@fnurt@JenReadsRomance "Main Street" is indeed top-notch. "Night Moves" has been played to death, but is a great song. "Her Strut," god help me, is impossible to dislike.
But if I never hear "Like a Rock" again, it will be too soon.
I think it's time I took a Twitter break, folks. Lately, whenever I spend a little while here, I end up angry, and that's not a good use of my time.
Drop me an email if you need me, and I'll likely visit later this summer... if there's still something left to visit.
Iโve tried and failed to contain my fury at @joerogan and @RobertKennedyJr's recent craven clickbait podcast episode featuring tired reruns of disproven tropes about the dangers of the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine.
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I work in an arcane field where the job requires specific technical knowledge, built on a ladder of understanding and breakthroughs going back over 100 years. It's not immunology but it's not nothing.
As Mr. Collins snarkily notes, experts are now expected to drop everything in order to debate every podcasting yahoo who claims they're wrong or else forfeit their expertise.
Neither expertise nor ignorance is an absolute guarantee of correctness, but I know which way to bet.
I challenge Michael Jordan to a debate on how to score despite a double team. If he does not accept my challenge, I am right about all basketball things, and Michael Jordan is wrong. This is legally binding, because I said it on a podcast.
@JosephFinn@brohrbach The idea that you can't be disciplined in your workplace unless you violate the law is definitely a new one on me. I'm pretty sure I could be suspended or fired just for missing a few class days.
@JosephFinn I don't know why there was a problem with the original Marvel/DC compromise: the character remains Captain Marvel, but the book has to be titled SHAZAM! That seemed like an eminently sensible arrangement.
I've always thought "Shazam" was kind of a dumb name for the hero.
1. The wizard's name is already Shazam.
2. The hero literally can't introduce himself. "Nice to meet you, Amy. I'm Shazam--" BOOM! "--uh, Billy Batson."