What follows is a brief glimpse into the abyss, otherwise known as a selection of my web history; Granted pretty sure I can’t compete with this crowd for the abyssal nature of browser history. Work links have been filtered as has redtube.com – you don’t need to see those filters (hint: Kamala, Midgets, Latex, Barrels of Lube).
Recent purchase of hunting rifle optics led me down a rabbit hole of optics, mostly on Vortex and Leupold. Ended up with this little fella. Yes I’m a cheap bastard.
Spending a lot of time at Landwatch (and Zillow). filterList = {“size”:>=10, “HOA”:FUCKNO, “CC&Rs”:”MINIMAL”, “state”:[“Arizona”, “South Dakota”, “Idaho”], “wish”:”Florida wasn’t so… Florida”}. BTW, “FUCKNO” is new quantum boolean type that’s just even more FALSE than FALSE.
I finally broke down and started getting Rogan off Spotify. While full episodes were appearing on YouTube intermittently, that seems to have been cut off pretty efficiently now. Plus I’m trying to stay off of YouTube as much as possible, preferring Odysee if the content is available. Signed up with a fake, temp email. Since Spotify doesn’t support VPN connections, I basically stream on separate audio device (muted) and capture with Audacity to listen to later. No video, audio only.
I spend some time on Odysee, especially Bret Weinstein. Dark Horse podcast is in regular rotation. Recent one offs include Kory and Malone + Kirsch, both of which were banned on YouTube. JBP, MP, Tom Woods among others also make regular appearance.
There are things I still “need” to use YouTube for. Been watching the Tour de France highlights. US Olympic swimming trials. The highlights and races are about perfect, you can avoid all useless interviews, Rowdy Gaines hysterics, and the sheer stupidity of jersey presentations with masks. It would be nice to see the full coverage of some of the longer climbs in the Tour and such, but c’est la vie.
Also on Youtube, the Metabolic Classroom with Bikman. Various other Keto/Carnivore/politics of nutrition stuff as well.
I’ve also read through Covid Care as well. Just reading, haven’t looked into online prescriptions or anything. Honestly not too worried even if I get it, but maybe have Iver on the shelf just in case.
And finally, have this running in the background. Less so recently as it hasn’t been as dramatic as the past. And man, Iceland sure is cloudy and rainy sometimes.
Speaking of Tom Woods, I’m on his mailing list; got an email Tuesday, he has pneumonia. Haven’t heard since, hope he is recovering.
Another covid case.
Tom’s been rather vocal about his disdain for covidmania, I really hope this is not true.
Blah?
Landwatch – thanks.
Are you using the new audacity with data collection, or are you using one of the earlier, less intrusive versions?
Currently older version. I’m assuming my OS will rebuild with the phone-home patched out. If not – I run it out of a shell script that blocks it’s access to the network prior to starting anyway, so not too concerned either way.
Landwatch- interesting.
The more I think about, the more I lean toward buying a “tearer-downer” (or, better, a chunk of land with a mobile which can be dragged away). Power, water and septic already in place.
I have my new shop/home mostly roughed out in my head.
We do a LOT of YouTube., especially since we gave up Netflix and all network TV. Much foreign language cooking videos. Geek electronic stuff for me. Music for both of us. And best of all… great old TV shows not available elsewhere, like Norm, TV Funhouse, and Amos ‘n’ Andy.
I’m on a geek electronics forum with Sensei. And many many visits to Judith Curry’s website.
My porn browsing is highly limited due to my paranoia.
Hey now!
BTW – my Nvidia Shield TV plus this application has been glorious for YouTube.
I bought a 1.13 acre plot of desert lank in Elko County Nevada some 4 years ago for 1000 bucks. It has an amazing view of the Ruby Mountains and is only 20 minutes or so from I-80 and the nearest Walmart. I camped on it 3 times but haven’t been back to it since. I have paid about 45 dollars in property taxes since buying it. I get fairly regular offers to buy it usually in the 600-800 dollar range. Recently I was super stoked because the latest offer was 1200 smackers. Hah. I’m not selling. And I’m not telling where the bodies are buried neither.
I do regret not buying the whole 60 acre hillside for about 20k when I had the chance. I like Elko, good skiing and decent people. Only 3 hours to SLC, 3 hours to Boise. That’s positively urban compared with some of ya’ll.
How hot/desert is it there?
Elko is about at at 5100 elevation and average during summers is high 90s, with it rarely going above 100. It was one of our stops on the way to Idaho from SoCal when I was a kid. My dad said it was a rest stop but really it was to feed his gambling additction and probably a couple vodkas..
Nice! I could deal with that. Cool nights because of the altitude?
So says historical data. Very high desert/semi-arid environment. Looks like nights even during summer dip down low. So a high 90s day with 50s-60s at night probably. Not bad.
Sounds very similar to Albuquerque.
I want to move to the Sacramento Mountains in New Mexico. But wifey isn’t too sure.
I’ve been around/near there in September. It’s not far from Bonneville. The weather in Sept. is excellent. Sunny and around 75 degrees. One year it rained. Still comfortable. Never anywhere near PX heat.
Ownbestenemy nailed it below. While the summers aren’t bad, the winters are super cold. My property is at 5700ft looking across a valley at a bunch of peaks that are over 11k. There are skiable lines well into May in the upper parts. The most famous one is a couloir called “Terminal Cancer”.
Used to love the drive through Elko and Eli, all depending on dad took us through the Great Basin. Typically it was through Eli/Wells/Jackpot, but every once in a while he would take a different route.
Oops..Ely. Whatever, they are deplorable up there and I am allowed to disparage the name of their town.
It’s a real struggle to imagine anyone getting slighted about that in those parts.
In Ely, there’s a huge lot which contains somebody’s personal Studebaker collection. I was getting gas in my bike and noticed a dilapidated 50 something Hawk. I walked over to see it and, over the berm was about a 100 various Studes. I still have pics somewhere.
I used to ride to Vegas and then turn left and go all the way up 93 to Wendover. It’s a great ride once you get past Vegas. Sadly, I couldn’t find any way to avoid the interstate until after Vegas. The 93 is all farms and hills. Only bummer is there a very few gas stops, so you gotta plan it out before hand, on a bike anyway.
I always gaze up at the Rubies and think “yep, I intend to die in those mountains”. I figure that’s still 4, shoot maybe even 5 decades off but it’s good to have a plan.
Spent a couple days in Winnemucca a few years back. Was doing some work on a hay deal. Real nice people. Hawks, eagles, coyotes, cougars, elk, hares, too. Got 8 inches of snow daily while I was there. Beautiful. Cold as fuck, though. I-80 was impeccable.
Well, a welfare gal and her drunken cuss
And Pepsi cans rolling round the bus
Add newspapers and grit and you’ve got slime
So you take the plane but I’ll take the bus this time
Where it’s Salt Lake City, everybody off
Salt Lake City, everybody off
With Elko, Welles and Reno down the line
So you take the plane but I’ll take the bus this time
https://youtu.be/XL1KMTUBmbA
I poached it from the internet, otherwise you’re very welcome.
The Bee weeps.
What a relief. They pinky-swear they only gave it to good guys. Whew….
There are good guys?
Not when you are selling that kind of service – any more there are good guys in the market for hitmen.
Not that I was naive enough to think anything else would possibly happen, but when I reported an ethics concern in my company that was smack dab in the middle of the targeted technologies they were focused on analyzing, I didn’t expect them to be so open about it. “Oh, that’s not a concern… University of [insert some Canadian city here] wouldn’t ever abuse this info.” This despite the info I provided showing that they were planning on identifying and deprogramming anti-vaxxers on Twitter.
It’s OK. Like Obama, they personally vetted the list.
The obvious solution is that they should make their software available to everyone, so that people like me can deploy it against cops and politicians.
“We only leave these at the dry spot on the ocean floor.”
Thanks for land watch!
I have a bunch of stuff set up on Zillow, but I don’t particularly like that company and would gladly switch if there was a viable alternative. I won’t touch Realtor.com because I refuse to support the Realtor association. Haven’t checked Trulia in a while, but it was markedly inferior last time I tried. Redfin doesn’t operate in the area we’re looking, but I’d use them if they did.
In looking for rental properties, Zillow is best. Realtor.com is abysmal.
What about looking for vacant properties in which to squat?
Ah there’s AirBnB for that.
Just rent any apartment in NY or CA, give them a deposit, and never pay again.
Who needs an apartment? They’re squatting in the streets.
I check Land Watch for my dream plot of ‘get the fuck away from me’ retirement spot.
Currently down a Land Watch rabbit hole.
Maybe I _do_ need 100+ acres in New Hampshire.
*blacklists Land Watch in browser*
That kind of trouble, I don’t need.
I thought Trulia was a prescription drug.
So I want an erection while browsing for houses… Don’t yuck my yum!
I doubt anyone thinks your erection is yum.
Thanks for this article. I took Weinstein to be saying “audacy” and why the fuck would anyone use that??
This is interesting. Checking out the total population-adjusted deaths for Sweden, they are the lowest except for Ecuador (which makes me think they are probably, in reality, the lowest on the planet). They’ve had single digit deaths per day for nearly six weeks, with a number of zero deaths per day. While Sweden had some ‘Vid restrictions, if memory serves, they were very light. Sweden held to the Old Ways on pandemic response, and the results are . . . excellent.
Any result other than “dramatically worse” is vindication of everything the “covidiots” have been saying for over a year now.
What’s interesting is that I thought deaths per 100,000 would converge as the pandemic played out. But that’s not really the case, and Sweden is a massive outlier. Unless there is some other explanation (and I haven’t seen one), its hard to see this as anything but a complete repudiation of the lockdowns. Based on this data, the lockdowns not only did whatever collateral damage they did, they are correlated with worse results on the pandemic. And I think you can build a similar correlation (although likely not as strong) just with US states.
This is interesting. I wish we were honest enough to learn from all of this. That is a real and fervent wish.
Stick people in enclosed environments with less Vitamin D and no exercise. Hmmmm… what could be wrong about that?
Makes sense since most people are catching it from the people they live with.
And yes, we will never be honest about this stuff.
*rummages through drawer looking for shocked face*
Here’s the reality that I’ve really struggled to accept. It doesn’t matter. Sweden could have multiple times better outcomes, and it won’t matter. We’re so far past the ability to have anybody discuss this in good faith and amend their opinions based on reality that it’s impossible to conceive of a situation where we fall back to that good faith paradigm.
Maybe there are a handful in the margins who have been ill informed but have kept an open mind, but to the extent that this message needs to get broad circulation to gain traction, there are government, media, corporate, non-profit, and psychological institutions standing at the ready, eager to do everything they can to quash the slightest momentum toward a shift in public sentiment. Beyond that, a large majority of the US (and I’m sure the West as a whole) have descended into a quasi-religious mentality regarding everything in the public sphere. It has become so unfruitful to discuss such things that most are taking the preferred narrative circulated by their cohort as an article of faith.
The zeitgeist is formed by force these days, and unless you’re willing to cram this information down people’s throats by force, nothing will change.
/pessimistic rant
We’re so far past the ability to have anybody discuss this in good faith and amend their opinions based on reality that it’s impossible to conceive of a situation where we fall back to that good faith paradigm.
Yup. We are talking about mandating the vaccine for our employees. My colleagues (at least the ones willing to speak up) cannot conceive of a good faith, non-crazy objection to the vaccine. If I weren’t so attached to my job, I could easily walk them through a rational risk-benefit analysis that leads to “No, thanks. Not for me.” But I lack confidence that I wouldn’t be labelled an anti-vaxer and suffer . . . adverse consequences (see above, “no ability to discuss in good faith”), so I keep my mouth shut.
The terrorists have won.
*sad trombone*
It’s too late for me. I had to quarantine because I went to Fla, and it’s only for those who are unvaxxed. I could’ve lied, but I ain’t doing that at work. Now they know absolutely that I am unvaxxed and any dictates which apply, they will make sure I comply with. Extremely.
My colleagues (at least the ones willing to speak up) cannot conceive of a good faith, non-crazy objection to the vaccine. If I weren’t so attached to my job, I could easily walk them through a rational risk-benefit analysis that leads to “No, thanks. Not for me.” But I lack confidence that I wouldn’t be labelled an anti-vaxer and suffer . . . adverse consequences
You can replace vaccine with DEI and it’s the same. Crossing the DEI activists is done at your own peril. Ignoring the DEI activists eventually catches up to you. As a result, I’ve made a niche for myself critiquing data gathering/analysis methods and making sure inclusiveness initiatives aren’t only gender/race based. Employer can’t critique me for not being involved. Employer can’t critique me for being unmutual. The best they can do is call me a wet blanket because I don’t let initiatives preconceive a conclusion and measure data until they find some that can be used in support of the conclusion.
More and more, that which is not prohibited, must be mandatory. Free to live your own life is not acceptable by most.
Being the devil’s advocate, Finland’s deaths per 100K of population were significantly lower.
You are correct. They fell off the bottom of the chart when I was looking at Sweden. Sweden is around 142 total deaths per 100K, and Finland is at around 18 deaths per day, which is far and away the best results on the planet. I wonder what might account for that?
Vodka consumption per capita?
Erp. Should be “Finland is at around 18 total deaths per 100K”.
“We’re not very sociable and prefer to be alone,” Nelli Hankonen, a social psychologist at Helsinki University, told the AFP news agency.
I have seen some stories about genetic markers indicating certain people are more vulnerable. So that might factor into it.
I think that is one of the more frustrating parts of all of this. Every human being on the planet is being treated exactly the same in terms of this virus except where it may result in political/power gains. Science my ass.
Correct. But that’s a big government solution. One size fits all, no customization. Just like education and 100 other things.
About six months ago, there was some noise about Sweden doing worse than Norway and Finland and that was PROOF that Sweden fucked up by not locking down.
The thinking was that those countries are all fairly similar and thus the differences were all because of lockdowns working. In depth analysis though showed that in the few years prior to the Rona Sweden had way less flu deaths than their neighbors. That meant that there was a lot more “tinder” for the Rona to burn through.
Basically in 10 years, the excess deaths will all end up being about even.
Kevin Roche is close to what I was talking about but I can’t be bothered to look further.
There’s a SKY SMITH too?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dubai-rain-cloud-seeding/
Sweden held to the Old Ways on pandemic response, and the results are . . . excellent.
That can’t be right. It disagrees with the narrative.
Here’s the reality that I’ve really struggled to accept. It doesn’t matter. Sweden could have multiple times better outcomes, and it won’t matter. We’re so far past the ability to have anybody discuss this in good faith and amend their opinions based on reality that it’s impossible to conceive of a situation where we fall back to that good faith paradigm.
#METOO
When asked how to increase Alabama’s vaccination rate, Ivey said, “I don’t know, you tell me. Folks are supposed to have common sense. But it’s time to start blaming the unvaccinated folks, not the regular folks. It’s the unvaccinated folks that are letting us down.”
She added, “I’ve done all I know how to do. I can encourage you to do something, but I can’t make you take care of yourself.”
Keep pushing assholes.
The unvaccinated folks are the regular folks.
the unvaccinated folks, not the regular folks
And there it is. If you aren’t vaccinated, you aren’t “regular folks” and can be discriminated against and abused.
It’s coming and it’s coming soon. Open discrimination against those icky anti-vaxxers is being normalized before everybody takes the plunge into outright oppression this fall.
There are an awful lot of non-vaxxed folks out there.
We’ll all be dead by November.
Funeral pyre Fridays have been a big hit at our HOA.
“Bring out yer dead!”
From all accounts it seems they are okay with oppressing 30% of the population and doubly if they fit the narrative they are ‘right-wing’, ‘voted for Trump’, ‘expressed support for 2nd Amendment’.
I thought the unvaxxed are closer to 50%
Ah yeah. 59% fully, 50% with at least one jab.
Almost 60% have received at least one dose
49% have gotten a full set of doses.
Don’t give a dose to the one you love most
And Dave Smith pointed out on his podcast that many of the people who got vaxxed didn’t really want to do it but had to get it under some kind of duress (college/job mandates, extreme social/family pressure, etc.)
I think you can safely assume that the current unvaxxed are opposed to mandatory vaccinations.
And there will be a percentage of people who have been vaxxed who are opposed as well.
So support for mandatory is going to be well under 50%.
So support for mandatory is going to be well under 50%.
The polls, of course, will be cooked to the point where mandatory vaccines appear to have 70%+ support.
Well yeah.
But this isn’t a soft issue. There are going to be some extremely motivated opponents to this, myself included.
Yes, but the “Nobody I know voted for Nixon” effect is strong right now.
I don’t mean railcar oppression. I mean the firings will start and the pressure to deny service to unvaxxed will ramp up and they’ll make their big push for vaccine passports.
Yes agreed. That is the oppression that will be borne out of this. I guess those old shops can dust off their Whites Only and Colored Enter Here signs and just use a sharpie to update it.
They better be ready for a rough ride, because I don’t think it’s going to go the way they think it will.
Yeah. A couple of the board game group meetups have started back up (one of the larger ones is tomorrow). For my own mental health, I’m staying away at the present. All of them are doing the no mask if fully vaccinated stance… and some people are still masking up even after being vaccinated. I’m also pretty sure that the girlfriend has talked about my stance on the vax on FB, and I’m not about to lie or wear a mask.
My fuse on this shit is too short to deal with someone trying to lecture me while I’m trying to relax. I’m hoping the weather holds up so I can go ride a bike instead.
Hmm. We have a birthday party to go to tomorrow. I wonder how that will be. The couple is not opposed to vaccines, but not vehemently against those who are. She is deaf and hated the past year.
Guess we will find out.
A lamp for the woman who has everything:
https://twitter.com/tyler_posting/status/1416862245880045571
I object to its mechanics
looked like an incandescent bulb which would scorch the fabric — so fire hazard.
The vigorous testing that it involved must have had a few giggles.
I have reached the point where I just want to lash out when I hear the word SCIENCE!
I’m tired of listening to dumb motherfuckers who wouldn’t know the Scientific Method if it bit them on the leg.
But Brooks… it’s for The Greater Good.
Senate panel votes to make women register for draft
The Senate Armed Services Committee has approved language in its annual defense policy bill that would require women to register for the draft.
The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) approved by the committee behind closed doors Wednesday “amends the Military Selective Service Act to require the registration of women for Selective Service,” according to a summary released Thursday.
Finally
Odds this will result in a backlash against the draft in general?
I haven’t a clue myself.
Zero. Fuck the yutes. National service! American greatness!
Can’t wait to send some zoomers to die in the South China Sea. Fuck yes.
I can. I’ve got three kids.
To be clear I am staunchly opposed to sending any Americans to die for Chinese territorial disputes.
And to make myself clear, enshackling yutes, particularly “for their own good”, is despicable to me.
One more step on the march to equal rights for women. You too can be subject to involuntary servitude, ladies.
That’s NOT what we mean by equity.
Some days…
Equipment trailer from branch store blows a tire on interstate. Go out to service with spare, wrong hub and tire size. Swap trailers and bring one with three tires in for service. Turns out it has 15 in rims on it when it should have 16 in. Few years back they bent an axle and downsized the rims when fixing because the 16 in were rubbing the fenders. Thus cutting the load capacity of the trailer. They could have just bent the damn fenders back into place but they decided to get smart and save $200 on tires instead. Idiots.
They could have just bent the damn fenders back into place
But the sledgehammer is all the way over there
Too lazy to leap at the chance to bash something with a sledgehammer is pretty effing lazy.
I’m surprised I’m not bashing something with a sledgehammer right now.
These euphemisms!
Some people’s fetishes, I swear.
Midday Tits!
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Winner. I think she’d kill me, but I’d die happy.
We have very similar podcast habits, but Rogan, for me, is completely guest dependent. Otherwise three hours is simply more Rogan than I can tolerate. He did a fantastic job with Weinstein and Kory, though.
I think I’m gonna get some Ivermectin, just in case.
I’m sticking with Clorox, cuz I heard OMB said to drink it.
You too? OMB never steers me wrong.
SCIENCE!
/ducks incoming fusillade from Brooks
Yeah…where is a good reliable source?
Online veterinary supplies.
https://covid19criticalcare.com/ivermectin-in-covid-19/how-to-get-ivermectin/
Also myfreedoctor.com
I think Scruffy used them.
Hmm. So just using telemedicine and saying you want some for some reason. I guess it is time to jump on to my raspberry pi and open wifi to request a doc visit.
You’ll have to use the Medici app for their services.
Why bother with doc in a phone? Just go to Tractor Supply and pick up some Agri-Mectin.
I did. I’m trying to switch to a prophylaxis prescription now. Not quite as smooth as the first time around. Pharmacy didn’t get the scrip yet.
Hmmm..cash only or HSA doc near me. Unfortunately, he is out of the office until August. I guess I will wait.
Though with my wife’s dog grooming business, we could probably find some way to tap into the vet supplies like Q mentioned.
Quick! Someone find something offensive about this new name: https://www.whio.com/sports/together-we-are-all-cleveland-indians-announce-new-team-name/JJBJEOASGFFPXA6QHFONNRSH2A/
They shouldn’t be supporting a foreign newspaper when there are NYT interns unable to afford avocado toast.
It’s named after the fucking statues on one of the bridges to the Jake. The Guardians of Traffic.
It’s a slap in the face to the fan base that’s stuck with them for over a century. By coincidence, I’m going to be at the game tonight, so we’ll see if they announce anything about the new name at the game. The girlfriend already changed her mind on what shirt she’s wearing to the game, she went back to an Indians shirt.
On the other hand, I’m going with my full shitlord shirt.
That’s the purported inspiration. It’s obviously due to the childish superhero obsession of pop culture over the past twenty years.
So why didn’t they incorporate the statues in the logo?
Cause they look native, dressed as if they are in the Pantheon guarding the white man’s travels?
Because they’re trying to keep as much of the Indians color and iconography they can (the block C, the colors, the similar font). Besides, they got burned on the last mascot…
They also haven’t announced any merch yet, but the local clothing companies are jumping all over it. I’m waiting for one of the companies to update their “It’s Still the Jake Shirt!” to include the Indians in some way… but I doubt it’ll happen.
Lolol
There’s a long history of women being abused by legal “guardians” that continues to this day (see, e.g., Britney Spears). Muh patriarchy!
Weren’t some of the kidnappers in Man on Fire called the Guardians (in Spanish)?
I believe you are correct.
An excellent flick. Not without its flaws (they could have toned down Walken’s performance), but one I will rewatch when it comes up.
Tone down Walken? It’s like I don’t even know you. That soliloquy on art and Creasy’s masterpiece?
Suicide Kings is one of my favorites with him in it.
I thought they were named Bing.
Are they named after Guardians and Defenders?
(TW: BBC)
Should be the Grauniads.
They has a clip of what was purportedly the Emperor opening the Olympics. I thought he was completely comprehensible. They must teach him peon Japanese in addition to imperial.
purportedly the Emperor
Hard to be sure, when they all look alike?
The only royal I can identify by sight is Pipa Middleton’s ass.
It isn’t anything special, but I don’t regret researching.
I had to get my kid tested so he could go back to summer camp after his quarantine. I took him for the swab Wednesday. He just came back positive. My quarantine ends on Tuesday. Now, I gotta go get my own test. I’ve been feeling a bit off, so I think I’m gonna test positive too. More drama, fuck!
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*social distances from blackjack*
You only have to worry if he and yourself is using 5g WiFI
5g WiFI
Chinese tech, what can’t they do?
That’s a relief.
*sits next to blackjack*
How you doin’?
Um, we had 5g here. It’s from Spectrum, so it’s super weak. So, there’s that.
PCR test?
I’d get him retested if so.
Nose swab. I’m going to have to get myself tested. My kid got all scared and teary. I had to explain that he was fine and it wont really hurt him. I’m thinking I might take him for a second test too. I have had some congestion, but it passed and I’m feeling better the past two days. Probably had it.
Yeah if we suspect our kids have anything, they are getting lab work done, not the swab test. I know our doc will balk at that, but I don’t trust something that you can make say what you want it to say by hitting it with more and more cycles.
Yeah, I just don’t really care if we have it or not. Certainly, my kid will be fine, and likely that’s why I’ve been slightly ill. I just have to deal with my work’s paranoia about it. I’m at the end of my travel quarantine and now it’s getting stretched for this.
I get that. I have to still wear my mask at work cause I am not taking the shot. Though I have ventured a few times without it. Might cost me my job but pulling 200′ of cable through the ceiling is not fun while wearing it..so sue me.
The upside is, natural immunity!
My wife got the first shot, but skipped the second. I have no shots. My kid’s only eight, so no shot for him either. I’m waiting to hear back what work wants from me now.
I’m 55 and my lungs are all beat up. If the minor illness I’ve had for the last few days is all this has got, I am even less scared than I used to be, which was not at all.
Fake News! Misinformation! There is no such thing as natural immunity…only Man…er…Personmade vaccines can provide immunity!
Natural immunity? I thought that was unpossible.
Pretty sure I had it in March 2020, well before testing was available. Riding crowded commuter buses and subways in NYC every day, it was unavoidable. 3 days of horrible cough, could not even work from home. I’m 68, with sleep apnea and mild COPD, so am one of those “at risk” folks, if I hadn’t been sick back them I’d probably get the vax, but don’t care to take that risk now (not a few co-workers have gotten quite ill from the vax). Right or wrong, that is a decision best left to the individual.
My late-50s cousin and her mid-60s husband both died from covid last summer.
SARS-COR-2 is no big deal for most people and catastrophic for some.
The vaccines are a good risk for some and a bad risk for many.
“The vaccines are a good risk for some and a bad risk for many.”
Individual judgement cannot be allowed.
Kinnath that is true and can’t speak for everyone here, but that is known that for some, it is a terrible affliction. From what I have seen, everyone here pretty much would have accepted the direction of protecting the weak and ill while allowing the healthy to move about their lives.
Even then, I have seen severely ill people contract it, beat it and move on with their lives. Maybe they were outliers, but the approach we have taken as a country on a whole has been much more disastrous and shows how a top-down, one-size-fits-all approach is absolutely terrible.
I don’t disparage anyone for getting the vax themselves, and I don’t for a minute think the ‘vid is not real or a threat to some people. I have never been scared of getting it myself and now, I feel like I’ve had it and won. I’m going to get my nose swab this afternoon and likely will have to have more quarantine from work. I’m sorry for your loss, Kinnath. Please be sure and know, I’m not belittling that.
I am a 60-something guy, very obese, severe allergies, mild asthma, mild hypertension.
I am a walking-talking-poster-child for those at high-risk for Covid.
I did a risk/safety analysis and chose to get the vaccine.
However, I would recommend anyone under 50 of normal weight and health to stay the fuck away from the vaccine.
So I am vaccinated and adamantly opposed to mandatory vaccines and vaccine passports.
Do you want to go back to work or not?
How children are spoofing Covid-19 tests with soft drinks
Coke adds life!
What keeps coming to mind with the ratcheting vaccine pressure
The key to getting the disk in the funnel is to just let it happen.
The key to getting the
diskshot in thefunnelarm is to just let it happen.Something something now I love Big Brother.
The same people in my life who complain about religious zealots prosletyzing to them are resembling them more and more every day.
Government is their god, and the vaccine is the holy water with which they are baptized.
I was sitting here thinking of pretty much this. Since Man has been able to think about anything other than food, sleep, protection and procreation, we have had some form of ‘god(s)’ that have helped us explain the unknown.
By all accounts, with the Internet and all the world’s knowledge mere milliseconds away from our eyes, we have succumbed to the unknown and relied upon a new priest-class to divine the ancients for us.
Which really should have been this
Also I think of this when you try to speak up about it.
“…this is a rant post. Because I am angry. SO angry. Anyone seeing this post that has not/will not get vaccinated just do me a favor and unfriend me. Because I do not need “friends” that are too damn ignorant and selfish to do 1 simple thing to show they care about anyone other than themselves. The sweet boy in this picture, that I waited forever for and that I love more than I even thought possible, can not get vaccinated yet. I spent the weekend in the hospital watching him struggle to breathe and thankfully that wasn’t from Covid. This time. But he’s been tested about 8 times now in his little life. The 5th graders they are about to cram into the classroom (yet maintain 3 feet between?…) I may or may not be able to return to, can not be vaccinated yet. But anyone older than 12 can. And if everyone that could just would then we wouldn’t still be in this position. And I wouldn’t be so mad. So go get the damn shot. Or get out of here. Thanks.”
This is a rant from a friend that I’ve known since high school. I feel like this “pandemic” has empowered individuals to try and control what other’s are doing while making themselves feel important.
Yes. “You body, my choice”
Yes. The propaganda on this has been one of the most successful in my lifetime. Even better than 9/11. The government and by extension, the media, has done a bang-up job on persuading the masses that COVID wanders throughout the air we breathe, held back by a cloth or your door or if you are sitting or standing, and what drink you have in your hand. People believe you have a high percentage chance of landing in the hospital, tubes shoved down your throat if you catch it. People believe that packages, mail, and fruits have COVID lingering quietly upon them, ready to jump onto you. People believe that merely walking on the same side of the street as the unclean will cause you death.
They will disregard the data from the past year if the government and media outlets say so. Never mind there were no giant outbreaks in schools. Hey what about that motorcycle rally…or Disney World, or the GOP convention, or the sports that finally had fans, or on and on and on.
Anything put out contrary to that above is met with unpersoning.
Righteous rage is a helluva drug.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVrEwCa8nSA
I tend towards this (language NSFW).
Because I am angry. SO angry.
I’m angry, too. At least for now I’m still comfortable, so my anger continues to simmer under the surface, occasionally venting in carefully selected directions so as to avoid detection from people like you. Don’t mistake my placid facade as anything but that… a facade. As soon as the comfort goes away, the anger will take over, and it won’t be in the form of some stupid rant on social media. Try to force the vaccine on me and my family. I dare you.
This is the type of person that if the cure were to sacrifice a child to save the community and were told to do so by what they think are experts, they would advocate for it. We joke going back to the dark ages, but we are blowing right past that and onto the time we first stepped out of caves or Eden, pick your starting point.
What’s even scarier is that if the “right” people were to convince her that my actions and my beliefs were a huge danger to the collective, she would have no problem with the government dealing with me and my family. Folks like her are proficient at convincing themselves and others that the government boot stomping someone’s face is justified if they go against the “right” views.
Hence why it is necessary to communicate to them that voting for aggression against me or my kids is the same as aggressing against the same. You don’t get to hide behind the government. If they come for me, I’m coming for you. You’ve been warned.
I always sum up my views on government and laws by saying that if you won’t yourself use violence against your neighbor if they violate some law or ordinance, then you shouldn’t be advocating for that law and if you do, you’re a coward.
So many mental gymnastics that when I say that.
More and more I think they need to actually fear the correct things and I have a role to play in that.
They didn’t want to hurt you, but it’s for your own good.
Ed… don’t make them hurt you again man, they really love you, and you must accept Big Brother, and you’ll feel that love too.
“I wouldn’t hit you if you would just fucking listen!”
Do I even need to say it?
I’ll Only Smack Ya (Whenyagitouttaline)
Blood for Baal, that’ll keep the Romans outside the gates.
Now if the cure were to sacrifice a medical ethicist or Mr. Anthony Fauci….
I’ll just leave this here.
What angers me, is watching my perfectly healthy 8 y/o start to cry because he had it. He’s got a 99.9999 % chance that he won’t even notice having it. He was scared shitless. I had to talk him down. That’s living in a house where we don’t accept all the bullshit. Imagine the kids of the paranoid freaks out there.
That really sucks blackjack and a situation that no government or medical official should have ever put us in.
This is why I left Facebook. It is poison, a forum for all manner of personal attacks on people you’ve known for years based on some disagreement (and I was guilty of this as well to some extent). Good riddance.
^This^
I realized that I was sort of bummed because old acquaintances seemed to be living lives of the Rich and Famous, which was perplexing because I knew they weren’t fabulously wealthy and had decent (but not great) jobs.
Finally realized that my lizard brain was concatenating all the vacation pics from lots of people into the idea that everyone was constantly on vacation while I was stuck working like a dog. Made me mad and jealous and that is really out of character for me.
Also the political stuff was just starting to ramp up with the stupid and I decided to bail. Great decision on my part.
Same. Best decision ever.
I’m still on FB to keep in contact with extended family but I’ve refrained from debating politics and the assholes who constantly virtue signal their bullshit beliefs, I unfollow them. This one slipped through the cracks but you bet your ass that I’ll unfollow her ass.
If FB didn’t have unfollow, I would’ve been gone a couple of years ago.
Did I read it correctly that the boy didn’t actually have Covid? What’s the Covid/vaccination connection?
I’m thinking that her line of thinking is that if some unwashed unvaccinated person catches the VID and somehow passes it off to her child or her, that person will be at fault for harming her kid.
Your friend’s brilliant and heartfelt rhetoric has convinced me. I’m heading out to get vaccinated even as we speak.
LOL.
I just rolled my fucking eyes and didn’t engage. Engaging them is useless because they are convinced of their righteousness and no amount of data will change their minds.
“I view lobbying and voting for forced vaccinations of my children as an act of aggression against them and will respond in kind to you. Take your fear and shove it right up your ass before I do it for you.”
+1
“My kid got sick from something not COVID, so you should all get the COVID vax!”
Do I have that about right?
Nailed it.
Dont let that friend put in the symptoms from WebMD..he might think his kid is pregnant or has cancer.
It’s a mix of attention whoring and self righteousness.
OT: Dafuq is up with people crossbreeding poodles with every other dog on the planet and giving it a silly name? So far I’ve encountered:
Goldendoodle
Labradoodle
Bernedoodle
Cockapoo
Peekipoo
Pomadoodle
And they all look pretty much the same. Just some differences in size and coat color.
Yeah…and it is fucking terrible on a groomer cause almost none of them that get those breeds take care of them.
I thought that last one was “Pornadoodle”.
The bitingest dog I’ve ever known was a pomegranate dog. Took blood tests from dozens of people in the year I knew that dog.
Is that third one a socialist poodle?
It requires three doghouses and a dacha.
Surprisingly large Bernese population here.
* looks at dog hair blowing across floor *
I can’t say I’m not slightly jealous of a dog that doesn’t shed.
I thought it was to reduce shedding and get some level of hypoallergenic qualities.
Go Frogs!
I wonder if Macron has the good sense to go easy on these people. French gendarmes beating the hell out of people does not good politics make.
A friend on FB just posted that she’s watching her feed real time and the conservative posts are disappearing before her eyes.
We’re gonna be reduced to mimeographed newsletters and snail mail pretty soon.
We’re gonna be reduced to mimeographed newsletters and snail mail pretty soon.
And glibs! Hmm, perhaps a donation is in order…
We will be reduced the dark web and then it gives me an excuse to go…exploring.
I don’t even know how to get on the dark web.
Tor, also don’t do it. You’ll end up on a(nother) list.
Everything I know about the Dark Web, I learned from Letterkenny.
Talk to these guys.
Heh…slightly beat you to it..but you had a visual.
I can believe that. The government knows that if they directly limit what people can say on social media, they risk being smacked down by the courts for 1st Amendment violations. But if they convince their buddies in the private tech sector to do it, they can claim ignorance and be like…”We can’t dictate what a private business can do on their platforms.”
The greatest irony is that the people who pisses and moans about the relationship between corporations and businesses are the same people cheerleading this shit.
I don’t even own an M249. Why do I want a few of these?
https://www.midwestgunworks.com/page/mgwi/prod/56471
yet.
I might go for the MINIMI, just so I had a gun named “Mini-Me”.
We’re gonna be reduced to mimeographed newsletters and snail mail pretty soon.
Tin cans and string.
Look at you all advanced. Smoke signals is the wave of the future.
Smoke signals are too easy to intercept.
The greatest irony is that the people who pisses and moans about the relationship between corporations and businesses are the same people cheerleading this shit.
They think only low-forehead mouthbreathers go to church, but they are more devout and uncritical in their belief in the power and glory of Almighty Government than any snakehandling backwoods bumpkin.
What bothers me about the Modern Left is a lack of critical thinking. They view themselves as being brilliant and intelligent but yet never go outside their comfort zone and have no use for learning the opposing side’s reasoning.
The lack of internal consistency is what bothers me the most.
A group of folks having a common goal has been defeated. What matters now is does what I think, this moment, this social post; does it give me props among my other like minded individuals that also think in this moment I am right. Tomorrow is different and might need a new line of sight.
the moralistic behavior on top of a complete lack of moral foundation is the scariest part to me. Zealots are predictable when they have principles. They’re unpredictable when the only principle is the accumulation of power.
The irony, it hurts.
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2021/07/23/joe-biden-vows-to-commit-an-impeachable-offense-because-nothing-matters-anymore-n415318
Never mind the article, it is RS, but it is on account that Biden vows to push the Ukranian president to tackle corruption.
Nope. Redstate is right on about this. It should be put in a stronger way.
Haha, Australia.
Poor Bruce & Sheila.
Those upside down retards really are something.