why would i get in a raging political argument with my family when I can get in a raging political argument with the online accounts with whom I have a parasocial relationship?

I cough like this all the time now

You can’t make me

The advice to wear cloth masks early on in the pandemic was based on a soon to be outdated understanding of how Covid and other respiratory diseases spread. Most health authorities have still not fully caught up, wallowing in outdated science based on a misunderstanding of research describing the spread of tuberculosis.

Of course there is also the propaganda push to not accept the most recent science because no one wants to deal with Covid. Surgical and cloth masks are “better than nothing,” but it has become clear that the advice to wear those two types specifically early in the pandemic could never have combatted Covid to any effective degree.

Cloth masks are better than nothing in the same way putting anything over your mouth will be better than nothing. Really, you’re not getting a lot of protection

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QH1xiOZFGxo&t=3s

This lack of protection is fine outside, where the virus doesn’t spread too much, or in spaces with low amounts of virus particles, but as the concentration of virus particles go up, you’re gonna want something with more protection.

Surgical masks are better, but surgical masks are mostly meant for fluid protection. This is fine if a virus is being spread by droplets, but one of the things we’ve learned throughout the whole Covid pandemic is respiratory viruses are really mostly exchanged through aerosol.

To deal with aerosols, you want a “resporator” - an n95 (or kn95 or kn94). This is filtering at least 95% of particles in the air, usually more.

A surgical mask and a cloth mask is not designed for air filtration, which makes them poor protection against Covid. They are also not designed for being tightly fitted, leaving a number of gaps which is not what you want when dealing with aerosols. You’re right that they are “better than nothing,” but they are not “good” and if you want real, robust protection, you need a respirator.

I use benehal n95s that I buy off Amazon. Also a lot of people recommend 3m auras.

That sounds horrible, glad I don’t hang out with anyone

I don’t think the civil war was completely nonmaterial. The slaveholding south was genuinely scared of even the moderate abolitionism espoused by Lincoln who wanted western states to be free states. This would tip the scales in congress in favor of free states in time, allowing for the abolition of slavery by law. The slaveholding south saw their power eroding, which is why every compromise for new states was extremely contentious and why Kansas ended up in civil war in the lead up to the real civil war. So I don’t know how correct it is to say the south left for no reason, since Lincoln really did represent a threat to their interests (albeit an extremely moderate one)

The only thing stopping him, he said, was that people in Texas “believe in democracy.”

sorry fellas, stop the balkanization celebrations, the gop is just as civility brained as the libs

what’s israel?

city-data.com has to be one of the most racist sites on the internet

this is my dad

they’re not poisoning the blood they’re just invading our white nation

do you have any sources for this stuff? Because my understanding was that the post was extremely unreliable until the late 1700s, and while the news was there, it’s availability fluctuated based on who was in charge, and in any case, regular periodicals weren’t really widespread until the improvement of the post and the road system into the 1700s, and their circulation remained small until the steam press in 1814. And most of those improvements were happening in England first with France usually following. So the rest of Europe would’ve been behind (not sure about other parts of the world).

A lot of social media reminds me of what the world must’ve been like in the seventeenth or eighteenth century or something. Like your main source of news of the outside world is some random merchant who is “just passing through.” Like, if he tells you oh Louis XIV eats children to prolong his life so that he can stay king, what are you gonna do, look it up? You can’t even read and have never left the manor, meanwhile he’s been to Lyon so surely he knows what he’s talking about.

Now instead of passersby spinning long yarns that aren’t based in anything resembling reality we have influencers just spitting out whatever thought crosses their mind and we all absorb it because they have 700k followers and you have like 80 so surely they know what they’re talking about. Even some of our favorite leftist influencers - I mean who the hell are some of these people? Some of them have no reason to be considered an authority. Why don’t I start making video essays on youtube or something? I have more of a claim on being an “authority” on socialism than like most of the people I listen to…

sometimes i wonder if ive crossed paths with some of you out in the real world

but i know we havent since i never leave my house

sorry sweaty, can’t do it 💅

The original tweet is not even correct in any way. Ilhan Omar is not from Puntland, she’s from Mogadishu. Her father is from the area of Puntland. But Puntland didn’t even exist on a map until 1998 - when Ilhan Omar was 17 years old. No one in her family, including her, ever lived in a place called “Puntland.” Her father was basically from the area that became Puntland, but never lived in it at any time it was referred to as “Puntland.”

Furthermore, the Puntland flag is from 2009 - 14 years after Ilhan Omar’s family was in the United States. Not even her father has any ties to that flag, its extremely modern. Chuds will just find anything to get worked up over.

edit: Puntland didn’t even exist until 3 years after Ilhan Omar’s family was in the United States

edit 2: furthermore, I’d love to see EndWokeness’ source for “largest Somali population in the west” because I don’t think that’s true either. I’m pretty sure London has more Somali people than Minnesota.

hit or miss, I guess she doesn’t miss huh

But did you take into account that there is at least 24 hours between each win?

They’re right, except Wednesday and Avatar 2 is also fascist/reactionary art 😤