Subjacent Banana

Impatient Linguist who drinks too much coffee and judges your ontologies unfairly.

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Peripatetic cynic but memes.

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2024-06-08 23:44:15

*Weird thing happens to you*
Normal Human Beings: "I don't know what it is."
Doctors: "You are a crazy person, go crawl off and die."

2024-05-26 03:05:11

Nuclear Reactors and billions of dollars well spent.
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2024-05-24 20:37:36

Okay guys, I'm selling out.
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2024-03-30 01:37:51

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@npub1eav…g6f3 I wish I had happier ones, but I don't.
I kept the really grim ones off because - frankly - not enough Whiskey.😆

2024-03-30 01:28:12

It's pretty straightforward.
You get the Minimizers to tell you the risks for SARS2 are now low.
Then you get the Economizers to tell you that "Assisted Dying" is normal and okay.
Then you're dead.🥳

2024-03-26 21:09:54

An informal taxonomy of Covid-Safe/Aware people:
A thread I will add to as I feel like it.

2024-03-22 20:04:44

Jessica Pettway's death was literally the same trajectory my wife was on in 2020-2023. Same diagnosis (except the cancer, thank God).
Started abt 4 months post-Covid in 2020. VERY VERY VERY BAD BLEEDING. She ended up on numerous iron transfusions for severe anemia caused by blood loss. Heart began to suffer related, got very very weak, etc. Gyno said fybroids and 'unidentified' growths - "probably benign." They removed the worst ones and then did a biopsy. Came back non-cancerous. (>10 weeks later btw)
She recovered. After surgery removed some, the others "resolved" (i.e. died off) and now she feels 100% of normal. But I wonder if she hadn't been able to get them removed (like Pettway) what would've happened.
So PSA - if you develop these symptoms DO NOT WAIT ON IT. GET THEM REMOVED. IGNORE THE DOC SAYING THEY ARE BENIGN.
It's definitely Covid. Covid Covid Covid Covid: ~2.5x the rate of fibroids & 3x rate of cysts in post-Covid)
"Studies (n = 65 and n = 191) have found increased rates of dysfunctional uterine bleeding, secondary amenorrhea, uterine fibroids (25% vs. 10% of healthy controls), endometriosis, ovarian cysts (43% vs. 13% of healthy controls) ... "
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fresc.2023.1122673/full
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/21/jessica-pettway-death-cervical-cancer

2024-03-19 17:59:12

Normies: Letting themselves get catastrophic brain damage by going to Brunch with Friends.🤡
Me: Saving my 1x Brain-Damage Card for when I get hit with a stray bullet, like any true-blue red-blooded American should. :bobross:

2024-03-18 19:27:17

"BuT CoViD BrAIn DAmAgE ReSOLvEd EvEnTuAllY"
You can survive a metal pole being blown through your frontal lobe, giving you severe Aphasia.
You can even nearly completely recover from it. (Sort of; plasticity)
Still, I'd recommend not having a metal pole blown through your head, and if you gotta do it, do it only 1x.💀

2024-03-18 04:23:21

This seems fine.
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2024-03-01 21:21:47

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2024- A year so great YOU WILL WANT TO REPEAT IT FOREVER. 🥳

2024-03-01 21:21:19

Have you ever wanted to have Christmas every day?
Have you ever wanted to celebrate your Birthday on every day of the year?
Have you ever wanted to enjoy good news over and over again?
Well NOW YOU CAN! Goodbye, Hippocampus and HELLO, COVID.
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2024-02-15 21:44:55

This weekend, I'm gonna go stare at The Great Unfrozen Lake, which used to be the jewel of the subarctic on this continent, and contemplate the Fast Approaching End of Everything here on Earth that I ever cared about.
Also, probably drink some pretty good coffee. :bobross:
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2024-02-15 21:13:41

Nobody:
WHO: SO, just to be useful and a propos of nothing, we have released some new guidelines to use for the treatment of **[[DIPHTHERIA]]**.
Everyone:
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2024-02-15 04:16:26

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@npub1qag…9gyn ONLY ONE BULLET IN SIX CHAMBERS, LET'S GO BOYO! :holdthepain:

2024-02-15 00:30:42

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Ah, apparently this blabbering is related to Dr. Bretshit Weinstein appearing on Bro Jogan today. Something something Gay Lifestyle and Party Drugs actually cause Aids something something.
I couldn't hang on to the video clip long enough to give two fucks. :rickroll:

2024-02-14 20:31:25

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I see a rando on Tweetbox.musk right now who's talking about how "AIDS is probably only transmitted anally if you don't use lube."
I'll let you fill in my interpretation. :bobross:

2024-02-14 20:28:54

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They said "Mexico is a lot safer than people make it out to be."
What I heard: "I am going to Cancun for 2 weeks."

2024-02-14 20:27:59

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What they said: "Child abduction is passingly rare in Canada."
What I heard: "I don't want to wait at the bus stop with my 8 year old."

2024-02-14 20:27:26

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What they said: "Flying is statistically the safest way to travel"
What I heard: "I am going on 37 commuter flights this year and do not want to be afraid."

2024-02-14 20:26:14

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What he said: "Catching Covid indoors is statistically really hard blah blah blah"
What I heard: "I have caught Covid ~ 12 times at Pizza Hut."

2024-02-14 20:26:01

Whenever someone talks about how some outcome is "Statistically Very Rare" it usually means they are taking that risk.

2024-02-05 20:24:40

Look on the bright side, Bart.
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2024-02-05 05:10:10

CLIPPY, NO!
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2024-01-02 22:31:14

Media: We're on a Train that's running at a brick wall.
Reasonable Train Manufacturers & Coal Retailers warn that the train must continue or else your kids will starve in a gully.
Alarmists claim that brick walls are bad for trains and so we must stop immediately.
Politicians: How bout we increase speed to 230% but announce that the train is now stopped?
/galaxy_brain.png

2023-12-30 17:27:18

I think a lot of terrible mistakes people make boil down to not admitting that there is no acceptable fail state.
It's "pretty easy" to replace the brake system on your car. (Done it >50x myself.)
But you need to be aware that you CAN NOT AFFORD TO SCREW IT UP.
Stats don't help you here, btw.
It may be "rare" to see a kid in the street, but, when you drive a car, YOU HAVE TO PREPARE FOR THE KID BEING THERE. FAILURE TO SEE THE CHILD CAN NOT BE AN OPTION.
(#SorryNotSorry, Nate Silver)

2023-12-30 16:51:32

Suggestion: Whenever someone tries the "Reasonable" game on you, demand they change the word to "effective."
"What are reasonable solutions to climate change?"
No, "What are *effective* solutions to climate change?"
"What are reasonable Covid precautions?"
No, "What are *effective* Covid precautions?"
We don't talk about "reasonable" ways to escape from a great white shark or avoid a gasoline tanker that has overturned.

2023-11-29 18:39:43

For people trying to understand Covid & its behavior, it might be useful to think of a classic Linguistic division:
i) form: the structure and (narrowly-defined) contextual dependencies of a thing
ii) function: what the thing does, what its purpose is, how it is used, to what ends it is used
In the discourse about Covid, Form has been the domain of Virologists and Function has largely been the domain of Immunologists.
Because formalism is always preferred to functionalism, Virology tends to think of itself at the top of the "heap."
Immunology is a messy, hyper-complex business, clearly, and its experts typically have to admit they don't know much. The field has to simultaneously synthesize all kinds of structural and contextual dependencies, etc.
Virology is "pure" and "unadulterated" by these concerns. Hence they talk much more confidently.
(Also, they're largely wrong in all the ways that matter.)

2023-11-22 20:37:43

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@npub1sat…8vnx That's the great thing about being sloppy with language: you know what you mean and nobody else does.🥳

2023-11-22 19:54:49

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@npub1sat…8vnx Can't tell if kidding or seri0s.
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2023-11-22 04:59:04

In Vancouver (Yaletown), I once saw a man laying sprawled on the sidewalk, unconscious/dead from an OD.
He was blocking the door of a Starbucks.
A man wanted to go in and get a coffee, so he stepped over the sprawled body.
When he stepped over him, he juuuust brushed him with the top of his shoe. He stopped, carefully wiped his shoe off, and entered the shop.
Humanist solutions to the Pandemic need to reckon with these kinds of things.
I'm sorry.🤖

2023-11-09 17:39:11

Called up the electronics repair shop that has had my laptop for ~4 weeks. It's the busiest repair shop in my city. Has maybe 9 employees.
After a long ringing, the OWNER answers. He has no idea if the laptop is repaired. His admin assistant has been out for 6 days, will be missing another week or more. He said he has "no one able to work on stuff currently."
Q: How are you supposed to keep the lights on when every worker you have is sick?