The World Is at Least Fifty Percent Terrible

Brian May's 74th birthday yesterday, that's the second best Queen song ever, it's a Brian May song though Freddie sings lead, and personal touchstone, one person can vouch
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Happy 89th birthday yesterday to my dad, if he had written and sung the best Queen song ever he'd have got top billing because of my stupidass blaagerdesign rules
Talk of course turned to covid with the chorus of three singing Make People Get Vaccinated or Ban Them from Entrance into Any Public Space and Private Business. What I'm saying, I said, is that a person can simultaneously hold as true both that Covid exists as a dangerous risk to public health and will only get worse unless mitigated now *and* that our shitlords are exploiting the crisis not only for monetary profit but more importantly are using the crisis to manipulate important narratives of power - think about the achievement of more than half the people in the world wearing masks in conjunction with daily catastrophe roulette to keep us constantly disoriented and anxious and obedient.
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I did not say, for all I know this past week's Delta Awooga that triggered yesterday's massive selloff in the very stocks most affected by threats of another shutdown entirely legitimate from a medical crisis perspective and simultaneously think said perspective was known to shitlords two weeks ago when they short sold the stocks. For all I know lessons learned in the first attempt at worldwide behavioral modification as more than half the people put on masks saved countless lives while simultaneously taught the shitlords' peasantologists exciting new avenues towards optimum peasant herding tactics such as pace of OMFG releases depending on level of basic animal fear instincts wanted presently at any given moment, yadda, and always rent extraction, I've a penny in my left big toe, they will want it sooner or later
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Brian May, 74 yesterday, wrote and sang this, the best Queen song ever and my personal obsession for thirty plus years, I vouch

GOOD BONES

Maggie Smith

Life is short, though I keep this from my children.

Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine

in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways,

a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways

I’ll keep from my children. The world is at least

fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative

estimate, though I keep this from my children.

For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird.

For every loved child, a child broken, bagged,

sunk in a lake. Life is short and the world

is at least half terrible, and for every kind

stranger, there is one who would break you,

though I keep this from my children. I am trying

to sell them the world. Any decent realtor,

walking you through a real shithole, chirps on

about good bones: This place could be beautiful,

right? You could make this place beautiful.