• BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    I still mask. It’s starting to make some people I encounter in public angry as we enter into the Year of Our Lord 2025. Some dude started bitching at me in the store a few weeks ago, and I decided to try hissing at him like Nadja the vampire on What We Do In The Shadows, and he shut right up.

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    22 days ago

    It has been depressing to realize that if the zombie apocalypse ever comes, a significant portion of the population will either ignore it or actively try to become infected just because they don’t like being told what to do.

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      22 days ago

      In the past I always thought the characters in zombie movies were always portrayed as too dumb. After covid hit, I realized that they were portrayed as too smart.

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        21 days ago

        In those movies, the dumb ones are already shuffling about the street.

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      22 days ago

      When I was a teenager, the discussion was always “would you survive the first wave,” and my friends and I were never sure if we would or not. We didn’t realize the bar for that was whether or not you would run towards the zombies…

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    22 days ago

    I’m still burning through my massive pile of masks and I have noticeably been sick less. Maybe it was not a bad idea?

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    22 days ago

    As scary as the lockdown was, it was an interesting year of protests for BLM and labor movements. Once everyone had a lot of time on their hands, they started to take action on import topics.

    Now I feel like most people are back to the grind, and as a whole we don’t have the time to quickly make changes we want to see

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      22 days ago

      I fucking loved the lockdown. Masks? No more faking facial expressions. Social Distancing? I didn’t have to pretend to care about people or make small talk. “Working” from home? So simple and I got to spend a year home with my new baby.

      It was glorious and I miss it.

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        21 days ago

        A plot point in Brave New World, although as dystopias go it’s a surprisingly kind one

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    22 days ago

    If the future is anything like CDDA then I will be thriving. I’ll be scavenging solar panels while rocking a Linux t shirt and a wizard hat