winterayars @ winterayars @sh.itjust.works

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No, literally. Slavery is still legal as punishment for a crime. Which is why everything is illegal these days.

Man, imagine how much better the world would be if accountants would face consequences when their decision was to blame?

Here's someone talking about it.

Dude was black and he just knew that mob would who aggro onto him instead of the representatives because of that. (I mean, they did, didn't they?)

Maybe it's different for Capitol Police, but for most cops being a decoy isn't a part of their job description. In that moment, he wasn't acting as a cop. He was acting as a hero.

COVID is 10x as deadly as the flu and far more contagious. In 2021, when half a million people in the US died to COVID, they didn't even bother to count flu deaths because they were so low. We accidentally wiped out whole strains of the flu.

This attitude of "we can't hurt business no matter how many people die" is insane.

I look forward to the courts being very normal about that argument.

The law in NC (not sure about the Utah one) doesn't care about where the login is coming from. It only cares about where the user is located. The user concealing that information, on purpose or by accident, does not mean the website can ignore its requirements under the law.

If the backlash is the scary imagine how frightening the presidency would be. Fucking cowards.

America does. America has, for years, had a vested interest in Israel being a forward base for its interests. You think America is getting nothing out of all those guns it sends to Israel?

Even that would not be enough to protect Pornhub, too. Some kid gets on their parents' account? Bam, lawsuit. Even the total ban is not enough. Some kid uses a VPN to access the site? Lawsuit.

It is not physically possible to comply with these laws. (The NC one at least.)

My USPS straight up loses (steals?) like 25% of my packages. It was never great but it hit new lows in the Trump years.

Disappointing and unenjoyable? Man that can't possibly be. Nothing like a good chocolate rum cheesecake or something.

Plain old cheesecake is the best, though. Can't argue there.

Now let's not be too hasty. let's wait to see what the Supreme Court thinks.

It's still the most deadly disease out there excepting AIDS (in terms of raw numbers), even though we're doing our best to ignore it.

The deadliness of the infection has gone down but the transmissibility is actually up, for what that's worth.

This attitude is so fucked. Jesus Christ.

Some immunocompromised people can get the vax, for others it's not recommended or but very effective. Same as with other vaccines.

No way was i missing a Ferrari Enzo.

It's not a "conspiracy theory", they outright said (over and over and over) that we need to stop COVID lockdowns, masking, etc and "get back to normal" for the sake of the economy. This wasn't some secret and it was not that long ago! The concern was more about the impact on the economy, on whether the line went up or down, than on human lives. (Random sampling of articles: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.)

COVID hasn't gone away and it's still killing people, even with vaccines. (Sure would help if people would take the vaccines, though.)

The only material difference between now and 2020 is we have some handle on this thing, it's not completely overwhelming our health care system and it's better understood in general so we can treat and prevent it better.

(Edit: actually there's a second material difference. The disease is much deadlier now than it was at the start of this. )

However, there's also a difference in that three (or four) years have passed. The opposition to measures against COVID has largely won--the people calling the shots decided to join the war on disease on the side of the disease.

We can do this, though! We could do something about it. During the COVID lockdowns we actually (accidentally) wiped out multiple entire strains on the Flu! They're dropping one of the strains from the Flu shot because it doesn't exist anymore (in the wild at least). However, i worry it could go the other way as well. If this attitude about COVID takes hold in general we could make disease worse for everyone.

Here's a long article that talks about this: https://johnsnowproject.org/insights/endemic-sars-cov-2-and-the-death-of-public-health/

I saw the Ferrari and the plane immediately but not the tank. I guess camo works sometimes even if it's in a stupid environment for it.

Yeah i straight up said it to my mother's face when she pulled that on me one (several) time(s) too many. She got real mad about it but she chilled out a little. Toxic nonsense.

It's complicated.