Tar_Alcaran

The Bigly Depression

How to fix overstimulation the wrong way

Measles is something like 4 to 5 times more infectious than covid. So yeah, there really isn’t much more to do

Measles has a death rate of 1-2 per 1000 cases

Oh, its much worse. That’s the death rate for people who get treated, in a vaccinated population in a modern hospital. In low-income countries (or in, say, places with 85 million hospitalizations) over 20 out of a thousand people die. And in displaced refugee children, it can rocket up to 3 out of every 10 infected children dying.

I just realized there was never an evil twin episode in Buffy.

That’s not a prediction, it’s happening as we speak

Covid called

Goddamn, Trump is literally my entitled cat.

If I give my normal cat a treat, it’s bad, because I didn’t give one to the entitled cat.

If I give both cats a treat, it’s bad, because I didn’t give the entitled cat more.

If I give the entitled cat two treats, it’s bad, because I also gave something to the normal cat.

The Netherlands is probably an “overcooked pasta” enclave than. When I was a kid, I was sure Al Dente was Italian for Deathly Toxin.

Spirited Away, and to some degree all Ghibli stuff leans very heavily on a shared cultural Mythos. It doesn’t do exposition in the same way that zombies or angels aren’t explained; everyone knows that stuff because we all grew up with a million references.