Nazified

It really is the case these days if you are to the right of Hasan Piker, you’re a “Nazi.” In the 1990s, the German AfD as it is now would’ve been just a fairly standard center-liberal party, going by their positions. Now according the press they are evil incarnate and Mega-MechaHitler.

So odd to see. I’m about the same politically as I was in the 1990s: a fairly standard liberal. Now that makes me a Nazi, too.

Alrighty then.

Was There

memetic_sisyphus on X: "COVID is such a funny topic for anyone who has a memory longer than 6 years. The right at the beginning was concerned about this disease and called for locking down travel from infected countries. The left called this racist, Nancy Pelosi went to China town and told people to hug" / X

I remember all of that! I also had friends messaging me at the start of the pandemic claiming that masks don’t work who later became extremely, ardently pro-masking. And you know what, it’s ok to change your mind given new evidence or in this case re-evaluation of the existing data.

What I object to is when someone treats me like the bad guy for being able to recall quite recent history, even if it paints people in a negative light. That I strongly refuse to play along with.

I won’t call them out by name, but I also had a friend (who is still a friend) insist that no one had ever said “hug a Chinese person” and that it did not happen that for two months the liberals claimed that believing Covid was a threat was racist. But all that stuff occurred. I remember; I was there. A lot of it is now “conspiracy-theorized” and memory-holed and more will be in the future as the truth is sanded down to what feels good.

The Grab

One of my friends messaged me about my “First Ten” playlists, saying that I sometimes have songs on there she cannot find anywhere1.

Welcome to me ganking stuff from the fast-disappearing internet. If you don’t get it ‘fore it’s gone, it often is gone soon enough, leaving no trace at all.

  1. She uses it as a song recommendation service.

Fast Brain

How do people read so fast? It takes me 1 hour to read 10 pages of novels!

It depends on how complex the book is (and some other factors), but I can generally read 10 pages in about 6-8 minutes. No, I do not speed read as speed-reading isn’t really a thing. Trust me, I understand with full comprehension what’s occurring. I’ve gotten a perfect score on every reading comprehension test I have ever taken.

My mom could read much faster than me when she was in her prime. She could burn through 10 pages (also with full comprehension) in 3-4 minutes.

So I guess it’s at least partly genetic.

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