I’m a comma-crazed Burgerstani, and I use those as well as the serial comma.

*Serial comma^[1]

Months should be adjusted so September, October, November, and December are the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th month respectively

Back of the line, Julius and Augustus.

Firefox abandoned the open web over a decade ago. jwz » Mozilla’s Original Sin

Claiming to be mad, anyway. I think they’re trying to wash themselves and their party of it by pinning everything on Biden, which is easy to do now that their party is out of power and Biden is politically sunset.

Protip: If you want an extraconstitutional third term, don’t piss off your military.

Read the rules for a community before posting or commenting. Take this community, for instance:

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AFAIK bigotry of various kinds isn’t new. But racism was invented under capitalism to justify slavery and settler-colonialism, and to sow division between groups of working class people. It’s a divide and conquer strategy by the capitalist class. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_capitalism

Because (1) when you said, “I’m pretty sure they weren’t talking about masks in the medical sense, so this is honestly a really inappropriate response,” it still hadn’t occurred to me that it might be about autistic masking and (2) I usually don’t edit my comments in cases like this where the downthread sufficiently clarifies.

If it had occurred to me that that’s what they might be talking about, I would have asked or said nothing. I don’t know why you’re assuming bath faith.

Everything is political. Public health and neurodiversity certainly are.

Oh, maybe, but you’d be surprised how many people I’ve heard speak in exactly the same terms w/r/t COVID masking.

Most likely OC is talking about surgical/medical masks, which are inadequate for COVID-19, though better than nothing.

• https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/commentary-wear-respirator-not-cloth-or-surgical-mask-protect-against-respiratory-viruses
• https://peoplescdc.org/2023/11/01/peoples-cdc-public-comment-on-hicpac/
• https://peoplescdc.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Layers-of-Protection.pdf
• https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8552225/

I used to ride. People who say that know it’s just a bullshit excuse to be a dick. Just roll your eyes and/or flip them the bird. Actually, most of them get off on you flipping them the bird, because they’re dicks 🤷

Neat! I’ve only ever seen commercial-grade ones like that.

EDIT: Multiple people asked me to clarify that OC may be speaking to neurodivergent/autistic masking rather than COVID masking.

Wearing a respirator (not a cloth/surgical mask) in public is my true self. The self who takes airborne diseases, my health, and more importantly the health of others seriously. The self who knows that COVID-19 & long COVID aren’t over and that measles is back thanks to anti-vaxxers and prohibitively expensive healthcare. The one who still follows Violet Blue’s weekly updates.

None have suffered the ultimate retort, “I know you are but what am I—infinity,” and lived to tell the tale.

“” should make it obvious what kinds of corporations I’m talking about: the kinds that are privately owned, including the ones on so-called “public” stock exchanges.

No, the commenter misspelled “decides” as “decided.”