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17 Apr, 4 tweets, 2 min read
The latest thing that is now problematic: Use of the "phobia" suffix.
Wait, it's not even that. It's about shaming kids with food allergies???
"Fuck you fuck you you're literally murdering my children" is not mild annoyance, sir.
I get it, though. Retconning your own behavior is easier than self-reflection. You don't have to consider that perhaps your online behavior is unhealthy if you pretend that your reaction was totally different than what it was.

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18 Apr
My area masked so heavily that you would definitely get nasty looks for being outside unmasked for at least the past six months. That attitude is totally gone now. At least half don't do it and the other people don't seem to mind. I'm down to wearing it only where I have to.
Dog park is the one place I would really like to not have to wear it but it's part of the city's mask mandate and we all just grit our teeth and carry on with it.
The one scenario where I end up wearing it outside is if I'm going from my car to some place indoors and am too lazy to take it off for two minutes and then put it back on lol
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16 Apr
OK for the first time since I got doge I'm thinking about cashing out... OTOH it doesn't look like we've reached peak yet. #FamousLastWords
I said thinking about it.
My initial investment is small enough to lose it all and not give a shit. But that small investment is starting to be worth a large enough chunk for it to be a fun cash out.
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9 Apr
Elon Musk promises 20 futuristic things for every one decidedly non-futuristic thing he delivers on, but that one thing has a futuristic coat of paint on it and the other 20 promises make it feel like it's more innovative than it actually is. It's a (successful) branding scheme.
Elon Musk: We will colonize Mars and wire our brains into virtual reality and live forever!

Also Elon Musk: Here's an electric car driving in a subway tunnel.
And yeah I'll happily eat my words if he delivers, just like I was happy to eat my words if he had delivered those ventilators he promised to produce. And yet, my words remain uneaten.
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8 Apr
There are definitely valid arguments to be made against prosecuting 13 and 15-year-olds as adults but this bizarre appeal to emotion isn't one of them. The whole point of homicide is that the victim can never be brought back. Hence the whole trial and prison thing.
A better argument (whether you accept it or not) is that kids that young have a strong potential to be reformed and become law abiding instead of all but ensuring they face a lifetime of incarceration and recidivism.
I think these determinations should be on a case-by-case basis (which they tend to be). I'm just troubled by the swiftness of this whole thing being swept away from public attention.
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3 Apr
Paul Simon > Bob Dylan.
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Like Bob Dylan ever did something as good as Graceland lmao.
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2 Apr
The walkback of the Walensky's comments about reinfection for vaccinated people is like a Snopes fact check of AOC. All they walk back is the idea that no vaccinated person will get reinfected ever. But % is never zero, so they're debunking a strawman. 1/5 nytimes.com/2021/04/01/hea…
Here's what Walensky says and how the Times categorizes it. The Times also suggests that the walk back was about political optics. 2/5
Also note the very narrow window of risk that even the "other side" acknowledges exist. "It's maybe possible that they can potentially perhaps in some situations transmit it. We don't know literally everything yet." 3/5
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