nympholept: armchair philosophy and more

This is the lj account of the person known online as nympholept. I also have a website, nympholept.com
I think. I post about the things I think about. Browse this archive of thoughts before adding me.

If you've heard of me, you know I like nine inch nails. I co-maintain the nine_inch_nails and nin_news communities.

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This is one of the many reasons I love http://cinemageddon.net
Cinemageddon is what it sounds like, rare old movies. I've got a bunch of invites if anyone wants one.

A big science youtuber went to vidcon and caught covid.
I tweeted at them that maybe they should use their platform to inform more people that vaccines dont stop you catching covid and people should still wear masks.
Random person asks me: "He said he tested every day and told people he caught it - what more do you want him to do?!"
I searched his twitter history - he has said "mask" 3 times in the last 18 months. And he hasn't asked people to wear a mask since June 2020.
So, you know, maybe using his massive following to tweet "wear a mask" at least once a fucking year would be a good start.

It makes me want to cry how utterly fucking oblivious some people can be. I have NO platform, but I tell people that I still wear a mask every chance I get, to help make it "normal" for people to keep wearing a mask. This guy, who actively belittled anyone who even asked a question about whether the vaccines were safe, hasn't even told a single one of his 1M+ twitter followers to wear a mask in the past 2 years.
And this random person asking "what more do you want him to do?". Literally anything. Literally just tweeting "Please wear a mask" once a YEAR would be more than he has done.

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Also, fuck the Supreme Court.

Pet peeve of the day: Youtubers who refer to people who pay them on Patreon as "their Patreons".

No.

The site "Patreon" took it's name from the term "Patron", as in "a person who gives financial or other support to a person, organization, cause, or activity."

People who pay creators on Patreon are their patrons.

Patreon calls them patrons.

I just don't understand people who are so disinterested in using words correctly.

Worse is when it's educational creators doing it.

If you're a fucking educator, then you should make a fucking effort to be correct, especially something as simple as term for the people who are paying you to educate people.

Oh. The US passed 1 million covid deaths 2 weeks ago.

What was my prediction? https://nympholept.livejournal.com…

Easter. 5 Weeks out, because the daily deaths did drop a bit.

But they got there. Go USA!


Again, that's the official count. In 2020 alone, there were more than 100,000 additional excess deaths on top of the official COVID deaths.

I will never understand what goes on in the minds of people who have a question and make a post asking the question and waiting for someone else to tell them, instead of just putting the exact same question into google and immediately getting the answer.

I just... what? How? Do these people? Exist?

Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of asking questions, there's no such thing as a stupid question, but not every question needs to be literally asked.

I just can't imagine going though life without considering "what is the best way for me to get an answer to this question".

I wouldn't post "Where are my keys?" when I want to find my keys, I'd look on my desk first.

The internet was supposed to make people smarter.

The internet was supposed to make information available to everyone.

People didn't get smarter, it just enabled them to bring their stupid in front of more people.

Well, the Mardi Gras COVID cases are starting to show up. Let's take another look at the numbers.

Oh. It's day 763. The 1918 Pandemic lasted 760 days.

Day 760 of 1918 Pandemic: 675,000 US deaths = average 888 US deaths per day

Day 760 of 2020 Pandemic: 956,148 US deaths = average 1258 US deaths per day

This week's 7 day average US COVID deaths: 1338 and dropping.

I don't expect the deaths to continue dropping. I expect everything reopening prematurely to have the exact same effect as the last 4 times everything reopened prematurely.

1 million US COVID deaths by Easter?

(In 2020 alone, there were more than 100,000 additional excess deaths on top of the official COVID deaths. We're already way past 1 million.)

I first ran the numbers for day 763, then went back and ran them for day 760 for comparison. And was surprised the average deaths was less 3 days ago. But of course.
The average deaths per day is still going up every day, because there are still more deaths per day than the average over the past 763 days.

Fuck anyone taking off their mask and pretending it's over.
Fuck anyone buying concert tickets and pretending it's over.

I normally don't need to ask for tech help.
I'm normally the one giving tech help.
When I do need help, I know how to use google, and that's normally enough.

On the rare occasion when I need to ask for tech help, I give all the relevant details I can. Because I'm not a fucking idiot, I've already tried to fix it, I've already googled it.
So it's immensely fucking frustrating when I get replies asking if I've done a thing that the details in my post indicate that I've done.

• Q: "I've tried (way1) and (way2) on multiple computers, and it works with (thing1) but not (thing2). I do not have (item)."
• A1: "Have you tried (incredibly basic thing) that (thing1) could not have worked without knowing how to do?"
• A2: "You might be able to do it with (item)!"

The first problem is that people asking questions on the internet have become so fucking stupid.
No-one knows how to use google. Everyone just jumps straight to posting a question instead of looking for an answer.
When someone sees a post about a problem, they assume that the person asking the question is an idiot who hasn't googled the problem.
"Have you tried turning if off and then back on again" is, sadly, a required question, because most people fucking haven't.

The second problem is that people answering questions the internet have become so fucking stupid.
No-one bothers to think. Everyone just jumps straight to replying whether or not they know the answer.
When a moron sees someone posting about a problem, that moron feels a compulsive need to respond to it even though they have absolutely no idea how to fix the problem.
"Have you tried turning if off and then back on again" is, sadly, a thing that a moron can say to anything and have a >50% success rate of it fixing the problem, even if they have no understanding of the issue at all.

In the good old days, we laughed at people who didn't know what they were talking about. We told people to learn how to search, and locked the threads. If you created a new post when one already existed, your duplicate post was locked.
What the fuck happened? Idiots in charge, idiots asking questions, idiots answering questions. If you post a reply to a post older than a month, the existing post is locked, and you're told to create a duplicate thread. People feeling the need to apologise for making an on-topic reply to an existing thread, while off-topic replies run rampant.

I've quit helping in multiple places I had helped people for years, because the people in charge refused to do anything about the morons posting useless answers.

Setting Idiocracy 500 years in the future was too optimistic.

I will never, ever, understand what goes on in the brains of people who, instead of using a search engine, make forum posts that can be answered by typing the title of their post into a search engine.

Not even "with several minutes research", but literally the first result summary entirely answered the question, as their themselves worded it.

How are there people alive on this internet that still have not figured out that search engines can answer their useless questions?

(Fully* recovered from Covid, btw)

Update: Week 3. Still alive. Still coughing. I cough when I lay down, or any time I change the orientation of my lungs. I coughed up something in the shower yesterday that i think was an actual piece of dead lung tissue.

Still pissed off that people are pretending the pandemic is over when we're still in a massive infection and death spike.

The graph is going down today, but doesn't mean it's over, just like the last 4 times didn't. The sheer number of infected people means there's an incredibly high chance of a new variant.

For the record, I have only been within 6 feet of 2 people in the last 6 months, maybe in the entire year, I can't remember.

In that time, the only people I've interacted with in person at all were my neighbours from yelling distance, and the internet guy, outside 12+ feet apart.

But no-one since being infected, other than the person who infected me. And in case it's unclear: I am fully vaccinated, and caught it from someone else who is fully vaccinated.

Being vaccinated doesn't stop you transmitting it to other people.

I refuse to allow the possibility of being responsible for someone's death.