this article was surprisingly enthralling. pickleball people seem like tech bros demanding that cities immediately change their existing park infrastructure to suit their whims while tennis and other sport people seem like nimbys who are afraid of change and are unwilling to share. unfortunately i am a fence sitter on the pickleball issue

i didn't know that the two meters thing is based on the droplets model. in any case i understand where youre coming from but public health does not come about by scolding individual people into changing their behaviour. fundamentally the advice from all the world governments and health agencies is that masking indoors is now largely unnecessary. to say that people are "completely selfish" for following that advice is absurd. the average person is not in the position to research the epidemiology of mask wearing and the mechanics of viral particle spread in order to make decisions on whether or not to wear a mask. and even in an ideal society it is untenable to mandate 100% masking indoors for 100% of the population. i think its more effective to focus on systemic changes and regulations that encourage health, like mandating effective ventilation for buildings and providing a robust health system that can prevent illness in the first place.

moreover i think its deeply concerning to think that "everyone in society is completely selfish and unwilling to take small steps to protect others". i think thats literal doomer shit. theres no way thats a healthy way to view the world. its incredibly ungenerous and cynical. if that's the case then why try and improve things at all? it makes me wonder if this is really about public health at all or if this is an easy shortcut for you to crudely write people off as uncaring. are you immunocompromised? do you know immunocompromised people? do immunocompromised people uniformly believe that people who dont mask up are completely selfish and unwilling to protect other people? its easier to cope with a bleak world if youre confident that everybody in it is irredeemable. if there is value in people then it means you have to change things, and that's harder than retreating into doomer shit.

also "the only thing you can do is source control" is obviously untrue. if that were the true there would be no point in wearing a mask when everybody else is going unmasked

i am usually a mask person at school and on public transport but i have decided to not wear a mask at my summer grocery job because its so hot that the inside of my mask literally becomes wet with sweat and breath and the store is quiet enough that people mostly stay beyond 2 m away from me. take me away boys

hey what the fuck? this is insane

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is this a horny game? people are horny about the main character

no no no youre making the argument i dont want to hear the argument

oh no... the "vote blue no matter who" people and the "i will not vote for genocide joe biden" people are going to keep arguing for another year??? i'm already tired of it

its all about pushing the button.

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we all have different opinions and thats what makes us all special :)

i'm glad i watched this i have not encountered it before. i liked it when he said one-on-one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSCzDykng4g

i would be genuinely shocked if you hadnt heard this song before just by dint of it being absolutely everywhere for a while

edit: oh fuck you were making a joke. leaving this up as a monument to my shame

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not only are these people losing all their money on nfts in november 2023, theyre burning their retinas out attending stupid nft parties. so cool

yeah at the end it says like "russo brothers productions" and im like THOSE russo brothers?

i havent watched a marvel movie since the avengers and dont really remember what the comedy is like in them other than like "is he behind me? hes behind me isnt he" but i feel like community is genuinely funny in subtle ways sometimes that we dont see in marvel. at the same time... i'm not that discerning lol

desperate housewives is cool because it's basically gay male fantasies about ladies. like "oooh what if all women were stylish and mean"

i saw community on netflix and was like "i never finished the first season when i first watched it like 12 years ago so lets try it again" and it's pretty good. in some ways its totally retrograde and 2009 (casual use of the t word, they have flip phones) but it's still funny for the most part.

we can finally bust it... The Nut

one hundred and twenty dollars per year? one hundred and twenty united states dollars?

followup: my advisors tell me that In geology, rock (or stone) is any naturally occurring solid mass or aggregate of minerals or mineraloid matter, and that Gypsum is a soft sulfate mineral composed of calcium sulfate. i retract my statement but maintain that the vibe of what i was going for is still correct.

*me who will rent for the foreseeable future in new zealand where none of these products will be available* 🤔 what IS the best drywall anchor? better watch this 20 minute video while i should be studying for an exam on monday

also i never properly investigated what "sheetrock" is until now. it's plasterboard???? i thought it would be like some sort of marble tile or something. where 👏 are 👏 the 👏 rocks

this is a bland observation but it is deeply fucked up that billion dollar companies can choose to pursue a different strategy, sell off a subsidiary, etc, and in the process severely disrupt the lives of thousands of people for nothing but dollars

wow daily nitori #1. i would like to know how you sorted posts into categories

get your parents permission to post online

if i had done this my life would have turned out a lot differently