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.
Instead of looking for the rear-window defroster button…
Bad placement – the most brilliant design was the E30 BMWs which even had the center of the dash angled towards the driver for better ergonomics and everything placed withing easy reach without searching. Don’t get me started on buttons on the steering wheel.
OTOH, for a few semesters I was gainfully employed as a valet parker and saw no end of stupid stuff, though my favorite was some French mess that had the gear shift coming straight out of the middle of the dash. Being French, it did not have the shift pattern on the knob, some some guesswork was involved.
The voice interface is insane.
The Sync crap (Microsoft, go figure) in a Ford F-150 is equally rubbish, trying to get it just to play the USB stick let alone pick an album or artist is maddening.
my favorite was some French mess that had the gear shift coming straight out of the middle of the dash
I seem to recall the Corvair having a dash mounted gear shift. It was an automatic though. I think it was call powerglide.
@Steve E
I *think* the PRNDL stick on the Corvair was a simple up/down thing, basically the same as a column shift.
The French dash mounted gearchange I remember tried to convince you it was a floor mount manual shift, with in and out, side to side, etc. Um, that sounded a bit kinky, remember I’m talking about shifting gears.
Um, that sounded a bit kinky
Funny, I started hearing this song in my head.
I *think* the PRNDL stick on the Corvair was a simple up/down thing
I’ve driven many a three on the tree and there were a few cars where the ignition was in the centre console between the front seats–Saab.
trying to get it just to play the USB stick let alone pick an album or artist is maddening
That’s the Martian Headsets problem. The union of all possible USB filesystem formats, digital audio formats, and digital audio metadata formats is very, very large, and the SoCs in most automotive electronics are very, very limited.
That’s the Martian Headsets problem.
More like exceptionally crappy voice recognition and command structure.
“Play album Allman brothers”
“Did you mean ham and cheese on rye?”
“Allman Brothers”
“Do you want to send health report now?”
Rinse and repeat.
More like exceptionally crappy voice recognition
Oh, that’s a different problem and one not easily solved without a lot of computing power. When you talk to Google, Alexa or Siri it’s recording your voice, uploading it to a very large neural network in the cloud that figures out what you’re saying and returns the result to your device. If the only thing doing the processing is the SoCs in your car I’d be surprised voice rec works at all.
I’ve no idea what the current state of the art is in this field but eventually someone will figure out how to put a multi-node neural network into an ASIC or SoC and then things will get interesting. Google probably already knows how to do it but there’s no benefit to them not harvesting your information.
They keep using that word. I do not think it means what they think it means.
That.
not that you would want to drive it daily…
Drive it daily??
I’d be afraid to even stand near it when the owner started it up.
No, thanks.
Being scolded by the self-absorbed ain’t everyone’s cup of tea.
If someone is clearly preoccupied by their own anomalousness, such that their every TikTok video is a restatement of their own imagined non-conformist fabulousness, and if, simultaneously, they demand that we view them as in no way anomalous, while also insisting that we accommodate their fantasy about themselves, even in private… this is a big ask.
If their departure from the norm is unworthy of attention, something to be ignored, or pretended away, then why has this person seemingly built their entire life around it? Why, then, is it enacted, performatively, at every opportunity? It seems to me that demands for being seen as ordinary don’t sit terribly well with the grating narcissism on display and a never-ending theatre of eccentricity. Especially when that theatre of eccentricity has to be imposed on everyone else, with mandatory affectations and the policing of thought.
“All that we’re asking…” says he.
Honda had this too.
I’ve driven many a three on the tree …
The Trabant four on the tree, completely bassackwards, not including the push-pull.
Mitsubishi has a “nudge” shifter (in production vehicles). You push it in the desired direction and it springs back to centre. Takes a little getting used to, but works quite well. (Park is a button on the base, just forward of the stick)
If someone is clearly preoccupied by their own anomalousness…
And if they demonstrate their “specialness”and “intelligence” by inventing an arcane vocabulary, and demand that we use it, and refuse to use or even understand our conventional English, we may tell them to sod off.
White supremacist? “someone started shooting during a MLK Celebration“.
“…In East Germany, the gov decided that one type of car was good enough and you could only buy a Trabant….”
Bernie Sanders, Socialist of Many Mansions, declared a few years ago that “we” didn’t need 50 different types of toothpaste. He said it was wasteful and confusing.
And he calls himself a progressive!
I seem to recall the Corvair having a dash mounted gear shift. It was an automatic though. I think it was call powerglide.
The Pontiac Tempest in its original 1960s edition had a dash mounted gear selection lever. The Tempest was noteworthy for its front-mounted engine and rear transmission.
My mother owned a 1962 Tempest LeMans convertible for a time.
You can buy that car today online for about $6000 – 2.5x times its original price.
@F M Muldoon
not that you would want to drive it daily…
Good Lord, is that *two* 6-71 blowers???
while also insisting that we accommodate their fantasy about themselves, even in private… this is a big ask.
I’ll pass, thank you.
I’ll pass, thank you.
Well, to be expected to not only change how you refer to the person in question, even in private, out of earshot, but also change how you refer to yourself, at all times, as if you must always be described in relation to them, as if they were so fascinating, so cosmically important, is a bit much. It suggests a level of self-preoccupation that simply isn’t healthy.
Somewhat related:
The word positioned is practically creaking under the strain.
“cisgender is positioned as normative”–that is an awful pretentious use of words. No one “positions” heterosexuality as “normative”–it IS normal. Without it we would cease to reproduce and go extinct.
It is telling that the trans clowns David keeps finding online insist that they are “normal” while trying to be as outlandish and strange looking as possible (green hair, face rings). They don’t try to look like a normal man or woman and fit in (although the only professional trans person I have met did and he looked like a not very attractive 50 yr old woman). They intend to shock and disturb but we should all pretend not to be disturbed or shocked. Self-contradiction is a hallmark of the Left.
maybe if he didn’t have a dick-nose…
Good Lord, is that *two* 6-71 blowers???
Is that mustard velour…? A bold choice.
Is that mustard velour…?
Yes, and like the beehive hairdo, it is always tasteful.
Is that mustard velour…?
It looked more chartreuse in the first pic.
Was it here I saw linked an entire house done up in these eye-watering shades of green/yellow with shag carpeting and such? This vehicle would fit right in.
Good Lord, is that *two* 6-71 blowers???
I like that they stuck with the bias belted tires. A lot of guys would have gone to radials.
The tub represents the amount of gas needed for a spin around the block.
Was it here I saw linked an entire house done up in these eye-watering shades of green/yellow with shag carpeting and such?
Might have been a link to Best of Zillow.
Speed control camera.
Giving the neighbors the gift of fine art.
I like that they stuck with the bias belted tires.
Could be Cokers, they make radials with period correct bias look and nigh anything else period correct – like XAS for your showroom resto BMW 2002.
And if they demonstrate their “specialness”and “intelligence” by inventing an arcane vocabulary, and demand that we use it, and refuse to use or even understand our conventional English, we may tell them to sod off.
Have you noticed how much of this bollocks is arts majors adopting, cargo cult style, the behaviour they observe in successful STEM professionals?
I read a lengthy Medium screed by a female JavaScript[1] developer about how she didn’t get hired because of patriarchy, while also admitting that when asked about SOLID she thought the ‘O’ stood for ‘Observability'[2].
The level of both Dunning-Kruger and as David puts it, chippy mediocrity is quite stunning.
[1] That’s the first clue she’s not a real developer
[2] And that’s the second
Damn, even the British seagulls are drunken yobs.
The level of both Dunning-Kruger and as David puts it, chippy mediocrity is quite stunning.
Related: Victor Davis Hanson discussed the decline of academia in a recent podcast–this one, I think. These were retrospective remarks on observations he and colleagues made 20 year ago in “Who Killed Homer” and “Bonfire of the Humanities” (both still in print). For instance, recently graduated ivy league Classics scholars no longer had a deep fluency in Greek and Latin, and did not have a deep and wide familiarity with the history and literature of Greece and Rome. Instead, they mostly only knew (and were only interested in) some narrow, fashionably political topic such as nontraditional gender roles in the poetry of blahblahblah.
Aack! Failed to remove last line of text I was editing. Can you delete that, David? Or will my shame remain forever on display?
Can you delete that, David? Or will my shame remain forever on display?
[ Uses mighty shame-sparing powers.]
[ Tears of gratitude run down cheeks. ]
I should have written that the above ivy league Classics graduates were people that Victor Davis Hanson and colleagues were interviewing for teaching positions. So, fresh out of grad school from prestigious institutions but poorly educated and useless to the students they would be teaching.
Or will my shame remain forever on display?
At least you didn’t leave your open italics html dangling…
like XAS for your showroom resto BMW 2002.
The XAS was always a radial tire. We couldn’t let any new guys install them at the tire shop because they would invariably get the direction wrong on at least one of the tires and risk pinching the tube when they had to reinstall. We actually sold quite a few XAS tires and even the odd set of XWXs.
The guy who owned the shop was one of the first Michelin dealers in Canada. I had some great Bib swag back in the day. Unfortunately it’s all gone now.
At least you didn’t leave your open italics html dangling…
[ From kitchen, muttering, a clattering of pans. ]
“…like XAS for your showroom resto BMW 2002.”
So I had to check, and sure enough, Dunlop is still making K81s. I remember [redacted].
The XAS was always a radial tire.
Yeah, I know, was just noting the range of period tires they make including tyres for old MGs and the like. I was annoyed when the XAS were discontinued, though.
Happy woman.
Yeah, I know,
Sorry, I misread that.
Yeah, the XAS was an awesome tire. Because we sold Michelin and actually stocked the stuff that fit the imports, we did a lot of business with the import dealers. One day the British Leyland dealer had two MGBs in to swap out the Dunlop tires, one was getting ZX tires and the other was getting XAS. The cars were otherwise equally equipped. We took them out for an “independent” test drive. There was a nearby road that twisted and turned and rose and fell that we affectionately nicknamed Nurburgring. The XAS-equipped car hands down out-handled the ZX-equipped car. Both significantly outperformed the Dunlops. We actually sold a ton of 10 inch XAS for Minis.
Happy woman.
A bananananab!
Social Justice Warriors discover natural selection.
Wow, so there’s an evolutionary reason for animals to find and defend productive territories. Who would have imagined that, without the aid of SJW thinking?
So — you’re saying that forgotten stashes of food can be found by unrelated other animals (possibly not even of the same species)? Imagine that!
“All that we’re asking…” says he.
I decide, not you, what my place is in your life. I can other myself as disruptively as I choose but you don’t get to other me. I can behave as ridiculously as I like but you don’t get to ridicule me. I will be monitoring you not only for formal compliance but for consent – sincere, enthusiastic, and ongoing consent, the absence of which puts you at fault.
The level of both Dunning-Kruger and as David puts it, chippy mediocrity is quite stunning.
The title goes with the theme: “If You Passed On Me, Your Interview Process Is Garbage”.
Paul Graham’s essay on Two Kinds of Judgement has been a consolation to many people who have to put up with stupid job interviews. His point is that it’s not about you, it’s not like a betrayal from a parent or a teacher who has failed to see your potential. The company just has its own problems and its own priorities for taking people on board. Of course, an organization filtering newcomers based on its own interests is now problematic, as is telling self-centered malcontents that the world doesn’t revolve around them.
Sorry, I misread that.
No worries, I could have been clearer. I first had the Dunlop Sport Aquajets which were flat amazing in the rain and light snow, but every one of them got a bubble in the sidewall sooner or later which is why I switched to the XAS which I could barely afford at the time. Be interesting to see how Coker’s Dunlops and XAS compare to the originals if they came in a size I could use.