Howie Jacobs

Prolific author of unfinished fiction. Eater of beef. Boston accent available on demand.

[Howie Jacobs @ythorn3]

I will finish writing this short story. Only death can stop me. I will not get distracted by other projects. I will make this story as perfect as possible. I will not allow the imagined preferences of readers to influence any decisions I make. I will be a vessel of truth.

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@vitusss_ It is you who lacks theory of mind and empathy by suggesting that the inconvenience of being a responsible parent justifies murdering a child in the womb.

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@stillvaunted I don't find it any more terrifying than imagining myself dying and my wife marrying someone who abuses my daughters, or both my wife and I dying and our kids becoming wards of the state. And those can't be planned for with solutions.

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@shamanspirit13 "grieving the loss of their unborn child" 💩 Uh... "We're going to kill our unborn child, and that makes us feel bad."

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I hate soft men. This guy's wife breaks down when she realizes their baby is going to be severely disabled. His response is to tell the dogs to shut up, then he talks to the camera. Total fucking loser. But she did marry him, so... And they killed their baby. Off to Hell with em.

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@zeekndfilms

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@HaydenHewitt Gone are the days of people building their own homepages with janky HTML that they kind of understand. Those were the days.

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@PAGE4163929 WTF is wrong with this guy? Why doesn't he have his arms around his wife? What a garbage human.

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@Pellegrinoadict @tonyapc42 Folks primed for abortion look for excuses early on. Diagnostic tests are not definitive. Pro-life folks don't risk losing the fetus through diagnostic testing. Folks who have decided they don't want a handicapped child will risk it because they're will to terminate anyways.

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@kensuu "I feel sorry for your wife" is funny because most married men are impervious to insults from women. They're like "Bitch, please. I already finished the game!" 😄

[Howie Jacobs @ythorn3]

Re: aborting babies with birth defects. My wife and I chose not to. Tests gave us a high likelihood of (non DS) defect. We braced for the worst and hoped for the best. Baby died in the 2nd trimester. Nightmarish doctor-assisted still-birth. Long emotional recovery. No regrets.

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@uncledoomer I do this all the time with an egg yolk mixed in. But I fry the whole thing like one giant burger that fills the pan. It really seals in the juices that way.

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Looksmaxing is super gay.

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@GodRules_HQ @viewsceo I'm guessing being mistaken for a straight man isn't one of his "risk factors."

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@TMZ SON

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@Kantrowitz

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@Martiangunsmith @factorydoge69 Like fine wine?

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@enjojoyy Why would you ever talk to an egg in the first place?

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@AntiCommieBecca "men cannot guarantee continued exponential financial growth"

It's interesting that you compared a demand for consistency with exponential growth. Sounds pretty unbalanced.

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We'll never know the numbers on the true physical damage done by the bioweapon, but we could probably trace back behavioral changes in folks and count the number who became unhinged when the production ended.

[Hannah Spier, MD @hannahspierMD]

Long COVID serves a psychological purpose.

To be clear, I am not talking about cases where a viral infection causes demonstrable medical sequelae in specific organs or physiological systems. Those are real medical questions that should be investigated on their own terms.

I am referring to the broader cluster of symptoms often grouped under "Long COVID" that are predominantly psychiatric - subjective and nonspecific: fatigue, brain fog, anxiety, low mood, difficulty concentrating, and related complaints.

It helped keep the emotional world of the pandemic alive after the emergency had ended.

During COVID, being cautious was seen as virtuous. Avoiding risk meant being responsible and paying close attention to symptoms showed you were taking things seriously.

Public life reorganized itself around protection, accommodation, and the assumption that anyone could be gravely harmed.

In that sense, COVID accelerated the feminization of social norms: safety, emotional validation, vulnerability, and infantilizing care became the organizing principles of public life. Not helpful for those tending naturally towards neuroticism that was not only left unchecked but actively encouraged for over 3 years.

For those people, the end of the pandemic meant the loss of belonging, the dissolution of a social environment in which their concerns, anxieties, and risk assessments were widely shared and affirmed.

Long COVID allowed the crisis to continue in another form. It confirmed that all the fear and excessive care at the expense of others were justified. It preserved the sense that the extraordinary measures had indeed been necessary. It kept alive the emotional framework of the COVID years.

And in that framework, demonstrating concern for suffering becomes more important than asking the question: What actually helps people recover?