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Now I've heard there was a secret speed

That David walked and it pleased the knees

'Cause you don't really care for jogging, do ya?

It goes like this, the foot, the hips

The minor fall, the pedal lift

The Briskly Walking king spoke "Hallelujah"

The act of performing in front of others was probably the draining part.

But also, yeah. If you need someone to watch you do X so you can enjoy X, maybe you don't like X all that much in the first place.

> I remember i could spend weeks just walking around in the school and do "montissori tasks" every now and then. For regular school work they asked me every other week what i wanted to learn and let me write it down in a schedule and expected me to just learn it on my own and if i needed help i could ask a teacher for help. This led me to do the absolute minimum or pretty much nothing.

[15 years later]

> I remember i could spend weeks just walking around in the office and do "action items" every now and then. For regular user stories they asked me every other week what I could finish and let me write it down in a schedule and expected me to just learn it on my own and if i needed help i could ask around for help. This led me to do the absolute minimum or pretty much nothing.

You're part of the criminal population, though. You are in the group you're demonizing.

I like being alone and spend most of my days alone, but not having the choice to socialize would make me itchy. Gotta sate the urge to boogie every once in a blue moon.

Which leads into your point -- the author didn't/doesn't have that temporary notion of "This will pass; For now, just get me away from these people." He's in it for life-o and has a totally different set of realities to cope with than a transient convict.

Nice try, Topic Dilutor

I enjoyed high school and college -- found them to be fun more than anything -- and I still have "I screwed up/didn't attend a whole class/have a crazy test in school" dreams.

I think it has more to do with school being the first place you have those pseudo-professional experiences of "Ahhhh! I blew it! I didn't work hard enough!" So your brain is like, "I think I have this one in the archive somewhere."

hiring a courtroom artist to depict my lame parties

One time there was a dizzy-looking stray cat sleeping in a puddle near my house and the non-emergency line told me to call 911.

today's particle drop is dedicated to the haters

I think it's funny. "Need a code of conduct? Here, this one's a classic"

> insert a Furin site, swap out an RBD, whatever, you can literally do it with a text editor and copy and paste.

Saved a lot of money this year making Covid-19 at home using the SARS viruses I already have. Takes like 2 seconds

> You're mad at the author for not pointing out the WIV

Yes, an article comparing two possible originating locations should obviously show both on that graphic (especially when both places are well-within the frame of the image); I can't see any good reason for the author to have omitted that.

> but then you also grant that it looks like the market was the center of spread

Yes. And that's not contradictory to the lab leak idea, because people aren't trees and they go places after work. I think it's entirely reasonable to hypothesize that the virus escaped from the lab on a person and ended up successfully taking root in a less-than-sanitary wet market just across the river. If two-headed turtles started showing up at a Popeye's 20 minutes away from the Turtle Experiment Laboratory, would you say that Popeye's was the source of the two-headed turtles?

> You still need to explain how there are two distinct lineages at the market among the first cases!

Again, there's no reason both theories can't be true here. The caged, dirty animals definitely seemed to be the virus' first stronghold, but that doesn't mean that the new bat virus couldn't have come from the New Bat Virus Laboratory 20 minutes away from the wet market.

> Picking and choosing one data point to be skeptical of is useless, the totality of the evidence needs to be weighed.

My point is that it made the bias of the author nakedly apparent. It's an pro-wet-market argument piece, not an objective look.