Sunday, January 30, 2022
Rivian in the wild.
Friday, January 28, 2022
Sigh.
Thursday, January 27, 2022
It feels like a weirder 2007.
US Pending Home Sales Puked For the Past Seven Months.
Wednesday, January 26, 2022
Look at the cans on that one.
Thursday, January 20, 2022
Wednesday, January 19, 2022
If you are bored enough....
Tuesday, January 18, 2022
Monday, January 17, 2022
Sunday, January 16, 2022
Friday, January 14, 2022
So... I've known a few people that have had Covid. Some more than once. And each of them has said that it's painful. I've also read this a ton of times.
Whenever people say "it's just the flu", in my head I think - I've never heard anyone say they are in pain from the flu. Body aches yes. but people say they are in PAIN. Some saying that their skin hurts.
Today I found out someone else I know got it last week and they started telling me that the entire length of their spine hurt. I was like your abdomen area? He says - no my spine. I was like - what causes that? He says that it inflames your meniscus. He also said his skin hurt.
This is a troubling rumor.
Thursday, January 13, 2022
Wednesday, January 12, 2022
They gonna need a bigger chart.
Tuesday, January 11, 2022
Green acres.
Monday, January 10, 2022
As predictable as sunshine.
Wall Street says you can pound sand with your rate hike talk. We will just crash the market so you can't. Obviously a few hundred points means nothing. These are just little love taps.
We've literally been living this same pattern for a decade. Or however long it's been since the housing crisis.
Friday, January 07, 2022
Thursday, January 06, 2022
Oh FFS.
That French variant has already made it to the United States?! Seems like I spent a week reading that this variant predated OMI and wasn't really a threat because it hadn't taken hold. And ofcoursi's the first case is in California. Had a 50/50 chance, right. They either land in New York or California.
Pretty happy I didn't actually try to make CES this year. So far nothing seems worth walking 12 miles out of your way to find a restaurant that happens to be in a casino that looks exactly like all other casinos. It seems to be all the walking without all the products.
I do wish I'd made it to that new fancy hotel with the Elon loop when I was in Vegas this summer, but it wasn't worth trying to find my way out at the time.
And.... no mask technology?! WTF? They did waterproof devices for like five years! You couldn't walk ten feet without seeing a cellphone in a fish tank.
Wednesday, January 05, 2022
An unexpected result of being kind.
About a year or so before the pandemic, I started calling literally ~everyone~ Baby because I thought it felt comforting. Then the pandemic hit and none of us wanted to talk to each other, but I just kept doing it.
Now that everyone has started to gain a footing, and people are starting to talk again, I've noticed ~lots ~of people are calling me sweet pet names. And I have to admit - it makes me smile every time. And it does in fact feel comforting.
These are not people I know. Just people that I occasionally briefly interact with. They are not acquaintances, much more superficial.
In my heart I'd like to think that they remember me because no matter how much I was struggling with what's going on - I took the time to be nice. They too were struggling. I hope it made them feel better in that moment.
Now I think I'm on my way to Betty White status no matter what you guys think of my on line persona.
Make stupid assumptions, win stupid prizes.
Where are all my "the flu" has gone away peeps? Yeah... I'm going all in. The mania has died down a bit, so maybe other non click bait voices can be heard.
Tuesday, January 04, 2022
You can see why everyone again is trained on China trying to figure out what the hell is going on.
Monday, January 03, 2022
THIS is what seems to have set my feed afire. It's from the 28th, but lots of persistent rumors have been going on for days . I'm not even going to repeat what others have been saying because it's only a rumor.
It's starting to look a lot like January 2020.
Cruise ships unable to gain port. Here, here, and here. Freaky videos coming out of China that is making the world wonder what the hell is going on there. Here, here, and here, here. I will probably add links as I re-find them because this doesn't even include the vid with the negative pressure suits.
There is a persistent rumor of some kind of hemorrhagic outbreak. And yes China is prone to this type of infection. But they are again blocking roads, welding neighborhoods shut, forcing people out in the middle of the night to take PCR tests.
I think I'd been back from CES for less than a week when this started two years ago. So, I watched it literally from the very beginning. And this is very reminiscent of that time.
Put your big girl panties on because I am ready to talk.
Team Doom is here and I'm trying to figure out the plan. I don't know why so many people still need to hear this two years in to a pandemic - but, Team "Everybody's going to get This" knows that even if that were true which it's NOT, that doesn't stop the pandemic. Right? As I have said from the very beginning you can get this over and over and over.
And oh BTW! You can get corona and the flu at the same time apparently. Called fluronva or some shit. Apparently you can also get Delta and OMI at the same time. Play stupid games - win super stupid prizes. Dead and dying people do not contribute economically to society. Living with these levels of infection if only for a few weeks is incredibly disruptive for ALL industries.
You can lock your kids in a bedroom because it's too inconvenient for them to get sick one by one, but you will just be doing that for theater. They will get sick then, and when the next variant comes around they can get that one too.
Letting this "rip" with mass infection only sets us back further because new variants pop out. There is no rule in virology that says viruses have to get less killery. And frankly, pretty much everyone believes this was a lab grown virus - so why do people expect it to act like a wild virus? It can do anything it fucking wants.
And now a new variant out of France is flashing hot. It apparently puts one third of the people it infects on vents. And it seems super vaccine resistant.