Friday Ephemera
The clock is ticking, someone save the cat. || Close enough. || Close enough 2. || Breakfast cereal amplifier. || On second thoughts, perhaps not. || I question the parenting. || Toilet-related submarine mishap of note. || Burger-chain kitchen scenes. || His chocolate-cake lollipops are fancier than yours. (h/t, Elephants Gerald) || It also makes spherical ice. || The Megatherium Club. || Smarten up, your date’s here. || Tough day. || Tim Newman on standards and woke condescension. || Every Noise At Once. || Build your own wooden hurdy-gurdy. || Build your own functional paper organ. || And finally, when you mislabel baldness medication as an acid reflux treatment and inadvertently produce really hairy children.
The clock is ticking, someone save the cat
Cat rescue of note: https://twitter.com/seankent/status/1168963253319426049
Via DamCou.
The picture of this little girl before and after school has me howling.
It’s hysterical how concrete institutions so nicely socialize small, impressionable humans.
The clock is ticking, someone save the cat.
Save The Cat!
Close enough 2
Close enough 3.
Close enough 3.
I didn’t watch until the end. Did Buster catch the wheel of double gloucester to win the Cooper’s Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake?
His chocolate-cake lollipops are fancier than yours.
I don’t like setting aside egg yolks like that. I get antsy when that happens in cooking – egg yolks deteriorate quickly.
I can’t come close to our host’s witty commentary, so I’ll just post it and let you be marveled.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/art-gallery-visitors-must-squeeze-19435116
really hairy children.
Band name.
Re hairy children
who the hell is giving acid reflux meds to their SIX MONTH OLD in the first place??!!
Morning, all.
That’s a lot of Snickers and cheese.
Not an unfair point.
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The clock is ticking, someone save the cat.
That was close. 🙂
Some of the most wholesome music videos I’ve ever seen.
(Qt Georgian girls don’t hurt either.)
Infinity War, Part 3: Enter Sherlock Holmes
Not an unfair point.
I can’t even get files off an old laptop.
I can’t even get files off an old laptop.
I suppose it’s one of those things that exists not for social or technological realism but for ease of storytelling. I’ve been catching up on The Expanse – which starts off a bit meh but quickly gets quite interesting – and everyone’s manically wafting files from one device to another with a remarkable reliability. Society on several planets may be falling apart and the apocalypse may loom, but at least the Bluetooth works flawlessly.
I can’t even get files off an old laptop.
And Phil Collins continues to randomly play on the audio system of my truck. But to be fair, and somewhat puzzling as well, it never plays anyone that I find exceptionally annoying. While I have found a possible solution, it’s worse, and fraught with potentially more misery, than the mildly amusing problem itself. Seems like Arthur C. Clarke coulda/woulda/shoulda covered this.
I question the parenting.
Oh, come on, now. Who among us hasn’t done that ?
art-gallery-visitors-must-squeeze
Bold and empowering, but don’t objectify me, or something. Alas, I missed this visionary work, which probably explains all after.
I blame the toenails.
who the hell is giving acid reflux meds to their SIX MONTH OLD in the first place??!!
Though of very low incidence, kids can get ulcers at any age, most commonly because of H. pylori infection, but also because of taking an NSAID like ibuprofen, sometimes a congenital hiatal hernia. Kids of any age can also have problems with reflux (infants initially have lousy esophageal sphincters which is why they spit up stuff if overfed) which can be an overlooked cause of respiratory problems and may actually be part of the cause of asthma in some.
A musical interlude for Dr Gagliano of the other day.
It is OK when we do it, but you wypipo, not so much.
Meanwhile, someone doesn’t quite understand reproductive biology.
I can’t even get files off an old laptop.
I recall an article in Science many years ago, with a picture of a first-edition Shakespeare (don’t remember which) next to a 11″ single-sided floppy disk. The author’s point was that the first-edition Shakespeare was still perfectly legible after umpty-hundred years, the 20-year-old 11″ floppy disk was no longer of value to anybody but a museum because nothing could read it.
not an unfair point
From the link: “The most unrealistic element of every sci-fi movie is that all their technology is compatible with all their other technology.”
Equally unrealistic: the technology works reliably, and the user interfaces are all very well designed.
Teen Vogue is still going full-on “social justice” and still giving youngsters really bad advice.
Teen Vogue is still going full-on “social justice” and still giving youngsters really bad advice.
The three steps of leftist politics:
1. Advocate harmful ideas.
2. Harm results.
3. Double down on those same harmful ideas.
Tough day
Heh. That bag may hold the head of a classmate who had a tougher day.
We hear a lot about people, in merrie old England and in the United States and in other places, who don’t think you should have the right or the ability to defend yourself. But this one takes it to a whole new level:
https://twitter.com/shailjapatel/status/1168682215091273730
“When you tell women and girls to learn self-defense, or carry weapons against rapists, you’re not reducing rape. You’re just saying “let him rape someone more vulnerable.””
Best reply (in my opinion): “If you lock your house and install a security system, you’re asking the burglar to rob a different house.”
Meanwhile, someone doesn’t quite understand reproductive biology.
IOW, she has a kink … which actually provides more evidence that trangenderism isn’t just about dysphoria but about autogynephilia.
The three steps of leftist politics:
1. Advocate harmful ideas.
2. Harm results.
3. Double down on those same harmful ideas.
In case anyone missed it, Exhibit A.
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An enormous chunk of the left seems hell-bent on eroding attitudes and behaviours that are assets for living – whether it’s monogamous coupling, managed migration, or emotional self-possession. And once lost, these attributes and habits are difficult to regain, perhaps irretrievable. Laurie Penny’s evasive, self-flattering prattle, linked above, is just a convenient shorthand for a wider trend. She has almost all of the signature tics of modern leftism.
And as noted before, Ms Penny’s own career trajectory would most likely have been impossible without the residual effects of the values and priorities that she claims to despise – and without a great many other people cultivating those same values and keeping things ticking over. A fact Laurie counts on, albeit quietly. In effect, we, the bourgeois rubes, are her safety net. The fact that few of us are credulous enough to take her at her words and follow her advice is what allows her to mouth it in relative comfort and security, knowing that the destruction of capitalism, heteronormativity or whatever (and all that goes with it), which she claims to want, won’t happen just yet.
Mr. Mosley? Meet James Damore. Mr. Damore, meet Walter Mosley.
An enormous chunk of the left seems hell-bent on eroding attitudes and behaviours that are assets for living
Which supports my contention that the chief motive for leftism is hatred of our civilization (or any civilization.)
Which supports my contention that the chief motive for leftism is hatred of our civilization
Well, if you try to fathom leftism on its own professed terms, and in terms of its outcomes and likely outcomes, it very often seems incoherent and irrational, impervious to the lessons of reality, evasive, dishonest or simply perverse. But if you think of it in terms of psychology, not least vanity and spite, a lot of it becomes explicable, if not particularly attractive.
Leftism is based in envy, which in turn is rooted in status anxiety, I think.
If you wanted more of it, you could dumb down education and ability whilst simultaneously encouraging an entitlement attitude. This would mean followers could only build themselves up and raise their status (in their own eyes, at least) by tearing others down.
Hey, wait…
But if you think of it in terms of psychology, not least vanity and spite, a lot of it becomes explicable
Indeed. Must never forget vanity as a motive–both the vanity of virtue-signalling and the vanity of intellectuals demonstrating their superior cleverness by concocting elaborate theories to justify embracing foolish and evil ideas.
demonstrating their superior cleverness by concocting elaborate theories to justify embracing foolish and evil ideas
For instance.
From: For instance.
When you imagine yourself as part of the ruling elite, everyone else must be on the lowest level possible.
Leftism has the tells and symptoms of clinical disorder but structurally it manifests as simple force. You shall do as we say or you will suffer the consequences.
When in the minority they’re abrasive in the extreme. When in the majority they just steamroll things.
But this is not intolerance. Or lacking compassion. Just ask them.