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as it turns out, a mountain of health woo and transfusing your teenage son’s blood into yourself is no match for long covid (www.donotpanic.news)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (23 children)

An extremely rich person who surrounds himself with doctors & has shown himself willing & able to inconvenience himself practically & socially to extend his life has *no* excuse for getting covid in November 2022.

I can't believe I'm blaming a dude for catching covid, but by late 2022, having: an enormous sum of cash; the ability & willingness to be weird & uncomfortable; medical professionals on hand; & an overwhelming obsession with your own health makes it thoroughly your own fault.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (21 children)

Stop using ampersands.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (9 children)

STOP USING AMPERSANDS

years of typography but no practical use found for fancy and
wanted to write shorter sentences anyway for a laugh? we had a tool for that: it’s called “emojis”
“yes, please give me some A&W root beer to wash down my mac & cheese” — statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged

look at what the ampersand users have been demanding our Respect for this whole time, with all the & & & we’ve built for them: