Hard times are coming. It's unclear just how they'll arrive, or what they'll look like when they get here, or how they'll affect us. But they are coming. Some people will be able to adapt and survive. My wife and I plan to survive, and I suspect Amy Alkon will as well.

Laura Hogan not so much.

I always thought his feet were too big for his bed anyway.

So in NYC we've gone from hating gays to hating gay cops, while still patting ourselves on the back for our inclusionary compassion.

IIRC, murders are up about a third in New York City, as they are in many cities since the killing of George Floyd. The irony is that theretofore, NYC had seen enormous improvement in the quality and consequences of police work in recent decades, with absolutely stellar numbers.

I don't have those numbers in front of me, but listen to the first 20 or so of this podcast with Peter Moskos and Meghan Daum. (It was recorded last year, but it's unlikely that the bloodletting has been staunched.)

Twitter vid: Amazeballs windshield repair. Kinda wonder what happens when it sits in an afternoon of bright sunshine.

"murders are up about a third in New York City, as they are in many cities "

What makes it even more pronounced is the population of NYC and many other cities decreased greatly in that year. I've heard by 1/3 for NYC, plus no visitors or tourists.
So even though the number of people (targets) dropped dramatically and homeless were being put up in nice hotels and people were closed indoors more the number of murders grew majorly.

Virtue signaling has just gotten more frantic in the period of COVID isolation.

David Hogg, the child from Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School who thought he was the first person ever to think about violence, yet insisted the police who sat there doing nothing should be the only ones with guns, recently posted that he doesn't want to take his mask off lest he be thought - gasp! - a conservative!

None of it signals... intelligence.

Artificial Intelligence doesn't bother me half as much as Manufactured Outrage.

By the way - have you seen this show called, "Catfish"?

It's about people who fail at reality, desperately trying to call tenuous communication via phone or laptop as real love.

But they're good people.

Apparently sans parenting.

Two in a row this afternoon via Lomborg suggest the online simulation of love has much in common with an online simulation of real principle:

https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1396581749665140738

https://twitter.com/curryja/status/1397206798684377088

Did you know Canadians sell milk in plastic bags? Well.. I have found a worty opponent:

https://twitter.com/AmymAisme/status/1398881181937061890