Is it still “average 3 infections expected per year”? Wouldn’t that imply within 4 years the average person will have or will have had long covid?

And I assume that’s not even getting into possibility of accumulative effects increasing the risk with each infection, which would speed up timeline

r/marxistculture

usually it’s the other way around, that for the west to now impose standards of “degrowth” on the over exploited/ underdeveloped rest of world for the sake of climate would hinder their development and contribute to maintenance of hegemony

Guitar music is over, put your guitars away

In-book, Holden’s eloquence is part of his villainy, he’s the dang devil 😈

And the other characters are heavily contrasted with this

The kid’s terseness is a mild parody of B-movie westerns. Looking at a severed head, ‘‘he spat and wiped his mouth. He aint no kin to me, he said.’’

And as the author, mccarthy has a stylistic purpose to writing that way outside of the holden character

This latest book is his most important, for it puts in perspective the Faulknerian language and unprovoked violence running through the previous works, which were often viewed as exercises in style or studies of evil. ‘‘Blood Meridian’’ makes it clear that all along Mr. McCarthy has asked us to witness evil not in order to understand it but to affirm its inexplicable reality; his elaborate language invents a world hinged between the real and surreal, jolting us out of complacency.

Quotes are from nyt’s 1985 review https://www.nytimes.com/1985/04/28/books/blood-meridian-by-cormac-mccarthy.html

My point being, don’t go pretending you are the devil or pretending you are Cormac type guy that’s cringe

Watching seminar and the last slide is just a Marianne Williamson quote :soypoint-1:

somebody once noted, “RATM is just Limp Bizkit for Marxists”.

:heartbreaking:

I’ve been playing bf2042 for the past week and the implied setting/plot (there is no single player campaign) is wild.

Load into a map and the intro voiceover will be like “an earthquake revealed what the Russians allege is a secret military installation in the Canadian Rockies, and they are moving to secure the site. Get in there and kill every last one of them so our secrets dont fall into the wrong hands” :frothingfash:

Another map, Russian side: “This Swedish arms manufacturer has been supplying Amerikkkan operatives around the world for too long. That stops today. Your mission is a full scale assault on the factory” :comrade-raccoon:

Email busted guess I’ll be doing even less work than usual today :shrug-outta-hecks: :big-cool: