Friday Ephemera
Simpler times. (h/t, Damian) || Trophy malfunction of note. (h/t, Julia) || “No Trump supporters.” || Getting to grips with a foreign tongue. || Snug. || Ideal gift for Julia. || Next best thing. || Now, about that bad day you’ve had… || Our betters impart their wisdom. We need reminding, you see. (h/t, Darleen) || Our betters impart their wisdom 2. || Unsupervised potatoes. || Pedal-powered at 590 feet. || Hardcore headline. || Crane use of note. || New York, 1930s. || Nommy nommy nom. || Nature sound map and wild ambience. (h/t, Things) || Bolero, on one cello. || These are some of those. || The thrill of sea slugs. || Silent-era film effects. || And finally, understandably, she feared its mighty power.
Is every Indian in the US constantly flinging themselves in front of passing motor vehicles?
It is all that dense traffic on the reservations, and dogsleds running red lights. The whole thing is a statistical dog’s breakfast – Alabama and Mississipi, for example, are on the charts on the basis only of Birmingham and Jackson respectively (both the largest cities, oddly enough), and both are higher on the “danger” scale than Louisiana despite having fewer fatalities and lower rates/100K.
OTOH, old people are allegedly more at risk, though older boomers apparently know how to cross the street.
old people are allegedly more at risk
Hypothesis: 1. Age-related cognitive decline. 2. Inability to cross street before light changes.
Hypothesis…
Nonsese, it is speed crazed hot rodders driving like madmen though dense city traffic, fueled by their toxic masculinity and yte supremacy, and the only solution is to make it mandatory that people like me who live in tiny towns where it is seven miles to the grocery store to take government funded solar powered self-driving ubers going a maximum of no faster than the average 90 year old can walk.
Nonsense, it is speed crazed hot rodders…
And here is your new conveyance. Be seeing you.
And here is your new conveyance.
If they had their way, that would sadly be not too far off the mark, though configured for mass transportation.
the Nature Soundmap makes me glad the internet was invented.
The travails of our betters.
so they retreat to a medium where they control all the variables
It’s odd. I’m now watching Potter’s Karaoke and the characters’ outbursts that match Potter’s own political preoccupations are quite clumsy and jarring. They break the spell. It’s as if incongruous fits of anger were a substitute for accuracy or any kind of articulation. Suddenly, standards drop. It’s the dramatic equivalent of The Blurting.
Laughed, not sorry.
The dawn of a new golden age, a veritable Renaissance awaits.
The dawn of a new golden age,
Interesting theory.
Officials are also hoping the effort can jumpstart the area’s lagging economy
We are ruled by idiots. And our friends, coworkers, and trusted professionals voted for them.
If they had their way, that would sadly be not too far off the mark, though configured for mass transportation.
Indeed.
Does anybody recall a magazine article touting the virtues of pedal-powered commuter trains? It would have appeared in the Whole Earth magazine, I think, in the 80’s or early 90’s. Probably illustrated with paintings of happy commuters boarding a train in what appears to be a totally rural paradise.
pedal-powered commuter trains?
The flintstones?
pedal-powered commuter trains?
The flintstones?
Don’t want to be the first stop or the last stop.
Does anybody recall …. Probably illustrated with paintings of happy commuters boarding a train in what appears to be a totally rural paradise.
Heh. I remember my 5th grade Weekly Reader “newspaper” having a story about PPV’s…People Powered Vehicles. Now just being kids and the story containing limited info, I presumed there was some sort of tech beyond my comprehension that helped move them. The picture was of this low-sitting, two person three wheeled cart of a thing. As luck (?) would have it, while visiting a friend who lived in/near a wealthy neighborhood, some kid happened to come peddling by in one that looked exactly like the one I remembered from the WR and offered me to hop in and try it with him. It was, of course, just a simple pedal powered device that was effectively no different from a bike except that it was even harder to initially get moving than a bike would be. Little did I know The Stupid was just beginning.
pedal-powered commuter trains?
Don’t want to be the first stop or the last stop.
I wonder if all the dope they were smoking prevented them from thinking of such problems.
Little did I know The Stupid was just beginning.
Important folks like Al Gore, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Mitt Romney, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will keep their cars, just as the pigs in Animal Farm got all the apples. Eventually anyone who objects will get banned from Facebook and Twitter and will have their credit cards and bank accounts closed.
…in what appears to be a totally rural paradise.
Not to be confused with an Amish Paradise.
This.
Via Ben.
Q: Which would be worse to live in, a Gangster Paradise or a Hippie Paradise?
A: The latter will eventually become the former.
It pleases me that these threads can accommodate allusions to antiquity and knob jokes.
Thank Hardcore History for the former (“Death Throes of the Republic”) and, well, American culture for the latter.
Another message from the Ministry of Truth — Melanin = morals.
From The Chosen by S.M. Stirling and David Drake:
Another message from the Ministry of Truth — Melanin = morals.
Original source: Media Now Claims Shooter Was Factually Arab, But Morally White
Original source…
Is it ?.
I recall reading a steampunk-ish story once (sadly the title escapes me atm) in which there were trains that were powered by actual engines, but power could also be fed into the engine by peddling — which passengers who wanted/needed to reduce their fare could do. That’s the only way I could see something like that maybe working. Otherwise, you’ll have the first/last stop problem mentioned above, along with passengers (such as Reddit editors) who feel they’re too special to pedal.
Original source:
Thanks, pst314 — satire is way too close to reality and I didn’t double-check Ian’s tweet.
OK, I’m only 30 minutes into it andI dare not share my thoughts with my wife, but…the story line of Places In the Heart Seems ridiculous. I remember people raved about this. The production seems excellent. The story seems completely disconnected with anything approaching rational.
Darleen: I agree entirely. It seems that it is only a matter of time (and not much time) before that becomes a real CNN headline.
the story line of Places In the Heart Seems ridiculous
I cancelled all my streaming services and have been…acquiring various media from previous decades in an attempt to find things to watch that don’t insult my intelligence (or values).
The 1980s is pretty much a writeoff. I’m finding a lot of 1970’s media holds up quite well – The Rockford Files, Magnum P.I., Beretta, Black Sheep Squadron.
This just in:
I know what you are saying, standard SJW boilerplate arglebargle. Not really, you see, this is from “an anti-racist agenda for medicine” or, “Wypipo, don’t get sick in Boston”.
What ? You expected consistency ?
As long as we are on the topic of medicine, what would we do without government scientists to guide and protect us ?
Like the guy jaywalking and the one walking in the middle of the road they have in their first picture ?
If you manage to get to the bottom of that page, you’ll find this little gem:
‘Dangerous by Design 2021 was made possible by the support of … the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’
Disease Control, you say.
I cancelled all my streaming services…The 1980s is pretty much a writeoff. I’m finding a lot of 1970’s media holds up quite well – The Rockford Files, Magnum P.I., Beretta, Black Sheep Squadron.
I will look forward to your future comments about what does (or does not) hold up as useful guides to my own searches.
As long as we are on the topic of medicine, what would we do without government scientists to guide and protect us ?
In Maoist China, village political officers exercised strict control over romantic relationships.
‘Dangerous by Design 2021 was made possible by the support of … the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’ you say.
In other words, it has been taken over by ideologues who have (as leftists always do) squeezed out all the honest scientists.
Remember Robert Conquest’s Second Law of Politics: “Any organization not explicitly and constitutionally right-wing will sooner or later become left-wing.”
The corollary easily follows: Do not allow leftists in positions of power.
The 1980s is pretty much a writeoff. I’m finding a lot of 1970’s media holds up quite well – The Rockford Files, Magnum P.I., Beretta, Black Sheep Squadron.
I find things start going south in the mid-70’s, though there are still lots of good movies to work through. But things really start to go down hill rapidly as you approach the end of the 90’s, which is about where I totally give up. Many older movies I used to enjoy until just a few years ago I am now finding hard to watch because the underlying Narrative is just that much harder to ignore. And now TCM’s bumper and trailer discussions that used to be interesting and informative are infused with wokeness.
But back to PitH, like I said it’s a well made movie in general, but it won an Oscar for screenplay/writing, which is about the lamest aspect of the film.
But back to PitH, like I said it’s a well made movie in general, but it won an Oscar for screenplay/writing, which is about the lamest aspect of the film.
So, it actually won for having the right opinions?
In other words, it has been taken over by ideologues…
I suspect it never needed to be taken over considering it appears most of the staff & directors have pronouns and appear firmly to be of the Beltway ilk.
I think I’ll take a pass on advice from a guy who worked for a congressman who thought Guam might tip over.
I suspect it never needed to be taken over considering it appears most of the staff & directors have pronouns and appear firmly to be of the Beltway ilk.
Except that it was established in the 1940’s to accomplish a real purpose, the eradication of malaria. I do not know for certain but am willing to believe that it remained a mostly non-political agency until the 1960’s when institutional rot in our society accelerated.
I think you two are referring to different ‘its’.
So, it actually won for having the right opinions?
While I don’t doubt that was part of it, the story could have been a bit more coherent and still had the Narrative slant. It’s not awful, but for something so well praised it was kinda awkward. Not excusing the slant, mind you.
Except that it was established in the 1940’s to accomplish a real purpose…
Sorry – I thought you were talking about the “Dangerous by Design” crew, not the CDC, about them you are correct.
Unfortunately the fields of public health and preventive medicine going all the way back to John Snow became too successful at eliminating or minimizing real disease that the real doctors and scientists working on real problems are relegated to the back burners in favor of the bureaucrats and agenda slinging “C average” Useless Studies college students who managed to get an MPH.
Farnsworth: agreed.
Prof has article canceled cuz WrongThought. Long read but worth it.
Anyone familiar with a certain Cass B. Sunstein and his book It Can Happen Here? Picked it up a the library yesterday. The leftist projection in the opening introduction/forward was stunning.
Google Books to the rescue! (The mere Table of Contents is almost as bad.)
https://books.google.com/books?id=z30mDwAAQBAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&lpg=PP1&dq=Cass%20R.%20Sunstein%20and%20his%20book%20It%20Can't%20Happen%20Here%3F&pg=PT5#v=onepage&q=Cass%20R.%20Sunstein%20and%20his%20book%20It%20Can't%20Happen%20Here?&f=false
…yet there are aspects of Academia which seem disproportionately focused on keeping racialization alive.
As noted racist Booker T. Washington said,
I have no doubts that those he references would, even though Washington was actually born into slavery, lambaste him for yte supremacist thinking or some such nonsense.
@NateWick & pst314,
Now take that hysterical presented-as-fact-ha-ha-just-kidding story and compare it to what the Narrative is from the January 6 events. Far less dramatic situation with a far more overreaching reaction by the government where restrictions on freedom of speech are far worse than imagined by Sustein’s hypothetical Trump. Replace the name Trump with Biden and a few other words in some of those sentences and it rings more true to what we have actually seen today…example:
OK, not perfect but far more in line with what really has happened verses Sustein’s fevered imagination in regard to Trump. Again, far greater reaction for far less of a threat/event, IMNSHO. Again, lefties project.
Yes…I pooched some spelling…versus vs. verses….Sustein vs. Sunstein. God knows what else. Shoot me. Please…