Friday Ephemera

I’ve seen a few of those Deep Nostalgia animations and there’s something particularly revolting about them.

“Pushing boat…” pic deleted FYI

Same phenomenon as lightning hitting a tree…
I have observed this at close range and it is something of a hoot.

Gents, start your engines.
Inventing the internet was a mistake.

“Depression checking,” a thread.
That’s a scary rabbit hole…

’ Interactive UK crime map.’
No real surprises here.

@JuliaM “No real surprises here”
Not sure I quite agree. Currently Atherstone is the crime hotspot of Warwickshire-edging out Nuneaton. That is mindbogglingly counter-intuitive.

Poorly paw – very sweet.

“This is bowling, there are rules.”
That should be a famous, oft-quoted line.

Poorly paw – very sweet.
A stray dog in pain, one presumably abandoned or mistreated by a human, nonetheless comes to humans because maybe they can help. And maybe they have food. Touching, yes.

A glimpse of your improved, progressive future
I’ve started noticing “Women-Owned” on the labeling of some products, one a formerly very dependable cleaner/descaler that now doesn’t do crap. I’ve already started to avoid buying products with Women-Owned labels, and I won’t buy products with any other kind of identity politics labeling. If I am handing over my hard-earned cash for something, the quality and price of the item/service are the only things that matter, not the color, sex, kinks, fetishes, or perceived species/gender of the person owning the business.

I won’t buy products with any other kind of identity politics labeling
A wise policy.
Also: If I am going to be subjected to Nazi propaganda I prefer to see it in the original German.

It’s the uncanny valley
What’s odd to me is that the moving images don’t bother me as much as I think they ought to. Perhaps it’s because I associate them with 8mm home movies and early motion pictures, where the subjects tended to walk around too fast and “jump” from frame to frame at odd intervals.

Harassing random children for woke cred
Random in the sense of “random assault”, that is to say whites “in the wrong place at the wrong time” who can be mobbed with impunity.

Deep nostalgia
No emotional affect there, a feeling of strings being pulled to simulate human life. Like somebody who’s dead inside pulling faces for a Twitter avatar.

Why my alma mater will never be getting another dime of my money…I like how the course is “not required” but “you have a new assignment ” with a due date. Though it is April 1. Maybe it’s an April Fool’s joke? Hmmm….I’m guessing not but…
https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16943

…a way to get back at your parents…
Acting out in order to get revenge on parents and its corollary of acting out to gain their approval is as old as time, but, like many modern takes, has become a hideous perversion. I imagine many poor broken souls of the past killed themselves trying to gain their fathers’ approval, for instance, but nevertheless achieved great things in their pursuit. Conversely children rebelling against their parents’ stodgy oppressive standards made better lives for the grandchildren in many instances.
Now? Well, how does one rebel when nearly no standards of behavior, for instance sexual modesty, are imposed in the first place? The creatures who maul themselves with metal and tattoos, cutting their purple hair leaving only hideous bangs are desperate for boundaries – any boundaries – to cross to know the edges of existence, thereby confirming it’s reality. Conversely, those seeking unending approval from the terminally progressive will similarly find no boundaries, and therefore no confirmation of what is true and real, from their pusillanimous and vapid upbringing. Their hatred for what “is” becomes white hot for the very reason they cannot ever truly find it, and their natural solipsistic nihilism and jealousy is rewarded, ensuring the cycle continues and deepens.

“Interactive UK crime map”
Just recently learned of the existence of CrimeMapping.com. Here’s San Diego, Calif.

Why my alma mater will never be getting another dime…

Students who take the training also learn about “ideological oppression,” “institutional oppression,” “interpersonal oppression,”…

I am going out on a limb and guessing that doesn’t include the oppression of being force fed leftist ideological BS (like the religion of diversity) by interpersonal haranguing of professors of the institution, and who are card carrying members of the Wokesheviks.
I know that is way out on the limb, but I am a risk taker.

one a formerly very dependable cleaner/descaler that now doesn’t do crap
Depending on where you live this may have more to do with changing environmental regulations. Five years ago I could buy cleaners that would fizz soap scum and calcium right off of my bathroom surfaces, now nothing works except vinegar and hard scrubbing.
working as a project manager for an engineering firm, raising a son
She’s already bought into the lie and doesn’t realize it.

She’s already bought into the lie and doesn’t realize it.
One assumes you mean the lie of assigning her child a gender corresponding to its biology.

Depending on where you live this may have more to do with changing environmental regulations.
Oh indeed – that was my first thought that the reformulation had to do with Green crap more than the women-owned crap. The fact that the new labeling also includes some flowery leafy enviro-friendly-type logo down by the women-owned label makes me think they know the stuff doesn’t work anymore, so they’re trying to guilt the consumer into buying by ticking virtue signal boxes – hey we’re Green! And Women-Owned! Support us! The next step is the BLM fist.

London is given a rate of 81/1,000, which also seems highly improbable – unless the Mayor’s office has been massaging the crime stats.
If so, he’s amateurish.
This is how professionals “massage” statistics: Coronavirus Stats. Click on the button “Deaths/M pop”. Scroll down and see New Zealand, currently 189. Now look at the country immediately below.
One can but laugh!

chester, In the line for New Zealand I don’t see ANY value near 189. The “current” value there for deaths/M pop is 5.
Could you clarify the country comparison you think you are making, please?

Could you clarify the country comparison you think you are making, please?
If you sort the list by “Deaths/1M pop” then New Zealand ranks 189th and the country that is 190th is China.

If you sort the list by “Deaths/1M pop”…
Mighty Gibratlar FTW, which just goes to show rates without raw numbers and vice versa are meaningless.

Fansworth, too right. My own household, for instance, ranks with the very best, at 0.00000000000 Deaths / million population.
My secret to health is for sale. Bidding starts at 1,000,000 Quatloos.

…which just goes to show rates without raw numbers and vice versa are meaningless.
Pretty much. Except we’re talking about real lives and that’s what has gotten lost in all of this.

Except we’re talking about real lives
Oh but I don’t think China is.
Does anyone — anyone — believe that China has barely had a case for a year?
But apparently we believe them when they say that they:
1) respect Hong Kong’s independence,
2) will decarbonise their economy some time soon, honest,
3) are putting Uighurs into concentration camps.
Biden’s presidency must be the PRC’s dream result.

Scenes.

Scenes.

Don Aaron, a spokesperson for the Metro Nashville Police Department said the situation began when Officer Baker stopped a black Chevrolet Camaro after learning the owner of the vehicle had six outstanding drug warrants.

Hardly a reason for a traffic stop, and to get shot because you shot him first. The rozzers clearly are out of control.
Meanwhile, over in the UK, at long last, yet another existential crisis is solved as the Wokesheviks decolonize Kew Gardens by renaming plants.

The famous botanic gardens in London will change display boards for plants such as sugar cane – previously harvested by slaves – to highlight their ‘imperial legacy’.

It will now be “C6H12O6 Plant”. They were going to go with “Tall Thin C6H12O6 Plant”, but that offended the short and fat people.

A Kew spokesman said signs for the plant will be changed after consulting Ajay Chhabra, an actor with an insight into how sugar cane was linked to slavery.

Science ! I, for one, would be curious to see what special insight an Indian actor has about the Caribbean slave trade.

It comes after Kew this week released a podcast about botany’s ‘hidden legacy of inequality’.

Damn, now I have to take a flamethrower to all my landscaping, racist bastards as those plants are, especially the azeleas – you know who had azeleas – right, plantation houses.

you know who had azeleas
I was going to guess Hitler. Do we know if he had any vegetation so it can be cancelled / renamed as well?

Do we know if he had any vegetation so it can be cancelled…
Eidelweiss – there was a Nazi fighter squadron and an SS troop that used it as a symbol, and the name itself “Nobel White” just screams racism and yte supremacy.

botany’s ‘hidden legacy of inequality’.
Don’t forget all the underqualified POC students who flunked Botany 101 at elite universities.

Do we know if he had any vegetation so it can be cancelled…
…and don’t get me started on that whole Schwarzwald thing. Really ? A whole forest called black, what is that supposed to mean.
There finna be trouble if they don’t change it to “Schwarze Leben zählenwald”.

it seemed almost like an improvement George Pal would’ve welcomed as superior to his already-incredible stop-motion animation
While I recall George Pal and movies like 1960’s Time Machine, my fave stop animation was done by Ray Harryhausen – who scared the dickens out of me as a child with Jason and the Argonauts and then did the same for my kids with Clash of the Titans (1981).

Shamelessly lifted from Powerline…

Funeral today for BLM martyr George Nkencho, who was shot dead when he tried to decapitate a police officer. Let us all observe a moment of silence for this gentle giant cut down in the prime of life by structural racism.

…here’s the story about the supermarket chain that’s doing this.

…Giant’s 164 stores in Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and the District of Columbia…

Mainly leftists, I think I know where this is going.

…the new shelf-label program is part of its supplier diversity efforts…

“We are members of the Wokesheviks, please loot the Winn Dixie, it even has Dixie in the name, the racists.”

@ pst324: “… on gifted schoolchildren who have psychological or emotional impairments” specifically severe speech/communication delay.
Thankyou for the information; that’s very interesting. Some autistic children present with elective mutism, but the notion of uneven rates of brain development to such a degree that speech development is extremely delayed in children of possibly great intelligence makes sense. The diagnosis of Asperger’s Syndrome* [AS] as per DSM IV required that development of communication, including speech, not be delayed or affected at a clinical level. Indeed many of us diagnosed as AS talk from very early childhood as though we swallowed the whole English dictionary – unabridged version!!! What was rarely understood was that being diagnosed as AS did not preclude being mentally retarded/intellectually impaired. Children diagnosed with Autism per se always had delays in communication as assessed. If Einstein had communication delay then he simply could not have been an ‘Aspie’ as per DSM IV criteria. Hans Asperger, an Austrian, wrote about a small group of autistic ‘little professors’ in 1940 or so in German and his research work did not come well known until Lorna Wing and later Uta Frith wrote about it in English starting in the 1980s. That led to a separate category of Autism [Asperger’s Syndrome] in DSM IV, but now AS is subsumed under Autism Spectrum Disorder.
While I and my brother were diagnosed as ‘Aspies’ under DSM IV, under current DSM V criteria we would now be diagnosed as Autistic – which makes complete sense to me having spent 40 years working with over 2000 autistics of all ages and abilities.

Hans Asperger, an Austrian, wrote about a small group of autistic ‘little professors’ in 1940 or so in German and his research work did not come well known until Lorna Wing and later Uta Frith wrote about it in English starting in the 1980s.
Similar to how I have heard that German medical and dietary research from that period was also lost thanks to the war?

Thomas Sowell has written a book about late-talking children
I don’t blame Piaget for this. He was always quite clear that individual children progressed through the stages of development at different rates, it was the sequence that was invariant.
It’s the teachers and child psychologists who ignore everything he said about the timeframes being averages insisting that if your child isn’t talking by day 23 on month 7 at 11:53 in the morning there’s something wrong.

This is what happens when you let your society be run by garbage people who fundamentally hate the society they run
“Garbage people” is a deeply dehumanizing epithet–and entirely deserved.

Heh…pst beat me by 10 minutes. Should pay more attention…

To pst314: Re “Hans Asperger, an Austrian, wrote about a small group of autistic ‘little professors’ in 1940 or so in German and his research work did not come well known until Lorna Wing and later Uta Frith wrote about it in English starting in the 1980s.”
I should have mentioned that at the same time [in the 1940s] Leo Kanner in the USA was writing about a group of mentally retarded autistic children. Of course Kanner wrote in English and was on the ‘winning side’ in WW II so his work became well known to the point that professionals, in describing the presentation of certain children, would actually describe them as ‘typical Kanner autistics’. The point now is that services exist to support families and their children and autistics in many countries and are no longer diagnosed as ‘childhood schizophrenics’ – a common diagnosis up to the 1980s.
Then there is France: “In many countries, the standard way of treating autistic children is with behavioural therapy – stimulating and rewarding them to develop the skills they need to function in society – but France still puts its faith in psychoanalysis. And an increasing number of parents are now demanding change.”
In short the French still see autism as a form of mental illness and the field of autism is ‘owned’ by psychoanalysts presumably seeking to cure autistic children:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/08/france-is-50-years-behind-the-state-scandal-of-french-autism-treatment
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/france-autism-treatment-care-support-french-healthcare-a8161416.html
Thomas Sowell’s son is lucky to live in the USA and have a father who is enlightened and thinks for himself. As Daniel R. says the rate of individual development naturally varies, but there is such a panic if little Sarah doesn’t walk at 15 months that she must need intensive occupational or physical therapy and one or both parents should be reported to children’s services as they are clearly harming their child.

The animal rescues neighborhood is one of my favorite areas of YT.
I do, in general, like dogs and have watched a handful of rescue videos. I remember one that began so horribly I hesitate to repeat the details. But if you want to experience a, shall we say, broad range of emotions, you can watch it here.
Needless to say, do watch to the end.

But if you want to experience a, shall we say, broad range of emotions, you can watch it here.
I’m not crying you’re crying.

Damn it, those invisible onion-cutting ninjas are at it again.
It does say quite a bit about the range of human beings a puppy can encounter. I’m not overly sentimental, but I did experience a slight dampening of the eyes.
[ Clears throat, looks manly. ]

“Greater love hath no woman than this, that she lay down her child’s life for her own convenience.”
–Sanger XV, 13

Extreme self-love used to be recognized as a sin
Didn’t it also cause hairy palms?