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Post by mzn on Jan 27, 2022 22:04:28 GMT 1
Hi People, How are we all doing? miscmisc, I see you're still angry at the world? I can't blame you. There is enough to be angry about. Personally I got Covid at around new year. I was ill for a couple a days and still tired. Although I'm near being fine again. Other than that I'm doing fine. :-) |
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Post by bol on Jan 29, 2022 0:18:55 GMT 1
Hello everybody. I'm by now Moderna boosted (3rd vaccine) too  .
To stay on topic, I just came across this tweet from Time magazine (haha)
Misc probably knows better about this. From what I understand everything about this tweet is so sensationally stupid, you couldn't even make it up to make fun of the British media, or? The indoor-dinning text obviously (that's probably your best chance to spread and catch), not any less the picture.
I assume the British elite out of pettiness still can't admit they were wrong and that Covid is airborne. As a result these dinner visitors, even when they're at least dining outside, extra sit inside pods.. and increase their chance of catching covid. Guess some people get rich from these dangerous nonsense protections. Still seeing a lot of plexiglass in Germany too, though I think it's still in use from early 2020.
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Post by miscmisc on Jan 29, 2022 10:45:17 GMT 1
Hi People, How are we all doing? miscmisc , I see you're still angry at the world? I can't blame you. There is enough to be angry about. Personally I got Covid at around new year. I was ill for a couple a days and still tired. Although I'm near being fine again. Other than that I'm doing fine. :-) Hey what's up? Sorry to hear about your Covid. Persistent fatigue is really the bitch when it comes to this particular disease, isn't it? Hope you'll have a speedy recovery to normalcy. You ought be sorta relieved that I'm still ranting about stuff. You wouldn't want to live in a world that even I give up on and stop caring about, you know. |
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Post by miscmisc on Jan 29, 2022 10:56:41 GMT 1
Hello everybody. I'm by now Moderna boosted (3rd vaccine) too  .
To stay on topic, I just came across this tweet from Time magazine (haha)
Misc probably knows better about this. From what I understand everything about this tweet is so sensationally stupid, you couldn't even make it up to make fun of the British media, or? The indoor-dinning text obviously (that's probably your best chance to spread and catch), not any less the picture.
I assume the British elite out of pettiness still can't admit they were wrong and that Covid is airborne. As a result these dinner visitors, even when they're at least dining outside, extra sit inside pods.. and increase their chance of catching covid. Guess some people get rich from these dangerous nonsense protections. Still seeing a lot of plexiglass in Germany too, though I think it's still in use from early 2020.
Well, British "experts" were pretty much the last men/women standing when it comes to the resistance to the airborne theory. In fact many of them still refuse to accept it. Academically Britain is supposed to be a top country in virology and epidemiology, so there ought to be some major shakeup in the field over there after such profound embarrassment. Britain is a very interesting case in this pandemic, where you can observe highly impressive preparedness and speed in some aspects, and world-record-class idiocy in others. Very different from Germany, where nothing has been truly horrible or impressive. |
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Post by mzn on Jan 29, 2022 15:42:27 GMT 1
So Neil Young and Joni Mitchell want their music removed from Spotify unless Joe Rogan's podcast gets removed from the platform.
It makes me wonder. Does Neil Young really believe the world cares that much about his music to be bothered by this? Or more likely, he just doesn't care about his music being on Spotify.
Joe Rogan, how he progressed through the years kind of mesmerises me. From standup comedian to wacky tvpresenter to ufc commentator to influential podcast host to covidiot (in my opinion of course). To be all those different things, it must take guts and talent. But still I can't get myself to admire AND disagree with him. :-)
At least James Blunt is always willing to provide some comic relief:
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Post by mzn on Jan 29, 2022 15:44:07 GMT 1
Hi People, How are we all doing? miscmisc , I see you're still angry at the world? I can't blame you. There is enough to be angry about. Personally I got Covid at around new year. I was ill for a couple a days and still tired. Although I'm near being fine again. Other than that I'm doing fine. :-) You ought be sorta relieved that I'm still ranting about stuff. You wouldn't want to live in a world that even I give up on and stop caring about, you know. Haha, I am very relieved!
If you stop caring, the world will be lost.
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Post by miscmisc on Jan 30, 2022 2:08:59 GMT 1
Joe Rogan, how he progressed through the years kind of mesmerises me. From standup comedian to wacky tvpresenter to ufc commentator to influential podcast host to covidiot (in my opinion of course). To be all those different things, it must take guts and talent. But still I can't get myself to admire AND disagree with him. :-)
All comedians are at incredibly advanced stages of narcissism and consistently overrate their own intellect and wisdom, and the kind of self-deprecation required in comedy is basically to marinate that, so to speak. I'm not dissing them by saying that. We need them. They *are* our clowns after all. Clowns have functions, and one of them is to simulate your perception as to how to view the world. So in many ways Joe Rogan's trajectory is theoretically very typical for a comedian. There are comedians who are also on a similar path and are a helluva lot worse than him out there, but thankfully their audience is much smaller. One thing you can say about Joe Rogan is that he's genuinely *curious* and at least semi-serious on matters. |
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Post by miscmisc on Jan 30, 2022 2:17:23 GMT 1
You need to be very smart and observant to be a comedian. There's no doubt about that. But our contemporary society tends to overrate them. In an ideal society, they ought to be placed in the social spectra somewhere between the village idiots and leading intellectuals. They are treated like the latter end now. That shouldn't be their place.
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Post by miscmisc on Jan 30, 2022 2:30:08 GMT 1
Israel is not a high-vaxxed country unless your definition of "highly vaccinated" is "how many times the vaccinated has been vaccinated on average". It's one of the least vaccinated countries among the wealthier ones. It's annoying that people keep bringing it up as some sort of a model. A shit load of the population simply keep refusing to get vaccinated *no matter what* over there, and No, not all of them are Hasidic, not even close. And when a typical Israeli is "skeptic" of something, there is very little chance that you can change their mind ever.
The country has the best infrastructure in the world for stuff like mass vaccination for obvious reasons, and that's why they have been so *fast* at it. But obviously "fast" doesn't mean a whole lot when it comes to collective immunity without the help of "wide".
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Post by miscmisc on Jan 30, 2022 2:35:25 GMT 1
Part of the reason why the Israeli government has been on the international PR front over the vaccines since the beginning is that they thought that international "leading in vaccination" label might influence the domestic vaccination rates in a positive feedback.
Hasn't worked out so well. Yes, Israel's population is significantly younger than other developed countries', but given that the vaccination rate is still too low. And yes, it's lower among the Arab population, which was also predictable and pretty much unavoidable given, you know, all the things.
Or, maybe, it would've been even worse hadn't the government made such an international song and dance about it. Admittedly that's quite possible.
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Post by miscmisc on Jan 30, 2022 2:51:08 GMT 1
There are things in the world that you can't be individually "done with" just like that, no matter how you feel. Learning that is part of the process of personal growth.   |
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Post by miscmisc on Jan 30, 2022 2:52:44 GMT 1
In fact, scratch that "growth" part above. Kids are better at understanding that than many adults.
Some people simply regress as they get older.
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Post by miscmisc on Jan 30, 2022 6:14:06 GMT 1
A "much dumber Allan Bloom" is a nightmare, but that's apparently what we have. The decline of civilization.
I mean, when you see Thomas "Chatterton" Williams fancy himself as a new James Baldwin, well, we have a situation here.
At this rate we will soon have the likes of "much stupider Art Laffer" and "much dafter Dinesh D'Souza". Or we already do.
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Post by miscmisc on Jan 30, 2022 6:22:24 GMT 1
Persuasive, but to be unnecessarily pedantic, that's Engels's translation of what Hegel might (or might not) have said in his typical mumbo jumbo.
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Post by miscmisc on Jan 30, 2022 6:33:06 GMT 1
"You know, I actually talked to the guy, in person, and I'm tellin' ya, he's not the monster that they say he is. He just has a different view on things, and isn't afraid of saying that out right, doesn't mind offending you and me. But there's a lot of thoughts in what he says and does, and you and me might disagree with him, I mean, I do, but people should understand he's not what they think he is" is the most annoying, meaningless routine of Joe Rogan.
Like, so? Irrelevant.
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