Another run, another 13 seconds (per km) shaved off my time. It was a hot one this morning, and I wasn’t helped by last night’s yellowtail ceviche, pork loin and chocolate brownie (and the accompanying rather decent chenin blanc). That yellowtail ceviche, pork loin and chocolate brownie (and the accompanying rather decent chenin blanc) did make up another incredible meal out at the amazing Black Sheep in town, though.
Valentine’s dinner done right.
Less good for Valentine’s Day (or any other day) was the fact that I ended up going down a bit of a flat earther rabbit hole yesterday. The alien, anti-vax, crypto, Trump stuff was all there as well – the full oddball bingo card – so this was the real deal. A lot of it had me rolling my eyes and sighing, but there were some absolute gems. Like this:
Let’s get things absolutely clear from the get go here.
Bees. Fly.
Like planes, birds, wasps and… well… flies. They fly.
Where the hell does this absolute horse shit “levitation” story come from? Who comes up with it? Who believes it? And who shares it? These aren’t the actions of normal, sane people. And yet each of the arseholes at each of those stages, making those decisions have the same voting rights as you or I.
Is it any wonder we’re neck deep in the dwang and sinking fast?
Maybe we need to “build up energy inside a hollow cavity near our larynx”, and levitate out of here.
Or maybe that’s complete BS. I asked a friend who’s a bit of an entomologist, and he said it’s absolute BS. I didn’t really need to ask him. I knew. Because any sane person who reads that knows that it’s crap.
Like this:
I asked a friend who’s a bit of a paleontologist and he said he couldn’t tell me anything because he wasn’t government appointed. He didn’t really. Perhaps unsurprisingly, he said this was absolute BS.
Because it is. But this is the harmless end of the spectrum. Then – very quickly – they slip easily into the much more serious, but equally stupid “lizard people” and “murderous satanists” (we call them medical practitioners) “killing patients in hospital”, and the whole, very prevalent, anti-Semitism thing. And while no-one is going to act on levitating bees or fake dinosaurs (and who would even care if they did?), there are real world, real serious implications of spreading this sort of crap around.
Leave the bees and the dinosaurs. Report the real world stuff.