Sorry, I was just practicing, to get the “standard media reporting tone” for new media (and some old media) reporting regarding variants of COVID. Because mindless panic is the order of the day. The Omicron variant is going to sweep down like the scimitar of god and reap us all.
In a flanking maneuver, let’s attack St Nicholas. A friend of mine sent me this gem:
In [stderr] I hypothesized that the republicans are “all in” on taking over the US government and mooting any remaining shreds of American democracy – thin and compromised as they are.
A decade ago, when people spoke in hushed tones about the potential climate disaster, one scary harbinger was the break-up of the Thwaites Glacier. They used to call it “the doomsday glacier.”
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One could make an argument that racism makes people stupid, because racism is, at its core, a symptom of intellectual laziness. The racist must ignore massive mountains of facts and shelter the racist ideas from enquiry, since they cannot withstand even cursory examination. It’s plain old dumbass.
I’ve read through the powerpoint deck that was circulating among the Jan 6 coup plotters. It’s on archive.org [arch] and it’s pretty interesting reading. It occurred to me that it’d be an interesting series of postings, to go through it a couple slides at a time, except it’s 36 slides of unadulterated bullshit and that would be a pretty hefty load for us all.
We’ve got more discussion re: the martial arts to have, but this isn’t it. It’s related, though.
Someone forwarded me this, and I thought I’d share it:
I came home from the shop last night around 4:30, while there was still some light; passing the turn-off into the neighbor’s corn field (they grow corn to attract the deer so they can shoot them while they eat) I saw a silver pickup truck parked back in the corner, which is the end closest to my property. Here we go, again.
It’s an interesting problem: if a federal agency claims the authority to regulate something, then they can be sued when they fail to discharge that responsibility effectively. My prediction is that this sort of thing won’t go far: there will be some new findings by the activist supreme court that there’s some theory like “qualified immunity” that applies.