You Deserve No Less
Yes, an open thread, in which to share links and bicker.
I’ll set the ball rolling with some sporting scenes, via Mr Newman.
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A reminder that, like all good citizens, one should always respect the media.
And the end of a TV series that seems to have been on air forever, but which was nonetheless often interesting, not because of the behaviour of the officers, but because it revealed the behaviour (and demographics) of the criminals.
“The stealth of a sofa moving across the lawn.”
Brilliant and true. 🙂
Looks like SpaceX gets to use a pre-flown booster and capsule on the next human flight.
https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-nasa-astronaut-launch-rocket-reuse-approval/
“SpaceX gets to use a pre-flown booster and capsule on the next human flight”
Remember when auto dealers stopped selling used cars and switched to pre-owned cars?
“Come on down to Crazy Eddies for the best deals in pre-flown boosters!”
Please remember that when our betters in the Ruling Class are pushing to defund/dismantle the police, they are not talking about them.
Remember, citizens. Always respect the media.
Mystery Politics Theater 3000: put this silhouette at the bottom of a photo of your favorite gathering of leftists:
Added transparency to the screen area and drop shadow.
I have no idea how to add transparency to an image, but was thinking about that. Thanks.
“The stealth of a sofa moving across the lawn.”
Something my dog aspires to have.
Let’s see how the silhouette PiperPaul and pst314 provided works.
Me likey! Me likey much!
I think I’d like the silhouette better without the shadow effect.
Now, how exactly do you overlay that silhouette onto another image?
I thought you might want to see something from the World of Surrender Monkeys.
BLM demands that universities close down STEM (that scary science stuff that discriminates against race studies and hokum, what does the administration at Stanford do?
We got email at work today that we are required to undergo training against “unconscious bias”. I have no input whatever into hiring decisions and told them years ago that I would resign if required to be a manager. This is such a waste of time, not to mention incredibly annoying.
we are required to undergo training against “unconscious bias”.
That’s the training where your claim that you are not a racist is proof that you are a racist. Zero evidence for that fraudulent product of a corrupt academia.
I wonder what percent of corporations are now going to impose this sort of evil filth on their employees.
Just went out to Indeed.com to look for work. Was met immediately with a banner regarding how they support Black Lives Matter. The failure of normal society to support and stand by George Zimmerman was the final straw getting us here. Yes, it took another 8 years but they forced you to swallow their lies. Be prepared to swallow more. Cowards.
That’s the training where your claim that you are not a racist is proof that you are a racist.
Fortunately we’re working from home and I helpfully said I would not return to the office until there was a vaccine against COVID-19. In other words, never. So it will be all online and I will do my best not to interact at all, which is my standard way of dealing with meetings.
This city disbanded its police department 7 years ago. Here’s what happened next
Carrot “Head Banger” Ironfoundersson
How to make British tea.
A coincidence, I’m sure.
Thing is, the series was often interesting not because of the behaviour of the officers, but because it revealed the behaviour (and demographics) of the criminals.
LW: “We got email at work today that we are required to undergo training against “unconscious bias”.”
Admiral Ackbar says…?
No surprises here. White liberals making demands for black students and the craven university immediately capitulating and throwing the errant prof to the wolves:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8404307/Professor-suspended-refusing-request-lenient-marking-black-students-assessments.html
because it revealed the behaviour (and demographics) of the criminals.
There’s your problem.
We got email at work today that we are required to undergo training against “unconscious bias”
Speaking of which.
In short, it’s a license for psychological abuse, and the likely motives of its proponents and practitioners are worth pondering.
My buddy at the primates-and-infectious-diseases lab has informed me that said institution held a memorial for Floyd. He did not attend. He also pointed out that when someone who had worked there for over 40 years passed, that fellow’s death was acknowledged only by an emailed memo.
My buddy at the primates-and-infectious-diseases lab has informed me that said institution held a memorial for Floyd.
It’s almost as if someone were running an elaborate social experiment to establish exactly how ludicrous human beings are.
The Lathe Of Heaven, PBS, 1980, Antwerp!
Today, on ~~Dear Deardrie~~ Slate
The “Uneven” Nonmonogamous Marriage
Aunty’s answer:
TIL: “poly munches“.
The Cops producers tried to address the accusations of bias, but it was never going to be enough to satisfy their critics.
Mark Steyn wrote this after Michael Brown was killed in Ferguson, but it’s all just as relevant today: Cigars, But Not Close. Trigger-happy police wielding second-hand military equipment from Afghanistan are an issue. Cops, Little Britain and Gone with the Wind are not.
“My buddy at the primates-and-infectious-diseases lab has informed me that said institution held a memorial for Floyd”
I’m certain that the murder of Justine Damond by Mohamed Noor (a Somali immigrant and affirmative action hire in the Minneapolis Police) passed without notice.
I’m certain that the murder of Justine Damond by Mohamed Noor (a Somali immigrant and affirmative action hire in the Minneapolis Police) passed without notice.
For the most part, it did, in the mainstream media complex, anyways. The Aussies weren’t too happy, and I think local memorials were held for her, an actual innocent person. But her epidermis had too little melanin for her life to matter, and the poorly trained idiot with anger management issues had plenty of it, plus he worshipped the only Approved religion in the secular lefty world, so it was under the rug with that inconvenient mess.
There may even have been talk along the lines of “she shouldn’t have been outside after calling the cops” or some such she-brought-it-on-herself excusing of Noor’s behavior.
because it revealed the behaviour (and demographics) of the criminals.
Not following the left’s narrative. Bad boys!
His father long ago decided he didn’t want to perpetuate stereotypes, so he insisted that the show feature as many white people being apprehended as people of color.
Which rather sounds like a roundabout admission of The Unspeakable Statistics. And despite these efforts, it was still quite striking which demographics are more likely to resist arrest, often with great physical enthusiasm. It was practically a drinking game.
Note that Camden NJ did not “do away” with policing or defund the police. They closed the department temporarily and reorganized it to get rid of corruption. They implemented some sensible community relations efforts that are used my many other PDs. The officers shown wear badges and emblems reading “Police”. Camden does not send social workers as first responders to emergencies. The article makes a good case for police reforms favored by the Minneapolis Mayor Frey rather than the dismantlement pushed by the Minneapolis City Council.
I am sick to my stomach of the hero worship of a thug who stuck a gun in a pregnant woman’s belly while he and his friends gang raped her.
I’m also sickened by the edited version of his arrest.
It’s Rodney King all over again.
We’ve learned nothing.
Quote taken from a rather telling tale about the current mood and moment:
‘my boss has my back’
“For the most part, it did,”
Yes, but I meant at Squires’s lab.
From Thucydides’s History of the Peloponnesian War (my emphasis):
So revolutions broke out in city after city, and in places where the revolutions occurred late the knowledge of what had happened previously in other places caused still new extravagances of revolutionary zeal, expressed by an elaboration in the methods of seizing power and by unheard-of atrocities in revenge. To fit in with the change of events, words, too, had to change their usual meanings. What used to be described as a thoughtless act of aggression was now regarded as the courage one would expect to find in a party member; to think of the future and wait was merely another way of saying one was a coward; any idea of moderation was just an attempt to disguise one’s unmanly character; ability to understand a question from all sides meant that one was totally unfitted for action. Fanatical enthusiasm was the mark of a real man, [ … ] Family relations were a weaker tie than party membership, since party members were more ready to go to any extreme for any reason whatever. These parties were not formed to enjoy the benefits of the established laws, but to acquire power by overthrowing the existing regime; and the members of these parties felt confidence in each other not because of any fellowship in a religious communion, but because they were partners in crime. If an opponent made a reasonable speech, the party in power, so far from giving it a generous reception, took every precaution to see that it had no practical effect.
Revenge was more important than self-preservation [ …] [A] victory won by treachery gave one a title for superior intelligence. And indeed most people are more ready to call villainy cleverness than simple-mindedness honesty. They are proud of the first quality and ashamed of the second.
Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils. To this must be added the violent fanaticism which came into play once the struggle had broken out. Leaders of parties in the cities had programs which appeared admirable—on one side political equality for the masses, on the other the safe and sound government of the aristocracy—but in professing to serve the public interest they were seeking to win the prizes for themselves. [… ] [N]either side had any use for conscientious motives; more interest was shown in those who could produce attractive arguments to justify some disgraceful action. As for the citizens who held moderate views, they were destroyed by both the extreme parties, either for not taking part in the struggle or in envy at the possibility that they might survive.
@Nikw211: given the usually supine police seem to be actually taking an interest, I wonder if that will remain the case when they come knocking on his door?
…a rather telling tale about the current mood and moment…
Color me surprised that our little revolutionary cluster-B-itch is married to a (presumably successful) banker.
Looking forward for the calls to close down the Guardian…..
“That’s the training where your claim that you are not a racist is proof that you are a racist.”
When Evil Pretends That It’s Good:
And that’s from March, before the Church of George even started. But the choice of words is apt. This is evil. Not least because it’ll only be the useful idiots, the footsoldiers, who’ll feel that rush of righteousness. Their Generals will feel satisfaction, after calmly and deliberately creating the enemy they need to win power.
“They’re called Black Lives Matter! How can you object to that?”
“Antifa. Anti-fascist. It’s in the name!”
“It’s almost as if someone were running an elaborate social experiment to establish exactly how ludicrous human beings are.”
“Almost”? I think that’s exactly what they’re doing.
And that is unforgivable.
and that is unforgivable.
Well, it’s generally harder to sustain foolishly indulgent ideas about criminality, all conveniently abstract and theoretical, when you can actually see it, vividly, and imagine how you’d feel if such creatures targeted you, or your children, or moved in next door, or next door to an elderly loved one.
Biological sex is a white supremacist conspiracy!
Interesting article obviously written by a bot using every woke buzz word and phrase saved in a MadLibs database.
Denial Level: Aswan
Thing is, the series was often interesting not because of the behaviour of the officers, but because it revealed the behaviour (and demographics) of the criminals.
What always amazed me is that the arrestees (not criminals until they’re convicted) apparently signed a release to have the footage shown.
Biological sex is a white supremacist conspiracy!
Given that the author touts xemselves as a “Muslim drag queen”, I suspect there is a more than usual degree of blackwhite supremacy going on in that particular cranium.
From the headline:
I wonder what they’ll do when they find out who his opponent was…