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David Whittaker is an English video game musician. He is one of the most popular video game musicians in the world. He is known for composing such gems as Lazy Jones, Shadow of the Beast and Glider Rider, which are the top soundtracks that made him popular. Whittaker has scored around 100 video games on many platforms each, probably more than any other video game musician. His Glider Rider (ZXS) got Allister Brimble interested in making computer music himself.
Whittaker attended local Derby Grammar School. His favorite subjects were French and geography, but not music because there was much more history than theory and practice. After leaving school in 1973, he had 14 full-time jobs, including electronics assembly, office work, forklift driving, cloth dyeing, and making cardboard tubes. Musically, he started out performing on keyboard and vocals full-time in Clive Farrington's New Romantic band Beau Leisure, which got quite well-known around Altrincham, Greater Manchester, but never made money. Whittaker also plays a Strat electric guitar, an Ovation acoustic guitar, has been a DJ and met Kraftwerk in Liverpool, Merseyside, in 1981. When asked in 1986, he said he is the nephew of Roger Whittaker.
In February 1982, aged 24, he read about the Sinclair ZX81, but could not afford £80. Instead, he bought a VIC 20 and paid in installments, starting with £10–£20. He learned BASIC programming from the manual and started programming games for Mr. Micro in 6502 machine code. As his game music was better than that by other programmers, music became a full-time job. He bought a Commodore 64 from Mr. Micro, went to Terminal Software, then freelance, then Terminal's successor Binary Design full-time, and then founded Musicon Design. From that point on, he was sometimes offered so many game music jobs that he had to decline, have given to Rob Hubbard, and employ Jason Brooke.
David Whittaker was the main composer and sound designer for various developers such as Audiogenic, Bits Studios and Enigma Variations, the former in which he was on great terms with for always paying on time. According to Whittaker, he was always asked by companies to produce music, as he never contacted them about doing music for a game. Whittaker also said he could do an entire soundtrack, sound effects included, in less than a day. He also considers his ability of doing music for many platforms at the time his reason for being hired for many projects.
Whittaker was usually good about lending his sound drivers to other companies, but some also used them without permission. In 1999, Zombie Nation, a techno group, stole David Whittaker's Lazy Jones tune for their single Kernkraft 400. When Whittaker called them up, they apologized and paid him £9000 to use his song, which he claims was more than he got paid for the game.
In January 1993, Rob Hubbard had been working for Electronic Arts in the USA and phoned Whittaker. He told Whittaker the company desperately needed a Genesis and SNES sound designer. In March, Whittaker went to an interview, and on June 29, his wife and he moved to the USA and got a mansion. Around March 1997, he switched to dialog scripting, directing, recording and editing which he currently does with Traveller's Tales. All the time, though, his wife and he were homesick, and when EA laid off a third in February 2001, Whittaker decided they move back to his hometown, which they did in July.
While some fans call him the best SID composer, Whittaker has only claimed to be the most "prolific", having scored more games than any other video game musician at the time, and believes that Rob Hubbard is truly the best. His favorite computers that he liked to compose on were the Commodore 64 and the Amiga, with the VIC 20 being his least favorite. Whittaker says he appreciates the fans' support over the years. When asked if he would return to video game music, Whittaker said he would not, as he no longer writes music.
Unless otherwise noted, Whittaker's sound drivers use a form of Music Macro Language.
Whittaker composed on a Yamaha CX5M, a Casio CZ-230S, and a Roland Jupiter-6. He has been notorious for copying and pasting his music and transposing it to a different key, especially on the NES. This was probably because of the difficulty of writing most of his music in machine code.
Whittaker converted his C64 driver (including ADSR) to the CPC.
According to Jason Brooke, game programmers complained about both drivers being slow, so Whittaker asked Brooke to write new drivers. Retroactively dated June 1986, those drivers allow much more flexible chords, envelopes, and combining pitch bends with chords. The driver was first found in Glider Rider (ZXS) (like Brooke remembers), released late September. Whittaker and Brooke updated the drivers separately from each other.
Whittaker used Rob Hubbard's driver.
In autumn 1986, Whittaker acquired an ST to keep up. Ironically, in an ST NEWS interview, Whittaker called its built-in YM2149F "a crap ancient beepy chip which doesn't deserve the light of day".
For Loopz, he used Quartet, which utilizes digitized instruments, resulting in the music sounding identical to the Amiga version.
Whittaker's C16 drivers resemble his Commodore 64 drivers.
Whittaker programmed several drivers in 6502 machine and assembly language. The first ones were minimalist, tuned at 424 Hz, and a few use the SID chip's inconsistent filter, sounding best with a bias of at least -300.
In June 1986, Whittaker had Jason Brooke rewrite the CPC driver (as detailed above). One of them converted it back to the C64, and he used it (without real updates) until 1991. He also stopped using the filter (except on engine sounds).
In autumn 1987, he called the SID chip ancient. However, in a September 1998 interview, he said the SID was his favourite sound chip. He likes its similarity to analog synthesizers, specifically the pulse width modulation which makes him recognizable.
Whittaker's drivers were converted to the PC Speaker, Ad Lib Music Synthesizer Card, and Roland. For sound effects, he has bundled VOC files and Creative Labs's driver into a "wrapping" driver of his own.
Game Gear/Sega Master System
Whittaker created a sound engine and wrote the music in assembly.
Whittaker converted his Commodore 64 sound driver to work on the NES. Not too difficult since they both use a 6502-based CPU (and thus assembly language), but he had to account for the difference between the Commodore's SID chip, and the 2A03 that the NES used.
Whittaker licensed that driver to Manfred Trenz for use (with modifications) in his game Super Turrican (NES), and to Enigma Variations for The Lion King (NES) and an undisclosed amount of money. He was not involved otherwise with those games.
Whittaker wrote his own audio driver in 65C816 assembly. His instruments were sampled from his Amiga samples from the Korg M1. The drums may have been from a Linn LM-1 drum machine. He would sell his sound driver to companies like Psygnosis for £5000.
Whittaker's only TurboGrafx-16 game is Yo Bro. He presumably wrote the music in 6502 machine code, similar to his NES and Commodore 64 music.
He said about the game:
Whittaker programmed minimalist drivers and arranged in a 6502 machine code monitor ("Very painful").
Note: Beverly Hills Cop (AMI) credits Whittaker for music, but he did not actually work on the game. Therefore, it is not included in his gameography.
Also, we have received personal verification from Whittaker about his involvement with Yo Bro (TG16). In an interview, he mistakenly listed Camp California for the TurboGrafx-16 (not to be confused with the Turbo CD version). This is most likely because Yo Bro is a game from the Camp California franchise.
David didn't really use any aliases per se, but his last name was sometimes misspelled, leaving out the second "t" in Whittaker, being credited as David Whitaker.
ZZAP! 64 No.16, 1986-07-10.
- mobygames.com/person/800/david-whittaker/ - MobyGames.
- facebook.com/david.whittaker.9210 - Facebook.
- linkedin.com/profile/view?id=43051881&locale=en_US&trk=tyah2 - LinkedIn.
twitter.com/dialogueguru - Twitter.
youtube.com/user/DialogueGuru - YouTube.
- www.zzap64.co.uk/cgi-bin/displaypage.pl?issue=016&page=040&magazine=zzap - Group interview with Hubbard, Ben Daglish, Antony Crowther and Whittaker from 1986-07-10.
- craigsretrocomputingpage.eu5.org/davidwhittaker/davidwhittaker.html - Interview from Sinclair User No 65, 1987-07-18.
- st-news.com/issues/st-news-volume-2-issue-7/features/interview-with-david-whittaker/ - Interview from 1987-10-31.
- karsmakers.nl/metal-e-zine/david.htm - Interview from September 1998.
- youtube.com/watch?v=iFH5vS1EqNs&t=1m34s - Video interview from 2001.
- www.c64.com/audio/David%20Whittaker%20%5BBack%20in%20Time%20Live%202001%20interview%5D.mp3 - Audio interview from 2001.
- www.c64.com/audio/David%20Whittaker%20%5BBack%20in%20Time%20Live%202002%20interview%5D.mp3 - Audio interview from 2002.
- www.c64.com/interviews/whittaker.html - Interview from July 2001 or later.
- remix64.com/interviews/interview-david-whittaker.html - Interview from 2001-10-02.
- web.archive.org/web/20021223073607/http://c64audio.valuehost.co.uk/edge/ca_whittaker.htm - Interview from November 2002.
- archive.org/details/Sinclair_ZX_Spectrum_and_Commodore_64_Book-2012/page/n133 - Interview from 2012.

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What To Expect From Property in 2021 - January 2021
January 12, 2021 / Written by Rich Harvey
By Guest Blogger, Pete Wargent,
Next Level Wealth - www.gonextlevelwealth.com.au
A new dawn
After all the fear and uncertainty of 2020, analysts are queuing up to forecast double-digit gains for property prices in 2021.
The main driver is clear enough, being the lowest borrowing rates on record, while Australia’s property markets seem more bulletproof than ever having dodged the worst of a nasty pandemic recession.
Last year saw a boom in mortgage refinancing as borrowers took advantage of lower rates, and this is now flowing through to households, freeing up cashflow for consumption spending and further investment in assets.
Throw in government stimulus, mortgage holidays, early superannuation release, and a lack of overseas travel and holidays, and in aggregate Australian households are now awash with cash.
Some of that cash is finding its way into retail sales which have ballooned to a spectacular all-time high, but it’s a safe bet that property markets will be squarely in the sights of investors in 2021.
Things to watch out for in 2021
By the end of 2020 stock levels were tightening quite sharply.
Post-lockdown Melbourne still has an elevated number of listings, especially in the CBD and its surrounding CBD fringe suburbs.
But New South Wales saw 24,500 property transfers in December, which was the highest month since the boom of 2003, and mortgage financing in the state was back to boom time levels, so the property market is tightening quickly.
In all other capital city markets stock levels declined in 2020, and across many coastal markets stock levels have been extremely low.
Enquiries from investors have already begun to pick up, so expect to see plenty of competition when auction markets pick up again in the new year.
Investors are being enticed back into the market on the back of expectations of immediate capital gains and stable rental yields.
Opportunities over the year ahead
In Brisbane and Adelaide, it’s now about 30% cheaper to buy than it is to rent, assuming a 100% geared purchase and an interest-only loan.
Sydney and Melbourne’s unit markets have seen rents decline, but investors will be circling as the borders are gradually reopened.
Home buyers will be out in force and even greater numbers this year chasing the dream of upgrading.
It's not easy to assess accurately given the diverse nature of markets, but it wouldn't be at all surprising to see Australia’s mean dwelling price increase by more than 20 per cent from $689,500 to $830,000 according to the implications of Macquarie’s Macro Strategy research.
Throw in income growth of 5 to 10 per cent over the next three years and the revival of some vaccinated animal spirits and prices could rise by 25 to 33 per cent without being remotely out of whack with long run interest serviceability ratios.
It’s probably not smart to make too many predictions in the midst of a pandemic, but the outlook for Australian property is now the most bullish we’ve seen in some time.
As always I recommend you consider using a local buyers' agent with in-depth local knowledge and experience to help you navigate an ever changing property market.
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Rakiura National Park on Stewart Island opened in 2002. The park covers about 85 percent of the island. It is made up of a network of former nature reserves, scenic reserves, and State Forest areas.
From dense coastal rainforests and freshwater wetlands to vast sand dunes and granite mountain ranges, the park provides an excellent opportunity to see native wildlife and untouched landscapes.
Many different native birds species can be found in the park, and Rakiura offers perhaps the best opportunity anywhere in New Zealand for viewing kiwi in the wild.
The popular Rakiura Track is located within the national park. It is a 29 km track which suitable for walking all year round. It takes around three days and provides a good introduction to the scenery of Stewart Island.


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Here we present the results of the Sept. 22ASIE-News survey.
Subscribers toASI’s E-Newsletter may have noticed the addition of a
weekly survey to the news features section. Here we present the results of the Sept. 22 survey.
Do you agree with President Obama’s
decision to impose an additional 35% duty on Chinese tire imports?
”What good will it do? The tire industry has already moved
should impose a 50% duty on Korean autos until we are allowed to sell U.S. beef in Korea.”
a stock analyst formerly covering Cooper Tire and Goodyear, I can say they NEED
Chinese tires to be competitive. (Because) the industry is not pushing for a
tariff, it’s obvious that Obama imposed the tariff to please a small constituent
group. The manufacturers need not worry, however. China has gone to the WTO and they
will repeal the tariff. Then Obama will have saved face with the union while no
real changes will have taken place.”
work rules are the main problem. Goodyear may go bankrupt because of them.”
the long run, tariffs are only a band-aid to a much bigger problem with our
are too late for protectionism. Tariffs should have been placed on Chinese goods
twenty years ago.”
trade needs to be stimulated, not penalized.”
lost a past job to China,
(I feel) we should not make it easier for other countries to undercut American

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After a college student was murdered this weekend after she got into the car with someone she thought was her Uber driver, questions are being raised about the safety of rideshare apps.
Samantha Josephson, a student at the University of South Carolina, was waiting for her ride home from the bar when a car pulled up, she got in thinking it was her ride, and was never heard from again. She was found about 65 miles from the place she was picked up.
With many people in town using Uber on a daily basis, how do police say you should protect yourself when using rideshare apps like Uber and Lyft?
KRIS 6 News reporter Emily Hamilton is looking into this story and will have more throughout the day on KRIS 6 News.


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Let’s pretend I have $10 to give you.
Scenario A: I give you $5 and then give you an additional $5
Scenario B: I give you $15 and then take back $5
The end result is the same.
They feel way different.
In scenario A you might feel like I’m a generous person, while in scenario B you might feel like I’m greedy.
And in both, you’re still $10 richer than before.
It’s an objective reality + a subjective experience.
What happened vs what I was expecting to happen.
How I understand the world to operate influences how I actually experience it.
It creates feelings in us that change and develops the reality around us.
It’s why people invest in marketing.

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Five Actors I’d Watch in Anything
Some actors transcend even the worst of scripts and become masters of the art of transformation in specific roles. There will always be those actors who seem to be terrible in absolutely EVERYTHING, but it takes a rare talent to bring life and meaning to a role that would be bland in another performer’s hands.
So, let’s start with the actors:
5.) Sean Penn
Penn is one of those actors whose personal life has luckily never overshadowed his talent. He’s come a long way from Spicoli in Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Penn wisely began easing away from mainstream pictures in the late 80s and came into his prime with such films as Carlito’s Way and Sweet and Lowdown. Yet, the 200os have been his most productive decade, where he proved his worth to Hollywood in Mystic River and Milk. Penn is never over the top – when playing a role he inhabits it completely without making it seem as if he is putting on a “mask”.
Check out: Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Carlito’s Way, Sweet and Lowdown
Must See: Mystic River
4.) Edward Norton
Edward Norton’s big break came as the unhinged antagonist in Primal Fear. He was the best thing about that film. After a surprise lead in The People Vs. Larry Flynt, Norton had become a rarity in Hollywood – a strong male lead who wasn’t a traditional movie star. Since then, he’s been the understated saving grace in cult hits such as Fight Club and American History X, and has gone mainstream without “selling out” in The Incredible Hulk and The Illusionist. He’s an everyman that audiences can relate to – which is what keeps him working when other actors have LONG overstayed their welcome.
Check out: The People Vs. Larry Flynt, Fight Club, Keeping the Faith, Red Dragon, The Italian Job, The Painted Veil
Must See: American History X
3.) Ralph Fiennes
The man best known these days for playing Voldemort is definitely a force to be reckoned with on multiple levels. Ralph’s first major role was as Heathcliff in a U.S. version of Wuthering Heights. In the early 90s he mastered an American accent in such diverse roles as the techno-dealing ex-cop in Strange Days and mild-mannered game show cheater Charles Van Doren in Quiz Show. It was 1996’s The English Patient that first got the ladies swooning over this Brit’s charms. Yet this was by far one of his least intersting roles. Perhaps the most complex role Fiennes has played is the deeply emotional Anglican preist Oscar Hopkins, in love with both gambling and a Lucinda (a fellow gambler) in Gillian Armstrong’s Oscar and Lucinda. Fiennes is currently directing an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus, due in theaters in 2010.
Check Out: Strange Days, Quiz Show, Red Dragon, Onegin, The White Countess, The Duchess, In Bruges
Must See: The Constant Gardener, Oscar and Lucinda
2.) Robert Downey, Jr.
Ironman is more than just Downey’s great “comeback” role, it could describe his entire career trajectory. Downey began in the early 80s in “sidekick/friend” roles in films such as Weird Science and Less Than Zero. In the early 90s, he tackled comedy with ease, stealing scenes in Soapdish and the otherwise lackluster Chances Are. In 1992, he made the Academy sit up and take notice when he embodied Hollywood legend Charlie Chaplin in Chaplin. Unfortunately, personal problems (divorce, drug abuse) led to poor choices of material in the late 90s (Only You, Heart and Souls). Wisely choosing to stick to low profile supporting roles in the early 2000s (Wonder Boys, Good Night and Good Luck), he finally hit it big with both critics and mainstream audiences in Ironman.
Check out: Less Than Zero, Soapdish, Wonder Boys, Restoration, Good Night and Good Luck, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Ironman
Must See: Chaplin
1.) Daniel Day Lewis
Daniel Day Lewis is the son of Cecil Day Lewis, Poet Laureate of England, and perhaps the most appropriate adjective to describe his career would be “poetic”. Lewis is known for being one of the most successful (and unusual) method actors working today. Married to American playwright Arthur Miller’s daughter Rebecca, Lewis is meticulous about choosing his roles. Ten years could go by without him on the screen and he would have no regrets if the material available wasn’t up to his standards. Lewis first caught the eye of the media in 1985’s My Beautiful Laundrette. That very same year, he played that character’s polar opposite – the uptight turn of the century aristocrat Cecil Vyse in Merchant Ivory’s production of A Room With
View. In 1989, he won his first Oscar as poet Christy Brown in My Left Foot. In the 90s he tackled Michael Mann’s lush and vibrant adaptation of The Last of the Mohicans, and then went back to classic lit territory with Scorsese in 1992’s The Age of Innocence. To close out the 90s he was at his most productive, starring in an adaptation of The Crucible (his father-in- law’s masterpiece) and the Irish tearjerker In the Name of the Father. After disappearing in the early 200os to do, among all things, apprentice with a shoemaker, Lewis began accepting more discriminating roles in powerful films, beginning with the scenery-chewing part of Bill the Butcher in Scorsese’s Gangs of New York. It’s his seminal performance as Daniel Plainview (never a more accurately named character in all of film) in There Will Be Blood that is a must see for any cinemaphile.
Check out: My Beautiful Laundrette, A Room With a View, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, My Left Foot, The Last of the Mohicans, The Crucible, In the Name of the Father, Gangs of New York
Must See: There Will Be Blood, The Age of Innocence
I’m taking a break for the Thanksgiving holiday, but look for a new blog sometime the week of Nov. 30th!
Coming Soon: The Five Actresses I’d Watch in Anything


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There are plenty of pivotal skills you need to practice and ace when it comes to the game of poker.
You’ve heard the importance of reading your opponents’ minds, the art of bluffing and thinking long-term instead of the short term. Like any competitive game, psychology is also a key element in poker.
The game of poker will continue to enjoy a major surge in popularity over the long run thanks to the launching of online sports betting and casinos throughout the country.
If you’re visiting a touristy state like Michigan, you may be interested in trying out the wide range of different Michigan online casinos. Poker, roulette, slots and blackjack are among the popular online casino games available in The Wolverine State. Michigan online casinos feature live dealers, video poker, table games and much more, and several of the sportsbooks are offering customers monetary risk-free bets and special bonuses.
With that all said, here’s a dive into three important psychology tips to keep in mind when you’re at the poker table.
Following Your Brain, Not Your Heart
The game of poker really puts your emotions to the test. Are you the type to perform a knee-jerk reaction? Do you stay calm and cool under stress and pressure? Do you get frustrated and easily aggressive if you fall behind early?
You can learn a lot about one’s character and human psychology in general by following the way somebody plays poker. You need plenty of luck to win, no doubt, but your mental toughness and ability to read an opponent’s mind also goes a long way.
It’s too easy for a human to instantly react emotionally without keeping themselves calm, cool and collected. Perhaps you are angry after receiving a bad hand at a pivotal time of the game. Is that going to
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Hey, has anyone here seen Time Warp,
its a new show on discovery and they just film things with slow motion cameras, I think that some of these videos could be used as reference material for animation though
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTmRUH0uYgw (Smashing Bricks)
http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/time-warp-frisbee-catch.html (FrisbeeCatch +dog running)
Go ahead and look for more videos as well:P
But it would be probably better as a reference if they showed the same motion in real time, too. This way you could judge if you actually like this motion or not. Still a nice find.
I recently discovered that my new video camera can do slow motion video (at 240 or 480 fps & Close to HD quality as well)
Its great fun
Very good for capturing movement, a great animation reference tool.
they show the real-time on the show i just cant find any videos of it.
AD-Edge - How much does a camera like that cost? That be soooo awesome to have
It cost about $1500 AUS which is about $950 US
But I got it free, won it in a film festival with an animation I made in Blender.
I might post a compilation of slow motion videos I recently made sometime.
Congratulations on the win.
That is awesome!!!
I looked up your winning video, film festival entry?
that explosion was amazing!
and i bet uploading slow-motions would be greatly appreciated around here
I love that show. It doesn’t have a plot or anything, just two guys filming neat stuff in slow motion. I’d love one of those cameras, but without having to use so much light for them to work.
Thanks, theres a thread about it here if anyone’s interested
I really wish I had the discovery channel though, I keep seeing these types of shows which I’d love to watch!
Found some more cool videos by time warp, the first one is particularly cool, the second has a perfect camera angle across the lake so you can see the background:
Edit This one involves Blender - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGPsBz-Xte8
I think its pretty amazing the things we cant see at normal speed, like the waterballoon, mind blowing

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The cistercian monastery in Carta
Hunedoara, in the nobiliary residence. Here was imprisoned and submitted to opressions Francisc David, the founder of the Unitarian reform. Nowadays the citadel is rehabilitated and can be reached by ski lift.
Poienari Citadel – County of Arge
Located in the commune of Arefu, the Poienari Citadel was built on top of the Cetatui mountain. It was erected in the 14th century by the first of the Basarab family lords, subsequently expanded by the king of Tara Romaneasca, Vlad Tepes, who used the castle as secondary principality residence.
There are legends saying the castle was used by the Romanian prince Vlad Tepe.
Romanian principality and royalty palaces Peles Castle – Sinaia, County of Prahova
The Peles? Castle (built between 1875 and 1883, continued until 1914, the year Carol 1st died) was the summer residence of king Carol 1st and his wife, queen Elisabeta. The museum complex in Sinaia includes both Peles castle as well as Pelijor castle and the Foisor royal residence.
As far as the style is concerned, the three buildings are very much different, reflecting the changes in mentality and taste running through the epoch, starting with the loftiness of king Carl I’s Peles castle, continuing with the Art Nouveau brightness of Pelisor, evolving between modem fad and local tradition in Foisor.

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When a major national news publication posts an opinion piece titled “The Mask Mandates Did Nothing. Will Any Lessons Be Learned?” it makes my (vaccinated and boosted) blood boil.
That’s what The New York Times did on Wednesday, and it’s really time the Old Gray Lady got right with herself again.
Everyone is entitled to their opinion, thanks to the First Amendment.
This column is “Reported Opinion,” but I’m never here to spread dangerous misinformation disguised as “Hey, that’s just my take.”
If Bret Stephens (who is NOT a doctor, but is able to find right-wing physicians who support his take) wants to be a dick about the mask mandates, that’s his right.
But he should write about it on his own blog, not in a newspaper despite being under the protection of the “Op-Ed” umbrella.
Stephens has conveniently forgotten that Donald Trump knew the Coronavirus was deadly and easily spread, as we learned from the Bob “Oh, I’ll Just Hold Onto All of This Life-Saving Info Until My Publishing Date” Woodward.
Sorry, Bret, but I’m old enough to remember when Trump chose to politicize COVID-19 instead of becoming a champion for the masses.
He could’ve had the 2020 election in the bag if he’d just advocated for masks and vaccines to save the lives of millions of registered voters instead of going out of his way to make sure more of them died.
Masks work to prevent the spread of airborne germs.
Just ask the surgeon who’s about to perform your life-saving surgery.
Or the dentist who’s leaning super close to your face while their gloved-for-your-protection fingers are in your mouth.
The GOP is a death cult, and so far no one has been able to change my mind.
Also, someone needs to replace the Opinions editor at the NYT, ASAP.
nyt opinion lately
– fuck transgender people
– we need to cut social security
– mask mandates: booooooo science pic.twitter.com/6Mn0ba2VUi
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) February 22, 2023
The Mask Mandates Did Nothing – Except Save Lives and Keep People from Getting Sickpic.twitter.com/zwAaCJ0e1d
— Drew Comments (@sjs856) February 22, 2023
1. Cons use rightwing media ecosystem to create lightning rod of dipshit rage against mask mandates
2. Dipshits protest, corp media validates their whining
3. Study finds mandates ineffective *because ppl didn’t follow them*
4. Cons: “See, mandates don’t work!”
Rinse, repeat pic.twitter.com/ruaHRmhjtO
— Rob Sheridan (@rob_sheridan) February 22, 2023
People literally spent less time sick and lives were saved. The New York Times really published this turd of an op-ed, and for what? smh.
— A Phizer A (@Aqua174) February 22, 2023

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