Cosma Shalizi and Ian Welsh are doofclowns of similar pseudointellectual doofosity.
Month: June 2025
Scar Issue
I don’t think I realized when it began how much Covid would deeply mentally scar people. A lot of people just went frickin’ nuts and never recovered. I knew one personally. Tons more on the internet.
The Covidians really will be ranting about Covid in nursing homes in 50 years and the poor attendants will have no damn idea what they are going on about.
Demonize, You Get Demons
PMC liberal white women seem really surprised that there was a backlash when they spent a decade portraying half the population as default crazed rapists who were both disposable and sorely needed when housework time came around (otherwise, those evil men Schrödinger’s rapists should shut up, we don’t want to hear about your icky feelings).
Hmm. Mysteries never cease.
The backlash was inevitable.
Can Manage It
Nobody is manager at your job at 33. Your parents weren’t managers at their jobs at 33, but you’re baffled at why I said 33 years old is wild to be a Mayor?
It is indeed abnormal.
Y’all please.— aaLuminati 👁 (@SpoiledAaLona) June 25, 2025
I was the equivalent of a supervisor in the army at 21 and ran an entire (small) unit for nearly a year by myself. I was night shift manager of 19 people when I was 24 at a major title insurance company in the US. My team and I handled millions of dollars in business a year.
I was infrastructure manager (with a personal assistant!) when I was 26 for a nationwide organization with hundreds of employees.
Where I work now, one of our best managers is 34 and she’s been there for a year so she was doing it when she was 33.
What the fuck is this mook talking about?
A Review of Aerospike Nozzles: Current Trends in Aerospace Applications
The Business of Betting on Catastrophe.
No One Is in Charge at the US Copyright Office.
Trump still would have won in 2024 even if everyone had turned out to vote, Pew finds. I agree with that analysis.
This federal program helps track America’s ecosystems. Trump’s budget would gut it. Morons doing moron stuff.
RFK Jr.’s Attack on Global Vaccinations Could Cost Hundreds of Thousands of Children’s Lives. Not could. Will.
The World Is Warming Up. And It’s Happening Faster.
Truck Operators Were Hoping for a Recovery. Instead They Got a Trade War.
Stung by customer losses, Comcast says all its new plans have unlimited data.
Inside the private equity-insurance nexus.
Deep cuts to hurricane data could leave forecasters in the dark. Moronic beyond words.
Turnip For What
[US] One of the most elaborate scams I’ve encountered and almost fell for it.
That scam is not elaborate. That’s the usual chump-level account-stealing stuff out there constantly.
It’s “elaborate” if your brain’s a turnip I guess.
Allmen Brothers
Yes. This is downstream of the end of the Cold War and the War on Terror. As it became clear that there was no global working class ready to overthrow the Western order, leftists needed another revolutionary class to fantasize about. They began to fantasize about Muslims. https://t.co/EvLWJIHzZ0
— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) June 26, 2025
Mostly agreed. The left began to fetishize Muslims to a truly bizarre degree after the Cold War.
That’s why (in large part) feminism transitioned to, “A burqa is feminist! All men are rapists, so women should not go out alone! Any skin showing is sexualization!” and such. All part of a larger trend that Noah mentions above.
Terrible stuff.
Scarab
Almost unfathomable to me how much the Right is intentionally destroying the things that makes the US a wealthy, prestigious and powerful country https://t.co/mA5CmlvP4g
— mike (@mike_slugs) June 26, 2025
They’d rather rule a dungheap than serve in a utopia.
And they will get their wish soon enough.
Qurb It
I kind of do think that veiling is backward and modernity is better. It's a personal choice obviously, so that's just my opinion. https://t.co/xeWBQuvakP
— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) June 27, 2025
I’m with Noah. Fuck that noise.
When the burqa became “feminist” is about when I was done with feminism. Veiling and the burqa is anti-human and misogyny always. None can tell me the bottom photo represents more freedom, no matter what inane bullshit doofuses like the clown that Noah cites come up with.
They really won’t be happy to their goal of having women be constrained and wards of men again is met, will they? The left and right agree here; horseshoe theory is very real.
MAGA Clowns Clownin’
Republicans decided solar and batteries were gay energy, so we lost to China in industries we invented. https://t.co/L8p3zWtjsL
— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) June 27, 2025
Stupidest fuckers in history. That alone has and will set the country back 20 years.
War Times
🇩🇪 In Erfurt, Germany, unknown individuals set fire to Rheinmetall military logistics trucks, causing serious damage.
Footage of the arson was shared by Russian sources—leaving no doubt about who was behind it and who stands to benefit.
Russia has long relied on recruited… pic.twitter.com/yqq6oUJt5p
— Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (@bayraktar_1love) June 26, 2025
NATO is already at war with Russia. It’s just that only one side is acting like it.
Oo
I hate tattoos and recumbent bicycles so much.
At least recumbent bicycles aren’t as common as tattoos.
Ukraine used a Pringles can to blow up a Russian tank. Very canny of them.
A Lot Of Americans Are Going To Die’: Vaccine Expert Speaks Out After Resigning From CDC.
Restoring Norms Fixes Nothing.
From Killer Drones to Robotaxis, Sci-Fi Dreams Are Coming to Life. More of that got-damn “nerd fantasy.”
Why today’s graduates are screwed.
US economy shrunk faster than expected, new data shows.
University Unions Stand Up to Trump’s Research Cuts While Administrators Waver.
Nobot
Swarms of Tiny Nose Robots Could Clear Infected Sinuses, Researchers Say.
I do not want the tiny nose robots.
What if they think my brain is starting to look mighty tasty?
How renewables are saving Texans billions.
Few Americans pay for news when they encounter paywalls.
The Economics Behind “Basic Economy” – A Masterclass in Price Discrimination.
How Ivermectin Became Right-Wing Aspirin. Utterly clownish. As usual.
The U.S. Is Going Backwards on Vaccines, Very Fast. The morons really have won.
Study finds women are judged against more criteria than men are in job interviews.
Republicans’ “big, beautiful bill” would force Postal Service to sell its new EV mail trucks. Completely moronic. Electricity and batteries are not in fact gay.
When It Comes to Understanding the Dangers Posed by Big Tech, We’re Lost in the Cloud.