Yeah, I feel like the first summer, at least around me, cases got super low and it seemed like we might actually get over it, then after the hell that was delta the vaccines came out and last summer cases got super low again, I even got comfortable without my mask in certain outdoor spaces. Then omicron hit and this shit keeps evolving, getting more contagious, yet people are at an absolute low with taking precautions, they won’t roll out new boosters, testing has decreased. I clung to what little hope there was for the past two summers, but this is the first summer where there’s really nothing to give me hope and yeah I feel worse than ever

If you’re all healthy death is unlikely. Just try to stay healthy - get enough sleep, try to eat well. My friend was telling me the other day that fermented foods are supposed to be good for covid, he specifically mentioned kefir.

A lot of people saying truckers aren’t bourgeois but I thought it was usually the case that the people pictured owned trucking companies, and employ people under them. Which would make the people pictured petit bourgeoisie?

just below that you have a lib going

I wouldn’t characterize it as an assassination, myself

…I feel that calling this an assassination is somehow dignifying the murder/murderer, and taking into account too much the murderer’s beliefs/policies. I can understand using the term “assassination” if you take down a brutal warlord, say, or a head of state who’s leading a genocide or in some other way doing significant harm to the world (Trump or Putin, perhaps). But this was the senseless murder of a peaceful, cultured, positive, and intelligent person. Please let’s not try to assign, or seem to be assigning, any sense to it…

Not New Jersey, Long Island

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plum_Island_Animal_Disease_Center#Controversy

going off your hate for cryptobros, there’s a type of person who mixes the cryptobro personality with the “bro science” fitness-bro mindset and the whole bougie “travel the world” personality. I hate all these types of people seperately, but there’s a type of person I’ve been seeing a lot of lately that mixes all three and is completely insufferable. Like the type of people investing in crypto while doing sexpat shit in Thailand.

Lol this is how I learned about it too. I think watching theGandhi movie was the only teaching we were given on modern India/South Asia

“Wait. Is this guy seriously saying that I can’t get laid? ‘Incredible. I will give you $5000 if you can get some poon tang before January 1st’? Do you have any idea who the fuck you’re talking to? When I got off Tinder because of the fucking Russian Civil War, St. Petersburg wept. Even ignoring the fact that I have a girlfriend, even if we’re just talking like randos, I’m two hours away right now from being inside someone else. I have two skills -it’s non-monogamy and speaking publicly, okay? Do some fucking research!”

More than anything this is what has convinced me revolution is impossible in the United States.

idk my old coworker pre-covid who was into skincare told me that that was what she did. I knew nothing about skincare so I started doing it bc I figured putting aloe on my face can’t hurt. Then I lost my health insurance so no longer could get this acne cream I was using but I kept using the aloe and I didn’t really have bad acne flareups with this method, so I kept doing it and haven’t gone back to using acne cream