Friday Ephemera

River bottom findings:
Hem, hem:
https://thompsonblog.co.uk/2018/06/friday-ephemerarent.html?cid=6a00d83451675669e2022ad39cef9b200b#comment-6a00d83451675669e2022ad39cef9b200b

’And finally, his patience tested, Zeus shoots back.’
Can’t stop laughing!

Will ‘she’/‘zie’/‘zey’ be in charge of who can have what?
The people making these noises generally seem to imagine that they’d be the ones wearing The Bejewelled Marxist Sorting Hat – merrily deciding whose wants are permissible and – the fun bit – who should be denied. Quite how one would construct a morally superior system in which the self-imagined righteous oversaw the rest of us in such detail and made sure that we couldn’t just buy things we deem important with our own earnings, is unclear. Just as it’s unclear how such a nightmarishly overbearing system would avoid the usual results, like economic catastrophe and people eating rats.
Though frankly, I see no evidence that Avery, our smasher of capitalism and remaker of worlds, has thought that far ahead.
Such is woke piety.

Capitalism is primarily that each person is an economic unit, as opposed to organisation via workplaces or other collective groupings. It leads to each person being respected as an individual. Which means it is tolerant of deviance — historically of religion, now of pretty much everything.
That a Trans person should oppose the very system that allows xim to be openly different is one of life’s little mysteries.
At least if we do go corporatist it will be end of such whining.

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[ Sounds of giant cannon launching underling into the Sun. ]

“Pizarro and others have found that disgust induced by a foul smell can affect how judgmental people are of minority groups, how conservative they are”
Nothing is safe from research into why some people are conservative, not even a prank doo-doo smell.

Feminism: the haunting fear that some white guy, somewhere, somehow, is having a good time and not feeling particularly guilty about anything.

“Queen of nuance”
Correction. That’s “Comedian. Queen of nuance.” – where it seems the latter is very much a defensive fall-back position for the former.
See, if you don’t laugh at this , it’s your sense of humour that’s at fault. She can’t be held responsible for your lack of refinement.
Pass us one of them pickled eggs, will you?

Re: Liquid Ass
There’s a serious point about that. Which is that this evil free market stuff means that a couple of guys can muck about and create a smell for a joke, and enough weirdos want to buy it. And then it turns out it has a practical use in medicine. And then an experimental use in science.
This simply does not happen under the various totalitarian/socialist regimes.
For a start, no humour. Maoist China wouldn’t produce this. Nor the Taliban. And if you don’t have that foolishness and free play, you stifle creativity. A commissar would say that you are wasting resources with such olfactory frivolity, religious nuts would say you are disrespecting Allah. Even if a ‘genuine’ need for such a smell was recognised there would be badly organised bureaucratic projects to produce it, at daft expense, resulting in overproduction and something a bit like the smell they were after. And it would take five years.
It’s a general point about the failure of central planning. Nobody knew how useful this would be until it was produced. And it was only produced by a couple of guys for a laugh.

“Why did the rescuers have to be white people?”
The esteemed Elfwick once again channeled The Amazing Criswell…

Godfrey Elfwick
@RealElfwick Jul 8
2 British white males at the head of this rescue mission. Their privilege is staggering. Ability counts for shit when there’s zero diversity. I demand they be replaced with 2 differently-abled transgender people of mixed race to offer those children a more empowering experience.

For a start, no humour. Maoist China wouldn’t produce this. Nor the Taliban.
Khomenei proclaimed “no humor in Islam”.

so small you need binoculars to see what the hell it really is from two blocks away.
For £20,000, I was expecting a second sun.

*raises hand*

The stench so realistically mimics the human colon, it’s the perfect training tool to teach medical responders how to maintain focus and professional demeanor in the midst of a truly overwhelming smell.
#1 attended a top nursing school for her RN and they used state-of-the-art training mannequins (along with clinicals). I should ask if they used LA. Though she had been a paramedic before going for her RN so I believe her own professional demeanor from exposure to the gross had already been obtains (whoa, the stories!)

I wasn’t even aware that they existed…
https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/46509/

I wasn’t even aware that they existed
As Glenn Reynolds says, “When taxpayers tire of funding this sort of thing, we’ll be told it’s because of ‘anti-intellectualism’…”

Liquid Ass demonstrates one of the most profound ideas in economics: Supply creates its own demand.

Speaking of bodily horrors
Strzok summed up in a gif

The Trump balloon:
DrumpfHitler is finished this time!

I think we have our guy for the Pee Wee’s Playhouse reboot! Tell the casting director she can take the weekend off.

Agenda detected.
Via Damian.

“Are you wearing your anti-motion-sickness spectacles?”
Not at 99 Euromarks, I’m not. They look like something out of a Christmas cracker.
I mean, looking a bit daft is a small price to pay for curing motion sickness. But 90 quid is a very large price to pay for a bit of plastic and some tubing with coloured water in it.
“Nothing is safe from research into why some people are conservative, not even a prank doo-doo smell.”
But it’s such a mystery.
PRM: “There’s a serious point about that.”
Absolutely. I’m trying to add something to that, and I’m not coming up with much. It’s a very important point.
“Goodwood Festival of Speed Live Feed.”
Thanks, Farnsworth. I hadn’t realised it was this week. Well, that’s my weekend spoken for. Hold my calls.

They most certainly rant.

Bosh, like Hieronymus? That Bosch?