My sister caught it working at a restaurant and our holidays were a super spreader event that put two in the hospital. I didn’t take it super seriously personally but did most of the safety measures out of respect to everyone else (i did walk my dog after curfew most days because he needs to go at low traffic times…

Maybe they were all lucky enough to be vaccinated already?

*I know this is not likely.

I heard this morning some survey had a quarter of respondents say they’re planning some size of get together for the Super Bowl and I fell into a moment of despair. I know it’s hard, but is there any threshold of occasion that everyone is willing to skip? Skip it!

It feels bad! I sat outside at my local a total of three times when it was warmer and it just feels bad! So now I’m going to start ordering to-go cocktails and tipping like 100%. I’m so glad to-go cocktails are legal now.

Ah, but eating out while literally endangering the lives of the lower class is peak Bourgeoisie.

Sip the wine and scowl as your personal wage slave literally dies while you tip lower than historically average.

I used to be jokingly anti-capitalist, but Covid has radicalized(wrong word for realizing the truth) the shit…

I don’t know about you, but sitting at awkwardly spaced tables and tugging my mask down to take sips of wine in-between interactions with someone who is literally endangering their life out of financial necessity does not put me in an amorous mood.

Whiskey creamer.

I just hope the “I got it months ago and was fine and now I’m immune” crowd will shut the fuck up and do what we need them to do.

Nah, I think we can go ahead and panic. It’s been interesting watching the experts go from ‘of course the vaccines will still work’ to ‘well they might still work, probably maybe’. The new normal might just be more normal than we ever thought.

I look at it like this.

there’s a few ends to it. most notably, the college loan industry was (is?) rife with shady and misleading practices and in many cases, people were screwed over.

I have mixed feelings on this as well. I’m more for something like public service loan forgiveness getting expanded to others. Get on income based repayment, pay for 10 years, at that point debt is gone. You have some responsibility, but not a debilitating debt that you will never pay off.

Good opportunity to urge everyone to watch The Detectorists. 

Sorkin comes so close to having a really great speech there, and whiffs hard on saying anything actually meaningful.

Sadly, racism and sexism still continues because we have scared old white dudes who want it to. Even in that ‘America used to be great’ monologue, I’m aware that we didn’t get to that point without an ugly history.

Amen. All of that is backpatting, to imagine that forward is back so the future is easier to get to. The only people we need to compare ourselves to to be better are those doing harm in the present.

The Democrats and news media calling these people insurectionists and enemies of Democracy fail to understand that these people see themselves as the inheritors of the boston tea party and the Son's of Liberty. The social contract has been violated and while running riot is no more legal and acceptable as dumping tea…

Your inability to notice armed rioters looting the Capitol building, planting explosives, and beating a police officer to death with a fire extinguisher, while committing domestic terrorism in the cause of overturning the lawful election of someone they didn’t like, is emblematic of how “it’s not bad when white people…

Yep, I’m a gen Xer.

“This isn’t America. We’re better than this”