The quote tweets are my daily reminder of how I could have made wheelbarrows of cash by changing my username to something like 'Pebcak the Natufian' and grifting off these gullible marks if it wasn't for pesky morals.

If the consequences at scale weren't deadly whenever a serious threat comes around, we'd all have a good laugh at the people who think the 'machine' they should be 'raging at', are the nerds in cramped government offices telling them to eat vegetables and not stare at an eclipse.

The saddest reality is that many dudes will take the word of another dude who is visibly strong over that of a highly credentialed expert who looks physically weak or even just average.

Mediocre dudes videoing themselves making contrived complaints about popular culture to an audience of sub-ochre men, would not be a profitable content genre in a society where men were healthy—physically, psychologically, cognitively, or existentially.

Never going to not be tired of how the cradle of civilization seems insistent on also being its grave.

'We can't solve that problem because we don't have unlimited resources.'

Well how many resources are you keeping for yourself?

'Hey shut up.'

It sucks that Pete Hotez has to be both an expert on vaccine development, and conspiracy theories.

Would be nice to live in a world where he only had to focus on the former.

I've started using the phrase 'feeding shelter cats to coyotes' to describe people with good intentions, but the outcomes of their actions are terrible.

Ex: the people trying to de-gender a gendered language like Spanish ('Latinx'), but only end up fueling ragebait influencers.