Friday Ephemera
Heavy metal weather. || Murmuration. || The molecular mechanics of cell division. || A world of data. || In search of hidden dimensions. || The man who created Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future. (h/t, Obnoxio) || The first man-made nuclear chain reaction. || Sunken villages. || When mum dips her toe in virtual reality. (h/t, Damian) || Thickening time. || No offensively dirty faces. || “The time is fastly approaching where the tables are going to turn.” || Winter. (h/t, Ben) || The Great Smog of ‘52. || Impatient dog. || Punks share their wisdom via the medium of leather jackets. || This is one of these. || Big ‘uns. || Berezka. || Zinnia is woke. Don’t be like Zinnia. || And finally, at long last, a site for those who know the visceral thrill of milk floats. It has audio files and everything.
Since we started anew, behold this that I found on theothermccain.com
http://archive.is/YsWD9
What interested me were the comments. The pendulum hasn’t swung back, but I saw it twitch.
The world of data
Why am I not surprised to see that Venezuela has the highest murder rate in the world?
Berezka: way cool! I strongly suspect, based on my own dancing experience, that they’re on tiptoe under those skirts.
After the link on Punk fashion, I found this bit of Toxic Masculinity Appreciation:
http://www.neatorama.com/2017/12/01/What-Flight-Attendants-Notice-First-About-Passengers-As-They-Board/
They also check to see if you’re muscular, so they can go to you if they need backup:
“I consider this person a resource for me. In the event of an attack on the flight or on me, these are my ‘go-to’ people. If a situation looks like it could develop, I’ll privately and discreetly ask one of these people if they would be willing to help us if necessary. Help might involve subduing or restraining an unruly passenger. We hope it never happens, but we will prepare just in case it does.”
OK, as I had said, I’d been saving this all week. Hee hee.
Undoomed (“Hey, moron! Fucking moron!”) discovers “Everyday Feminism.”
Enjoy!
https://youtu.be/nsgltX8JH9o
How long IS that video?
“Toolbox of note.”
a site for those who know the visceral thrill of milk floats. It has audio files and everything.
And milk float poetry.
Undoomed (“Hey, moron! Fucking moron!”) discovers “Everyday Feminism.”
When he got to Melissa and her “illegal” nipples I had to put my coffee down.
It’s ingenious and classy.
Undoomed (“Hey, moron! Fucking moron!”) discovers “Everyday Feminism.”
I can’t help feeling that the green-hair-orange-face combo – the Oompa-Loompa aesthetic – is a warning signal.
And remember, this is someone who denounces “white supremacist capitalist cisheteropatriarchal standards of feminine beauty,” but chooses to wear an orange mask with fake eyebrows, while taking endless, heavily filtered selfies and re-tweeting flattering comments about how pretty she is. Presumably, in a desperate attempt to achieve the kind of effect that she claims to despise.
And this is a woman who describes herself, at length, as “an intellectual being,” but won’t engage with factual corrections or any unflattering feedback, and instead howls, at length, about the psychological “trauma” of being disagreed with.
Thailand’s most dangerous market.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sxuAm569IY
With respect to turned tables I really don’t think they’ll be able to contain themselves until they really can turn over said tables and so reveal themselves for what they are.
They’ll then get a war they won’t believe.
After which those responsible will have to be dealt with.
Justly of course.
Angry……
The punk jackets? They look better on the cats:
http://www.neatorama.com/pet/2016/01/31/Punk-Rock-and-Metal-Cats-Decked-Out-in-Vests/
Ed West on the ghosts of Christmas-yet-to-come.
Today’s word is: midwit.
Midwittery may be defined as the sort of argument committed by a person marginally above average. The midwit has learned that data points are superior to screaming and swearing, but is still struggling with identifying accurate, relevant data points that support the midwit’s argument. (The illegal aliens crossing the border between the United States and Mexico generally do not have gunpowder artillery, for instance.) The midwit often thinks himself a genius because he once found a flaw in someone else’s argument, and concludes that all arguments he doesn’t like must be similarly flawed.
The midwit thinks very, very highly of his own cleverness and wit. Arguing with the midwit is a waste of time; should he be rebutted, he’ll flee to “it was a joke bro, you have no sense of humor”. But cease to take him seriously and he’ll pop right up again.
Those of us who do not think walls are a 12th-century technology might also note the instructive example of Hungary’s border wall, which cut illegal immigration there by 99%.
“ghosts of Christmas-yet-to-come”
“Does anyone in a position of power believe this is going to get better and these security measures will ever be taken down? If not, perhaps they should explain to us why, how they led us down this route, and what they intend to do about it.”
https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2017/12/christmas-markets-without-armed-police-are-now-a-thing-of-the-past/
I can only assume they think they’ll get away with it.
Zinnia is woke. Don’t be like Zinnia.
Speaks volumes.
Speaks volumes.
It does, I think, reveal something about the broader attitude.
…despite the fact that walls have been militarily obsolete since the advent of gunpowder.
Midwit is overestimating the wit of someone who has never had to learn that a wall made of something as simple as Hesco bastions is your friend, and that walls are quite effective against an enemy with mortars, rockets, and trucks filled with explosives even in the 21st century.
The former East Germans could not be reached for comment either.
Teh Patriarchy™ is so evil and oppressive, it has made women superior to men.
No, seriously, Obama said so, or something.
Meanwhile, Chad Kroeger tells us we are in the midst of gnarly times and still makes more sense than Miss Fabello.
Chad Kroeger tells us we are in the midst of gnarly times and still makes more sense than Miss Fabello.
Rad and crunchy, dude.
Yes, Ms Fabello does seem gripped by a deranged conspiracy theory, one that bears about as much relation to reality as Scientology. The two articles of hers that I’ve linked upthread are attempts to assert why she, and those like her, should win arguments by default, before they even begin, despite being unable to string together ideas in a remotely consistent and logical manner. And her bizarre lamentations aren’t at all unusual among the intersectional sisterhood. As a political philosophy in the developed world, modern feminism is ludicrous. But if you think of it as an attempt to rationalise spite and a kind of malignant narcissism, it starts to make a little sense.
@Microbillionaire,
I would appear that the Midwit’s beef is with the efficacy of the proposed solution, not the identification of the problem. Perhaps then, s/he would be persuaded by a deployment of late 20th century technology to deal with the situation, i.e. constant CAPs of A-10 Warthogs with various AP load-outs.
But if you think of it as an attempt to rationalise spite and a kind of malignant narcissism, it starts to make a little sense.
It’s all about MMMEEEEEEE!
Zinnia is woke. Don’t be like Zinnia.
Indeed; wherein we find Zinnia thinks videos of ISIS throwing gays from buildings are “suicide photos” and that the brave ISIS lads were trying to prevent them from jumping.
It’s all about MMMEEEEEEE!
You almost have to be impressed by the presumption and dogmatic nastiness. A poster aimed at men, encouraging them to have occasional health checks, is construed as somehow “guilting women,” and then vandalised as if encouraging men to have health checks were an affront to womankind.
@Sherman,
Yes, that does seem to be an unfortunate implication of CAH’s phrases like “militarily obsolete”. If the mass migration is a military problem, the proper terminology for it is arguably an ‘invasion’, and there are certain actions it is licit to take against an invading army that are generally illicit in other contexts.
A proper border wall would also have the related effect of repelling mere sob stories and exposing more of the sort of person willing to come at the wall with trebuchet or battering ram, making their nature more obvious.
I haven’t decided whether this dude has reached “midwit” stage or blown completely past it. His argument seems surprisingly coherent compared with some of Melissa Fabello’s oeuvre.
I thought that handwritten graffiti said quilting women, “quilting” being some kind of invented-yesterday term describing the latest evils of Teh Patriarchy or something.
It’s so difficult to keep up with the
fuckwitterymidwittery these days.milk float poetry
Band name.
Meanwhile back in The Great White North, it appears that there no actual complaint filed against Ms. Shepherd.
Oops.
I thought that handwritten graffiti said quilting women, “quilting” being some kind of invented-yesterday term describing the latest evils of Teh Patriarchy or something.
Don’t joke. The term ‘patchwork’ is apparently sexist and deeply offensive.
Someone was asking early this week why we hate the cheese eating surrender monkeys? Exhibit Z-20171941
https://nypost.com/2017/12/07/french-ambassador-bashes-us-on-pearl-harbor-day/
Oops.
Nah, the failure to document any complaint is deliberate. I suppose it’s possible that somehow the august worthies at the university heard through the grapevine about the contents of Ms. Shepherd’s tutorial, and decided to convene a struggle session on their own, but I doubt it. More likely, they desired to eliminate any evidence of the identity of the complaintant[s] or his/her/their specific grievances in order to sanitize their ultimate decision and actions. My guess, is they hoped to confront her with allegations from non-specified informants in order to bully her into a confession and agreement for penance without exposing themselves or the department or university to scrutiny. As we say in the legal biz, a guilty plea cures a lot of problems. If there was an “oops,” it was in underestimating Ms. Shepherd’s resolve, not in the failure to document.
The term ‘patchwork’ is apparently sexist and deeply offensive.
Good lord. That link is from 2010. Have I been visiting these pages for that long? I need a new hobby.
Have I been visiting these pages for that long?
Try sitting here.
Tone police.
https://twitter.com/WASPmafia/status/939119114278367232
Zinnia is woke. Don’t be like Zinnia.
Wait… what??? I thought “feminine penis” was just a long-running joke/trolling on 4Chan /b/ (aka “Kekistan”).
[headdesk]
Tone police
From the replies:
Ohferfuckssake.
On that note, I seem to recall David once posted a link to something about “militant deaf advocates” demanding an end to cochlear implants, because being able to hear Mozart was a form of violent assault.
I seem to recall David once posted a link to something about “militant deaf advocates” demanding an end to cochlear implants
Because enabling the deaf to hear would destroy “deaf culture”. Also, they insisted that being deaf is not a disability.
I seem to recall David once posted a link to something about “militant deaf advocates”
I’m guessing you mean this.
Somewhat related.
Wait… what??? I thought “feminine penis” was just a long-running joke/trolling on 4Chan /b/ (aka “Kekistan”).
The language has been so corrupted now and everything is a minefield of hate crimes against someone’s feelz that if challenged about my sexual preferences I’d have to take it back to first principles. As in “XY chromosomes, factory default equipment only”. And they are supposed to be the “pro-science” bunch!
militarily obsolete
Mexico’s military numbers 280,000.
There are an estimated 5,600,000 illegal Mexican immigrants in the United States.
Berezka. Was that one of the inspirations for Terry Nation’s Daleks?
There are an estimated 5,600,000 illegal Mexican immigrants in the United States.
20 years ago, maybe. It’s quite well north of 11 million now – the number the 2010 US census estimated, which was immediately denounced by “immigrant advocates” as an “intentional undercount” and, naturally, rayciss!.
Also, the number of “Hispanic” (i.e. Mexican, Central- and South-American) illegal aliens living in California alone is well above 5,600,000.
I’m guessing you mean this.
Yes, I do believe so. I specifically recall the “Mozart = violence” claim, though, but didn’t see it there.
Nah, the failure to document any complaint is deliberate.
My guess would be that they had a verbal “complaint” and in their haste forgot to do the paperwork.
I can’t help suspecting that our Ms Shepherd had been asking for it for a while, having quite the wrong sort of ideas in general. Hence the haste and the long struggle session. A person with right-think (TM) would have been given a quiet word to toe the line.
I use “complaint” because a lot of complaints turn out to be “Hey, you never guess what happened in …” overheard by someone with an axe to grind. I’ve also been the subject of a complaint laid by a student who was in a whole heap of trouble and was casting around for some mud to throw at others to deflect attention from himself. The complaint in question was about something 6 months prior, no-one bothered with at the time because it was of trifling importance and was between me and another student in any case.
Friday Open Road
Unfortunately the site isn’t indexed, so for previous Friday Open Roads you’ll have to scroll back page by page. Worth it though. Especially the “Freckles are Good” series.