Do You See Clown-Self?
This just in. Clown-self pronouns:
In this situation, I would make sure that I exclusively use clown pronouns to talk about Cypress, so Cypress knows that I see clownself for who clown is.
Please update your files and lifestyles accordingly.
If you would like Maybe Burke, above, to provide “personal growth trainings” – say, regarding how you may speak when transgender people both are and aren’t present – by all means, knock yourself out.
Apparently, we non-transgender people, almost the entire human race, are supposed to embrace the prefix cis and use it continually, habitually, in order to suggest that being transgender is in no way atypical, niche, or anomalous. And to erase distinctions between, say, actual women and trans women, i.e., men with mental health problems. And this is said by someone bedevilled by urges to control what others may say, even in private, and even to control what they may think. Which itself is rather noteworthy. One might say anomalous.*
Also, open thread. Share ye links and bicker. *Added via the comments.
Is this the singularity?
Is this the singularity?
Heh. It’s entirely possible that the question asked in the video is trolling, some mischievous bait; but the answer appears unironic, if somewhat unhinged, and is difficult to distinguish from the person’s other replies, and general mouthings.
Other great chunks of wisdom include,
And,
Reality is a term that crops up quite often.
“personal growth trainings” …just a thought but perhaps these people are really badass drug lords and crime kingpins creating these personas to offer such “services” as a money laundering scheme? That’s a universe I would prefer to live in anyway.
I see we’re wearing the same shirt. Well, this is embarrassing.
[A]nd gives me an opportunity to tell you where I stand on them.
But . . . no one cares.
🤡
I see mad people.
‘The reality is, there’s no ethical consumption under capitalism.’
Good news! The reality is, there is no consumption under socialism, either ethical or unethical.
say, regarding how you may speak when transgender people both are and aren’t present
No, thanks.
No, thanks.
Indeed. But apparently, we non-transgender people, almost the entire human race, are supposed to embrace the prefix cis and use it continually, habitually, in order to suggest that being transgender is in no way atypical, niche, or anomalous. And to erase distinctions between, say, actual women and trans women, i.e., men with mental health problems.
And this is said by someone bedevilled by urges to control what others may say, even in private, and even to control what they may think. Which itself is rather noteworthy. One might say anomalous.
I have heard that TikTok, which is Chinese-owned, promotes material likely to be corrosive to Western cultures.
“personal growth trainings”
Personal Growth Trainings for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Wackadoodle.
The sheer arrogance of small but highly-dangerous and self-regarding people needs to be seen to be believed.
The trouble is that we are seeing it more and more. And when we comment rationally about it in places like “the World Of Mr Sugar-Mountain”, we get shoved into one of his prisons.
I liked tha comment by somebody above, who remarked quite accurately that “There is no consumption under socialism, whether ethical or unethical.” Hats off to you, whoever you are!
Today’s words are “performative” and “psychotic”.
I see we’re wearing the same shirt. Well, this is embarrassing.
Yes, it’s an ugly shirt. Looks good on you though!
I’m vacationing so God only knows what will pop up. Though my “shirt” has been changing for the last few months now. Oddly.
The pronouns are easy!
I have heard that TikTok, which is Chinese-owned, promotes material likely to be corrosive to Western cultures.
There is a reason President Trump banned it for the military.
Of course that doesn’t explain why nitwits in basic are allowed to have phones, but my cynical money is this whole lot being on sick call complaining of knee pain on the morning of the road march.
Meanwhile, who knew plants have eggs?
I see we’re wearing the same shirt
Isn’t it a bit crowded in there?
Notice in its peroration the clown pronoun person slips up at the end “…MY voice”
Re open thread, a travel tip…if you find yourself in the Ft. Lauderdale area on a Sunday and are thinking about dropping a couple of C-notes on brunch, I highly recommend Blue Moon Fish Company. All you can eat oysters, shrimp, prime rib roast beef, lamb (and I generally don’t like lamb unless done right…this was best ever…better than Mom’s I dare say), sushi, unlimited mimosas and/or bloody mary’s (and be careful on the mimosas as they keep filling your glass unless you insist you’re done), cornbread, desserts, crabcakes, lobster rolls, crab legs, salmon, etc. etc. etc. Coffee is extra, though. Generally all-you-can-eat is mediocre food but this was all quality stuff. Served by very friendly staff, on the water where you can watch the yachts wait for the bridge to open. And money well spent as we still haven’t been hungry since yesterday.
Protip: the “cis-” is silent.
…my cynical money is this whole lot being on sick call complaining of knee pain on the morning of the road march.
Even twenty-odd years ago a buddy of mine learned very quickly that the rules female enlistees had to follow were not the same as those the males had to live up to.
The company that sent the anti-republican email/tweet presumes facts not in evidence. Apparently treating minorities like regular people and trying to give everyone opportunities is racist, but treating them like children who can’t find a polling place or get ID to vote is not racist. Got it.
Tik-tok is so clearly gathering tons of info for China. As is zoom, which no gov office should use, but they do.
Pronouns: the idiots end up talking about themselves in the third person. What makes them think we want to talk about them at all? Oh, and since pronouns are invisible to an observer and can change at any time and are non-standard (there are lots of them), they are demanding the impossible.
“no ethical consumption under capitalism”. huh. If you open a lemonade stand with $20 worth of lemonade, that is capitalism. In East Germany, the gov decided that one type of car was good enough and you could only buy a Trabant: no seatbelts, AC, power windows, heat, ABS, 4WD nothing. Not legal to buy anything else. What they imagine socialism is vs what it really is…I’m just speechless. As for “exploitation”–yes, companies do exploit sometimes, but workers exploit the company too. Do they imagine that under socialism jobs are just pleasant and easy? ha!
…you could only buy a Trabant: no seatbelts…
TBF, the average Josef could also get a Wartburg, and the Trabis had seatbelts, and if you were high enough in the party, a Lada or Moskovitch from Russia.
Of course that doesn’t explain why nitwits in basic are allowed to have phones
My grandson is currently at the Naval Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes. His phone was taken away to be stored until after grad from boot. Communication with outside word is via snail mail (though he was allowed to call his mom at Christmas).
Today’s words are “performative” and “psychotic”.
Penzey’s Spices was founded in Milwaukee too. I’m sure our hero wanted to keep his family business in a vibrant urban area, but there he is in 90% white Wauwatosa, demeaning the whites who moved for the ignoble reason of not wanting their children to be beaten up in school.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wauwatosa%2C_Wisconsin
What a beautiful sentence. Rodgers and Hammerstein could make a song out of those sounds and images. We know we belong to the land, and the land we belong to is grand.
That goes back 40 years now, as it so happens.
How to make spellchecker more annoying. And when will it stop being something you have to opt into and becomes the default?
… and becomes the default
Not perhaps the smoothest segue, but I wondered why the IMDB reviews of woke garbage movies I’d like to avoid had suddenly become inexplicably enthusiastic. Then I noticed that they have changed the default sort order from “Helpfulness” (which does what it says on the tin) to “Prolific Viewer” (which means “shill”).
Or is it just me?
They keep using that word. I do not think it means what they think it means.
“In reality” translation: “my personal preference”
Is this the singularity?
I’d say we’re getting closer to Ragnarok..
and I don’t mean the tecnicolour M-She-U version.
“That’s why we let users be in control of their final output.”
For now…
How to make spellchecker more annoying.
MS Word became unuseable when they came out with that “ribbon” POS (that takes up a third of a page) to replace the toolbar.
Screw MS – Libre Office, or Apache Open Office. Nigh seamless transition from MS, free, and take up a fraction of disc space.
MS Word became unuseable when they came out with that “ribbon” POS (that takes up a third of a page) to replace the toolbar.
Should we attribute this to the “young punk engineers who want to redesign everything” disease? It has been joked that if the auto industry were like the IT industry, then auto controls would be radically changed ever 5 years, with steering wheels being replaced by yokes and then joysticks and then trackballs. The positions of pedals would be switched around “just because”. And so on.
“That’s why we let users be in control of their final output.”
For now…
Waiting for autocorrect to be “enhanced”…
Should we attribute this to the “young punk engineers who want to redesign everything” disease?
Pretty much, with a side of “designed by someone who never uses it”, just as EHRs are designed by nimrods who never actually touched a patient.
It has been joked that if the auto industry were like the IT industry…
That should read “It had been joked…”, no one can explain to me why going to a gigantic touch screen (that will crap out in five years to be replaced for much spondulix) and going through different menus to change the heater/AC fan speed is better than turning a knob one can reach without looking.
then auto controls would be radically changed ever 5 years, with steering wheels being replaced by yokes and then joysticks and then trackballs.
Ford, 1965
turning a knob one can reach without looking.
This x 1000.
Saab…Mercedes experimented with joysticks also.
Ford, 1965
Concept car, right?
Should we attribute this to the “young punk engineers who want to redesign everything” disease?
No. Engineers don’t design the UX, and they don’t decide the UX priorities.
What happened is Microsoft won the application suite wars. While they were trying to win, they put a lot of effort into understanding what people didn’t like about WordPerfect, 1-2-3, et al. and addressing that. Once they won the war, they were in the position of having to release a new product every so often, and so UX design shifted from “what makes it easier to use the product” to “what looks exciting in a 5 minute demo”.
As for the ribbon, Microsoft’s biggest problem is releasing products that are too advanced for the actual market. Bob, the Windows 8 shell, the Office ribbon all were designed for hardware that wasn’t common enough yet.
no one can explain to me why going to a gigantic touch screen (that will crap out in five years to be replaced for much spondulix)
You just did. Now do factory-original audio systems that have the security module embedded in them.
Saab…Mercedes experimented with joysticks also.
Again, experimental and concept car models, right?
You just did.
Yup.
Now do factory-original audio systems that have the security module embedded in them.
What, you mean so you cannot replace the audio system with one you prefer?
Again, experimental and concept car models, right?
Yep, and bad concepts at that…
Yep, and bad concepts at that…
Well, it got them attention at car shows…
Well, it got them attention at car shows…
True, but so did this, not that you would want to drive it daily…
Instead of looking for the rear-window defroster button, I hit the switch on the steering wheel that tells the car to start listening to me and said “rear defroster on” and it was so. That was when driving a 2009 Honda Accord (which I still have) in Texas, where we don’t need defrosters that often. It’s got a 5-speed manual transmission, so I’m selective in my tech upgrades. It has a display but not a touchscreen.
My wife’s 2008 Lexus (which we still have) does have a touchscreen, but it’s too cumbersome to use. The voice interface is insane. You cannot guess the voice commands by using the menus a couple of times. The touchscreen still works, so there’s that.
Faffing about with the touchscreen built in to one’s car while driving – perfectly fine.
Faffing about with the touchscreen of one’s mobile phone while driving – better not get caught by the police.
I’m glad my old truck hasn’t got there yet, touchscreen-wise – just a display, but not for things I would be doing while driving.