Quoting something
he saw online
my work friend noted:
that being anti-AI
is like being
one of the only
people actually trying
not to get bitten
in a zombie movie,
and as I adjusted
the straps on my mask
and looked at his
unmasked face, I said:
I know how that feels.
An important clarification:
when you hear people say
“during Covid”
they do not mean
back when they
were at risk of catching Covid,
for (alas) that time remains,
no, when you hear people say
“during Covid”
they mean
back when they
were trying not to catch Covid.
I know, I know,
that it truly seems
in this moment
that things are bad,
but consider that
a new study has found:
“Scientists have
been using methods
that underestimated
how high
sea levels already are,”
so just know
that as bad as things seem
in truth: they’re worse.
According to new research
from the Yale School
of Public Health
“If measles vaccination rates
continue to drop
just 1% annually
for the next five years,
the cost to the U.S.
could reach $1.5 billion a year,“
though for many people
such a drop
will cost them everything.
My friend
the climatologist
tells me
what worries him
is the climate.
My friend
the epidemiologist
tells me
what worries them
are infections.
My friend
the historian
tells me
what worries her
are the people
who aren’t worried.
As I paid, the cashier stared
at my mask and said
“I’ve been thinking
about wearing one of those,”
and when I said “yeah?”
she replied “everyone
who works here
gets sick all the time,”
and I wanted to say
“it’s like that at my job too,”
and so, that is what I said.
When you hear people ask
(and you will hear people ask)
if these machines
are conscious,
please try to remember:
that the question is not
if these machines
are conscious,
but why it is that we
treat people
we know are conscious
like they are machines.
I keep seeing studies
which find how Covid
damages the brain
and the lungs
and the heart,
and a new study finds
it raises the risk
of kidney disease too,
all of which is why
you will find me
still wearing a mask.
Six years ago
had I known
what was about to happen
I would have looked around
so I could appreciate
(all things considered)
how good I had it.
Six years from now
I just hope
that I do not find myself
looking back at today
and (all things considered)
thinking the same thing.
My work friend joked:
with everything happening
all of us should try
not to look
at our retirement funds,
and before I could stop myself
I replied:
with everything happening
our retirement funds
should be
the least of our worries,
and in response
he just walked away.
My aunt, the doctor,
told me a new joke.
She asked:
Why is it
that nobody can hear
the hoofbeats
of the four horsemen?
I said I did not know.
And so she replied:
Because these days
everyone is wearing
noise canceling headphones.
And then neither of us laughed.
Six years ago
I sat at my desk
reading the news
and worrying
that the world
as I knew it
was about to end,
but now
things are different,
yes, now
as I sit at my desk
reading the news
and worrying
that the world
as I know it
is about to end
I am sitting
in a different chair.
When your relatives
(you know the ones)
begin to gripe
about how the cost
of gasoline is going up
take a moment
to be grateful
that on some level
they are finally starting
to pay attention.
When they tell you
that if you do not
take off your mask,
that if you do not
start using AI,
that if you do not
get with the times,
that you will be
left behind,
remember:
it is perfectly acceptable
to respond by telling them
that you do not want
to go where they’re going.
I have heard it said
that “The best
memory of 2020
was how animals
returned to the streets
while humans
were in quarantine,”
though I would counter
that the best
memory of 2020
was how for a moment
a very brief moment
so many of us tried
to take care of each other.
As he pulled off
his heavy coat and scarf
my colleague grumbled:
“I thought this season
was finally over,”
but between each word
he let out a cough
making it rather unclear
if the “season” he meant
was winter or plague,
though it sadly seems
neither season has ended.
Since I wasn’t clear in my last post, lemme try again:
WOW. A democrat got enough votes to force a runoff in this very red district. That it’s even close is bananas. This is MTGs old seat.
NEWS: Democrat Shawn Harris has forced a runoff in the special election for Marjorie Taylor Greene’s deep-red Georgia seat (Trump +37).
With ~70% in, Harris leads with 38.3% to Trump-endorsed Republican Clay Fuller’s 34.5%.
Runoff set for April 7. A major warning sign for MAGA.
Sun Tzu (D-NY) - “When your enemy is making a mistake, fix it for him at great cost to yourself.”
You can judge a family by the company it keeps.
It turns out that if you help Ukraine with modern highly effective missiles - and stop trembling in fear of Putin and burying Ukraine under endless absurd restrictions - Russia starts losing key military factories and weapons one after another.
It becomes less capable of continuing this war.
Admiral Stavridis predicted this …
Merrick Garland belongs in prison for betraying this entire country.
I think about this all the time.
With assistance from the media and the courts, we just elected to set ourselves on fire.
Madness.
It's all there. All of the bullshit claims about emergencies and national security threats. The goal all along was to give Trump the power to deploy the military domestically to suppress dissent and crush MAGA's enemies.
These are dangerous people. They're now in the highest levels of government.
This is just astonishingly great reporting.
All of the crises the White House has claimed over the last 14 months were planned in advance. All of them.
And however much contempt you have for media outlets who reverently relayed Trump's claim to have no relation to Project 2025, it isn't enough.
March 28: NoKings 3.0!
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Maybe it's just me, but I don't think anyone who has such questionable eating habits that he gave himself mercury poisoning and has a dead worm in his brain is qualified to question what anyone else chooses to eat or drink.
