aug 20 in idea barrages

Rome burns while Nero golfs.

An Uptown Funk/Rammstein mash-up involving the line “Du hast? Hast damn.”

I could not care less about some rich jerk piggybacking his billionaire space vanity project onto the actual good public work of NASA. Private enterprise puffery does not belong in our search for the stars.

Praising entitled yahoos with assault rifles demanding to spread a plague so they can get their haircuts then vilifying oppressed people throwing rocks at cops who time and again murder them whenever given a half a chance? Not a good look.

Cryptocurrency is a hell of a fancy way to say “hipster money laundering”.

If your idea is only possible via deadly force or the threat of deadly force, congratulations, the idea shouldn’t happen to begin with. Be proud you’re not forcing that bad idea into reality! It is a stupid idea. Go do something humane instead.

How dead inside would you have to be to write the news chyron “Police Fend Off Protestors With Flash Grenades”? It is the police attacking protestors with flash grenades. What a business, where you have to lie to assume a perfunctory false neutrality.

In the end, the real virus was Influenca, bad science and worse ethics passed along through unchecked social media by blowhard profiteers and racists and magical thinking conspiracy nuts. COVID merely finished the job.