Friday Ephemera
Scenes. (h/t, Darleen) || Not without its uses. || When your ‘they-ness’ isn’t noticed. || Amblin’ by. || He does, er, this better than you do. || Assorted bus tickets. (h/t, Things) || Bread bugs. || Restoration of note. (h/t, Elephants Gerald) || Residential Los Angeles, 1940s. || Ring for service. || For sequencing. || Samantha has conditions. || Snowflake generator. || Little helper. || He loves his 28 head-mates. || Mixed messages. || “Your mind should automatically say father.” || “Whiteness is the overarching disease.” || The joys of public transport, part 4,862. || An archive of paper bags, and a plastic bag museum. (h/t, Things) || How far could you throw a ball on the Moon? || And finally, does yours do this?
Oh, and for those that care about such things, I now have a Gettr account.
This is what “defund police” yields
And that’s the point. All of the left’s actions do not make sense if you assume their motivations are what they say they are.
They make perfect sense once you realize their goal is to destabilize the target country’s social and cultural cohesion to the point that it cannot resist a violent revolution/invasion. That is the playbook; it has always been the playbook. We were warned about this in the 1980’s by Bezmenov.
Dwayne Hickman, aka Dobie Gillis, has died.
What I found unusual about The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis was the frankness with which Dobie, the emulatable audience-sympathetic character, was depicted as a square, with a straighforward conventional viewpoint, and not seeking edginess or intellectual provocation. Dobie was open minded enough towards his intellectual friend Zelda and his beatnik friend Maynard to maybe accompany them to a folk club or something, but he saw it as a novel night out, and not as requiring a cultural or political commitment from him. Interesting in terms of this blog’s theme of extremist ideas being promoted as suitable for ordinary people.
Recommended watching, at least the first season, where the triangle of Dobie, Zelda, and Tuesday Weld is set up. It declines in the following seasons, with the beatnik Maynard being used as an infinite source of shark-jumping implausibilities.
What I found unusual about The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis was the frankness with which Dobie, the emulatable audience-sympathetic character, was depicted as a square, with a straighforward conventional viewpoint, and not seeking edginess or intellectual provocation.
In contrast, the beatnik character, Maynard G. Krebs, was not portrayed so sympathetically: he was a lazy goof-off with goofy ideas.
At least that is how I remember the show. Is my memory accurate? It was a long time ago and I was awfully young at the time and
When I was young and in the south, there were older black men (which means they grew up in the 40s) who were beaten down and hopeless from lack of opportunity. However, that was long long ago. 50 yrs ago. Young black men today mostly suffer from not having a father and from a gangsta culture that says “acting white” is to be scorned and violence embraced. Culture is not genetic. It can change.
The erasure of women continues apace.
He was subsequently given a thirty-year prison sentence.
On terrorism charges related to a bombing that never occurred. It was an invention of the communists for the purposes of generating criminal (rather than merely political) charges, vilifying those who opposed who opposed the revolution, and painting the revolution, now in power, as continuing to serve the people as the “resistance” against nefarious forces.
Looking further down that entry, I see the Cuban regime’s propagandists still have a free hand as editors at Wikipedia. Valladares’s time in wheelchair was due to the toll being in the care of communists had taken on his body, not a spinal injury. It is no secret that he was able to recover.
However, that was long long ago. 50 yrs ago.
Over 500 years after the liberation of Spain from Muslim conquerors, there are still angry Muslims who obsess over this and call for jihad to resubjugate the infidels. I wouldn’t be surprised if, 100 years from now, there were still black racists using historical slavery and discrimination as an excuse for violence and theft.
Couple proudly announces they will not reproduce. Fine with me.
Call me proudly toxic.
Proudly toxic: anything that makes the inadequate feel inadequate is to be banned. This one is pretty out there though. Will obesity become mandatory so no obese person feels bad?
Call me proudly toxic
And “sentient jessica” has obviously never been to Newcastle.
Accurate? “The social problems of low IQ:
“I did IQ research as a grad student, and it involved a lot of this stuff. Did you know that most people (9%%+) with less than 90 IQ can’t understand conditional hypotheticals?
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We did research on convicts in San Quentin. They’re absolute fucking retards, at least 50% illiterate.
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Other interesting phenomenon around IQ involves recursion.
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Time is practically impossible to understand for sub 80’s. They exist only in the present, can barely reflect on the past and can’t plan for the future at all.
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It’s the main reason why so many people with sub-90 IQ are sociopathic or psychopathic. They don’t have the mental computing power to model other people’s thoughts and feelings. I’ve seen it over and over with convicts… It comes across as psychopathic, but these people literally don’t have the brainpower to build even a crude model of someone else’s mind, let alone populate it with events that are in the past.”
people with less than 90 IQ can’t understand conditional hypotheticals
I was going to look up conditional hypotheticals but then remembered that I can’t read.
Did you know that most people (9%%+) with less than 90 IQ can’t understand conditional hypotheticals?
I don’t see what you’re getting at…
Call me proudly toxic.
Sweater/Jacket: Something you wear when you’re mother/wife is cold.
Accurate?
If you follow the link, you will see that the Tweet has screen caps but no link to the original source. So I have no idea where it came from. Annoyingly common to omit links.
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Proving my previous post.
Time is practically impossible to understand for sub-80s. They exist only in the present, can barely reflect on the past and can’t plan for the future at all
Last year reading Roberto Callasso’s The Unnameable Present, I was reminded that this is what Santayana was referring to in his famous “Those who cannot remember history” — not the lessons of schoolbook history, but the continuity of consciousness which distinguishes and enables human life in full. This continuity is attenuated or absent in the awareness of imbeciles or savages (not using these terms loosely or as slurs), and they suffer, literally, being passive to all circumstance.
Callasso elucidates the perilous “digitization” of our habits of mind: our possible surrender of continuity under a swarm of “information” — a surrender which has long been a persistent temptation, as he shows, and now takes the form of letting ourselves be guided, moment to moment, by a stream of discontinuous bits.
I was going to look up conditional hypotheticals but then remembered that I can’t read.
Yeah, but you shur rite real good.
Must be why ah feelz write at home here.
Did you know that most people (95%+) with less than 90 IQ can’t understand conditional hypotheticals
I’ve met many, many Smart People who can’t understand that (A => B) <> (B => A), the Converse Fallacy. If you give them a concrete example they see it in the example – I was once talking to two lawyers and had to use the example “if the police go into a housing tenement and arrest ten people for drug dealing and they’re all black, does that mean all the black people in the tenement are drug dealers?” – but they can’t generalize it.
I was once talking to two lawyers…
I was sad because I only had one shoe. Then I met a man who had no shoes. My former swimming coach became a lawyer. I remembered him as an exceptionally strategic thinker. In fact I learned a lot from him. But some of his posts/reasonings on FB, especially in regard to economics, stun me in their logical fallacies or inability to understand some things outside of a zero-sum framework.
Disclosures: My MIL is Japanese and is still here because an Allied pilot didn’t kill everyone working in a field near the end of the war. My deceased FIL was from central China and was able to escape after the Communists took over. (He met MIL after he was drafted for the Korean War but was stationed in Japan versus Korea.) One of my uncles was a sailor on a destroyer near Iwo Jima and saw a lot of shit.
I’m quite well aware of the atrocities the Japanese had done in those days; in some ways they were much worse than the Germans at the time. It’s a bit of a toss up between the 3rd Reich and the Japanese Empire of the 1940s to see which was worse. (The Japanese governor of Taiwan was somewhat enlightened; my understanding is that the Taiwanese don’t view the Japanese with the same level of distrust as almost any other country near them do.)
If you are an island nation near a large continent, you have to BE chauvinist and xenophobic to maintain your culture’s identity. England used to be that way and now it isn’t (or so it seems from across the pond, although I’ll be needing to replace most of my country’s glass house after throwing that stone).
I went to school in the very county where the KKK originated. I’m soon-to-be 63 years of age; my very first year of school was in a fully integrated classroom. White kids were pushed off the front rows of the bus by our less white students. That was in the early to mid 1960s. (Now, if you are on a school bus and are up to no good, you might not want to sit near the driver. So, there’s that view as well.)
I do remember Yankees in Boston complaining about integration, but that was years after I had lived through it. “What goes around, comes around.”
There’s a model in your head, but I don’t believe that it tracks history very well. American blacks are humans beings with a mix of heaven and hell that we all have.
My dad used to think that an IQ of the low 90s was optimal.
Over 90 IQ meant that you could see multiple ways to solve a given problem. Less than 90 IQ meant that you might not be able to see any way a given problem. But, if your IQ is in the “sweet spot (so to speak)” then you would see only one solution to that given problem and would not be distracted by chasing down the alternatives.
I’ll just point out that we used to be able to build rather large and complicated things in much less time that we currently appear to be able to do.
I’ll just point out that we used to be able to build rather large and complicated things in much less time than we currently appear to be able to do.
I’m pretty sure that’s a matter of willpower, not ability. Designers, engineers and construction workers can accomplish a lot when the lawyers and managers get out of the way. For instance, the Interstate 35 bridge replacement in Minneapolis was opened just 12 months after the contract was awarded, and four of those months were winter.
The Mayor and the usual band of lunatics made lots of noise about how the bridge needed to include infrastructure for mass transit, to which the State said “Yah, shure, we’ll build that into the design in case people decide they want to ride a toy train someday. You betcha.” And then just plowed right in with any train-related stuff as an afterthought.
Your observation holds true because most projects aren’t critical enough for the decision makers to treat the community organizers like the children they are. So projects get bogged down in endless meetings and lawsuits and community listening sessions and design revisions and environmental impact studies and diversity directives and all the other nonsense that Angry Studies majors depend on for their livelihoods.
But very little of that is due to the guys with the slide rules and the hammers. Once they get the green light, stuff gets built surprisingly quick.
If you are an island nation near a large continent, you have to BE chauvinist and xenophobic to maintain your culture’s identity.
I highly recommend — if you have a strong stomach for descriptions of atrocities — Hardcore History’s episode on the Japanese. The first episode in the series “Supernova in the East,” describes a country under complete military rule much like North Korea today, in which the entire population is cut off from any thought but the Emperor’s. It helped me understand the atrocities visited upon China in the 1930s, and the mindset that required two nukes to just begin to dislodge.
But very little of that is due to the guys with the slide rules and the hammers. Once they get the green light, stuff gets built surprisingly quick.
In WTP’s defense, though, he is 100% correct about “that nonsense will never infect STEM”. It was infecting STEM back when I was an engineering undergraduate in 1991 and it’s only gotten worse. The FIU-Sweetwater bridge collapse shows a lot of hallmarks of DIE interference.