Because It’s Too Bloody Hot

Looks like academic standards are racist too.
Well, it does seem to rely heavily on contradictions, double standards and bizarre definitions. And so, if you’re pale-skinned and trying to understand a situation carefully, rather than jumping to conclusions, this is now proof of your complicity in “white supremacy,” and a prelude to lynching, genocide and lava falling from the sky. As is choosing not to allow demented leftist politics to take over your entire life, apparently.
Note too that, if white, you must simultaneously believe and not believe “people of colour,” depending on whether said person “of colour” conforms with a narrative of eternal victimhood. (If they do embrace said narrative, you must never, ever speak over them, even to correct a point of fact.) Likewise, you must embrace the role of unconditionally deferential white ally – say, by internalising the pyramid of white supremacy and all subsequent pyramids – while simultaneously denouncing “white saviour complex,” which also leads to lynching, genocide and lava falling from the sky.
You’d better turn over your paper. The test began five minutes ago.

Remember this story from last November?
Here’s a link for the Lindsay Shepherd story, mentioned above. For those who haven’t heard it, the audio recording of her ‘interview’ is quite a thing. If you’ve assumed that the “pyramid of white supremacy” must be some aberration or outlier, think again.

Something I’ve noticed about articles in which polyamorists tell their stories is they are all written by women.

Tim Newman, here.

Hot? In England? I didn’t know that ever happened.
We’re supposed to be in the mid-90’s this weekend, humidity to match.

@TomJ: Niemitz is a clever, articulate guy. He was on R4 talking about alternative healthcare provision systems, and came across well. Needless to say, his noting that other systems of medicine that weren’t the NHS had merits, and just maybe could teach us a thing or two was received sceptically by the other guests.

A pair of posters from the Spanish Civil War although produced by opposing sides they find common ground.
http://colmilquetoast.blogspot.com/2018/02/propaganda-posters-from-spanish-civil_25.html

If anyone has trouble with comments getting snagged by the spam filter, email me and I’ll cajole the damn thing.

Something I’ve noticed about articles in which polyamorists tell their stories is they are all written by women.
https://heartiste.wordpress.com/2018/03/28/polyamory-is-the-last-refuge-of-the-incel/

Genuine, egalitarian, open polyamory for all practical purposes doesn’t exist among white Westerners. There’s always one or another party out in the asexual or anhedonic cold, nursing feelings of rejection and traumatic self-doubt. And if that party is a willing participant to his or her sexual/romantic exclusion, it’s a good bet he/she is psychologically broken, mentally unstable, physically repulsive, or suffering from clinically low sex drive…
The general complexion of contractual open relationships — where all participants are voluntary and aware of proceedings — is one ugly to mediocre-looking woman on the pre-Wall fast track lavishing in the flaccid attention of two or more omega males. Invariably, the more masculine (and it’s all relative, so maybe it’s better to say “the less androgynous”) of the males would be the one who is actually porking her.

This one is, I think, an interesting clue of panic mounting among the intellectually superiors:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/25/opinion/free-speech-just-access.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region&region=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region

“And I can’t think when it’s hot.”
Your name wouldn’t be Detritus, would it? 🙂

“This week’s pyramid of white supremacy”
How long until the left starts building them with flat tops to accommodate sacrificial altars?

The loveable left.

Remember this story from last November?
Some context: WLU is not a serious university to begin with. It’s not quite Brock University[1], but the University of Waterloo calls it “the high school down the road” for a reason. The current vogue in the US for Everyone Going To University has been the norm in Canada for decades; it’s much cheaper, for one (~$40,000CAD for a four-year honours degree), the universities are government funded to a much higher degree, and there’s copious government student aid available. All that means that there are some universities that operate on the basis of taking the students that couldn’t get in anywhere else, and WLU is one of them. The admission cutoff for WLU is usually about 60% – if you graduated high school, you’re in.
While some people in Canada are shocked by this story, that’s largely because Shepherd is young and pretty; “oh, how could you ever be so mean to the poor waif”. Absent that, the sentiment is “it’s WLU, what did you expect; they’re not a real university anyway”
The drop in enrollment isn’t going to matter as much as the article makes it seem, either; the Waterloo area has been going through a massive boom in university enrollment anyway for the last decade, to the point that much of the area around the universities is now filled with recently-built private, multi-story student dorms. Within the last decade, both WLU and U(W) have exhausted all their available campus space for building and expanded into additional properties, including satellite campuses. A 12.5% dip may sound like a lot, but compared to the near doubling of the student cohort over the last 5-10 years, it’s a temporary blip.
[1] “If you can walk and talk, you can go to Brock”[2]
[2] Brock produces the majority of B.Ed graduates in Ontario

Hot? In England? I didn’t know that ever happened.
My outdoor sensor on a north facing wall is registering 29C, the north facing kitchen is 30C. Despite all the doors and windows being open the digital thermometer in the conservatory has given up the ghost. The cat’s nowhere to be seen, I suspect he’s found a cool place somewhere.
I’m off to the gym to cool down, assuming their air con hasn’t died.

Today’s words are educator of tomorrow.

I’m guessing that is not the case in chilly old England?
This is not a country with extreme but consistent weather, so I can pretty much predict what would happen were anyone to be so rash as to buy a temporary/portable air con unit to cool the bedroom down and thus enable sleep.
Here’s the anecdotal evidence:
The Bastion Of Oik is a former farmhouse which sits about 250 yards away from the main road on the outskirts of an unremarkable West Cheshire town. The road is accessed by a single track lane, part tarmac, part gravel, which runs between two meadows. I have the sole responsibility for upkeep. We don’t ever have hard, long or harsh winters here- the region is noted for its uncommonly clement weather. The winter of 2009/2010 proved to be something of an exception and basically our lives took on a Sisyphean dimension as Mrs. Oik and I struggled daily to keep the lane sufficiently clear of snow so that we could get out occasionally in our car and go shopping for food.
When the next winter was approaching, I was ready. Some years before a friend had invented a “power barrow”, a small petrol powered dump truck which featured four wheel drive for steep terrain, and I had bought one of the prototypes. After 2010, he drew up and had manufactured a snowplough attachment and I ordered one, and also in the autumn took delivery of two tonnes of rock salt.
My friend came around to deliver and fit the plough to the dumper and I gave him a hand. It was three days before Christmas 2010, the sun was shining and it wasn’t cold at all, the temperature hitting 13C as we toiled away in our tee shirts before enjoying a cold beer once the task was accomplished.
In February 2011 we removed the still-unused snowplough, and now it sits forlornly in a corner of the barn upon the unopened bags of rock salt, waiting for a winter that will probably never come.

This one is, I think, an interesting clue of panic mounting among the intellectually superiors:
An infuriating read. And, of course, all of the “ignorant” (according to the writer) are conveniently of only one viewpoint. Quelle surprise.

“Bit of trivia”
Very interesting. Thanks!

The speech is paraphrased in two parts.
The first comment, quite the rant. There has never been in history a capitalist economy that did not succumb to corruption and exploitation. Yes. Never been. Unlike the socialists. Meshes with the new (to me anyway) line that Cuba, NK, old USSR were really capitalist countries, and thus their failures. Sigh…It’s all so absurd.
Hot? In the 90’s here with high humidity (which showed up early this year) that we can pretty much expect to be the rule through September. I’m cryin’ for ya. Which leads to one of my peeves. I don’t hold any special animosity toward the metric system per se. All fine and useful when measuring stuff that needs to be subdivided and multiplied, etc. for whatever purposes. But I can’t for the life of me understand why Celsius is so quasi-universal. Who cares what the temperature outside is relative to the boiling point of water? To satisfy some sort of hoity-toity universalism? Why not use Kelvin then? The good Mr. Fahrenheit created a very useful, nearly twice as granular scale. Zero, very, very cold. 100, very, very hot. Water freezes 1/3 down the scale, room temperature another 1/3 dow, with some adjustments for early 18th century equipment inaccuracies. Harumph…

@Bloke in North Dorset (at 08:18)
Lindsay Shepherd is suing Laurier and one of her inquisitors for C$3.6M. Jordan Peterson has retained the same lawyer and is suing for defamation to the tune of C$1.5M.
(Sorry if this topic has been covered here before.)
https://globalnews.ca/news/4272268/wilfrid-laurier-ta-lindsay-shepherd-sues-university/
https://globalnews.ca/news/4287272/jordan-peterson-sues-wilfrid-laurier-for-defamation-following-ta-case/

The news yesterday was that the American Library Association has removed the name of Laura Ingalls Wilder from their children’s book award, changing it to a title undefiled by the horrid racism so notable in the Little House series. It is now called The Children’s Literature Legacy Award.
This announcement was greeted with cheers at the Association meeting last weekend. Virtue prevails! Hosannah!
At least they are not stripping the books off the shelves.
Yet.

@WTP: thanks for the clarification. I’d always wondered.

I’d always wondered.
Yes…I used to run a blog back then called Sherman’s Cowlick. Only about four people ever read it. Not that I put much effort into promoting it. Hence only about four people. None that I knew in meat space. My wife never even knew about it, I don’t think. I know we never discussed much of what I wrote on it. Plus I burned out on it after about a year. It’s kinda written in engineerglish.

Found at American Digest:
“Typically consumed raw, it’s chewy, salty, and surprisingly sweet.”

The first comment, quite the rant. There has never been in history a capitalist economy that did not succumb to corruption and exploitation. Yes. Never been. Unlike the socialists. Meshes with the new (to me anyway) line that Cuba, NK, old USSR were really capitalist countries, and thus their failures. Sigh…It’s all so absurd.
Absurd is that it’s true: The ostensible right is to blindness and capitalism what the left is to blindness and collectivism.
Unless you make two distinctions – that the problem is both philosophical while the outcomes are judged by their pragmatic effects – the partisan takes on both systems are equally false. Whataboutism does not apply.
Both work when man is pure and neither when he’s not: If you want to debate the nature of force and its relative (il)legitimacy in collectivism, then you admit it is in inherent failure before it begins. The exact same argument applies to capitalism, however.

Ann Miller performs the number out of protest.
Just the sort of protest I like to see.

Wtp,
Xkcd, of course, covered that issue.
From memory:
Kelvin: 0 ? Dead. 100? Dead.
Celsius: 0? Cold. 100? Dead.
Fahrenheit: 0? Very cold. 100? Very hot.

This one is, I think, an interesting clue of panic mounting among the intellectually superiors
I see that in order for Dr Van Norden to assemble his argument, such as it is, he begs questions, misquotes his opponents to the point of parody, appears proudly ignorant of widely available data, and conflates the encouragement of a thing with its active suppression. Not an ideal performance by a professor of philosophy. Especially one whose authoritarian fantasies are ultimately based on his own pretence of rigour and intellectual superiority.
I mean, when you find yourself appealing to the alleged wisdom of Herbert Marcuse, for God’s sake, alarm bells should be ringing. Or circus clown music.

“the alleged wisdom of Herbert Marcuse”
While reading it, that was the eye-widening moment I tossed the article into the recycling bin.

…feminist science coming through…
University of Zambia: “Hold my katata…”

…the South African Minister of Higher Education and Training, Blade Nzimande , has announced plans to have witchcraft included in the curriculum from 2018, aimed at awarding a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in Witchcraft…“There is a lot we can learn from witchcraft, like how they fly in that winnowing basket. Imagine if we learn that skill; it will eradicate traffic jams and everyone will just get in their basket and fly. It also means we will not be importing fuel anymore.”

University of Zambia: “Hold my katata…”
I can’t tell if the article is sarcasm or the comments on the article are sarcasm or both or neither. Grip on reality is slowly loosening.

It’s a recipe for smug morony. And look at the creatures it attracts.
i”m not so much concerned about the creatures it attracts as the creatures it creates/converts. These “morons” are on a roll. Their idiocy is spread far and wide. This isn’t something as self contained as say, Scientology or some such. I hear some of this crap over the wall from my high-tech co-workers. Such people have money (for now) and power (for now) and have a tremendous capacity to do a whole lot of damage before the s*house caves in on them, taking many of us with them.

I can’t tell if the article is sarcasm or the comments on the article are sarcasm or both or neither.
As we take a trip down memory lane, I fear it is not sarcasm.
Of course, not taking it seriously means you are a white devil (even if you are not) and need to have lightning thrown at you.

so does that mean when PoCs such as the Khmer Rouge, the Tutsis, the Japanese in WWII, the various pre-Columbian Mesoamericans killing each other off, etc., etc., etc., were white supremacists ?
No, they’re just cultural appropriators…

As Glenn Reynolds says, “The Left is taking things well”
https://twitter.com/ElieNYC/status/1011614157018468353

Perhaps it was an underprivileged youth,
But Laurie has assured us, repeatedly, that opportunist theft – of trainers, phones, laptops and such – is a sign of “desperation” and “a political statement.” A statement she favours. Are they only “dickheads” when they steal from her?
I’m so confused.

Perhaps it was an underprivileged youth,
A post of its own, I think.

Note this later post by ElieNYC:
https://mobile.twitter.com/ElieNYC/status/1012074988873056257
“What can we do to stop this? *Legally* nothing. Not a damn thing. The bad guys won. THEY’VE WON EVERY DAY SINCE SCALIA DIED. And if *legally* is your boundary, then you are of no more fucking use here.”