spookthesunset

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by spookthesunset 3y ago
If you think me going to a bar killed grandmas you are badly, badly misinformed.
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by spookthesunset 3y ago
What a privileged myopic view you have. I’m glad your experience of the lockdowns worked in your favor. You are incredibly privileged and lucky. Good for you. Many people were not so fortunate. There is more to life than the myopic focus on
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by spookthesunset 3y ago
> Funny though, kids seem to bitch less about masks and vaccines than adults. That is only because they are too young to have the life experience required to call bullshit. And even if they could they have zero political power because th
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by spookthesunset 3y ago
Even if it was “risky” indoors it didn’t matter. State the risks and let people decide what to do. Don’t force a barbaric, draconian, unproven, unscientific set of multi-year mandates on people.
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by spookthesunset 3y ago
It takes an incredible amount of sheltered privilege to write of what I wrote as anecdotal. But anything that doesn’t support the politically driven covid narrative is misinformation. I’m used to it by now. Somebody I once asked me if I’ve
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by spookthesunset 3y ago
> an example of people throwing the most vulnerable under the bus to avoid slight inconveniences like wearing a mask Which is cool unless you are deaf and need to see faces to understand what people are saying. But who gives a shit about
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by spookthesunset 3y ago
We would have had a million deaths no matter what we did. Covid wasn’t going anywhere. The idea we could control or contain it was a fantasy.
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by spookthesunset 3y ago
Rather than do their job of balancing competing priorities, many of the elected policy makers handed the keys over to a bunch of insane public health officials. In many places said unelected, unaccountable public health officials had the au
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by spookthesunset 3y ago
The US set itself for supply chain and labor issues for hysterically enacting crazy mandates that gave the appearance of dealing with exactly one specific illness to the exclusion of every other problem in the world. This myopic fixation on
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by spookthesunset 3y ago
You were living in an echo chamber if you think that is true. I dare you to question any covid crap in front of your parent or (former) friends and relatives. Wait until they call you every awful thing in the book. Criticism or intellectual
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by spookthesunset 3y ago
Funny. That is what seemed to happen in reaction to covid. Data and science were routinely ignored and replaced by fear and tribalism. How else can you get people to sign up for insane never ending government mandates?
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by spookthesunset 3y ago
So basically all of the politicians who enacted crazy covid mandates for three years?
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by spookthesunset 3y ago
Covid was appeals to authority all the way down. The whole plot rested on “shut up, disengage your brain and listen to these people we decided to label as ‘experts’”. Experts don’t get to make policy decisions. Ever. That isn’t their job. O
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by spookthesunset 3y ago
Same here. I don’t think we’ll see any reckoning until all the people involved are long dead…
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by spookthesunset 3y ago
If anything the concept of “facts” or “the truth” is up for grabs. You can find any quasi-legit looking source that supports just about any version of “the truth” you want. And your favorite content aggregator will pick up on that and suck
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by spookthesunset 3y ago
Totally agree. I really hate how so many people paint those who want 2019 normal office interaction back are somehow deeply flawed and just need to straighten up and fly right somehow.
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by spookthesunset 3y ago
If you don’t like remote work, it’s always “your problem” somehow. Everybody has to like remote work, I guess. And if they don’t it means they are flawed somehow. It’s kinda nuts the lengths people to go put down those who simply hate worki
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by spookthesunset 3y ago
Partly because a lot of these companies “return to office” took away all the cool stuff like sitting next to your team, having an actual desk of your own, etc. I just want one single place that is actual 2019 normal. None of this BS hotdesk
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by spookthesunset 3y ago
Many of them bought homes way out in the boondocks assuming this covid remote crap would never end…
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by spookthesunset 3y ago
Welcome to my world. You aren’t alone. Remote work absolutely ruined my career… I really hope what shakes out is some places are all in on the office and some are all in on remote. None of this dithering crap that came post 2020
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by spookthesunset 3y ago
Not just slightly more but likely much more. You can automate the hell out of an automated propaganda bot in a way you could never do with a smoke filled room of $5/day workers.
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by spookthesunset 3y ago
Hmmm.... there was some windows program called "waterfall" that kept your CPU cool when it was idle. Very useful for overclockers.
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by spookthesunset 3y ago
From what I recall the problem was on some devices it was rendered as a “sci-fi zapper” or squirtgun and on others it was a fairly realistic depiction of a gun. Leading to some misunderstandings…
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by spookthesunset 3y ago
> Honestly, not a bad idea. There is a massive distance between an idea and its successful execution. Most of the success comes from execution, not the original idea.
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by spookthesunset 3y ago
Twitter was the only platform I could tell our public health director they were doing way more damage with their insane covid mandates than good. I even got replies from the dude. There isn't any other platform out there where you can
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by spookthesunset 3y ago
Once you unsubscribe to political tribalism you will see how badly your tribe played you. Trust me. I was you before these lockdowns. I even phone banked for Obama. I had nightmares when trump was elected. I sneered and disowned trump peopl
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by spookthesunset 3y ago
Then perhaps those “experts” shouldn’t be making broad, far reaching, incredibly costly public policy? Especially ones as incredibly destructive as what was enacted for covid. All the crap these “experts” pushed was the exact opposite of wh
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by spookthesunset 3y ago
> It seems that you're not only aware, you think your tone is justified I encourage you to play the other side of this argument for a while. I've been called all kinds of absolutely awful things by people I used to respect. Why
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by spookthesunset 3y ago
For most populations, covid is not nearly as dangerous as what got pushed by the media. We have tons of actual data to back that. The median age of death from covid is higher than the average life expectancy of a human. Most healthy people
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by spookthesunset 3y ago
I'll use scare quotes all day long to describe the "experts" who pushed all that nonsense covid public policy. I didn't vote for them. They did nothing to earn my respect. I was just told I had to shut off my brain and f

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