MC Fresh Breath

Smith Rock is awesome. A mini-grand canyon experience. I'll focus on that part of the post as I'm sure others will argue about the rest of it. But I do want to be clear that my attitude comes from being vaxxed and having had my whole family catch Covid in November. I'd feel a bit differently if we had still managed to avoid it. And I intend to get boosted in February. I also have no problem with anyplace asking me to be vaxxed. But the Mt. Bachelor bar doesn't ask that. And I didn't care, and it felt strange to an extent. Especially when in the gym where I see about 50/50 compliance and it bothers me. But I go to a bar and it doesn't. Guess I'm noticing the self hypocrisy to an extent.

I don't know, I guess it just feels strange. When I go into places that ask me to wear a mask, I do so. I see so many others not being polite in that fashion and I often silently judge them. Then I go to a place like a bar or a movie where if you're eating and drinking off comes the mask. And then I don't judge anyone in the room. Not sure I have a point, sorry. Just some musing.

Well I guess I'm not anti-vaxxer then.

I am having beer number two in a bar at Mt Bachelor after a day of snowboarding. The bartenders are wearing masks, some haphazardly. Those who follow me know I am not a right wing anti-vaxxer. But after being vaxxed and infected I feel free to live my life. I will also get booster on February. And wear a mask where asked to do so. If this lumps me into the cult types I will be sad. But ah well.

I am actually on board with the 7 tenets of the nontheistic TST but that may be for another thread.

University of Zurich study. Not sure what it is worth. https://www.media.uzh.ch/en/Press-Releases/2022/Adolescent-Sleep.html I myself had one kid who did great with remote and one who did not. If I am honest though both are doing better in person. Not sure how that falls into the debate.

I get confused but I believe it much of what Longhorn_Fan68 posts. He's the reason I posted the video as I thought he'd find it funny.

lulz

Hail Satan! https://www.newstatesman.com/international-content/2022/01/why-satan-may-be-the-best-option-for-abortion-seekers-in-texas

Gotcha. Thanks for that. The only reason I haven't burned through all of the animated ones is I wait for my son to be able to watch a few episodes with me at a time. Its good stuff, and even only 4 seasons into Clone Wars it feels like it has enhanced my enjoyment of the live action series.

I'll quickly confess to not knowing how much an executive producer does or doesn't do. But I would guess he has some influence. And since they worked so closely together on the Mandalorian, maybe they talk a bit? I dunno. Anyway, seemed like his style from what little I have picked up on. Favreau obvs knows what he's doing, which is great.

Agreed on the comments about the fleshing out of the Tusken raiders. I'm pretty far behind on the "Clone Wars" animated series, but it seems Filoni definitely enjoys adding depth to lots of characters and civilizations I would have previously (only having watched the movies) considered cast offs. Enjoying the series more than I thought I would.

Lol. I've been enjoying some stuff from this site: https://www.angrymetalguy.com/angrymetalguy-coms-aggregated-top-10-of-2021/ I was reading a bunch of their individual lists and noticed Archspire showing up a lot. When they did the aggregated version it wound up number one.

As many have said, it seems social media allowed the crazy to breed more crazy. Crazy by itself in rural America was isolated to pockets. Then they got online. And instead of using the internet to learn they used it to reinforce. And the addictive qualities of social media causes them to want likes. I'm not immune. I enjoy it when someone 'likes' one of my posts here. It is a form of validation. I make sure to 'validate' others. But while we have our crazies here, I don't view it as intense and full of stupid as the twitterverse an facebook. Lately I have noticed that the hermancainawards and others tend to also have a lot of religious fundamentalism in their memes. Lots of 'prayer warrior' requests. I don't mean to offend the religious, but I do think quite often the belief in God holds us all back. I know there are very intelligent Christians posting here who I often agree with outside of the topic of religion. It seems though that the Venn diagram of vocal anti-vaxxer and whacked evangelicals overlaps pretty often. I have a sister who belongs in that diagram. The entire family thinks she got Covid a while back, but of course she wouldn't test. Roulette wheel seems to have worked out in her favor. This time. But the toxicity of evangelicals and social media honestly to me can't be overstated. I don't know what you do about it, but I know this problem doesn't go away, even if we manage as a race to overcome Covid.

A WWI themed black metal band. Kind of growing on me a bit.

Going backwards a bit so I don't repost too much, lol. Their album made a lot of top 10 for 2021 lists. I gave it a listen, and the muscianship is top notch. But somehow the vocals always trying to go along with the drums (seemingly) somewhat bothers me. Not downing it. The drums/bass alone make it worth a few listens for sure.

wow. I try to stay out of most of this now a days. but coming to a fairground near me: https://centraloregondaily.com/michael-flynn-roger-stone-to-headline-reawaken-america-tour-stop-in-rdm/

https://www.wgbh.org/news/local-news/2022/01/04/no-icu-beds-left-massachusetts-hospitals-are-maxed-out-as-covid-continues-to-surge

I'm very sorry to read that.

A damn sobering read. https://old.reddit.com/r/HermanCainAward/comments/rvl0qy/a_nurse_relates_how_traumatic_it_is_to_take_care/ No FAFO. Just sad, really.

Can we just suspend all of Twitter?

I'm not sure I'll watch this thing. I don't necessarily need to start the year with more things to get sad and angry about.

Brought this to mind

Nothingberder*

hmmm https://calgaryherald.com/news/world/prince-andrew-makes-unprecedented-request-for-all-witness-testimony-in-sex-abuse-case-to-be-kept-secret/wcm/6c8e61d4-241e-40e0-851c-75562564fcc8?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1640839645