough for the entire office to hear that no matter what she wore, her breasts were going to be big and she wasn’t going to come to work dressed in garbage bags to satisfy a few prudes. It was all women giving her issues, by the way. No men. Mostly they were just jealous, as is often the case.

LOL:

Economists’ brains are permanently broken.