Friday Ephemeraren’t

Get well soon!

You will be forced to believe.
“How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?”
And, if the party says a man is a woman and a woman is a man?

something that cats don’t do
The cat framed him. 🙂

Laser blasters.

Xenomorph crochet of note:
https://twitter.com/crochetverse/status/1179845261595725829

Laser blasters.
My brother got bitten by a baby croc once. It was large enough to give him a long-lasting scar. True story – he was working at a croc sanctuary at the time.

Xenomorph crochet of note:
Speaking of costumes of note, stolen form Ace, another costume of note…

Seen on Instapundit:
“Colleges Create AI to Identify ‘Hate Speech’ – Turns Out Minorities Are the Worst Offenders.”
https://pluralist.com/ai-censorship-cornell-study/
Oops. 🙂

a) A modest proposal;
b) World class troll;
c) Some San Franciscan wound up in NY.
Pick only one.

I’m tired of all this diet-shaming. Some people just have unique nutritional needs. Others just have refined palates that make it excruciating to consume anything except some tender, succulent long veal.

In other words…
I’m definitely going to have to start taking attendance.

I’m definitely going to have to start taking attendance.
President!
a) A modest proposal;
b) World class troll;
c) Some San Franciscan wound up in NY.
b
I’m very anxious to see how I did on this test.

And if necessary, assist the authorities with their enquiries.

And now, thanks to David, the watchful eyes have watchful hands.

I’ve had the seats here fitted with biometric arse-cheek recognition
Heh…This is a real thing, ICYDK. Or at least it was in development several years ago. Not sure if it ever materialized, however. Don’t ask me how I know…or more accurately, knew…

Heh.

Welp, the party’s over, boys. Looks like we gonna hafta close this place down. Y’all don’t wanna be charged as an accessory, now do ya?

Welp, the party’s over, boys. Looks like we gonna hafta close this place down…
Ironically, the New Yorker publishes plenty of defamatory, hate-mongering lies, albeit rarely using curse words.

Ironically, the New Yorker publishes plenty of defamatory, hate-mongering lies, albeit rarely using curse words.
Not at all ironically, this New Yorker writer’s op-ed was in the New York Times.
The Big Apple may be the City That Never Sleeps, but if these two august publications have their way, it could also be on the way to becoming the City That Never Over-Censors.

Last one before I take a drill to my face to let this goo ooze out.
The Beatles’ “Abbey Road” returns to the No. 1 album slot in the UK nearly 50 years after it was last at No. 1.
(Bloody Harold Wilson was y’alls PM then.)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/entertainment-arts-49931789

“Single screw inserter for iPhone6 speaker.”
Undercover, eh? Was he trying to find the guy who thought this was a good idea?
“biometric arse-cheek recognition”
It seems to be all the rage right now.

As Glenn Reynolds would say, “Faster, please.”

hared = hated. Obviously. Or not.

The term is generations old
Like “the bee’s knees”? Yeah, I get it.

Douglas Murray spies more leftist dishonesty. Note, again, the casual shamelessness. As I said upthread, some people are more accustomed to habitual pretence.

The Guardian strikes again…
Ngaree Blow “…a Yorta-Yorta, Noonuccal, Goreng Goreng woman and doctor”, informs us now is the time to disrupt the colonialist model of healthcare, because it “…fails to cater our peoples’ values and results in many people not receiving the care they need.”

First Peoples are the antithesis of colonial; we are inherently disruptive to how the healthcare system (and many other systems in fact) operate in Australia. Our disruption has historically been, and continues to be, rejected by the mainstream. Our unique lens, which views health as holistic and all-encompassing, has often been ignored or worse, considered inferior, as evidenced by a lack of traditional practices in these services.

It could just be me, but that whole dying at 35 thing might have something to do with it.

One exemplary example is from Adelaide, where one hospital provides traditional healers, known as Ngangkari, to patients, so that both methods of healing are delivered within the same service.

“Appendicitis, no, an operation would not cater to our values, fetch my didgeridoo and some wombat liver, stat !”

We are seeing Western medicine recognise its limitations…

Really ? That’s news to this gentleman.

“Comments on this piece are premoderated.”

“Comments on this piece are premoderated.”
“Comment is Free” but right-wing deviationism is not comment, comrade.

The Owl and the Pussycat…..

Never get between a man and his Burger.
Heh. More of that.

now is the time to disrupt the colonialist model of healthcare
Where did she get the disrupting models jargon? Did she have The Structure of Scientific Revolutions on a reading list, or has it filtered into her domain from business gurus? Disrupt, like subvert, is an edgy who-whom word, flattering to the would-be disrupters, and suggesting that the disruptees have it coming. And it raises the obvious question – surely the aboriginal model of healthcare got well and truly disrupted by the colonialist models of Joseph Lister and Louis Pasteur?
If you take away the spice of authentic ethnic remedies, which should be good for a few grants and conference gigs, what she’s advocating is public health and preventative medicine. Which we already have, and didn’t need any help from aborigines to invent. Give us some credit, lady – we might be stale and pale but we have our own indigenous, holistic wisdom. We never thought that a pill could be invented to replace country doctors and district nurses dispensing the traditional shamanic remedy of a cup of tea and a chat, applying holistic techniques like making sure old people stay warm in winter, and being culturally sensitive in the way they ask husbands to stop beating their wives. And our culture is already on the job of seeking syntheses between mechanistic and humanistic models of medicine – we’ve been making Hollywood movies on that theme for a century.

We never thought that a pill could be invented to replace country doctors and district nurses dispensing the traditional shamanic remedy of a cup of tea and a chat, applying holistic techniques like making sure old people stay warm in winter…
These leftists and indigenous activists tend to be appallingly racist. Funny, that.

David, I too have caught a cold. This seems highly suspicious.
Indeed:
https://youtu.be/i_299Zvsu2A?t=3

If anyone really believes that some witch doctor medicine man Indigenous Healthcare Provider…I have a bridge over the Torres Straight to sell.
Does that mean that you also don’t believe that homeopathic cures can be delivered via Ethernet packets? 🙂

First Peoples’ unique worldview…
We should not tolerate that smarmy language: When it is used we should challenge it, pointing out the archaeological evidence that these were not the first to inhabit the continent, that the previous inhabitants “mysteriously” disappeared, and that these aboriginal peoples have histories are near constant war, conquest and genocide. And, while we’re at it, the creation myths are silly.

Marketing genius, how to get millennials to buy whisky – It’s a single malt, no it’s a laundry detergent – it’s both, it’s Glenlivet !

Somebody has got to be taking the piss. Right?
Alas, no, and to add insult to injury, they come in citrus, wood, and spice.
Fortunately they are not on the street yet, so maybe they will die on the vine, however, “If you happen to be in England, you can give these wild capsules a try by dropping by Tayēr where they are being served as “an amuse-bouche on arrival”.
“Amuse-bouche” – at least they are not pretentious, nosiree.

Apparently a gangster’s girlfriend had a collection of Queen’s Honor recipients turn up on her doorstep one day, being thus a moll and the knight visitors.

Speaking of unrest…
Supporting St. Greta is evidence of yte supremacy !

“Y’all need to ask yourselves why you find it so much easier to hear from white people, regardless of age, when it comes to the violence they have caused across the world,” No White Saviours tweeted.
“It is a SYMPTOM of global white supremacy that certain people are HEARD & given a platform, certain people have access to the RESOURCES to be the HEROES that the world will pay attention to.”

All they have to do is not be insane, but they can’t do that for one lousy minute. The left just needs to have a rumble among themselves, leave the rest of us normal people out, and when they are done beating each other up, maybe we can get back to normal.
BTW, if all y’all ain’t from South of the Line of Mason and Dixon, cease and desist with the cultural appropriation of “y’all” or someone will be offended. Oh wait, that would just be some wypipo South of the Line of Mason and Dixon, meh, nevermind.

BTW, if all y’all ain’t from South of the Line of Mason and Dixon, cease and desist with the cultural appropriation of “y’all”
If I may quote the great Hank Williams (Jr, not his even-greater father), “We say grace, and we say ‘ma’am.’ If ya ain’t from the South, we don’t give a damn.”