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Mole

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  1. 1. The broader anti-vaccine movement as well as COVID vaccine resistance is a symptom of our gradual societal disengagement from reality. We’ve always had people make terrible and irresponsible choices, but now poor choices are points of pride. 2. As good as it feels to rage against anti-vaxxers for their role in creating variants, it’s probably a drop in the bucket compared to the variant factories in countries with less vaccine access. It doesn’t help and it certainly spreads death and destruction, but there will be variants either way. 3. Comparing failure to get your COVID shot with failure to get your annual flu shot — which you should also get — is asinine. It’s just noise to muddy the waters and justify irresponsible choices. 4. I’ll admit that before my first COVID shot, my lizard brain told me that I would turn into a newt or something, but we don’t have to believe our lizard brains. I wonder if messaging that more explicitly acknowledged normal but entirely irrational and absurd fears would be more effective than the way we do things. When my four year old is having a meltdown, you can’t reason with him until you acknowledge that he’s really angry that you threw the dirty paper towel in the trash. Once I let him know that I get why he’s so angry, we can have a more rational discussion and be normal people. Stupid thoughts and fears are still real feelings and can only be faced once you see them for what they are.
  2. She’s not a martyr, but a sad, pathetic victim of Trump and his movement. He and the other leaders of his movement killed her. In that moment, she had to be stopped, but I blame GOP leaders for her life and the lives of the dead and injured cops. Those leaders sacrificed her life. They used her and are continuing to use her in her death. She’s ultimately responsible for the actions that led to her death, but without the movement, she’d be alive today ranting about more harmless madness.
  3. There was an article posted sometime in the past month or so where they were interviewing rural Trump voters. The discussion mostly centered around the COVID stimulus money that “Trump sent them.” The framing seemed a lot like this. It’s the weirdest, dumbest coalition: anti-communist commies?
  4. I did this once: for the Gideon Tech game. I didn't check the live score and just sped through the breaks. I caught up right around the last Texas drive where we didn't burn enough clock. I nearly lost my mind watching the game and I think I might be partially responsible. Never again.
  5. I incorrectly thought that the St. Louis and Blue thing was some kind of hockey reference or he’s an early jazz fan:
  6. I have to admit, it had to read that about three times before I understood it. “Underweigh” caused my brain to get stuck.
  7. The important question is, how does she pronounce pecan?
  8. Epistemology talk not going away. Come for the discussion of organizations harboring child rapists, stay for the David Hume talk.
  9. Fify
  10. My favorite part of troll threads like this isn't that they're in the wrong forum; my favorite part is how we all know our roles so well. Tom Herman would be jealous of our alignment. Greg Davis would be jealous of our self-sabotaging but perfectly executed plays. Beautiful execution of stupidity is in some sense high art -- a kind of sad genius. Passing a Turing test on any of these threads to represent either "side" would be trivial. I think it's best to assume that we're all bots.
  11. Steph vs. Lebron last month did really well with like 5 1/2 million viewers.
  12. SEC squabbles not going away. At least it’s appropriately confined to the Trump thread.
  13. Mole

    Fat People

    https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/07/massive-dna-study-finds-rare-gene-variants-protect-against-obesity
  14. I was going to write some copy for Trump, but they beat me to it. My suggestion was: Donald Trump is Fighting for YOU against socialist Cancel Culture, big tech Censorship, and elite Hollywood liberals. Click below Today to donate your social security check to get your name on Trump’s Patriots List!
  15. Putting our military readiness and national security at risk to win the culture war.
  16. My dig was only at the language smack. The best part of the NBA playoffs for me is watching the best players in the world try to figure out each other in a 7-game series. I don't really care about new teams winning it or the drama of surprise teams winning it. I honestly don't even care that much about who wins or loses, other than pulling for horns to win. I just want to watch the best players play against each other. There's something magical about the swings that happen over 7 games as each team adapts with such great players. I agree that it's a lot less interesting when the best players in the world keep getting hurt.
  17. Do you find that ironic?
  18. Rigid prescriptivism masquerading as intellectual superiority is ironic. I root for the horns, so without KD, I'm on team PJ.
  19. Accidentally recording yourself venting your sour grapes over getting passed over for a gig, uploading it to the work server, and then calling it a “spy video of a female alone in her hotel room” is a bit much. Spare me the self-righteous victim status because you didn’t know how to work your phone. We all need a space to vent our ugly thoughts about colleagues, but if we upload those thoughts on the shared work drive, don’t be surprised if some bridges are burned.
  20. I guess Domi and JD Beck should go in this thread. Kids these days are alright.
  21. There’s a school of instrumental music pedagogy where you focus on timing entirely, ignoring wrong notes, missed notes, bad sounds, bad feel, etc. By fixing the timing and coordination, those other things eventually fall into place. Focus solely on timing and ignore how it feels or even if it succeeds. Success is measured by good time alone, not playing the lick well or in this case, making the putt. Focus ONLY on time. It works in music, particularly for the people who are really broken and having trouble. Complex, highly practiced tasks are less technique and more timing and coordination.
  22. He can’t talk, the only thing about him is the way that he walks.
  23. Repenting and atoning for your sins and the sins of your forebearers is one of the most foundational beliefs of the Christian faith. Any church that refuses to do so when necessary attests to their own uselessness. A church that claims to teach the true faith but demonstrates total unbelief through actions is a social club. If you’re looking to join a social club, you’d be better off not joining one so demented. Daniel Tiger has taught me that saying “I’m sorry” is the first step, then “how can I help?”
  24. Who knew the kayak place had a notary? For future reference, I’m pretty sure that you can’t get a replacement ID unless your sworn statement from the culprit that lost it is signed in the blood of a wild boar. Otherwise they don’t know that you mean business.
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