Friday Ephemera
“Oh, this isn’t so bad.” || Dinner is served. || Dude. || On human biodiversity, a series of documentaries. || Helping hands. || Her pronouns are “a little bit too complicated” to fit in her bio. || At last, tiny power tools. || That’s the spot. || There may have been an explosion. || What’s under the pavement? || The progressive retail experience, parts 411, 412, and 413. || Never say never, they say. || Internet vending machines. || Nice save, sir. || Nice save 2. || Insufferable twat detected. || I think there’s something in the dark. || Creature comfort. || They congratulate themselves. || How to make colour-changing cabbage juice. || “He gets very excited when he sees food.” || And finally, rather briskly, scenes of forbidden love.
Oh, and a reminder that I now have a Gettr account.
I now have a Gettr account.
Can you say that like John McClane?
He should hold out for more: Elon Musk offers Florida student $5,000 to stop tracking his private jet on Twitter
Her prounouns are “a little bit too complicated”…
Actually, now that I’ve watched it… Fine.
“Clown / clownself” it is, then.
On human biodiversity, a series of documentaries.
It’s a great series.
The first episode with the gender researcher Lorenzen and his crazyeyed colleague is a perfect example of a three-step playbook for deflecting questions on sex differences. Step 1, when the subject is brought up: the consensus-verifying laugh – we’re all in on the joke, aren’t we, after all only bad people think the sexes are different. Step 2, when any science is cited: oh, that’s discredited, that’s pseudoscience, that’s problematic. Step 3, if the interviewer continues his line of questioning: why are you so obsessed, why is this even interesting?
I think Eia was known in Norway as a TV comedian or panelist or something, and most TV “comedy” these days isn’t about humor but about consensus reinforcement – Jon Stewart drawing the line between the sophisticates in the studio who are in on the joke and the deplorables who are the butt of the joke. So it seems that the gender researchers thought it would be along those lines, and they were surprised when Eia started playing back interviews with real scientists.
Elon Musk offers Florida student $5,000 to stop tracking his private jet on Twitter
It’s pretty amazing what can be done by digging into these public data sources. For example Alexei Navalny’s Youtube channel tracks down politicians’ undeclared yachts and private planes by correlating their movements with the Instagram location metadata of the politicians’ indiscreet children.
Further to the above. Hypothetically:
Would I be guilty of misgendering, exactly, if I used the “clown / clownself” pronoun set for, say, Laurie Penny? Or Justin Trudeau?
Or Justin Trudeau?
More of a minstrel, I’d say.
Yes. Waits for a reply. Teenager tangles with the richest man in the world. A man who owns a rocket factory. The suspense…
Dude.
“Did you ate it?”
“Creature comfort.”
Wow, it;’s rare to see a creature I’ve never seen before, but that’s one to tick off the list!
Insufferable twat detected.
Why do they *always* sound like that?
Morning, all.
It’s a great series.
It does reveal quite a lot about some prevailing assumptions, and how certain lines of enquiry will be avoided, even if it requires an elaborate dance.
Why do they *always* sound like that?
It’s practically a caricature, albeit unwitting. Imagine being so insecure, so insubstantial as a person, that this manic regurgitation of lecture notes, all those casually begged questions and patent idiocy, is what passes for intelligence and sophistication. Remember, he’s trying to impress. Trying quite hard.
Say it ain’t so, ladies.
More joys of public transport.
Via Julia.
“Oh, this isn’t so bad.”
The full zip line of emotions. 🙂
And finally, rather briskly, scenes of forbidden love.
I had a date like that (about 20 years ago).
They call him Max
https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/1489337885484539908?s=20&t=WEkkFEiZGQ55kE3ullN4RA
They call him Max
That made me smile.
They congratulate themselves.
Someone’s hard drive needs checking.
Someone’s hard drive needs checking.
Somewhat related.
Being clown-quarter academics, there’s a pressure to be unobvious and supposedly daring, albeit in quite narrow and predictable ways. One has to find the “queerness” of this and the “whiteness” of that, while sneering at anything bourgeois or commonplace, and therefore low status. Inevitably, this custom of mannered contrivance, of competitive perversity, offers cover to actual perverts. And the kinds of people who say, repeatedly, that they can’t “quite” see why raping one-year-old children isn’t a thing one should be doing.
Our betters, you see.
Response to insufferable twat:
“Yeah, that’s all great, man, listen, can you leave a little room in my pour for cream? Oh, and gimme one of those everything bagels. What? Yeah, toasted with butter . . .”
413
The smugness of the commenters on that tweet saying that the stolen phones are useless because of the serial numbers (actually there’s another word for the pertinent number yet after having been in the business for 17 years I can’t think of wtf it is) miss the point. Someone down the line (may) get screwed but the thieves are likely going to fence those phones not keep them for themselves. Like a lot of this retail theft. Can’t smoke a cell phone, nor a pair of sneakers. This laid back attitude toward such things is lame.
More joys of public transport.
Censored already 😞
Say it ain’t so, ladies.
Oh, it ain’t just gf’s. I’ve pissed off four white women so far this week and two of them I didn’t even know existed until now. And there’s two days left to go. I used to think these sort of arguments, the wild hysteria was reserved, well mostly, for those to whom women were personally/emotionally connected. But as more and more everything is made political and political is made personal…well, the whole bloody world has gone insane. As it is beginning to dawn on some of them that they’ve been hoodwinked over this virus idiocy, it’s not going to get better anytime soon.
Censored already
Copy here, with comedy soundtrack added.
Copy here, with comedy soundtrack added.
Heh. Although I suppose it’s funnier if you can forget that these are real knife thugs in a real city.
Also: Note the Twitter avatar: Lieutenant Howard Hunter of Hill Street Blues.
Why do they *always* sound like that?
Uncanny Valley.
Although I suppose it’s funnier if you can forget that these are real knife thugs in a real city.
Yes, if it were the daily commute, it might get a little tiresome. What with the stabbing and slashing and such. I think it was Holborn who suggested that anyone caught engaging in such activity should have their eligibility for benefits rescinded, for life, along with their immediate family. A ticket to some distant stabby shithole could be provided as compensation.
[ Added: ]
If that sounds too harsh and beastly, I suppose they could be rehoused next door to Mr Kotsko here. I’m sure he wouldn’t mind.
An actress has a devastating problem.
Modern romance.
Expanding the definition of race.
“Genderfluid vegan” expands the definition of rape.
“Nice save 2.”
Oh, great. Count “refusing to play videos” as another of the many improvements Twitter has brought to non-subscribers this week.
“Say it ain’t so, ladies.”
[Twitches at mention of “1.44Mb” floppies, muttering darkly about 1.76]
(And yes, I’m aware that this is the part that spoke to me. I’ll be over in the corner, sobbing quietly into my drink…)
“Expanding the definition of race.”
Yet again reality follows satire:
“You can’t actually say that, because that’s like racist against cowards”.
Modern romance.
Anna’s toxic femininity: maternal instincts channeled into everything except bearing and raising her own children.
Genderfluid
I’m going to go out on a limb here and declare my belief that them is a parody!
Is there such a thing as a sufferable twat?
“say it ain’t so ladies”–too true, except that there can be errors in the hard drive, with imaginary events and misinterpreted events being thought real. Such is memory.
3 yr old skateboarder–I’m glad I was little before the internet so no one could compare me to the most precocious kid in the world. Pity the parents whose kid is not gifted (see also drum solos by 4 yr olds).
bus knife fight: it seems only yesterday when that girl was going to stab another girl and the cop shot her that the Left proclaimed that knife fights are just a part of life and the cop should not have shot her. Just no big deal. Like burning cities I guess.
Oh, great. Count “refusing to play videos” as another of the many improvements Twitter has brought to non-subscribers this week.
Works for me.
Heh…Works on my box!
I’ve been having on and off success and failure. I thought it was because I needed to kill the browser tab (I had already been closing the browser. I was able to read Scott Adams yesterday without interruption but on another fresh tab it started happening again.
“Genderfluid vegan”
Genderfluid, hmmmm [ checks dipstick ] Yep, you’re down a quart ma’am.
I’ve been having on and off success and failure.
One of the joys of IT is dealing with intermittent problems.
The smugness of the commenters on that tweet saying that the stolen phones are useless… miss the point.
Which is, that a society in which a growing and feral demographic feels entitled to thieve in broad daylight, to violate others brazenly, and feels impervious to normal consequences, is not on a happy trajectory. The ultimate value of the items to the thieves, and whether said items have full functionality, is immaterial. It’s a question of pest control.
“Oh, this isn’t so bad.”
Reminds me of the first time I had sex. Lasted about as long, too.
One of the joys of IT is dealing with intermittent problems
You fix things and they stay fixed just long enough for you to forget how you fixed them, THEN they break again.
that the stolen phones are useless
Really? I beg to differ. Well, actually, I don’t beg. There’s plenty of value in such…
Is there such a thing as a sufferable twat?
paging, Brand. Russel Brand.
but only of late.
“stolen phones” It was not that long ago that lynchings were a thing. Shootouts on the western US range. Duels. Do we really want to go back to that?
You fix things and they stay fixed just long enough for you to forget how you fixed them, THEN they break again.
Or you never find a solution in the first place. More complexity = more bugs.
The threat of an unvaccinated foetus
https://twitter.com/ermadyke/status/1483517320807043072?cxt=HHwWgMC-zZXJwZYpAAAA
Every tweet it makes is practically a classic of stupidity but this has to be the tops. But then what else could you expect from a Transqueer neurodivergent demisexual lesbian Director of Pronouns at BSU (Bernie Sanders University) Part-Time sex worker with a PhD in Intersectional Studies
One of the joys of IT
But doesn’t IT stand for Intermittent Technology anyway?
The ultimate value of the items to the thieves, and whether said items have full functionality, is immaterial. It’s a question of pest control.
That.