This is what black ice looks like:
you cannot fucking see it & it makes the world a Frictionless Physics experiment.
If you’re ready to go to school or work one morning & the world is like this just turn right the hell around and stay home.
You WILL wreck your car, I PROMISE.
I need everyone to be extremely fucking clear on this:
we *OBLITERATED* THIS YEAR’S FLU SEASON by having the entire planet wear masks and socially distance and it worked.
masks are going to become commonplace fashion in public places.
@BuddyNoLove
@SixPersistsBlue
I haven’t seen anyone else mention it, if you have trouble remembering to do a thing that happens at the same time every day like taking your medication, give your cats a treat just before you do that.
you will forget it is time to do the thing.
I PROMISE YOUR CATS WILL NOT.
@ClaireMPLS
@danajaybein
They are afraid that the Genie of universal basic income will be impossible to stuff back into the bottle after everyone sees how effective it is.
They’d rather businesses fail, let people become homeless, starve & Die, LONG before ever considering THAT.
Wish i were kidding...
@OneRadChee
The entire biomedical industry is incestuous and self-predatory, overcharging for every single thing which drives up the costs of discovering new and useful drugs as well as any basic analytical labwork for patients.
And if you do really well, Pfizer buys you.
Uhhh, “Sorry we demonized prescription opioids so fucking much, turns out half the deaths were due to illicit fentanyl instead, sorry you never were able to get some vicodin for your LIFELONG CHRONIC PAIN CONDITION, patient X.”
@Ckdonnadavidson
@Forbes
My CVS receipt has more value than any NFT.
Besides the yard of coupons attached to it, i could use it to wipe my ass if i was out of toilet paper.
The “token” just points at a URL that could be replaced with a rickroll video or a .gif of Dogshit tomorrow. No value whatsoever.
@BrentRuswick
I used to wonder why there was a cultural memory hole around the 1918 flu pandemic.
we have endless amounts of media about World War I before it, same thing for the entire Depression era after.
Cultural cPTSD due to millions dying from no visible enemy.
A 6’3” tall man was crouched down out of frame improvising like mad as she goes off-script for fun, and there is no one else in that little girl’s world right there but a green talking frog, who she loved.
The power of puppetry is amazing.
@nastywomanatlaw
@AlexandraErin
You have just gorged yourself full of salmon again, what’s your plan for the rest of the day?
Bear: “gonna lean on this rock and watch the clouds go by while i fart.”
David Attenborough: “simply amazing…”
@Ellethevillain
@SixPersistsBlue
Wearing a mask that doesn’t cover your nose it’s like having sex while the condom is being worn on your FOOT.
Different, sure.
Maybe it even feels better...
Ain’t gonna do shit to protect anybody, tho, so don’t act surprised when it doesn’t.
@aetherlev
Also cannot under-emphasize how much of a screwup it was that they failed to include an
“I am over 18”
checkbox because now they have the personal information of potentially hundreds of thousands of minors.
OOPSIE
In 2017, a Name was given to a Certain Kind Of News Story.
“Perseverance Porn”
It highlights a struggle to survive in our modern hellscape, instead of THE COMPLETELY PREVENTABLE HELLSCAPE ITSELF.
Instead of Rocking The Boat,
It NORMALIZES THE FLOOD.
Judith Love Cohen NASA engineer helped create the Abort-Guidance System which rescued the Apollo 13 astronauts. She took a printout of a problem she was working on to hospital the day she went in to labour. She finished the problem, let her boss know then gave birth to Jack Black
@WereChickenAU
@LadonDWolf
The real prohibitive cost to ending homelessness is the emotional cost of rejecting the Puritan bullshit that somebody shouldn’t get something somebody else doesn’t believe they worked hard enough for.
@JStein_WaPo
Jeff?
Jeff, buddy?
I need you to hold onto this sense of astonishment.
Giving money to the Needy reduces property.
The existence of poverty and homelessness and hunger in America is nothing but a policy choice.
Not a Moral Failing.
Not Market Forces.
Just a Policy Choice.
@elonmusk
Hey Musky, what’s it like to spend $44 billion of mostly other people’s money to find out that next to nobody on this entire site likes you, respects you, or would give you a Dime, let alone $8 a month?
So, “No Deal Brexit” is the only scenaruo where the UK’s 0.01% aren’t subject to “Stop Hiding Your Taxable Income, Fuckers” laws.
Suddenly explains a fuckload, this needs more broadcasting.
Hey,
@CaseyExplosion
Remember, the UK will be subject to the EU Anti-Tax-Fiddle Directive under *all*
#Brexit
scenarios *except* "no deal" - which fully explains why the rich, the tax-fiddlers & the ERG want "no deal" so, so, so much.
@lisafleisher
@Julie_Erick_A
This article nearly mentioned it but veered off at the last second.
Middle/upper managers are shitting themselves ‘cus the pandemic revealed to everyone that THEY are the actually Redundant employees.
@dengoddaeng
As someone who is used to freezing temperatures *nothing* can prepare you for dealing with a coefficient of friction of zero on the surface you’re trying to walk or drive on.
It’s like you stepped into an ice level in a video game and New Rules Apply.
@RepMeijer
“A novel legal theory” is a really weird way to describe a CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT intended to prevent people who participated in an uprising against the government from holding office.
I guess those silly things only matter when they’re relevant to your argument, huh?
@BridgetPhetasy
ALL.
OF.
THEM.
Covid is a mass-disabling event.
10-30% of cases,
even asymptomatic ones,
can cause lifelong disabling complications we are JUST starting to understand.
I will keep masking.
I will keep boosting.
Long Covid is scary,
and i will do all i can to avoid it.
@NPR
Did your series explore the Weaponization of Civility?
This article is great for when Two Reasonable People need a Dialogue.
When one of them negotiates in Bad Faith, and clutches pearls in faux shock and outrage and demands concessions, they don’t plan to Reciprocate at all.
@aminashareefali
@vexwerewolf
Police: pop tires of press, protestors, aid groups, legal observers, and random people nearby just because they felt like it, for 70 DAYS...
•Activist makes copcar caltrops•
Cops: NO FAIR YOU GUYS ARE *SO MEAN*!
@EricMGarcia
The first neonatal intensive care units in the USA were Coney Island sideshow attractions. It was the only way they could raise the necessary funds because no medical institution at the time thought a premature baby’s life was worth saving.
Ableism.
@MoanaLisha
THAT’S THE IDEA.
PAY PEOPLE TO STAY HOME.
it worked in every country that tried it.
It worked pretty damned well.
American politicians are afraid of that once Americans realize how do-able UBI is, we won’t let them stop.
@GammaCounter
@GreatDismal
1: PTSD is a Thing.
2: We had an entire year watching a large fraction of the population show us just how fucking little they care about us or anyone else.
3: now we’re expected to re-integrate with publicly declared Sociopaths like EVERYTHING IS FINE AND NORMAL.
4: Hell, No.
@makokaazo
@tabbiewolf
It’s never about money it’s always about transfer of power. The only losers in a UBI world are exploitative employers who will watch their workforce walk.
they want us chained to a job afraid to lose our healthcare and unable to make rent if we miss two shifts.
That Power.
@Iamujer_
@KaijuHyena
This is called PERSEVERENCE PORN.
It highlights a “heartwarming” story instead of the Hellscape it happens in.
It doesn’t Rock the Boat, it Normalizes the Flood.
For anyone under the MULTIPLE HEAT DOMES, use a duvet cover or fitted sheet and a fan to make a cool cave.
Especially if you
#cantsleep
Bowl or cooler of ice in front of the fan can cool even more.
ICE guards ‘systematically’ sexually assault detainees in an El Paso detention center, lawyers say. Allegations include guards attacking victims in camera “blind spots” and telling them “no one would believe” them.
@imthemann2
@RonaldDriver73
@ninaturner
My brother in Christ do you think it got cheaper to be poor in the last decade?
Rents go up
Bills go up
Food goes up
Childcare goes up
Productivity of the workforce goes up.
Pay not so friggin’ much.
Fight for $15 has gone on so long that it’s not livable anymore.
@PMourdoukoutas
@gwenckatz
@Forbes
I WANT MY TAXES TO PAY FOR THINGS WE ACTUALLY NEED.
This does not offend me.
This is how a government is supposed to work.
I pay less in library taxes than i pay for ONE BOOK off of amazon. You have an aconomics degree, and not even from Trump U.
The math isn't hard, my Dude.
@teaberryblue
@COMBVRO
Also,
Never ever ever EVER run an engine to stay warm, it will kill your family with carbon monoxide. This means cars and generators.
Holy shartballs, thank you for all the likes, follows, & dopamine.
I have no soundcloud.
Thanks for helping to spread the word that this stuff is no joke!
you only hafta read the comments to see how many people have been in accidents / gotten hurt because of it, themselves.
@seananmcguire
@jennote
“Ireland closed their Pubs.”
Is another good one, because you can follow it up with
“i mean... that’s like... if Ireland... Closed all their Pubs.”
@dirak_
@vexwerewolf
What that dude did with sanitizer is what the rich and powerful did after the 2008 financial crisis except with Stocks and real estate that was all at fire sale prices.
@okcallmejay
@seananmcguire
The best advice I ever heard for unsolicited dick pictures was to keep them in a folder and when you got a new one, reply with several choice ones from the selection you’ve already got
A reminder that Tom Holland’s iconic umbrella performance would be illegal in many states if they pass their laws against drag and people not conforming to heteronormative gender standards.
The venue would be shut down and the people involved would be arrested.
@THlSCIRCLE
@KaijuHyena
The person they banned represented a potential existential threat to a major market.
The racists and homophobes ( they think) do not.
just for anyone keeping score, it was never about morals or freedom or decency.
It’s only EVER about money.
Let’s stop giving itnto them.
@stecky87
@TeamYouTube
@jpm_507
Butbutbut WHAT IF, we showed you videos that people we think are your friends liked, and reposted stuff we KNOW you already watched IN CASE YOU MISSED IT or bumped up items you didn't ask for but might be related!?!?
WHERE ARE YOU GOING!?
COME BACK!!!