04-06-2021, 08:49 PM
I've noticed an increasing number of "news" outlets putting their claptrap behind onerous paywalls. I guess the scare narrative they've been pushing is not as effective at keeping people glued to their rubbish as they hoped it would be - so in their efforts to grasp one more pfenning, they decide to charge all comers to read what they know not to be so. it seems a poor strategy to me. Instead of dropping a coin in their coffers, I just close the page and go on about my day blissfully unaware of whatever bit of prevarication or "spin" they were trying to push in that article. I don't pass "Go", they don't collect their 200 dollars. They don't get their ad revenue that I would have generated, and no clicks for their click bait.
And my mind is cleaner and clearer for it.
Somehow, the human race has managed to survive for a couple hundred thousand years now without double or triple masking or producing their papers at gestapo checkpoints. I think we can still make it without such nonsense, even if another flu season DOES roll around. I have no need for a vaccine passport, there is no justification for it, and I won't be acquiring one. If folks don't like that, they can just keep themselves safe by staying the hell off my patch and outta my yard. My "covid" can't get 'em if they don't get close enough to me to breathe my air.
I feel a small amount of pity for anyone who tries to keep me from going anywhere I want to go for lack of a mask or a hall pass slip of paper. It never ends well for them...
... but that smidgeon of pity is a truly small one. I do not gladly suffer fools.
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And my mind is cleaner and clearer for it.
Somehow, the human race has managed to survive for a couple hundred thousand years now without double or triple masking or producing their papers at gestapo checkpoints. I think we can still make it without such nonsense, even if another flu season DOES roll around. I have no need for a vaccine passport, there is no justification for it, and I won't be acquiring one. If folks don't like that, they can just keep themselves safe by staying the hell off my patch and outta my yard. My "covid" can't get 'em if they don't get close enough to me to breathe my air.
I feel a small amount of pity for anyone who tries to keep me from going anywhere I want to go for lack of a mask or a hall pass slip of paper. It never ends well for them...
... but that smidgeon of pity is a truly small one. I do not gladly suffer fools.
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’